Alexei Oulanov - Dissertation title: User perception of the
usability and performance of translingual features of a Russian finance Web site.
(Graduated in May 2005)
Donna D'Ambrasio - Dissertation title: Development of an expansible
taxonomy of software requirements nomenclature: Viewing the elicitation process
as communicative discourse. (Graduated in May 2006)
Rose Ann Ferrick - Dissertation title: Attitudes and factors effecting
the lag in the computerization of the editorial process in adult trade book publishing.
(Graduated in May 2008)
Wendy Ford - Dissertation proposal title: An examination of the utilization of
electronic government by minority small businesses. Proposal defended on December 20, 2007.
Catherine Larkin - Dissertation proposal title: A study of information seeking
behaviors and processes in subsets of fine arts humanities scholars: Toward a new
model in image and text retrieval. Proposal defended on April 28, 2008.
Gali Halevi - Dissertation proposal title: Hermeneutic psychosynthesis approach
to information representation. Proposal defended on April 3, 2009.
Chen Xu (from Wuhan University, China as a joint-training Ph.D. student in
2007-2009) - Dissertation proposal title: Social tagging in cross-culture and
cross-language environments: A comparative study. Proposal approved by Professor
Feicheng Ma, co-advisor in China, in June 2009.
Dissertation Committee Member
Mikel Breitenstein - Dissertation title: Toward an understanding of visual
literacy: Examination of conference papers of the International Visual Literacy
Association, 1991-2000. (Graduated in May 2003)
Leonard J. Ponzi - Dissertation title: The evolution and intellectual
development of knowledge management. (Graduated in May 2003)
Angela Heath - Dissertation title: An exploration of the motivations, behaviors
and effects of frequent contributors in online community of interest. (Graduated May 2007)
Ying Zhang (from School of Communication, Information and Library Studies,
Rutgers University) - Dissertation title: Developing a holistic framework for digital
library evaluation. (Graduated May 2007)
Sheryl R. Schoenacher - Dissertation title: The information gathering behavior
of Main Street merchants and the effect of social capital on information access.
(Graduated in May 2008)
Selenay Aytac - Dissertation proposal title: An examination of international
scientific collaboration in a developing country (Turkey) in the post Internet era.
Proposal defended on April 30, 2008.
David Jank - Dissertation proposal title: Do you see what I see? An examination
of information interaction and the human-information dyad as communities of
discourse in information studies. Proposal defended on July 1, 2008.
