I am incredibly excited to share the news that I have accepted an offer to join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on January 1, 2025 as an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences!!! The appointment is conditional upon the University of Illinois promotion and tenure process and subsequent Board of Trustees approval. Therefore,…
Teaching
ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award
I am incredibly humbled to share the news that I have received this year’s ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. My students always inspire me. I am grateful to them for this award. In particular, I want to thank my former rock star students who wrote absolutely incredible letters of support for my nomination, including:…
Decentering Whiteness in LIS
Over this academic year, our Simmons SLIS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee has been working collaboratively with input from faculty, students, and staff to develop a new course for our graduate curriculum that addresses many of the challenges that have been identified by scholars and practitioners of color in our field. For example, in…
2019 Ernest A. Lynton Award Finalist
I am incredibly honored to share the news that I was selected as a finalist for this year’s Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. Santamaría Graff, Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education at IUPUI was this year’s recipient, which was jointly awarded by Campus Compact and Brown University’s…
Social Informatics Spring 2019
I’m looking forward to teaching Social Informatics again this semester at Simmons SLIS. I have added readings from Safiya Noble, Virginia Eubanks, and Sasha Constanza-Chock and other scholars to feature additional critical theoretical perspectives to the course. Here is the link to the syllabus for this semester. COURSE SUMMARY “Social Informatics” refers to the body of research…
Why We Need To Stop Questioning Women of Color
The most recent attack on Dr. Safiya Noble’s scholarship has led me to write this post. I wish I had written this post much sooner. Not this, but this recent attack on Safiya’s scholarship over the past week involves yet another male computer science professor who used Twitter to openly attack the claims found in Safiya…
Social Informatics Spring 2018
I’m looking forward to teaching Social Informatics again this semester at Simmons SLIS. I’m using my module on Critical Informatics at the beginning of the course as an opportunity to incorporate a few new topics this year, including Feminist Theories of Technology, Black Cyberfeminism, and Design Justice, building on other critical theoretical perspectives in LIS. Here…
LIS 421 Social Informatics
I’m excited to teach Social Informatics this semester at Simmons SLIS. I’ve built upon my colleague Dr. Lisa Hussey‘s excellent syllabus to include perspectives from the critical informatics and critical information studies literature. It was a real challenge to not include more readings. The course Moodle will include several additional suggested readings, as well. Overall, I’m quite pleased with the course, which…
Joining the Faculty in Simmons SLIS
I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the faculty in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College as a Senior Lecturer beginning July 1st. Here is an excerpt from the Simmons SLIS press release: Dr. Colin Rhinesmith comes to Simmons with a broad teaching portfolio that includes graduate and undergraduate courses,…
Social Informatics @ OU Spring 2015
I’m teaching a new course next semester at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies (OU SLIS), titled “Social Informatics.” I had the great privilege of being able to support Professor Les Gasser as a Teaching Assistant for the past three years during my doctoral program at the University of Illinois at…