Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Associate Professor Harmut B. Mokros, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, 4 Huntington Street, College Avenue Campus (732/932-7500, ext. 8270; Fax: 732/932-6916)

Web Site: http://scils.rutgers.edu

Email: dirphd@scils.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Mark Aakhus, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Arizona
Organizational communication; decision-making and disputing processes; new communication technology

Jerome Aumente, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Media, SCILS; Director, Journalism Resources Institute; M.S., Columbia
Communication and information technology

Nicholas J. Belkin, Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS;
Ph.D., London Information science and technology

Ralph Blasingame, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SCILS; D.L.S., Columbia
Management

Marija Dalbello, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Toronto
Print and digital literacy, orality, print culture, textual communities, social memory

Gustav W. Friedrich, Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Kansas
Communication theory, instructional communication, applied communication

Kathryn Greene, Associate Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Georgia
Health-message design targeting; adolescent risk-taking; and disclosure of health issues

Paul B. Kantor, Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Princeton
Information and decision systems; information economics; evaluation; interfaces

James E. Katz, Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Societal and policy implications of telecommunications and new communi- cation technologies

Montague Kern, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Mass media and public policy; political communication

Robert W. Kubey, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Chicago
Mass communication theory and effects

Carol C. Kuhlthau, Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ed.D., Rutgers
Educational media; information processes

Michael E. Lesk, Professor of Library and Information Science SCILS; Ph.D., Harvard Digital libraries; digital preservation; and the economics of digital information

Jennifer S. Mandelbaum, Associate Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Interpersonal communication; conversation analysis

Claire McInerney, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Knowledge management, information ethics, virtual organizations

Hartmut B. Mokros, Associate Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Chicago
Interpersonal communication; health and communication; research methods

Daniel O. O'Connor, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Research methods; library science

John V. Pavlik, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Director, Journalism Resources Institute; Ph.D., Minnesota Journalism technology and new media technologies; Spanish-language media

Marie L. Radford, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Rutgers Interpersonal and nonverbal communication; librarian-user interactions; media stereotypes, cultural studies, and qualitative methods

Brent D. Ruben, Professor of Communication, Executive Director, Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, SCILS; Ph.D., Iowa
Communication theory; communication and information systems; health and medical communication

Tefko Saracevic, Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Information science; information education, management, information seeking and retrieving

William S. Solomon, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Sociology of mass media; historical sociology; labor studies

Anselm Spoerri, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information visualization, information appliances

Linda C. Steiner, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)
Journalism history and ethics; feminist and alternative media

Lea P. Stewart, Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Purdue
Organizational communication; communication and gender; communication ethics

Ross J. Todd, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science; SCILS; Ph.D., Sydney Human information behavior, adolescents' information seeking and utilization, school librarianship, knowledge management

Betty J. Turock, Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Management, information services

Jana Varlejs, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Continuing professional education; library education

Nina Wacholder, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., CUNY Organization of information; information access; computational linguistics

Mark Winston, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Management, information services

Itzhak Yanovitzky, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Health communication persuasion; communication and social changes; research methodology

Xiangmin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Toronto
Interactive information retrieval; human-computer interaction

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Jack Z. Bratich, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)
Popular culture; social and political theory; media and democracy; technology and society

Nelson L. Chou, Librarian II, Head, East Asian Library; Ph.D., Chicago
Library and information science

Marya L. Doerfel, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Organizational communication; organizational culture; network analysis; semantic network analysis

Jennifer Gibbs, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Southern California. Organizational communication; mediated communication; global virtual teams

David Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Columbia American political and cultural history; politics and media

Susan Keith, Assistant Professor  of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Mass media ethics and journalistic decision-making; mass communications law

Deepa Kumar, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh Critical media studies; globalization, class, gender, social movements, war

Georghe Muresan, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Robert Gordon (United Kingdom) Information retrieval

Jon L. Oliver, Assistant Dean for Network and Information Technology, SCILS; M.S., Rutgers
Information retrieval and dissemination in distance education

Barbara S. Reed, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Ohio
History and contemporary studies of ethnic press and magazines

Doug Riecken, IBM TJ Watson Laboratories; Ph.D., Rutgers
Human-computer interaction, information personalization, intelligent user interfaces and agents

Jeffrey D. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D. California (Los Angeles) Physician-patient and interpersonal interaction; qualitative research

Jeffrey K. Smith, Professor of Educational Statistics and Measurement, GSE; Ph.D., Chicago
Statistics and measurement

Sherry Vellucci, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Sciences, SCILS; Ph.D., Columbia Metadata and cataloging; authority control; bibliographic relationships