Alumni of the UMD iSchool’s Ph.D. Program
Our Ph.D. Alumni have acquired opportunities across the world and developing a global community at the iSchool.
Listed below are all alumni of the UMD iSchool’s Ph.D. Program, by decade, including their year of graduation, first job placement post-graduation, dissertation title (and link to the dissertation where applicable), and their faculty advisor(s).
Ph.D. Alumni 2020 - Present
Andrea Batch
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: Economist at Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Dissertation: Situated Analytics for Data Scientists: Implementation and Evaluation
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Niklas Elmqvist
Marina Cascaes Cardoso
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- Dissertation: Newcomers on Citizen Science Initiatives: Onboarding as an essential underlying way to user engagement and retention
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
Emma Dixon
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University
- Dissertation: Investigating The Use Of Everyday Technology and Ways To Improve Its Accessibility For People With Mild To Moderate Dementia
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amanda Lazar
Courtney Douglass
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- Dissertation: The Quest for i-Literacy: Identifying and Addressing Gaps in Information Literacy Education in Information Science Undergraduate Programs
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Jaeger
Xiaoyun Huang
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: UX Researcher at VIDAA
- Dissertation: Variations in Individuals’ Social Media Self-Presentation Across Time, Account, and Platform & How Audiences Perceive the Variations
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak
Yuhan Luo
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
- Dissertation: Promoting Rich and Low-burden Self-tracking with Multimodal Data Input
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eun Kyoung Choe
Alisha Pradhan
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: UX Researcher at Facebook
- Dissertation: A More-than-human Perspective on Older Adults’ Use of and Participation in Designing Emerging Technologies
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amanda Lazar
Nikki Sigalo
- Year of Graduation: 2022
- First Placement: Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton
- Dissertation: Using Social Media as a Data Source in Public Health Research
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vanessa Frias-Martinez
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Kim Glasgow
- Year of Graduation: 2021
- First Placement: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Dissertation Title: Talking About Justice: Predicting Actor Engagement on Social Media After a Galvanizing Event
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak
Priya Kumar
- Year of Graduation: 2021
- First Placement: Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology
- Dissertation Title: From Oversharing To Sharenting: How Experts Judge Parents And Their Social Media Use
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak
Yuting Liao
- Year of Graduation: 2021
- First Placement: Capital One
- Dissertation Title: Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for Mental Health Support: Forming Human-Agent Sociotechnical and Therapeutic Relationships
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak
Jiahui Wu
- Year of Graduation: 2021
- First Placement: Data Scientist at Huawei
- Dissertation Title: Fair Urban Crime Prediction With Human Mobility Big Data
- Faculty Advisor: Vanessa Frias-Martinez
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Karen Boyd
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First placement: Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan’s iSchool
- Dissertation Title: Understanding and Intervening in Machine Learning Ethics: Supporting Ethical Sensitivity in Training Data Curation
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaite Shilton
Andrew Casertano
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First placement: Founder and Vice President at S.A.N. Business Consultants LLP
- Dissertation Title: An Autoethnographic Account of Innovation at the US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Marciano
Joohee Choi
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First Placement: Google
- Dissertation Title: The Effect of Role Specialization and Transactive Memory Systems on Performance in Data Science Team
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yla Tausczik
Fiona Jardine
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First placement: Masters of Science in Nursing student at the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University; ALPP Advanced Lactation Consultant; Certified Postpartum Doula; Editor; Adjunct at the University of Maryland’s iSchool
- Dissertation Title: Breastfeeding Without Nursing: The Lived Experiences of Exclusive Pumpers
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean
Gagan Jindal
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First placement: User Experience Researcher at Facebook
- Dissertation Title: “It is too exhausting Googling 50 things!” Recommendations for the Low-Fidelity Design of Crowdsourced Health Information System with Local Health-Related Resources for Individuals Who Have Chronic Health Conditions
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean
Lesley Langa
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First placement: Owner and Consultant at NovaKultura Consulting
- Dissertation Title: Building A Collection’s Care Index: An Approach to Helping Preserve Our Cultural Heritage Before It Disappears
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot and Dr. Ricardo Punzalan
Edward Summers
- Year of Graduation: 2020
- First Placement: Research Faculty at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
- Dissertation Title: Legibility Machines: Archival Appraisal and the Genealogies of Use
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Punzalan
Ph.D. Alumni 2010 - 2019
Elizabeth Warrick
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- Dissertation Title: Rika Resilience Model on Social Media
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
P. Kenyon Crowley
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: Managing Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
