People

Faculty
Full-time Faculty

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

he/him/his

Assistant Professor

phone604 822 2898
location_onRoom 475, 1961 East Mall. Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z1
I am critical communications scholar, with a focus on media theory and the political economy of communication. My research is interdisciplinary and focuses on how communication systems and infrastructures impact the development of new media industries and cultural production. My research has mainly ...Read more

Cameron Pierson

Cameron Pierson

he/him/his

Lecturer

location_on493 - 1961 East Mall
My teaching and research are informed by my background as an American Library Association accredited librarian. With experience in national, university, legal, school libraries, and ProQuest, I have worked in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Germany, and now Canada. These experiences have ...Read more

Elizabeth Shaffer

Elizabeth Shaffer

Assistant Professor

phone604 822 2587
location_onIKBLC 478
A critical archives scholar, Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer investigates the intersections of race, gender, and digital infrastructures and technologies. Her research questions how information policy, practices and systems emerge and evolve in contemporary digital spaces, with particular attention to...Read more

Eric Meyers

Eric Meyers

Associate Professor | Graduate Advisor

phone604 827 3945
location_onIKBLC 485
Eric M. Meyers is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and conducts research on the information practices of young people in academic and everyday contexts. Eric’s research interests lie at the intersection of information scien...Read more

Erik Kwakkel

Erik Kwakkel

Professor

phone604 822 4448
location_onIKBLC 496
I 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

Fatemeh Salehian Kia

Fatemeh Salehian Kia

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Fatemeh Salehian Kia is a researcher in learning analytics, human-computer interaction, and educational technology. Her work explores learner engagement with educational technologies, focusing on quantifying learning contexts and understanding how students interact with information. She employs div...Read more
ON LEAVE
until July 2026

Hannah Turner

Hannah Turner

ON LEAVE
until July 2026

Associate Professor

phone604 827 3927
location_onIKBLC 483
I am a settler critical information studies scholar, and my research investigates the connection between documentation, culture, and technology. I teach in the iSchool graduate program, and I teach two classes in the Informatics Minor: INFO 200: Foundations of Information and INFO 301: Digital Cultu...Read more
ON LEAVE
until June 30, 2026

Heather O'Brien

Heather O'Brien

ON LEAVE
until June 30, 2026

she/her/hers

Professor

phone604 827 5842
location_onIKBLC 486
I am a Professor at the iSchool. My research and teaching interests are in the areas of information seeking and retrieval, user engagement with digital media, information access and knowledge exchange. I have an MLIS and PhD from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have spent 20 years s...Read more

Jennifer Douglas

Jennifer Douglas

she/her/hers

Associate Professor | MAS Program Chair

phone604 827 5905
location_onIKBLC 487
I am an Associate Professor at the iSchool, where I teach classes on archival arrangement and description, personal and community archives. I earned my PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where I focused on the many and varied processes and agents that shape personal...Read more

Julia Bullard

Julia Bullard

Associate Professor

phone604 822 2843
location_onIKBLC 480
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

she/her/hers

Associate Professor | PhD Program Chair

phone604 822 1574
location_onIKBLC 481
Hello and thank you for your interest in my work. I am a faculty member at a public, post-secondary institution that occupies unceded Musqueam territory (i.e., I am an uninvited guest on stolen land). My research, teaching, and service are guided by aspirations of humility, reciprocity, and im...Read more

Luanne Sinnamon

Luanne Sinnamon

Associate Professor | Director

phone604 822 0825
location_onIKBLC 477
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

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Associate Professor | Minor in Informatics Program Chair

phone604 827 4530
location_onIKBLC 493
I am an Associate Professor at the iSchool, cross-appointed with the Department of Linguistics. I am also an associate member of the Department of Computer Science. My areas of research interest are natural language processing, deep learning, Arabic natural language processing, and social media mi...Read more

