Research Area

Rhetoric and his­tory of infor­ma­tion infra­struc­tures and stan­dards; rhetoric of sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy; rhetor­i­cal methods

Edu­ca­tion

Ph.D., Library and Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, minor in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Arts, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Spring 2011

M.A., Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, empha­sis in Rhetoric and Critical/Cultural Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, Spring 2011

M.A., Library and Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, empha­sis in Dig­i­tal Tech­nolo­gies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Spring 2006

B.S., Busi­ness Administration/Physical Edu­ca­tion: Exer­cise Sci­ence, Min­nesota State Uni­ver­sity Moor­head, Spring 2004

Pub­li­ca­tion

(Sep­tem­ber 2008) “Tech­ni­cal Doc­u­ments as Rhetor­i­cal Agency,” Archival Sci­ence, Vol. 8 Issue 3, 199–215

Con­fer­ence Presentations

(April 29, 2011) “Pass­ing the ACID Test: Rhetorics of Web Stan­dard­iza­tion” paper for The SLIS/SOIS Research Forum 2011 in Mil­wau­kee, WI

(Novem­ber 16, 2010) “Con­sti­tut­ing Tech­ni­cal Stan­dards: How to Build an Infra­struc­ture” paper for The National Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Association’s 96th Annual Con­ven­tion in San Fran­cisco, CA

(Novem­ber 13, 2009) “A Dis­ci­pline and its Con­stituents: Shap­ing Schol­ar­ship through Admin­is­tra­tive Publics,” paper with co-panelists John Rief and Greg Schnei­der for The National Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Association’s 95th Annual Con­ven­tion in Chicago, IL

(Octo­ber 10, 2009) “The Ethics of a Bur­geon­ing Inter­net Pro­fes­sion: A His­tor­i­cal Study of Descrip­tive Ethics,” paper for The 10th Annual Con­fer­ence of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Inter­net Researchers in Mil­wau­kee, WI

(Octo­ber 9, 2009) “Javascript Nin­jas, CSS Samu­rai, and Action­script Assas­sins: The Ethos of Inter­net Labor,” paper with co-panelists Bren­ton Stew­art, Pamela Con­ners, Katie Ramos, and Robert Glenn Howard for The 10th Annual Con­fer­ence of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Inter­net Researchers in Mil­wau­kee, WI

(March 28, 2009) “Doc­u­ment­ing Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence,” paper for DOCAM 2009 in Madi­son, WI

(Jan­u­ary, 2009) “Tar­ry­ing with Orga­ni­za­tion: Ped­a­gog­i­cal Insights from the Post-Lacanian Tra­di­tion,” paper for Asso­ci­a­tion of Library and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion 2009 Annual Meet­ing in Den­ver, CO

(Octo­ber 28, 2008) “His­tory and Infor­ma­tion Essences in/of LIS Edu­ca­tion,” short paper for ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meet­ing in Colum­bus, OH

(Sep­tem­ber 17, 2008) “Turn-of-the-Century Tech­no­log­i­cal Fas­ci­na­tion,” mod­er­a­tor for The Cul­ture of Print in Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy, Engi­neer­ing, and Med­i­cine (STEM) in Madi­son, WI

(May 16, 2008) “The CSS Stan­dard: A Crit­i­cal Analy­sis of Stan­dards and New Media Labor,” paper for Think­ing Crit­i­cally: Alter­na­tive Per­spec­tives and Meth­ods in Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies Con­fer­ence in Mil­wau­kee, WI

(March 28, 2008) “Doc­u­men­ta­tion and Medi­a­tion: The Effects of Web Stan­dards on Rhetor­i­cal Agency,” paper for DOCAM 2008 in Madi­son, WI

Pro­fes­sional Experience

Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
Depart­ment of Eng­lish, Pur­due Uni­ver­sity, August 2011–

Direc­tor of Dig­i­tal Tech­nolo­gies
TeachingBooks.net, Madi­son, WI, Sep­tem­ber 2010–May 2011

Teach­ing Assis­tant, The Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2010

Teach­ing Assis­tant, Pub­lic Speak­ing
Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, Spring 2010

Research Assis­tant
Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, Win­ter 2010

Teach­ing Assis­tant, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion The­ory
Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, Autumn 2009

Instruc­tor, Infor­ma­tion Agency Man­age­ment
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Sum­mer 2009

Teach­ing Assis­tant, The Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Sep­tem­ber 2008-May 2009

Project Assis­tant, Course Devel­op­ment
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Jan­u­ary 2008-August 2008

Project Assis­tant, Pub­lic Ser­vices
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, July 2006-January 2008