- Dissertation Title: Contradictions and Opportunities in Mobile Care Management (“mCare”): An Observational Analytic Cohort Study
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean and Dr. Brian Butler
Lisa M Federer
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: National Library of Medicine
- Dissertation Title: Who, what, when, where, and why? Quantifying and Understanding Biomedical Data Reuse
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Katie Shilton
Lingzi Hong
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: University of North Texas
- Dissertation Title: Enhancing Decision-making in Smart and Connected Communities with Digital Traces
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vanessa Frias-Martinez
Christie Kodama
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: Towson University
- Dissertation Title: School District Library Supervisors and Their Role in Professional Development for Building-Level School Librarians: A Baseline Study
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ann Weeks & Dr. Brian Butler
Myeong Lee
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: George Mason University
- Dissertation Title: Local Information Landscapes: Theory, Measures, and Evidence
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler
Alina Goldman Striner
- Year of Graduation: 2019
- First placement: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
- Dissertation Title: Simulating Reality: Training Citizen Scientists to Judge Stream Habitats in Multisensory Virtual Reality
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
Zahra Ashktorab
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First Placement: IBM
- Dissertation Title: Designing Cyberbullying Prevention and Mitigation Tools
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak & Dr. Jennifer Golbeck
Rebecca Follman
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First Placement: University of Maryland
- Dissertation Title: Describing the Ineffable: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty Mentoring Information Practices
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean
Chi Young Oh
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First Placement: Chicago State University
- Dissertation Title: Who was a Neighbor to Those from the Other Side of the Globe?: International Newcomer Students’ Local Information Behaviors in Unfamiliar Environments
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler
Jyothi Vinjumur
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First Placement: Data Scientist/Engineer – eDiscovery & Information Governance at Walmart
- Dissertation Title: Use of Predictive Coding Techniques with Manual Review to identify Privileged Documents in E-Discovery
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Douglas Oard
Amanda Waugh
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First Placement: Old Dominion University
- Dissertation Title: A Nice Place on the Internet: An Exploratory Case Study of Teen Information Practices in an Online Fan Community
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mega Subramaniam
Ning Gao
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First placement: Microsoft
- Dissertation Title: Towards Population of Knowledge Bases from Conversational Sources
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard
Brenna McNally
- Year of Graduation: 2018
- First placement: Google
- Dissertation Title: Alumni Perspectives on their Membership in an Intergenerational Participatory Design Team
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin
Xu Meng
- Year of Graduation: 2017
- First Placement: Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Dissertation Title: The Growth of Innovation Communities: Community Ecology and Dynamic Structures
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler
Anthony James Pellicone
- Year of Graduation: 2017
- First Placement: University of Maryland
- Dissertation Title: Performing Play: Cultural Production on Twitch.tv
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. June Ahn
Christina Pikas
- Year of Graduation: 2016
- First Placement: John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Dissertation Title: The role of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in information and communication in science. A conceptual framework and empirical study
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Jinyoung Kim
- Year of Graduation: 2016
- First Placement: Chicago State University
- Dissertation Title: Information Practices During Life Transition: Korean Immigrant Women’s Everyday Life Information Seeking and Acculturation
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. June Ahn
Yurong He
- Year of Graduation: 2016
- First placement: University of Washington
- Dissertation Title: Data Sharing Across Research and Public Communities
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
Elizabeth Bonsignore
- Year of Graduation: 2016
- First placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: Playing for Real: Designing Alternate Reality Games in Learning Contexts
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin
Jeffery DiScala
- Year of Graduation: 2016
- First placement: Old Dominion University
- Dissertation Title: School District Governance and Knowledge-Fit in Decision Rights: How Districts Recruit and Hire School Librarians
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ann Carlson Weeks & Dr. Brian Butler
Anne Bowser
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: The Wilson Center
- Dissertation Title: Cooperative Design, Cooperative Science: Investigating Collaborative Research through Design with Floracaching</l i>
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
Chad Doran
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Dissertation Title: Examination of the Management of Social Media Records at a Federal Executive Agency
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot & Dr. Michael Kurtz
Ursula Gorham-Oscilowski
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
- Dissertation Title: Information at the Nexus: Young People’s Perceptions of Government and Government Websites
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Jaeger
Brian Real
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: Southern Connecticut State University
- Dissertation Title: Out of the Past: Public Policies, Political Pressures, and American Film Preservation
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot and Dr.Paul Jaeger
