Joseph Janes

In his role as Associate Dean for Academics, Joe serves as the chief academic officer of the School. He has general oversight of the School's academic mission, including academic and curricular planning, policy matters, student services, scheduling, academic conduct and faculty development. Dr. Joseph Janes is interested in reference, particularly in the use of technologies to mediate and assist and the use of networked resources in reference. His research is on models of practice in digital reference. He teaches courses in reference, in online searching, in research methods and statistics, and on the use of Internet technologies in librarianship. Associate Professor Janes holds the MLS (1983) and PhD (1989) from Syracuse University.

Terrence Brooks

Dr. Terrence Brooks is interested in how culture affects our use of web technologies. Current interests include include extensible markup languages, web semantics, aesthetics of web presentations and information literacy focusing on scripting and programming languages. Associate Professor Brooks has an MLS from McGill University (1971), an MBA from York University (1975), and a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin (1981).

Allyson Carlyle

Dr. Allyson Carlyle’s primary research areas are design and use of online catalogs and conceptual foundations of descriptive cataloging. She teaches in all areas of cataloging and information organization. Professor Carlyle has an MLS (1986) and a PhD (1994) from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Karen Fisher

Dr. Karen E. Fisher teaches and conducts research on information behavior or social and cognitive aspects of how individuals need, seek, give and use information in different contexts. She is particularly interested in information behavior in everyday contexts, as well as in community and health settings. Her latest research focuses on how people seek and use community information as part of everyday life and is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Her other teaching and research areas include community analysis, qualitative research methods, and health service provider-patient communication. Assistant Professor Fisher has an MLIS (1991) and a PhD (1998) from the University of Western Ontario. From 1998-99 she held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan that she was awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

David McDonald
Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), collaborative systems design, software architecture, software engineering, ethnographic study, social analysis of technology and social theory. He has an MS (1992) in Computer Science, California State University Hayward; and an MS (1995) and PhD (2000) in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
Wanda Pratt
Dr. Wanda Pratt has a joint appointment in the Information School and the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Her research interests are in developing and evaluating new types of information technology to help people find, share, manage, and use textual information. She typically focuses on knowledge-based approaches to address problems of information overload in the health-care area. She also bases her work on the needs of real users; thus, her work also incorporates studying people's information behavior and the impact of new information technology on their lives. Assistant Professor Pratt has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas, and a PhD in Medical Informatics from Stanford University.
Stuart Sutton
Dr. Stuart Sutton’s research areas include metadata and networked information discovery and retrieval, technology-mediated teaching and learning, cognition and the information seeking behavior of discourse communities, mental models in information system design, and the law and policy of intellectual property. He teaches in the areas of information law and policy, legal informatics, and the organization of information. Associate Professor Sutton received his MLIS (1986) and PhD (1991) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies. He is a member of the California Bar and received his JD (1981) from Golden Gate University School of Law and his LLM in copyright from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He holds BA (1968) and MA (1968) degrees in theatre arts from San Francisco State University. He has served on the faculties of Syracuse University and San Jose State University and in a visiting position at the University of California at Berkeley.
Jacob Wobbrock
Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in user interface technology, human performance with computing systems, input methods, computer access, universal design, and mobile human-computer interaction. Professor Wobbrock directs the AIM Research Group comprising graduate students from the Information School and computer science. Prior to coming to the University of Washington, Professor Wobbrock received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation won the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2006-2007. He also received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems and Computer Science, respectively, from Stanford University.
Among his accomplishments, Professor Wobbrock won three ACM CHI best paper awards from 2006-2008. He also won a best paper award at ACM ASSETS 2004. He won the 1st place NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation and Design in 2005. In 2004, he was a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. Professor Wobbrock has held industry positions at Google, DoDots, Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, and the Intel-Mattel Smart Toy Lab. He enjoys golf, biking, fiction writing, hiking, and spending time with his wife and young son.