SIS Community Participates, Co-Hosts 2019 ALISE Conference in Knoxville
The 2019 ALISE Conference was in Knoxville the last week of September, and faculty, students and alumni made a strong showing in both participation and winning awards at the conference, which was co-chaired by SIS Director and Professor Diane Kelly and co-hosted by SIS.
Our award winners were:
- SIS Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski, who tied for third place in the
Doctoral Student Poster competition for “Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)”
- Alum LaVerne Gray (’19), who received second place for “In a Collective Voice: Uncovering the Black Feminist Information Community of Activist-Mothers in Chicago Public Housing, 1955- 1970”
- CCI PhD student Joseph Winberry, who received an ALISE conn@CT Mini-Grant.
Others who participated were:
- Chancellor’s and SIS Professor Suzie Allard and SIS Associate Professor Wade Bishop participated in a juried panel: “Curricula Models and Resources Along the Data Continuum: Lessons Learned in the Development and Delivery of Research Data Management and Data Science Education”
- SIS Professor Dania Bilal participated on a special program panel: “New
Educator Career Development”
- MSIS student Lisa Curtin presented a co-authored juried paper: “How International Are We? Mapping of “Global” Intersections in the LIS Curriculum”
- PhD student Kevin Mallary co-organized the ALISE Academy panel, and presented at it: “Including Disability in LIS Education and Workplaces: From Local Concerns to Global Vision”
- PhD student Scott Sikes presented a co-authored juried paper: “Cross-Campus Collaboration in the Digital Humanities: A Pedagogical Perspective”
- SIS Associate Professor Vandana Singh presented as part of the Innovative Pedagogies SIG: “Exploring Innovative Pedagogies in a Global Information Context”
- SIS Clinical Associate Professor Cindy Welch was the ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award Chair
- Associate Professor Xiaohua “Awa” Zhu, MSIS student Ellen Cowell, MSIS
student Kristen McBee, MSIS student Jonathan Stewart Headrick, and alum/current PhD student Joseph Winberry (’19) presented a juried paper: “Serving the Community with Trustworthy Government Information and Data: What Can We Learn from the Public Librarians?”
Those who participated in the “Works in Progress Poster Session” were:
- PhD student Michelle Parker and CCI doctoral alum Danielle Pollock: “First Gen, PhD: Understanding the Information Horizons of First- Generation Graduate Students Pursuing Research-Intensive Careers”
- SIS Associate Professor Vandana Singh: “What do Global Researchers Mean When They Say ‘Online Learning?’”
- PhD student Iman Tahamtan: “#Metoo: People’s Concerns, Emotions, and Information Sharing Behavior on Twitter”