Natalie Taylor
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: University of South Florida
- Dissertation Title: Information at the Nexus: Young People’s Perceptions of Government and Government Websites
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mega Subramaniam
Tan Xu
- Year of Graduation: 2015
- First placement: AT&T Labs Research
- Dissertation Title: Microblogging Temporal Summarization: Filtering Important Twitter Updates for Breaking News
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard
Elizabeth Foss
- Year of Graduation: 2014
- First placement: Google
- Dissertation Title: Internet Searching in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Framework of Youth Search Roles
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin
Jessica Koepfler
- Year of Graduation: 2014
- First placement: Intuitive Company
- Dissertation Title: Values and Self-Presentation in Online Communication by Stakeholders Related to Homelessness
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaite Shilton and Dr. Kenneth Fleischmann
Irene Eleta Mogollon
- Year of Graduation: 2014
- First placement: Institute for Environment and Sustainability
- Dissertation Title: Multilingual Use of Twitter: Language Choice and Language Bridges in a Social Network
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Golbeck
Susan Copeland Wilson
- Year of Graduation: 2014
- First Placement: Intercom Federal Systems
- Dissertation Title: Getting the Word Out: A Study of Assistance Information Made Available to Low-Income People through County Websites
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Jaeger
Dana Rotman
- Year of Graduation: 2013
- Dissertation Title: Collaborative Science Across the Globe: The Influence of Motivation and Culture on Volunteers in the United States, India, and Costa Rica
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
An-Shou Cheng
- Year of Graduation: 2012
- First Placement: National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
- Dissertation Title: Values in the Net Neutrality Debate: Applying Content Analysis to Testimonies from Public Hearings
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Fleischmann
Gregory Walsh
- Year of Graduation: 2012
- First Placement: University of Baltimore
- Dissertation Title: Enabling Geographically Distributed, Intergenerational, Co-Operative Design
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin
Kathryn Newton Lawley
- Year of Graduation: 2011
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: Information Seeking in Context: Teachers’ Content Selection during Lesson Planning Using the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Chia-jung Tsui
- Year of Graduation: 2011
- First Placement: National Chengchi University, Taiwan
- Dissertation Title: Studying the Relationships of Information Technology Concepts
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ping Wang
Pengyi Zhang
- Year of Graduation: 2010
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: Sensemaking: Conceptual Changes, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Structural Representations. A Qualitative User Study
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Ph.D. Alumni 2000 - 2009
Rachael Leigh Bradley
- Year of Graduation: 2009
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: Understanding and Supporting Visual Communication within Costume Design Practice
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece
Xiaoli Huang
- Year of Graduation: 2009
- First Placement: Sun Yat-sen University, China
- Dissertation Title: Relevance, Rhetoric, and Argumentation: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry into Patterns of Thinking and Information Structuring
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Sheri Anita Massey
- Year of Graduation: 2009
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: Digital Libraries in Schools: The Best Practices of National Board Certified Library Media Specialists
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin & Dr. Ann Weeks
Miriam Matteson
- Year of Graduation: 2009
- First Placement: Kent State University
- Dissertation Title: The Impact of Group Interaction on Shared Cognition: An Analysis of Small Group Communication
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marilyn White
Philip Fei Wu
- Year of Graduation: 2009
- First Placement: University of Surrey, UK
- Dissertation Title: User Acceptance of Community Emergency Alert Technology: Motivations and Barriers
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece & Dr. Yan Qu
Yejun Wu
- Year of Graduation: 2008
- First Placement: Louisiana State University
- Dissertation Title: Classifying Attitude by Topic Aspect for English and Chinese Document Collections
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard
Soojung Kim
- Year of Graduation: 2007
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: The Effect of Users’ Work Tasks on Librarians’ Database Selection
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marilyn White
Kara Anne Reuter
- Year of Graduation: 2007
- First Placement: Worthington (Ohio) Public Library
- Dissertation Title: Children Selecting Books in a Library: Extending Models of Information Behavior to a Recreational Setting
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman
Jinmook Kim
- Year of Graduation: 2006
- First Placement: University of South Carolina
- Dissertation Title: Relevance Judgments and Query Reformulation by Users Interacting with a Speech Retrieval System
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel & Dr. Doug Oard
Martha Patricia Verdines-Arredondo
- Year of Graduation: 2006
- First Placement: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Dissertation Title: Communication Structures in Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL) Environments for Adult Learners in Distance Education
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman
Jianqiang Wang
- Year of Graduation: 2005
- First Placement: University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Dissertation Title: Matching Meaning for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard
Jin Soo Chung
- Year of Graduation: 2003
- First Placement: Georgia State University
- Dissertation Title: Information Use and Meaningful Learning
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman
Ana Flavia Fonseca
- Year of Graduation: 2003
- First Placement: University of Maryland, University College.
