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: How Electronically Stored Information “ESI” is Altering Information and Records Appraisal |
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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: Librarians’ Understanding of Information Literacy in Academic Libraries in Bulgaria: A Case Study |
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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 |
Proposal Title: Digital Storytelling in Higher Education Improves Student Learning Objectives Retention |
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Proposal Title: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Participatory Services in Public Libraries |
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: Faculty Research and Publication Practices in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities: A Qualitative Study |
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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 |
Nilo Sarraf
Nilo Sarraf is interested in how humans interact with everything! She is a student of emotional motivation, information retrieval, and sensory cognition. After receiving her Masters of Science in Human Factors, her long-term passion in affective information retrieval led her to pursue her PhD degree in the Gateway PhD program.
Cherry-Ann Smart
Cherry-Ann’s research interests are in the areas of library leadership and management, access to information, the scholarly communication process, and patron engagement with libraries, particularly in the context of the English-speaking Caribbean. Her research question looks at the student stakeholder and how they interact with the academic library, especially as it relates to the library meeting their needs and expectations towards a successful scholarly outcome.
Cheryl Stenström
Cheryl is a full-time lecturer in the MLIS program at San Jose State University’s iSchool. Previously she was the Chief Librarian/CEO of South Shore Public Libraries in Nova Scotia. As a Consultant and Instructor, she has developed and delivered online and in-person training sessions to colleagues from across the continent on such diverse topics as legal information searching, services for patrons with print disabilities and web development.