Faculty Recruiting Ph.D. Students

The iSchool has more than 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty engaged in a variety of interesting research areas. The faculty listed below are actively recruiting Ph.D. students in their fields of interest. The school also has several research-focused professors who include scholarly work in their portfolio of professional activities.

To learn more about our Ph.D. admissions process, read our Ph.D. application checklist.

Jaime Banks

Looking for students in:
Human-Machine communication
Human-Robot/agent/computer interaction
Videogame psychology including player-avatar relations
Technology and morality
Public understanding of technology

Carlos Caicedo

Looking for students in:
Network security
Telecommunications policy
Wireless communication technologies and standards

Renate Chancellor

Looking for students in:

Critical cultural information studies
Human Information Behavior

Diversity and social justice in library and information science

Community informatics

Kevin Crowston

Looking for students in:
Work and artificial intelligence
Citizen science
Coordination of online work

Sevgi Erdoğan

Looking for students in:
Data-driven policy and decision-making
Data Science Applications in the Built Environment
Human, Infrastructure, and the Environment Interrelations
Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities

Ingrid Erickson

Looking for students in:
Critical study of algorithmic and autonomous systems
New and innovative forms of work practice
Knowledge work and analytics
Gender and technology

Kelvin King

Lee McKnight

Carsten Østerlund

Looking for students in:
Trace data and document centric methodologies
New forms of work including citizen science, AI and work, crowdsourcing
Medical informatics with a focus on personal health records