Full-time Faculty

Elizabeth Shaffer
Elizabeth Shaffer



Assistant Professor
phone604 822 0885
location_onResidential School History and Dialogue Centre
Limited cross appointment with the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Dr. Shaffer is crossed-appointed with UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), where she acts as the Centre’s Executive Director in a seconded role. The Centre is a research unit th...Read more



Erik Kwakkel
Erik Kwakkel



Professor | Director
emailerik.kwakkel@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4448
location_onIKBLC 496
Research Area
Digital and Cultural HeritageI am a Professor at the UBC School of Information where I teach and conduct research on the History of the Book. My primary interests are book design and communication in the premodern world, in particular how information was disseminated and consumed in the age before the invention of the printing ...Read more
Research Area
Digital and Cultural Heritage


Hannah Turner
I am a critical information studies scholar at the iSchool who investigates the connection between documentation, culture, and technology. I was a previously a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Making Culture Lab at SFU. I completed my...Read more



Heather O'Brien
Heather O'Brien



Associate Professor | MLIS Program Chair
emailh.obrien@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5842
location_onIKBLC 486
I am an Associate Professor at the iSchool and I teach courses on human-information interaction, user engagement and information system design. I have an MLIS and PhD from the University of Dalhousie. I have received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), ...Read more



Jennifer Douglas
Jennifer Douglas



Associate Professor | MAS Program Chair
emailjen.douglas@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5905
location_onIKBLC 487
Research Area
Archives and RecordsI am an Associate Professor at the iSchool, where I teach classes on the archival system and profession, archival arrangement and description, and personal and community archives. My work centers on personal archives – how and why they are created, and how archivists understand, represent and prov...Read more
Research Area
Archives and Records


Julia Bullard
I am an assistant professor at the iSchool and I teach courses in knowledge organization, classification theory, and information systems. My research looks at the way that knowledge organization systems are designed, implemented, revised, broken or fixed. I am interested in the design of organizatio...Read more



Lisa Nathan
Lisa Nathan



Associate Professor | Minor in Informatics Program Chair
emaillisa.nathan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1574
location_onIKBLC 481
Hello and thank you for your interest.
Working for an educational institution that occupies unceded Musqueam territory, each day challenges me to fulfill my responsibilities as a guest on their territory. Part of that work involves (re)imagining ways to define, value, and care for information, st...Read more



Luanne Sinnamon
I am an Associate Professor at the UBC iSchool and served as Director from 2015-2020. I hold a PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, an MLS degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MA (Russian history) from Carleton University, and a BA from the University of To...Read more



Luciana Duranti
I am a Professor at the iSchool where I teach courses on diplomatics, records appraisal for selection and acquisition, preservation of digital records and advanced archival theory. My research aims to find solutions to digital record issues that can be universally applied. I analyze the historical d...Read more



Rick Kopak
Rick Kopak



Associate Professor of Teaching | UBC iSchool Graduate Advisor
emailr.kopak@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2898
location_onIKBLC 495
Research Area
Information DesignB.A. (Alberta), M.L.S., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Area
Information Design


Tess Prendergast
Tess Prendergast



Lecturer
phone604 822 5007
location_onIKBLC 494
Research Area
Libraries and LibrarianshipI am a Lecturer at UBC iSchool, where I teach courses in the area of librarianship and children’s literature. Prior to joining the iSchool in 2019, I worked as a children’s librarian in a large urban public library for over two decades, where my work focused on early literacy support for diverse...Read more
Research Area
Libraries and Librarianship


ON LEAVE
until September 1, 2023
Victoria Lemieux
Victoria Lemieux



ON LEAVE
until September 1, 2023
Professor | Blockchain@UBC Cluster Lead
emailv.lemieux@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9199
location_onIKBLC 488
I am a Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information and lead of the Blockchain research cluster, Blockchain@UBC at the University of British Columbia – Canada’s largest and most diverse research cluster devoted to blockchain technology. My current research is focused on risk to the...Read more
Visiting Academics



Olivier St-Cyr
emailostcyr@mail.ubc.ca
location_onIKBLC 493
Olivier St-Cyr is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Faculty of Information (iSchool) and a cross-appointed Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. St-Cyr received an Honours BA in Computer Science and Psychology from York Un...Read more