[Asis-l] The School of Information Sciences at Illinois welcomes new faculty

[Brya, Cynthia Ann]

This fall, three new faculty members joined the School of Information Sciences<http://ischool.illinois.edu/> at the University of Illinois:

Ted Underwood<http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/underwood> joined the iSchool in August as a professor. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of English, where he has served on the faculty since 2003. Underwood worked at the University of Rochester and Colby College before coming to Illinois. He has authored two books-Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies and The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science and Political Economy 1760-1860-and is working on a third, The Horizon of Literary History. He specializes in the broad collection of fields known as digital humanities.

Following a one-year postdoctoral assignment at the University of Pittsburgh, Jodi Schneider<http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/schneider> joined the faculty in August as an assistant professor. Her research interests include computer-supported cooperative work; linked data including ontologies, metadata, and the semantic web; and scholarly communication. She previously worked as a science library specialist at Amherst College and as a web librarian at Appalachian State University. Her contributions to library technology include founding the Code4Lib Journal and co-authoring the "W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report," which has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.


Prior to joining the iSchool in September, Matthew Turk<http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/turk> was a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a research assistant professor at the Department of Astronomy at Illinois. He continues to hold a joint appointment with Astronomy and is group leader at the Data Exploration lab at NCSA. His research focuses on the organization of data and the meaning behind it, how groups of individuals collaborate in an inherently competitive system, and how the interaction of software and the human experience of knowledge generation can be influenced to increase productivity or understanding.


Cindy Brya
Assistant Director for Communications
School of Information Sciences
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