I'm open to new PhD students! I'm particularly looking for folks interested in doing interdisciplinary work related to natural science knowledge infrastructures. More info about U of A's PhD program here.

Current students

PhD

Mac Borozan

Dylan Maldonado

Daniel McNair

Benjamin Mohler

Former mentees

Postdoctoral fellows

Natalie Raia, PhD. (now at NSF!)

PhD

Morgan Wofford (2026; external co-chair, with Libby Hemphill) - now a postdoctoral fellow at the iSchool at the University of California, Berkeley!

Alexandria Rayburn (2025; external co-chair, with Ricky Punzalan) - now faculty at the University of Hawaii!

Master's thesis advisees

Sarah (Hyunju) Song (2024; co-advisor, with Steven Bethard). M.S., Computer Science. "Metadata Enhancement Using Large Language Models: Improving the Quality of Aggregated Records in the iSamples Project"

Taylor Faires (2022). M.S., Information. "The Afterlives of AltGov: Climate Change Communication and Information Sharing Practices of Environmental Alt-Gov Twitter Accounts Over Time”

Emma De Vera (2020). M.S., Information. Classifying Eugenics: A “Wandering Subject” moves to Wikipedia

Dana Reijerkerk (2019).  M.S., Information. Traditional Knowledge Labels in the “Ancestral Voices” Collection: Legacy Data, User Experience Design, and Cataloging Rules

Angela Schopke (2019).  M.S., Information. “Refugee”: Using Information Resources to Understand and Navigate a Liminal Identity Space

Jasmine Smith (2019). M.S., Information. Motivations and Expectations for Central Database Creation at an Egyptian Archaeological Site