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Students and Graduates

Where do our graduates go after getting a PhD?

Dr Jacqueline ‘Jacquie’ Kociubuk

  • University of Rhode Island – Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

Dr Mariah Knowles

  • Wisconsin Institute for Discovery – Curriculum Lead

Dr Eric Ely-Ledesma

  • University of Central Missouri – Assistant Professor, Library Science & Information Services

Dr Barbara Alvarez

  • Associate Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Southern California 

Dr Xiaofei Wei

  • Discover Financial Services – Modeler, Data Scientist

Dr Rachel Williams

  • Simmons University – Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science

Dr Kyle Jones

  • Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) – Associate Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering

Dr Tammy Mays

  • Milwaukee Public Library – Public Services Area Manager – Branch Libraries

Dr Ellen LeClere

  • Association of Flight Attendants-CWA – Data Specialist

Dr Stephanie Hanseul Lee

  • Myongji University, Seoul, Republic of Korea – Assistant Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science

Dr Melissa Adler

  • Western University – Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies

Dr Nathan R. Johnson

  • University of South Florida – Associate Professor, Department of English

Dr Michelle Caswell

  • University of California, Los Angeles – Professor of Archival Studies, Department of Information Studies

Dr Tien-I Tsai

  • National Taiwan University – Associate Professor, Department and Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science

Dr Jamene Brenton Stewart

  • Louisiana State University – Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science

Dr Xiaohua Zhu

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences

Dr Jomkwan Polparsi

  • University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce – Assistant President for Information Technology and Director of Central Library

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Recent Dissertations

Translators as Gig Workers: Iterating White-Collar Work in the Era of Digital De-Professionalization in Kenya by Olayinka V. Ajibola (2026)
A Meaningful Place: Self-Care Children and the Public Library
By Jacqueline Kociubuk (2025)
Doing evil for Money: Motivation, collaboration, and social change in AI ethics and education by Mariah Knowles (2025)
First-generation college students, academic libraries, and social reproduction: A case study of a university library system by Eric Ely-Ledesma (2023)
Social Support Seeking Behaviors and Provision in Online Communities: Associations between Social Support Seeking Behaviors and Social Support Received by Xiaofei Wei (2022)
Theory-informed design and evaluation of online patient portal multimedia instructional materials for older adults by Yuqi He (2019)
The ethics of building digital archives of the recent past : a thematic analysis of archivists’ decision-making in digitization work by Ellen LeClere (2019)
Health information-seeking behavior among mothers of healthy infants and toddlers : a comparative study of U.S.-born, Korean-born, and immigrant Korean mothers  by Hanseul Stephanie Lee (2019)
What counts as a good selection ? e-book product selection in the U.S. academic libraries by Mei Zhang (2019)
A mixed-methods approach to understanding the role of athletic and racial identities on the health information-seeking behaviors of African American male athletes by Tammy Mays (2017)
Performing boundary work : an exploration of public library workers’ provision of health and social services information to people experiencing homelessness by Rachel Williams (2017)
All the data we can get : a contextual study of learning analytics and student privacy by Kyle Jones (2015)
How to Build an Infrastructure: Rhetorics of Web Standardization by Nathan R. Johnson (2011)
A Qualitative Study of Self-Determination Theory in Cybersecurity Using Autonomy Framing by Philip Romero-Masters (2023)
Investigating Abortion Information Access in a Wisconsin community after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by Barbara Alvarez (2024)

PhD Students

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