- Dissertation Title: The Effect of an Integrated Knowledge Management Architecture on Organizational Performance and Impact: The Case of the World Bank
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Wiwat Puntai
- Year of Graduation: 2003
- First Placement: Mahidol University, Thailand
- Dissertation Title: Evaluating Web-based Instructional Messages According to Principles of Instructional Design: A Content Analysis
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel & Dr. Delia Neuman
Anthony Y. Tse
- Year of Graduation: 2003
- Dissertation Title: Identifying and Characterizing a Consumer Medical Vocabulary
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Anita H. Komlodi
- Year of Graduation: 2002
- First Placement: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Dissertation Title: Search History for User Support in Information-Seeking Interfaces
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Emily E. Marsh
- Year of Graduation: 2002
- Dissertation Title: Rhetorical Relationships between Images and Text in Webpages
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel
Laura Slaughter
- Year of Graduation: 2002
- First Placement: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Dissertation Title: Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge for Concept Exploration Interfaces
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel and Dr. Marilyn White
Lisl Zach
- Year of Graduation: 2002
- First Placement: Louisiana State University
- Dissertation Title: When Is “Enough” Enough: An Investigation of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Senior Arts Administrators
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Abels
Allen Brewer
- Year of Graduation: 2000
- Dissertation Title: Deterministic Inductive Logic: A Multi-valued Logic for Reasoning about Categories
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Walston
Ph.D. Alumni 1990 - 1999
Wei Ding
- Year of Graduation: 1999
- Dissertation Title: Cognitive Processing of Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel and Dr. Marchionini
Karla Hahn
- Year of Graduation: 1999
- First Placement: University Library System, University of Maryland
- Dissertation Title: Electronic Journals as Innovations: A Study of Author and Editor Early Adopters
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. White
Susan Claire Boerner
- Year of Graduation: 1998
- First Placement: Capital College
- Dissertation Title: A Study of Novice Searchers’ Evolving Task and Topic Knowledge
- Faculty Advisor Dr. Soergel and Dr. White
Huei Chung Lee
- Year of Graduation: 1998
- First Placement: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Dissertation Title: Cognitive Processes in Document-Oriented Indexing
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Deborah Kay Barreau
- Year of Graduation: 1997
- First Placement: Catholic University of America
- Dissertation Title: Information Systems for Organizations and the Problem of Ephemeral Information
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini
Danuta A. Nitecki
- Year of Graduation: 1995
- First Placement: University Library System, University of Maryland
- Dissertation Title: An Assessment of the Applicability of SERVQUAL Dimensions as Customer-Based Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Services in an Academic Library
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman
Peiling Wang
- Year of Graduation: 1994
- First Placement: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Dissertation Title: A Cognitive Model of Document Selection of Real Users in Information Retrieval Systems
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Valerie Florance
- Year of Graduation: 1994
- First Placement: University of Rochester Medical Center
- Dissertation Title: A Clinical Extract of Biomedical Literature for Patient-Centered Problem Solving
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini
Peter John Evans
- Year of Graduation: 1993
- First Placement: Deakin University, Australia
- Dissertation Title: The Enabling and Disabling Effects of a Hypermedia Information Environment on Information-Seeking and Use in an Undergraduate Course (Perseus Database)
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini
Peter Liebscher
- Year of Graduation: 1993
- First Placement: Long Island University
- Dissertation Title: Information-Seeking in Hypertext: Multiple Access Methods in a Full-Text Hypertext Database
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini
Xia Lin
- Year of Graduation: 1993
- First Placement: Drexel University
- Dissertation Title: Self-Organizing Semantic Maps as Graphical Interfaces for Information Retrieval
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini and Dr. Soergel
Mu-Hsuan Huang
- Year of Graduation: 1992
- First Placement: National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Dissertation Title: Pausing Behavior of End-Users in Online Searching
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. White
Paul Solomon
- Year of Graduation: 1991
- First Placement: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dissertation Title: Information Systems for Children: Explorations in Information Access and Interface Usability for an Online Catalog in an Elementary School Library
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Nancy Daniel Wright
- Year of Graduation: 1991
- First Placement: National Library of Medicine
- Dissertation Title: A Citation Context Analysis of Retracted Scientific Articles (Retractions, Bibliometrics)
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Sybille Anna Jagusch
- Year of Graduation: 1990
- First Placement: Library of Congress
- Dissertation Title: First Among Equals: Caroline M. Hewins and Anne C. Moore. Foundations of Library Work with Children
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Macleod
Wendy Ann Simmons
- Year of Graduation: 1990
- First Placement: U.S. Department of State