Richard Arias-Hernández

Richard Arias-Hernández

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Teaching | Academic Director at Vantage College

phone604 822 1458
location_onIKBLC 484
I am an Associate Professor of Teaching at the School of Information cross-appointed to UBC Vantage College as Academic Director. I teach courses on digital text and image collections and information visualization at the iSchool graduate programs and in the Bachelor of Media Studies (BMS). I was ...Read more

Tess Prendergast

Tess Prendergast

Lecturer

phone604 822 5007
location_onIKBLC 494
I am a Lecturer at UBC iSchool, where I teach courses in 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 families, a...Read more

Victoria Lemieux

Victoria Lemieux

she/her/hers

Professor | Blockchain@UBC Cluster Lead

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
Adjunct Professors/Sessional Lecturers

Alexandra Wieland

Alexandra Wieland

she/her/hers

Archivist

location_onSimon Fraser University
I work as the Processing and Reference Archivist in Special Collections and Rare Books at Simon Fraser University, where I lead reference and instructional activities. I am also responsible for managing, preserving, and promoting access to archival fonds and collections. I serve on the board of t...Read more

Cleire Lauron

Cleire Lauron

Metadata & Discovery Librarian | Sessional Lecturer

location_onKwantlen Polytechnic University
Cleire Lauron is the Metadata & Discovery Librarian at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and enrichment of metadata representing the library’s physical and digital collections. Cleire is also a sessional faculty at the UFV Department of In...Read more

Colleen Pawliuk

Colleen Pawliuk

she/her/hers

Research Librarian

location_onBC Children's Hospital
I graduated from the UBC iSchool in 2016. I work at BC Children's Hospital, where I work in an embedded role supporting many different types of research, including providing extensive support for systematic and scoping reviews. I greatly enjoy sharing my passion for health librarianship with those w...Read more

Dan Slessor

Dan Slessor

he/him/his

Librarian and Coordinator of Reference Services

location_onLangara College
I am a librarian at Langara College, responsible for managing the Library's communication channels, assessment initiatives, and reference services.

Danielle Batista

Danielle Batista

she/her/hers

PhD Student | Sessional Lecturer

Danielle Batista, BAS, MIS, is a Ph.D. Candidate from the iSchool@UBC. She is a member of the Blockchain@UBC Research and Cybersecurity Certified by ISC2. She has 20 years of experience in records and information management. Her specialties are public records management, electronic and digital recor...Read more

Fiona Hunt

Fiona Hunt

she/her/hers

Department chair and Instructor

location_onLibrary and Information Technology Program, Langara College
My background is primarily in academic libraries, where I have taught information literacy skills and concepts to postsecondary students and worked collaboratively to integrate information literacy into the institution’s curriculum. In the role of liaison librarian, I have undertaken collection de...Read more

Inaam Charaf

Inaam Charaf

she/her/hers

Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer

I am a Sessional Lecturer at UBC iSchool, and Assistant Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Information Studies. I am an enthusiastic educator with a great passion for teaching and research. I hold an MLIS and a Ph.D. in Library, Information and Communication Sciences fro...Read more

Jamie Hoholuk

Jamie Hoholuk

she/her/hers

PhD Student | Sessional Lecturer

My research focuses on analyzing how informal information sources, such as popular culture, inform how young people define sexual assault. Past projects have included research on television as a mode of comprehensive sex education, youth language development through online pornography, and ethical d...Read more

Karin B. Schmidlin

Karin B. Schmidlin

Sessional Lecturer | PhD student

location_onUniversity of Waterloo and Emily Carr University of Art + Design
I am a passionate educator and designer teaching human-centered design courses that focus on developing products, services and systems aimed at enhancing a human's life. In conjunction with my teaching endeavours, I am currently pursuing a doctoral degree at UBC's Faculty of Education, concentrating...Read more

Kim Correa

Kim Correa

she/her/hers

PhD Student | Sessional Lecturer

My research is focused on surveillance, technology, social media, activism, and youth. I am interested in how activists understand current surveillant assemblages, including artificial intelligence, and if any steps are being taken on their part to subvert or work within these systems. Much of my in...Read more

