Appendix 3-1 / Full-Time Faculty Bios
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Appendix 3-1: Full-time Faculty Bios Naresh K. Agarwal Assistant Professor B.A.Sc. (Computer Engineering.) Honors, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ph.D., National University of Singapore Work Experience: Research and teaching assistantships at the National University of Singapore; 6 years of cross-functional and cross-industry (voice-over-IP, bioinformatics and digital cinema) experience in Singapore, USA (Silicon Valley; Bay Area) and India. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Member of college-wide Health Informatics Task Force; American Society for Information Science and Technology (Chair-Elect, SIG Health; Vice Chair, SIG Social Informatics; Treasurer, SIG Education; Co-advisor to Simmons ASIS&T Student Chapter); Former Chair and Advisor, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Students Network (APRU DSN); Member of ALISE, AIS, DSI. Publications include: journal papers (JASIST; International Journal of Business Information Systems), book chapter and conference proceedings (ASIS&T, ICIS, etc.) in the areas of information seeking behavior, informatics/knowledge management/social informatics, context, HCI, identity. Teaching and Research Areas: Evaluation of information services/research methods, knowledge management, technology/informatics. Jeannette A. Bastian Professor; Director, Archives Program, and Co-Director, Dual Degree in Archives/History B.A., New York University; M.L.S., Shippensburg University; M.Phil., University of the West Indies; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Work Experience: Formerly Director of Libraries and Archives and Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands, Library Director, Enid M. Baa Library and Archives, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Reference Librarian, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. Experience in government archives and public library administration. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Reviews Editor, American Archivist; Chair, Society of American Archivists Working Group on Cultural Property; Commissioner, City of Boston Archives Advisory Board; Principal Investigator, National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant, “Building a Simmons Archives and Preservation Digital Curriculum Laboratory,” New England Archivists. Publications include: Community Archives, The Shaping of Memory (2009), Archival Internships: A Guide for Faculty, Supervisors, and Students (2008), Owning Memory (2003), numerous articles on archives, archives education, archives and memory in primary archival journals. Teaching and Research Areas: Archives education, archives appraisal, collective memory, postcolonialism. Gerald Benoit Associate Professor B.A. (double major), University of California-Davis; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles; continuing education classes in mathematics Harvard University. Work Experience: Consulting for digital objects retrieval, system design, user interaction for corporations and universities; systems analysis/programmer; former partner in design firm; publications specialist for Price Waterhouse; librarian National Center on Deafness. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Society for Information Science & Technology, American Medical Informatics Association, Association for Computer Machinery. Publications include: articles in JASIST, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, IPM, JAMIA. Teaching and Research Areas: XML, RDBMS, information retrieval, technology, doctoral seminar, medical informatics, web design, visual communication, programming, HCI, theory and philosophy of information. Michèle Valerie Cloonan Dean and Professor B.A., Bennington College; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.A., University of Chicago Work Experience: While Dean and Professor at GSLIS, she coordinated a Simmons College/Harvard University/UCLA Libraries initiative to train Iraqi librarians from 2004-07. Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. Before she began her teaching career, she designed the preservation program at Brown University. Cloonan has been PI or co-PI on grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the California State Library, as well as from several foundations. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Dean Cloonan has held a variety of offices in the American Library Association, served on the board of the American Printing History Association, and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). Cloonan was president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in 2008-09. She has also been on the editorial boards of Libraries & Culture, Library Quarterly, and Libri. Long interested in international preservation education, she was a member of the Preservation and Conservation Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from 2006-09. She is the 2010 recipient of the Banks/Harris Preservation Award of the American Library Association. Publications include: over fifty articles and books. She has written widely in the areas of preservation, book trade history, and bibliography. Her most recent publications have concerned the preservation of digital media and the ethical, social, and political aspects of preservation. Teaching and Research Areas: Preservation, cultural heritage, history of the book and book trade, the book arts, management. Ross Harvey Visiting Professor B.Mus., B.Mus (Hons), Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington; Dip.NZLS (National Library of New Zealand) Work Experience: Formerly National Newspaper Librarian, National Library of New Zealand; followed by academic posts in Australia (Monash University, Curtin University of Technology, Charles Sturt University) and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University). Additional experience in acquisitions, bibliographic organization, and newspaper librarianship. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: member of ALISE, Australia Society of Archivists, Library and Information Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand; leadership roles in the Australian Library and Information Association. Publications include: over 40 refereed journal articles, 9 books, over 20 book chapters, numerous conference presentations and reviews: see the full cv and list of publications at elibank.net. Awards include FLIANZA (Fellow, Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) in 2007. Teaching and Research Areas: Preservation of library and archival materials, digital curation, digital stewardship. Peter Hernon Professor B.A., M.A., University of Colorado; M.A. (L.S.), University of Denver; Ph.D., Indiana University Work Experience: has taught at Simmons College, the University of Arizona, and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Professional Affiliations and Leadership: He is in the second grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the doctoral program, Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions. He has received awards for his research and professional contributions, including being the 2008 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) award for Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Publications include: more than 300 publications, 50 of which are books. Together with Robert E. Dugan and Danuta A. Nitecki, he received the 2010 Greenwood Press award for the outstanding book in library and information science: Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2009). The first edition of his book, Assessing Service Quality, was the 1998 winner of the Highsmith award for outstanding contribution to the literature of library and information science in 1999. Besides his various activities in New Zealand, he has delivered keynote addresses in eight other countries: Canada, England, France, Finland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. He is the co-editor of Library & Information Science Research, founding editor of Government Information Quarterly, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Librarianship. For the past 6 years he has been a member of the Board of Visitors for Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed to this position by the university’s provost. Teaching and Research Areas: Research methods, evaluation of library services, academic librarianship, leadership, and government information policy. Lisa K. Hussey Assistant Professor B.A., University of Miami; M.A. (IRLS), University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Missouri Work Experience in a variety of settings. Assistant librarian and electronic resources coordinator for a private high school, librarian II for Arizona Department of Corrections, program manager for the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, and director of library services at a small academic library. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Association of Library and Information Science Educators, American Society of Information Science and Technology, the American Library Association, American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Popular Culture Association. Publications include: articles regarding diversity in LIS, LIS and theory, and management in IT. Teaching and Research areas: Management and leadership, reference, and information services. Mary Wilkins Jordan Assistant Professor B.A. Psychology, B.S. Political Science (Quincy University);