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iNForMATioN
WELcoMEs Four
NEW ProFEssors
The iSchool welcomed four new
Assistant Professors this year,
dr. Fiorella Foscarini, dr. rhonda
McEwen, dr. sara Grimes, and dr. cara
Krmpotich. Dr. Foscarini is teaching
Managing Organizational Records; Dr.
McEwen is teaching a workshop on
Information Practice in virtual Worlds:
Exploring Mediation in the Information
Environment; Dr. Grimes will teach in
the areas of in children’s new media
and literature; and Dr. Krmpotich will be
teaching Collections Management and
Museums and Indigenous Communities.
Professor
Sara Grimes
Dr. Grimes has
degrees in Communication
from
Simon Fraser
University(PhD, MA)
and the University
of Ottawa (BA
Hons). Her research
interests are in
children’s media culture, play studies, and
critical theories of technology, with a special
focus on digital games. Her published
work includes a co-authored analysis
(with Neil Narine) of discursive representations
of the child gamer within popular
film and advertising, and she has collaborated
with Andrew Feenberg, adapting his
theory of instrumentalization to construct
a framework for the discussion of games
as systems of social rationalization, which
appeared in New Media & Society, The
Information Society, and Communication,
Culture and Critique.
Professor
Fiorella
Foscarini
Dr. Foscarini holds
a degree in Arts and
Philosophy from
the University of
Bologna, a postgraduate
degree in
Archival Science,
Palaeography and
Diplomatics from the State Archives
School in Bologna, a Master’s degree in
Design and Management of Advanced
Records Systems from the University of
Urbino, and a PhD in Library, Archival and
Information Studies from the University of
British Columbia. Her doctoral dissertation
was titled “Function-Based Records
Classification Systems: An Exploratory
Study of Records Management Practices
in Central Banks.” Dr. Foscarini was a
Senior Archivist for the European Central
Bank in Frankfurt am Main, where she
was primarily responsible for the development
of records management and archival
policies and procedures. Prior to that,
she was the Head of the Records Management
Office and Intermediate Archives at
the Province of Bologna (Italy).
Professor
Rhonda
McEwen
Dr. McEwen holds
an MBA in IT from
City University in
London, England,
an MSc in Telecommunications
from
the University of
Colorado, and a
PhD in Information from University of
Toronto. Dr. McEwen focussed her PhD
dissertation research on youth mobile
phone communication and social networks.
Her research and teaching focus
on information practices involving new
media infrastructures, with an emphasis
on youth media literacy, mobile communication,
and social media design. She has
worked and researched digital communications
media for fifteen years, both
in companies providing services and in
management consulting to those companies.
Dr. McEwen was recently awarded
a MITACS post-doctoral research grant
(2010-11) to investigate the mobile phone
information seeking practices of newcomers
to Toronto, and is collaborating with
dr. Nadia caidi.
Professor
Cara
Krmpotich
Dr. Krmpotich has
as BA (Trent) in
Anthropology, specializing
in Museum
Studies, a certificate
in Museum
Management and
Curatorship (Sir
Sandford Fleming College), and an MA
(UBC) in Anthropology, with an emphasis
in Museum Studies. She obtained her
PhD at the University of Oxford, and
recently facilitated the visit of twenty-one
members of the Haida Nation from Haida
Gwaii, B.C., to the Pitt Rivers Museum
and British Museum. Dr. Krmpotich is
producing a film and writing book on the
Haida, with Laura Peers, Curator for the
Americas, at the Pitt Rivers. Her research
interests lie in the many relationships
between museums and source communities,
the interconnections between memory
and material culture, and theoretical
approaches to repatriation.
12 informed | autumn 2010