Advising and Mentoring PhD Students

Jenny Bossaller, University of Missouri’s iSchool, serves as LIS Program chair and on the school’s PhD committee. She has supervised five dissertations, and has served as a formal and informal advisor to other many other students. Her research focuses on public libraries, public space, and information policy. 

From January 2019, Dr. Mehra joined the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama as Professor and EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice. From January 2005 – December 2018 he was a faculty member in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on diversity and social justice in library and information science and community informatics or the use of information and communication technologies to empower minority and underserved populations to make meaningful changes in their everyday lives.

Kathleen Burnett, F William Summers Professor, Florida State University School of Information has been mentoring doctoral students for 30 years. She designed, and is currently facilitating the Proseminar in Teaching and Learning at the FSU iSchool, a “third place,” non-credit, bi-weekly mentoring space.

 
Nadia Caidi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on human information behavior, societal implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and information policy. Dr. Caidi was President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (2011) and the 2016 President of the international Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).