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SIS Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Writes Planning and Assessment Book with SIS Alum & Hodges Librarian Regina Mays

January 7, 2022 by Hillary Tune

SIS Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she decided to pursue her doctorate in information sciences, and that experience has informed what she researches and how she teaches. In both, she “tends to focus on finding better ways to do the things I did as a practitioner with maybe not […]

Filed Under: Alumni News, Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Featured Story, Lecturer Spotlight

Iman Tahamtan

SIS Lecturer and CCI PhD Alum Iman Tahamtan Takes on UX Researcher Role at JP Morgan

August 26, 2021 by Hillary Tune

It’s been an exciting and transitional summer for Iman Tahamtan, a recently graduated College of Communication and Information doctoral program alum, and now SIS lecturer. Not only did he successfully defend his dissertation in July, but he also stepped into a new role as a senior user experience researcher for the Machine Learning and Intelligence […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Christine Schmitz on ‘Writing for the Profession’

April 23, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Christine Schmitz Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Academic Background: BA in journalism and public relations, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.; MFA in creative writing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Career: My background started in journalism and then I was a college professor at a few different schools. As a grad student, I was teaching at University of […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Teaches Librarians to Teach

February 5, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? This is my first semester teaching within SIS, and I’m teaching INSC 538, User Instruction. It’s  really a class for people interested in library instruction, working with adult learners, and curious about learning […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Kristin Chaffin

January 15, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer:  Kristin Chaffin Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Education: MSIS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? INSC 384, the database design course. This will be my second term teaching it; I taught it this past fall for the first time. It’s been a lot of fun to […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Brings Media Analytics Experience to His Class

December 2, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Location: Brooklyn, New York Education: undergrad at Overland College in Ohio   What do you teach at SIS? INSC 305 – Internet & Society. It’s sort of a survey course of how information science underlies a pretty broad range of structures and social situations within society and trying to make tangible a lot of stuff […]

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SIS Lecturer Chris Cunningham

Learn About a Lecturer: Chris Cunningham Uses Business Analytics Background in Classroom

October 29, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Chris Cunningham Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Education: Undergraduate degree in history with a social studies concentration, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; MLIS, UNC Greensboro; PhD, University of South Carolina; currently working on an MBA from Kent State University. What classes do you teach at SIS? I am currently teaching INSC 514, technology foundations. I’ve also taught […]

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SIS Alum, Staff, and Lecturer – Dan Greene is All Three!

October 12, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Dan Greene’s (’03) current life is immersed in information sciences: he’s an alum of SIS, he is the SIS technology coordinator, and he’s also an SIS lecturer. But information sciences wasn’t even on his radar when he was an undergraduate at East Tennessee State University. There, he switched majors so many times he almost lost […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Plato Smith Introduces Students to Data Management

July 9, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Plato Smith Location: University of Florida, Gainesville Education: MLIS, North Carolina Central University; PhD, Florida State University What do you teach at SIS?I teach INSC 590: Introduction to Data Management. This introductory course includes basic data management concepts and models within library information sciences that students need to know. The course leverages the DataOne […]

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Learn About a Lecturer: Janine Pino Immerses Students into Cataloging

January 9, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Lecturer: Janine Pino Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Academic Background: MSIS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Current Career: I am a Catalog/Reference Librarian at Pellissippi State Community College. This will be my fifth year, and I’m currently up for tenure. The librarians all do a little bit of everything, but that really is everything you can imagine at […]

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