Dr. Michelle M. Kazmer
Dr. Michelle M. Kazmer is a professor in the School of Information, and Dean of the College of Communication and Information. She also holds a courtesy faculty appointment at the College of Medicine in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine.
Her Ph.D. is from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her MLS is from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering is from Columbia University. She has worked as a rare book cataloger, as an academic engineering librarian, and as a technical information specialist for a big-three automotive manufacturer. Her research expertise is in qualitative methods, and her work focuses on distributed knowledge processes. Her work is collaborative and multidisciplinary and prioritizes working with graduate students. Her research in distributed knowledge has two primary directions: studies of health knowledge creation and sharing, and conducting information science theoretical analyses of golden age detective fiction.