- Dissertation Title: Volunteer Intermediaries in Rural Information Services: A Study of Seke District, Zimbabwe (Legal Assistants)
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Xianhua Wang
- Year of Graduation: 1990
- First Placement: University of Wisconsin-WhiteWater
- Dissertation Title: Knowledge-Based Selection of Databases: An Algorithm and Its Evaluation (Online Searching, System Design)
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Ph.D. Alumni 1980 - 1989
Diane Ledbetter Barlow
- Year of Graduation: 1989
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: The Communication of Science Information to Children Through Trade Books: The Nature of Authorship (Children’s Literature)
- Faculty Advisor Dr. Macleod
Rebecca Joyce Green
- Year of Graduation: 1989
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: The Expression of Syntagmatic Relationships in Frame-Based Indexing
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. White
Helen Ruth Tibbo
- Year of Graduation: 1989
- First Placement: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Dissertation Title: Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities: An Analysis of the Structure and Content of Abstracts of Historical Discourse
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Brigitte Duces
- Year of Graduation: 1985
- First Placement: World Bank
- Dissertation Title: The Role of Information in the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations (Diffusion, Decision-Making)
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Arthuree Rosemille Mclaughlin Wright
- Year of Graduation: 1985
- First Placement: Howard University
- Dissertation Title: Access to Publication Channels in Urban Education: An Assessment of Authorship and Citation Patterns
- Faculty Advisor</ strong>: Dr. Kidd
Lee Putnam
- Year of Graduation: 1983
- First Placement: University of Hawaii-Manoa
- Dissertation Title: Organization Structure and Work Group Performance
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman
Raya Fidel
- Year of Graduation: 1982
- First Placement: University of Washington
- Dissertation Title: Constructing a Pattern Model of Man-Machine Interaction in Online Literature Searching
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Mahvash Keshmiri Momeni
- Year of Graduation: 1982
- First Placement: Washington Gas
- Dissertation Title: Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting the Adaptations of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the Middle East
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wellisch
Benedict Onyechinyere Igwe
- Year of Graduation: 1981
- First Placement: Washington Gas
- Dissertation Title: The Values of the Librarian: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Students of Library and Information Science in the United States and Nigeria
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman
Alexis Jean Jamieson
- Year of Graduation: 1981
- Dissertation Title: Comprehension of Entries in Printed Indexes
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Sinikka Pirjo Koskiala
- Year of Graduation: 1980
- First Placement: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Dissertation Title: Flow of Technical Information Through the Industrial Information Services in Finland
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Ph.D. Alumni 1970 - 1979
Andrea Michele Burgard
- Year of Graduation: 1979
- Dissertation Title: Annual Reviews as Indicators of the Developing Structure of Scientific Disciplines
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Tamas Endre Doszkocs
- Year of Graduation: 1979
- First Placement: National Library of Medicine
- Dissertation Title: AID, An Associative Interactive Dictionary for Online Bibliographic Searching
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Richard Harold Lytle
- Year of Graduation: 1979
- Dissertation Title: Subject Retrieval in Archives: A Comparison of the Provenance and Content Indexing Methods
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Dennis Damian McDonald
- Year of Graduation: 1979
- First Placement: Westat Research in Rockville Maryland
- Dissertation Title: Interactions Between Scientists and the Journal Publishing Process
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd
Karen Brounstein Levitan
- Year of Graduation: 1976
- Dissertation Title: Functions of Scientific Societies: Views of Biomedical Scientists
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Katherine Helen Packer
- Year of Graduation: 1975
- First Placement: University of Toronto, Canada
- Dissertation Title: Methods Used by Chemists and Chemical Engineers in Canadian Universities to Maintain Current Awareness with Special Reference to the Use of SDI Systems
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel
Hans Hanan Wellisch
- Year of Graduation: 1975
- First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
- Dissertation Title: The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization with Particular Reference to Bibliographic Control
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Heilprin
Evelyn Hope Daniel
- Year of Graduation: 1974
- First Placement: University of Toronto, Canada
- Dissertation Title: The Organizational Position of School Media Centers: An Analysis of the Role of the School Library and the School Librarian
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Reynolds
Elaine Carol Frank Sloan
- Year of Graduation: 1973
- First Placement: Columbia University
- Dissertation Title: The Organization of Collection Development in Large University Research Libraries
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman
Jane Borsch Robbins
- Year of Graduation: 1972
- First Placement: University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation Title: Policy Formation in American Public Libraries: Effects of Citizen Participation
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman