Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipients
The Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research contributes significantly to an understanding of some aspect of information science. ASIS&T provides $500 to the winner as well as a travel expense stipend to attend the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Read the award guidelines for more information.
The recipients of the Doctoral Dissertation Award are:
Year
Recipient
2026
Ning Zou
From Data to Action: Towards a Framework for Collaborative Personal Informatics in Dementia Care
2025
Indra Mckie
Co-experiencing conversational AI: An ethnographic exploration of embodied interactions with voice assistants
2024
Saguna Shankar
Caring for Newcomer Communities and Their Data: An Inquiry Into Interdependence in Information Practices
Aria Huttenen
Friction and Bodily Discomfort: Transgender Experiences of Embodied Knowledge and Information Practices
Jelina Haines
Researching the knowledge journey practices of Indigenous Elders relevant to the younger generation: A community-based participatory study
2021
Laura Molloy
Creative Connections: The Value of Digital Information and its Effective Management for Sustainable Contemporary Visual Art Practice
2020
Hussein Haruna
Improving Sexual Health Education for Adolescent Students Using Game-Based Learning and Gamification
2019
Tim Gorichanaz
Understanding Self-Documentation
2018
Olle Skold
Documenting Videogame Communities
2017
Dr. Sarah A. Buchanan
A Provenance Research Study of Archaeological Curation Dr. Sarah A. Buchanan
2016
Steffen Hennicke
What is the Real Question? An Empirical-Ontological Approach to the Interpretative Analysis of Archival Reference Questions
2015
Chris Cunningham
Governmental Structures, Social Inclusion, and the Digital Divide: A Discourse on the Affinity Between the Effects of Freedom and Access to Online Information Resources
2014
Amelia Acker
Born Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service Format
2013
Sebastian K. Boell
Theorizing Information and Information Systems
2011
Jaime Snyder
Image-Enabled Discourse: Investigating the Creation of Visual Information as Communicative Practice
2012
Shelagh K. Genuis
Making Sense of Evolving Health Information: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Life
2010
Alberto Pepe
Structure and Evolution of Scientific Collaboration Networks in Modern Research Collaboratory
2009
Luanne Freund
Exploiting Task-Document Relations in Support of Information Retrieval in the Workplace
2008
Eric Meyer
Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography
2007
W. John MacMullen
Contextual Analysis of Variation and Quality in Human-curated Gene Ontology Annotations
2006
Vivien Petras
Translating Dialects in Search: Mapping between Specialized Languages of Discourse and Documentary Languages
2005
Weiping Yue
Predicting the Citation Impact of Clinical Neurology Journals Using Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares
2004
Lennart Bjorneborn
Small-World Link Structures Across an Academic Web Space: A Library and Information Science Approach
2003
Anne Diekema (Syracuse University)
Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval:Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations
2002
Pamela Savage Knepshield
Mental Models: Issues in Construction, Congruency and Cognition
2001
Allison Powell
Database Selection in Distributed Information Retrieval: A Study of Multi-Collection Information Retrieval
2000
Daniel Dorner
Determining Essential Services on the Canadian Information Highway: An Exploratory Study of the Public Policy Process
1999
Jacqueline Algon
The Effect of Task on the Information Related Behaviors of Individuals in Work-Group Environment
1998
Tomas A. Lipinski
The Communication of Law in the Digital Environment: Stability and Change within the Concept of Precedent
1997
Harry Bruce
A User-Oriented View of Internet as Information Infrastructure
1996
Howard Rosenbaum
Managers and information in organizations: Towards a structurational concept of the information use environment of managers
1995
Carol A. Hert
1995
Pamela Harris
1994
Peiling Wang
1993
Margaret Ann Wilkinson
1993
Dee A. Michel
1993
Carol L. Barry
1992
Xing Zeng
1992
David Lewis
1991
Louise T. Su
1991
Thomas E. Pinelli
1990
Helen R. Tibbo
1989
Barbara H. Kwasnik
1989
Barbara M. Wildemuth
1988
Clifford Lynch
1988
Elizabeth D. Liddy
1987
Mark E. Rorvig
1986
Michael B. Eisenberg
1986
Robert M. Losee
1985
Dennis I. Vanderwerff
1985
Katherine W. McCain
1984
Nancy N. Woelfl
1984
Christine L. Borgman
1984
Trudi Bellardo-Hahn
1983
Alex Regan
1983
Beth Krevitt Eres
1983
Gilles H. Deschatelets
1982
Judith A. Tessier
1982
Ronald E. Rice
1982
Michael J. Nelson
1981
Bette Brindle
1981
E. Ray Stinson
1980
Carol H. Montgomery
1980
Esther E. Horne
1979
Linda C. Smith
1979
Tamas E. Doszkocs
1977
Linda C. Smith
1977
Caroline M. Eastman
1977
Kamila Blessing
1975
Julie Carroll Noolan