ISCHOOL - Key Persons
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- Assistant Director, Business and Finance
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Assistant Director, Finance and Research Administration
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- Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Academic Affairs
- Director of the School of Information
P. Bryan Heidorn's areas of research include natural language processing, text mining for metadata and information retrieval, particularly in biodiversity literature, and museum informatics.
Heidorn became the Director of the School of Information when the School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) merged with the School of Information Science, Technology and Arts (SISTA) in July 2015. From 2009 to 2015 he was the SIRLS Director. Dr. Heidorn stepped down as Director in January 2019 and now serves as the Director of Research and the Associate Director. In 2023 Dr. Heidorn was appointed Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Academic Affairs. Prior to coming to the UA, Heidorn was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the last two years he also served as a program manager of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Bryan served in a number of posts including President, VP and Grants Committee Chair of the JRS Biodiversity Foundation which funds work in Africa and South America for biodiversity informatics projects for 7 years ending 2013. He has served to several years on the Organization for Tropical Studies Science and Informatics Committees. He is currently the the Chair of the Informatics Committee and on the OTS Board of Directors.
Catherine Brooks (PhD, University of California) is a Professor and the iSchool's Interim Dean. She served as the iSchool Director from 2016-2023 and is currently the Interim Dean. She is also the founding Director of the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies.
Her primary research interest focuses on day-to-day language use in social contexts. She is most interested in the instructional or social uses of communication technologies, the varied opportunities for the co-construction of knowledge, relationships, and identities, as well as new possibilities for science communication. Her research works across disciplinary boundaries and draws on a variety of academic traditions and methodologies. She teaches courses that focus on social media, information policy issues, and human encounters with new technologies. Alongside her scholarly work, she has published in outlets such as Scientific American and Wired.
Brooks is currently working with international partners (18 total universities and organizations around the globe) on a large ESRC project, "Ways of being in a digital age: A systematic review" led by Liverpool's Institute of Cultural Capital.
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- Advisor
- Assistant Professor
- Coordinator
Cristian Román-Palacios is a biologist with expertise in phylogenetics, biostatistics, and machine learning. He has published more than 25 papers (on a range of topics, many first-authored). His research has been featured in Science news, Popular Science, CNN, USA Today, among many other news outlets. Cristian primarily studies large-scale biodiversity patterns from an Eco/Evo perspective and examines the effects of climate change on species survival. He also develops statistical tools that are for performing paleoclimatic reconstructions. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Cristian was a staff researcher at the Tripati's lab (UCLA). He earned his B.Sc. in Biology from Universidad del Valle in Colombia (2015) and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UArizona (2020).
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Student Success / Associate Professor of Practice
- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Affairs and Student Success
Diana (formerly Diane) Daly is CUES Distinguished Fellow, Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Student Success in the University of Arizona iSchool, and Director of iVoices, a media lab centered in student work from the General Education course Social Media and Ourselves. Dr. Daly's work is focused on participatory events and digital life for students and communities in the past, present, and future. As Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Daly also oversees curricular and instructional processes relevant to undergraduate students.
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- Manager, Graduate Programs
- Manager, Graduate Programs / Library & Information Science
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs
- Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs / Associate Professor
Jamie A. Lee is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, where they co-founded and direct the Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative, co/lab; the Arizona Queer Archives (www.arizonaqueerarchives.com); and the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab, which communicates multimodal productions research to a broader public as engaged research and, importantly, as a vehicle for social justice. Their book Producing the Archival Body (Routledge, 2021) interrogates how power circulates in archival contexts and builds critical understandings of how archives influence and shape productions of embodied knowledge. Lee is currently co-editing Research in the Archival Multiverse: a Companion Volume with archival studies colleagues from Australia, Guam, Hungary, South Africa, and USA.
Lee is an award-winning social justice documentary filmmaker, archivist, and scholar committed to queer/ed and decolonizing methodologies as well as asset-driven and participatory approaches to projects produced with communities. They were awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Grant to inquire into the politics of description in community-based archives and also the prestigious Agnese Nelms Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice Faculty Fellowship to develop their Digital Humanities project, secrets of the agave | a Climate Justice Storytelling Project [www.secretsoftheagave.com].
Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Director, Undergraduate Studies
Job Titles:
- Director, Graduate Studies