People Type: Faculty & Teaching Staff

Healy-Plotkin, Jaime

Biography Education MLIS – UW–Madison (2004) BA – UW–Madison – History and French (2003) Classes Taught LIS 620 Field Project in Library and Information Agencies LIS 712 Public Library LIS 655 Collection Management LIS 644 Digital Tools, Trends, and Debates LIS 620 Government Documents  

Heyns, Erla P.

Biography Erla P. Heyns joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as Dean and Vice Provost of Libraries on Jan. 1, 2024, after serving since 2016 as associate professor and associate dean for learning at Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. Previously, she held roles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, as the director …

Hutchins, Ian

Pronouns He | Him | His Education Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2009 B.S. Genetics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003 Research Research Fields: Scientific Portfolio Analysis, Bibliometrics, Science-of-Science Methods and Methodologies: Machine Learning, Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Informatics Areas of Interest: Scientific Advance, Bench-to-Bedside Translation, Science Policy Classes Taught LIS 706 Data Mining LIS 705 …

Jackson, Corey B.

Pronouns He | Him | His Education Ph.D. Library & Information Science, Syracuse University, 2019 M.S. Library & Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2012 B.A. Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2010 Research Interests Research Fields – Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Data Science Methods and Methodologies – Mixed Methods …

Jiang, Ming

Biography PhD Informatics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022  

Kim, Kyung-Sun “Sunny”

orcid 0000-0001-6934-0204 Education PhD in Library and Information Science, University of Texas-Austin Research Interests Research fields – Information behavior, Information users, user-centered systems/services Methods and methodologies – Experiments, focus group, interviews, surveys Theories – Psychological, sociocultural theories, interactionism Areas of interest – Selection and use of resources, social media use, information literacy, information equity, diversity …

Leeport, Cassy

Biography Education: M.S., Curriculum & Instruction, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, 2021 M.A., Library & Information Studies, UW–Madison, 2015 Areas of Interest: Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Reference &; Instruction, Native representation in children’s literature, Indigenous methodologies, community partnerships Classes Taught: Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM)   

Leeport, Patrick

Biography Education: Ed.D Winona State University, 2023 M.S. Educational Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2019 M.A. Library and Information Studies, UW–Madison, 2015 B.A. English, UW-La Crosse, 2013 Areas of interest: Academic librarianship, critical library pedagogy, reference, information seeking behavior and theory, library space, visual research methods in LIS, open educational resources Courses taught: LIS 635: …

McHugh, David

Biography Education Research Interests Technology, games, pedagogy, learning science, design, generative artificial intelligence Courses taught

Ni, Chaoqun

Pronouns She | Her | Hers Education Ph.D. in Information Science (minor in Statistics), Indiana University Bloomington M.S. in Information System and E-Commerce, Wuhan University B.S. in. Information Systems and E-Commerce, Wuhan University Research Areas of interest: Science of Science, Science Policy, Scholarly Data Analytics, Scientometrics Classes Taught LIS 341 Database Management for Data Science LIS …