Message from the Dean About the University About the School Degree Programs Available Financial Aid Academic Policies and Procedures Journalism Resources Institute Library and Information Science Master of Communication and Information Studies Program Master of Library and Information Science Program Professional Development Studies Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and Library Studies Program Admissions and Requirements Facilities Career Opportunities Faculty Teaching and Research Assistantships Courses Faculty and Administration   School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 2006-2008 Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and Library Studies Faculty   Faculty Members of the Graduate Faculty Mark A. Aakhus, Associate Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Arizona Organizational communication; decision-making and disputing processes; new communication technology James D. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SCILS; D.L.S., Columbia Textual database design and evaluation Jerome Aumente, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; 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 Marya L. Doerfel, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Organizational communication; organizational culture; network analysis; semantic network analysis Gustav W. Friedrich, Professor of Communication and Dean, 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 communication 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, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Chicago Mass communication theory and effects Carol C. Kuhlthau,  Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ed.D., Rutgers Educational media; information processes Michael E. Lesk, Professor and Chair, Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Harvard Digital libraries; digital preservation; 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 and Director, Ph.D. Program, SClLS; Ph.D., Chicago Interpersonal communication; cognition and communication; research methods Daniel 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; Ph.D., Minnesota Journalism technology and new media technologies; Spanish-language media; journalism and media ethics Marie L. Radford, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SClLS; Ph.D., Rutgers Interpersonal and nonverbal communication; librarian-user interactions; media stereotypes; cultural studies; and qualitative methods Brent D. Ruben, Professor of Communication, SCILS, and Executive Director, University Program for Quality and Communication Improvement; 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) Feminist theorizing; communication 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 and Director, M.L.I.S. Program, SCILS; Ph.D., Technology-Sydney (Australia) Human information behavior; school librarianship; knowledge management Betty J. Turock, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Rutgers Management; information services Kay E. Vandergrift, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ed.D, Columbia Library services for children and young adults; school library media services Jana Varlejs, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Wisconsin 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 Itzhak Yanovitzky, Assistant Professor of Communication, SCILS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Theoretical and research design foundations; health communication; social influence; research methods 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 History of books and libraries; East Asian librarianship; computational linguistics 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 Jacek S. Gwizdka, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Toronto Human-computer interaction; personal information management; user profiling Susan Keith, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Mass media ethics and journalistic decision making; mass communication law Deepa Kumar, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh Critical media studies; globalization; class; gender; social movements; war Ya-Ling Lu, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Children's literature; children's services; information use, need, and seeking Gheorghe Muresan, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Robert Gordon (UK) Information retrieval Jon Oliver, Assistant Dean for Network and Information Technology, SCILS; M.S., Rutgers Information retrieval and dissemination in distance education Andrew Pleasant, Assistant Professor of Human Ecology, Cook College; Ph.D., Cornell University Health, environment, and science literacy and communication; social change. 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, Adjunct member, 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 Sherry Vellucci, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Sciences, SCILS; D.L.S., Columbia Metadata and cataloging; authority control; bibliographic relationships Teaching and Research Assistantships   For additional information, contact RU-info at 732/932-info (4636) or colonel.henry@rutgers.edu. Comments and corrections to: Campus Information Services. © 2006 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. All rights reserved.