Max Otte

Max Otte

Michelle Kaczmarek

Michelle Kaczmarek

she/her/hers

Educational Services Manager | Sessional Lecturer

phone604 822 2461
location_onIKBLC 479
Contact for: Current student advising (experiential learning, complex inquires); Graduate program admission evaluation; Development of experiential learning opportunities and related community engagement; Curriculum review and development; Data collection and analyses for iSchool as...Read more

Rebecka Sheffield

Rebecka Sheffield

she/her/hers

Senior Policy Advisor

location_onOntario Digital Service

Sally Taylor

Sally Taylor

Honorary Lecturer

Sarah Parker

Sarah Parker

she/her/hers

Reference and Instruction Librarian

location_onUBC Library
As a science and engineering librarian at UBC's Woodward Library much of my work involves providing research and instructional support to students and faculty. A significant amount of my work also involves collections management at the branch level and Library-wide. I also co-manage the History of S...Read more

Tamarack Hockin

Tamarack Hockin

Sessional Lecturer

Tara Fraser

Tara Fraser

Adjunct Professor

Emeriti

Edie Rasmussen

Edie Rasmussen

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Rasmussen is a Professor Emeritus in the iSchool, where she also served as Director from 2003 to 2010. Prior to joining UBC she was a Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also served on the faculty at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...Read more

Judith Saltman

Judith Saltman

Professor Emeritus

Judith Saltman was a children's librarian from 1970 to 1983 at the Toronto Public Library, the West Vancouver Memorial Library, the New Westminster Public Library, and the Vancouver Public Library. She taught at the iSchool from 1983 to 2016. Her areas of specialization include children's literature...Read more

Ken Haycock

Ken Haycock

he/him/his

Professor Emeritus | Former Director

Ken Haycock was a professor and director of the iSchool during a period of transformation. From 1992 to 2002, the school moved from hundreds of dollars in research funding and alumni giving to millions. A Ph.D. program, the multidisciplinary MA in Children’s Literature, the joint MAS/MLIS program,...Read more

Luciana Duranti

Luciana Duranti

she/her/hers

Professor Emeritus

I am a Professor Emerita at the iSchool. My areas of specialization are archival theory, diplomatics, and digital records. My research aims to find solutions to digital record issues that can be universally applied. Since 1998, I have been the Director of InterPARES (www.interpares.org), a multi-...Read more

Margaret Ann Curry

Dr. Curry is a Professor Emerita at the iSchool where she served from 1990 to 2008 in various administrative capacities including Chair of the MLIS program. From 2008 to 2014, she assumed roles at the University of Alberta, including Director of the School of Library and Information Science and Prof...Read more

Mary Sue Stephenson

Mary Sue Stephenson

Senior Instructor Emeritus

Dr. Stephenson is a Senior Instructor Emerita at the iSchool where she served from 1987 to her retirement in 2016.  She earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin and her MLIS and Ph.D in Information Science from The University of North Texas. As a Senior Instructor she focused on service...Read more

Richard Hopkins

Richard Hopkins

Assistant Professor Emeritus

phone604 879 3234
Professor Hopkins worked in a wide variety of library settings: School Libraries (Burnaby School District), University Libraries (UBC), Special Libraries (Petro-Canada), Public Libraries (Calgary Public Library), College Libraries (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology), and Freelance Librariansh...Read more

Rick Kopak

Rick Kopak

Associate Professor Emeritus

Research Area

Information Design
B.A. (Alberta), M.L.S., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Research Area

Information Design

Terry Eastwood

Terry Eastwood

Associate Professor Emeritus

- Archivist, the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1973-1981 - Adjunct Professor, History Department, Simon Fraser University, 1979 and 1980 - Appointed Assistant Professor in the then School of Librarianship at the University of British Columbia to chair and teach in the newly established ...Read more