Rosental Alves
Rosental Alves holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at UT Austin. His interests include Internet journalism and international reporting. In June 2008, he taught the Summer Institute course Online Journalism. More information about Professor Alves and his work can be found here.
William Aspray
William Aspray holds the Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies at the University of Texas School of Information.
He holds a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics and M.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively in the areas of history, policy, and social study of information and information technologies and related topics. His current work focuses on the history of information in everyday life in America, the informatics of diabetes, Internet and new media studies, and the history of privacy in America. More information on Dr. Aspray’s work can be found here.
Randolph Bias
Randolph Bias is an associate professor at the University of Texas School of Information. He has worked extensively as a usability engineer in industry, with stints at Bell Labs, IBM, and BMC Software. He conducts research on human-computer interaction and human information processing. More information on Dr. Bias is available here.
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman is a senior lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and is the director of the 21st Century Project, a nonprofit research and education program on science and technology policy. He conducted a short course on the Digital Transformation of Organizations at the University of Porto in July 2008. During an earlier visit to Portugal in 2008, Professor Chapman presented the lecture “The Wiki State: Transforming Government with New Internet Tools” at the FCT campus of the New University of Lisbon and at the University of Porto. During summer 2009 Gary Chapman will lead the International Summer School for Digital Transformation in Porto. More information on Chapman can be found here.
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa is Director of the School of Information’s William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. She administers all activities associated with the Center and teaches courses in preservation management and creation of sustainable digital collections. More information about her and her work is available here.
Terry Daugherty
Terry Daugherty is an assistant professor of advertising at the University of Texas. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Media from Michigan State University. His current research interests include investigating the effects of compelling virtual experiences (presence, mental imagery and 3D visualization); consumer behavior (persuasion, consumer learning and information processing); and strategic media management (integrated marketing communications). More information about him and his work is available here.
Matthew S. Eastin
Matthew S. Eastin is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media from Michigan State University. His research focuses on new media behavior, and he has investigated information processing as well as the social and psychological factors associated with game play involvement, new media adoption, e-commerce, e-health, and organizational use. Generally, his research utilizes information processing as a central mechanism to new media experiences (i.e., affect, identification, perceptions, etc.) and knowledge acquisition. More information on him and his work is available here.
Maria Esteva
Maria earned her Ph.D. in Information Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focus is digital archives and digital preservation. She now works for the Texas Advanced Computing Center as a Research Associate/Data Archivist in the Visualization and Data Analysis group. Her role involves developing scientific data collections, implementing digital archiving and preservation strategies for scientific data-sets, and the use of information visualization as a tool for archival processing.
Luis Francisco-Revilla
Luis Francisco-Revilla is an associate professor at the Univeristy of Texas School of Information. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University, and his research interests include information systems, digital libraries, intelligent user interfaces, information delivery, spatial hypermedia, human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work. More information on Dr. Francisco-Revilla and his work is avilable here.
Caroline Frick
Caroline Frick’s research and teaching interests focus upon the evolution of the moving image archiving movement, cross-cultural approaches to historical preservation, and digital media libraries. She is the founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, an organization devoted to the discovery and preservation of media related to the state.
Patricia Galloway
Patricia Galloway is an associate professort at the University of Texas School of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and worked as a medieval archaeologist before becoming involved in humanities-oriented computing. Her research interests include institutionalization of digital repositories. appropriate appraisal practices for digital records, and she is also interested in understanding how archiving and cultural preservation in general fit into their historical and cultural contexts. More information about her and her work is available here.
Gary Geisler
Gary Geisler is an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Information. He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and specializes in the design and development of digital libraries, user interface design, and digital multimedia. He has led or contributed to the development of several successful digital libraries that feature visual and educational materials, including the Open Video Project, the Celtic Art & Cultures Web site, and the iLumina digital library of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology learning resources. Further information on him and his work is available here.
Karen Gustafson
Karen Gustafson received her PhD from the Radio-TV-Film department at UT Austin, specializing in telecommunications policy and information society issues. She is currently a research associate in the department, and serves as a coordinator of the Future Places digital media festival. The first Future Places festival was held in October 2008, and the next one will occur in October 2009.
Stuart Kelban
Stuart Kelban, a professional screenwriter, is on the faculty of the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT Austin. In June 2008, he led the workshop– “Screenwriting for New (and Old) Media”–at the University of Porto’s Multimedia Masters program. More information on Kelban can be found here.
Karen Kocher
Karen Kocher is a lecturer in the Radio-TV-Film department at UT Austin. A documentarian specializing in new media formats, Kocher taught a Summer Institute course on Digital Documentary/Storytelling. More information on Kocher can be found here.
Carly Kocurek
Carly Kocurek is a PhD student in American Studies at UT Austin. Her research interests include gender theory, digital culture, and gaming culture and history. She helps to coordinate a variety of programs associated with digital media in CoLab, including the Summer Institute and internship placement.
Derek Lackaff
Derek Lackaff is a Postdoctoral Fellow in RTF at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his doctorate in Communication at SUNY-Buffalo, where his work focused on social media, social network analysis and methodologies, and the social psychology of communication technology use.
Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis is a professor of Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin, specializing in film production and screenwriting. During the 2008 Summer Institute, he taught a Collaborative Screenwriting course. More information on Lewis can be found here.
Geoff Marslett
Geoff Marslett is a lecturer in the Radio-TV-Film department at UT Austin, specializing in film production and animation. More information on Marslett can be found here.
Chris McConnell
Chris McConnell is a PhD student in Radio-TV-Film, where his research emphasizes social media on- and off-line.
Matt Payne
Matt Payne is a PhD student in Radio-TV-Film who studies the social and cultural impact of electronic gaming.
Bruce Pennycook
Bruce Pennycook is a professor of Music Composition and Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin. He presented two music workshops at the 2007 Prémio Mapa digital media festival in Porto—Music Interactivity and Music and Sound for Film, Video, and Games. Additionally, he served as a juror for the festival.
At the 2008 Summer Institute, Dr. Pennycook taught a course on Creating Music and Audio for Film, Video, and Games. More information about Dr. Pennycook can be found here.
Prentiss Riddle
Prentiss Riddle is a recent graduate of the Masters of Information Science program at UT Austin, and is currently a senior systems analyst at IC2 Institute, an interdisciplinary research unit at the University. Riddle contributes to the CoLab project as a technology consultant and webmaster.
Fátima São Simão
Fátima São Simão is a project manager at U.Porto for the Digital Media Program. She completed her first degree in Economics, at Porto’s Faculty of Economics (FEP), in 2005. During her studies, she worked as an actress, both in theatre and film, and ran the University of Porto’s Theatre (TUP). Fátima has lived in Italy as an Erasmus student and in the UK, where she completed her MA in Cultural Policy and Management at City University of London. In 2008, she started working at the University of Porto, in Creative Industries related projects.
Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz is a professor of Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin. A widely recognized expert on Hollywood cinema, he presented a well attended a film series at the Lisbon Cinemateca during the 2008 Summer Institute titled “Innovation and Technology in Film,” as well as two public talks on digital film. More information on Dr. Schatz can be found here.
Nancy Schiesari
Nancy Schiesari has directed, produced and been a cinematographer on both broadcast documentaries and narrative features for over twenty years. She recently produced and directed Tattooed Under Fire, and Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer, a full-length documentary that premiered on PBS Independent Lens. Her other works as director include History Man, a Portrait of Martin Scorsese, for the BBC, and Green Flutes, a feature documentary for England’s Channel 4. Nancy has experience as a Director of Photography on over 30 documentaries and feature films broadcast for England’s Channel 4, BBC, ABC, National Geographic, and PBS. She was nominated for a 2002 Television Emmy for outstanding cinematography on The Human Face (producer John Cleese).
Bryan Sebok
Bryan Sebok received a PhD in Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin, and is a lecturer in the RTF department as well as academic coordinator of the UT Film Institute. During the 2008 Summer Institute, he taught a course on Digital Hollywood. More information on Dr. Sebok can be found here.
Arie Stavchansky
Arie Stavchansky is a graduate of the PhD program of the Radio-TV-Film department at UT Austin. His interests include immersive environments and the sociological effects of digital media techniques. He has taught a distance course to University of Porto students in the spring of 2008, and conducted a Photorealistic 3D Graphics Rendering and Simulation course during the Summer Institute. More information on Dr. Stavchansky can be found here.
Joseph Straubhaar
Joe Straubhaar is a professor of Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin. His research interests include global media and flows, digital divides in the information society, and global television. More information on Dr. Straubhaar can be found here.
Sharon Strover
Sharon Strover is the director of CoLab’s Digital Media program for UT Austin. She oversees the organization of the Summer Institute, internship and exchange programs, and the coordination of different Austin-based resources affiliated with CoLab Digital Media. Her interests include telecommunications policy and the information society, and she serves as the department chair for the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT Austin. In June 2008, she presented a public talk in Lisbon titled “Re-mapping the Digital Divide.” More information about Dr. Strover can be found here.
Don Turnbull
Don Turnbull is a professor at the School of Information at UT Austin. His interests include social computing, data mining, and information architecture design. In February 2008, Professor Turnbull presented a lecture on information seeking and retrieval at the New University of Lisbon. More information about the lecture, including slides, can be found here. For more on Professor Turnbull’s research and interests, look here.
S. Craig Watkins
S. Craig Watkins is a professor of Radio-TV-Film and Sociology at UT Austin. His interests focus on race and media, hip hop, and youth-based digital media cultures. He presented a public talk on Youth and New Media during the Summer Institute in 2008. More information on Professor Watkins can be found here.
Megan Winget
Megay Winget is an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in information and library Science from the University of North Carolina. She specializes in Preservation, Human-Computer Interaction, Cataloging, and her general research interests include: preservation of the cultural record, specifically intangible cultural materials, new media and time-based art, and the ability of collecting institutions (museums, libraries, and archives) to preserve, curate, and provide access to these intangible materials both physically and digitally. More information about her and her work is available here.
Wei Yeh
Wei Yeh is a graduate student in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. He has worked extensively with wearable computing technologies, particularly as they can be applied to dance. He is the project director and senior engineer for Project Aurora, and more information about him and his work is available here.