Web Devel­oper
Gen­eral Library Sys­tem and Phi­los­o­phy Depart­ment, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Jan­u­ary 2006-present

Inter­net Cat­a­loger
Inter­net Scout Project, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, May 2005-July 2006

Addi­tional Teach­ing Experience

Javascript and the Doc­u­ment Object Model Lec­tures
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2007

Javascript Work­shops
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2007

Sec­ond Life Vir­tual World Demon­stra­tions
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2007

Learn@UW Work­shops
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2007

PBWorks Work­shops
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Spring 2007

XML Work­shop
School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Spring 2007

Dreamweaver Work­shops
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2006-Fall 2007

MyWeb­Space Work­shops
SLIS Lab­o­ra­tory Library, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison, Fall 2006-Fall 2007

Awards

Linda B. Richard­son Memo­r­ial Award, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Fall 2010

Grad­u­ate Travel Grant, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Autumn 2010

Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Research Grant, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Autumn 2009

Top Scholar Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Autumn 2009

Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Research Travel Grant, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Stud­ies Holtz Cen­ter, Fall 2009

Linda B. Richard­son Memo­r­ial Award, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Fall 2008

Robert N. Gaines Schol­ar­ship, Amer­i­can Soci­ety of the His­tory of Rhetoric, Spring 2008

James Krike­las Award for Inno­v­a­tive Use of Tech­nol­ogy, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies, Spring 2006

Pro­fes­sional Development

Research Insti­tute for the Sci­ence of Socio-­Technical Sys­tems, The Con­sor­tium for the Sci­ence of Socio-Technical Sys­tems, Cap­tiva Island, FL, June 5–9, 2011: Invited par­tic­i­pant for com­pet­i­tive NSF—sponsored research institute.

Intro­duc­tion to Infor­ma­tion Archi­tec­ture Webi­nar, The Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy, Jan­u­ary 2011: Top­ics includ­ing user test­ing, clas­si­fi­ca­tion selec­tion, and nav­i­ga­tion analysis

National Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Association’s Mini-Conference on Teach­ing Rhetor­i­cal Crit­i­cism, Puget Sound, WA, July 2010: Top­ics includ­ing grad­u­ate and under­grad­u­ate instruc­tion for rhetor­i­cal criticism

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Ped­a­gogy Sem­i­nar, Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, WA, Sep­tem­ber 2009–June 2010: Top­ics includ­ing devel­op­ing a teach­ing phi­los­o­phy, con­struct­ing syl­labi, grad­ing stu­dent work, writ­ing class assign­ments, and man­ag­ing time

Train­ing for New Teach­ing Assis­tants in Communication-B Courses, Madi­son, WI, Top­ics includ­ing grad­ing stu­dent work, pro­vid­ing writ­ten feed­back, and man­ag­ing time, Jan­u­ary 2008, August 2008

Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Open Access Web­cast and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, Madi­son, WI, Novem­ber 2007: Top­ics includ­ing col­lec­tion devel­op­ment, intel­lec­tual prop­erty law, and pub­lic education

Stu­dent Orga­ni­za­tion Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence, Madi­son, WI, April 2005: Top­ics includ­ing pro­mo­tion, fund­ing, and grant writ­ing for organizations

Depart­ment of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Core Train­ing, Madi­son, WI, August 2004: Top­ics includ­ing Com­puter hardware/software instal­la­tion, main­te­nance, and trou­bleshoot­ing for sev­eral oper­at­ing systems

Stu­dent Tech­nol­ogy Train­ing, Madi­son, WI, Fall 2004-Spring 2011: Top­ics includ­ing XML, JavaScript, Cold­fu­sion, TCP/IP, Flash, HTML, CSS, Adobe InDe­sign, Macro­me­dia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Access, Quark, Pho­to­shop and SQL

Ser­vice

Uni­ver­sity of Washington’s Rhetoric Soci­ety of Amer­ica Stu­dent Chap­ter, Chair, Spring 2010

Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy, Con­fer­ence vol­un­teer and panel facil­i­ta­tor, Octo­ber 2008

School of Library & Infor­ma­tion Stud­ies PhD Com­mit­tee, Stu­dent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Fall 2008-May 2009

Library and Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Asso­ci­a­tion Stu­dent Chap­ter, Chair from August 2005-May of 2006, Mem­ber from Fall 2004-May 2006

Library Col­lec­tion Com­mit­tee, Liv­ingston Lord Library, 2003

Mem­ber­ships

Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy, Asso­ci­a­tion for the Rhetoric of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy, National Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, Rhetoric Soci­ety of Amer­ica, Soci­ety for Social Stud­ies of Science