Profiles of PhD Students and Alumni
Profiles of Gateway PhD Students and Alumni
The Gateway PhD program is a global research program. We invite you to learn more about our current doctoral students and the alumni.
Gateway PhD Program Current Students
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Proposal Title: A Communicological Framework for Evaluating Digital Preservation Efficacy |
Proposal Title: Towards transformative engagement: The international and foreign student stakeholders in the academic library; a view from the subaltern |
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Proposal Title: Changing in the Open: OER Textbooks, Online Communities, and the Management of Academic Libraries |
Proposal Title: The Student-Researcher Information Experience with Academic Information Management |
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Proposal Title: A study of information literacy of graduate students in the Middle East |
Proposal Title: Digital Storytelling in Higher Education Improves Student Learning Objectives Retention |
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Proposal Title: Understanding the Information Choices of Technical College Students |
Proposal Title: The necessity for academic libraries to become strategic business partners: The case of the University of the West Indies |
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Proposal Title: Taking the Library to the People: Female Librarians and Patrons at the Victoria Public Library, 1900-1949 |
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Gateway PhD Program Alumni
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Karen Kaufmann (2019)
Dissertation Title: Socio-cognitive relevance of information literacy: The impact on student success |
Nilo Sarraf (2019)
Dissertation Title: Mapping the Neurophysiological and Affective Dimensions of the Information Search Process Model |
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Shelly Buchanan (2018)
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Student-Driven, Independent Inquiry on Academic Motivation |
Africa Hands (2018)
Dissertation Title: Doctoral Student Motivation: An Exploratory Study of Motivating Factors for Earning the PhD |
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Kim Morrison (2018)
Dissertation Title: Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and Informed Assets in the Information Literacy Classroom |
Laura Anderson (2016)
Dissertation Title: Information Sharing in Virtual Collaboration: A Software Engineering Perspective |
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Melissa Fraser-Arnott (2016)
Dissertation Title: Personalizing Success: The Professional Identity Experiences of LIS Graduates in Non-Library Roles |
Clarence Maybee (2015)
Dissertation Title: Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom: The Role of Information Experiences in Shaping Outcomes |
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Maria Otero-Boisvert (2015)
Dissertation Title: Funding the Academic Library: An Ethnography |
Mary‑Jo Romaniuk (2014)
Dissertation Title: Developing Emerging Leaders in the Library Profession: Program Content, Self-efficacy and Leadership |
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Tina Inzerilla (2013)
Dissertation Title: Community College Faculty’s Teaching Social Networks and Their Implications for Librarians |
Virginia Tucker (2013)
Dissertation Title: Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts |
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Mary Ann Harlan (2012)
Dissertation Title: Information Pathways: The Information Practices and Experiences of Teen Content Creators |
Cheryl Stenström (2012)
Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing Funding Decisions by Elected Politicians at the State/Provincial Level: A Case Study of Public Libraries in Canada |
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Diana Wakimoto (2012)
Dissertation Title: The History of Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950 |
Hongbo Zou (2019)
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Participatory Services in Public Libraries |
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Salvador Barragan (2020)
DissertationTitle: Appraisal and retention of information in the private sector: A case study |
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Jennine Knight
Jennine’s doctoral work is guided by her
desire to participate meaningfully in the scholarly discourse on
the role and value of Caribbean academic libraries. She has
proposed a case study approach on how academic libraries create
value for their respective institutions through effective
fulfillment of the needs of their diverse stakeholders.
Clarence Maybee
Clarence is interested in how higher
education students are taught to use information to learn. During
his Masters-level studies at SJSU, he conducted two research
projects revealing how higher education students experience
information use in a learning environment. After graduating with
his MLIS in 2005, Clarence worked as the Information Literacy
Librarian at Mills College in Oakland, CA (2005 – 2007) and
Colgate University in Hamilton, NY (2007 – 2011). Currently,
Clarence serves as the Information Literacy Specialist at Purdue
University Libraries.
Kathleen McDonald
Kathleen McDonald is interested in
Canadian library history, with a specific focus on British
Columbia, and the role that the public library movement played in
the lives of women, both as patrons and as librarians. Her work
experiences have included positions with the Victoria Public
Library system, working in the city’s original Carnegie library,
the University of Victoria, and with the government of British
Columbia. Kathleen graduated with a MLIS from San Jose State
University (SJSU) in 2013 that followed the Archives and Records
management pathway.