TEACHING

Fall 2019

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
SI 315: Interpersonal and Psychological Implications of Social Media
SI 482: Interaction Design Studio

Winter 2016

Instructor, University of California, Irvine, School of Information and Computer Sciences
ICS4: Human Factors for the Web

2011-2012

Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
Principles of Economics

Guest Lectures

Trans Technologies. Guest lecture for Software Space (Architecture 509). University of Michigan. October 2019.

Some Things I've Learned About Survey Methods from Designing and Deploying Surveys, 2014-2019. Invited guest for Research Methods (School of Information 840). University of Michigan. February 2019.

Relationship Breakups and Media Ideologies on Facebook. Invited guest for Interpersonal & Psychological Implications of Social Media (School of Information 315). University of Michigan. October 2017.

Understanding Interfaces, Users, and Tasks. Guest lecture for Introduction to HCI (Info 608). Drexel University. July 2017.

Identity, Self-Disclosure, and Social Media. Invited talk at University of Pittsburgh, i3 iSchool Inclusion Institute (with Nazanin Andalibi). Pittsburgh, PA. June 2017.

Research and Design for Sensitive Populations. Invited guest for User-Centered Design (COSC 480) (with Nazanin Andalibi). Colgate University. November 2016.

Online Identity. Guest lecture for Mediated Interpersonal Communication (Communications 350). University of Hawaii. May 2015.

Using Online Data to Understand Issues of Gender, Sexuality, Identity, and Public Health. Invited workshop at University of Pittsburgh, i3 iSchool Inclusion Institute. Pittsburgh, PA. June 2014.

Information Visualization and Narrative. Guest lecture for Social Analysis of Computing (Informatics 161). University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA. October 2013.

Network and Information Visualization. Invited workshop at University of Pittsburgh, i3 iSchool Inclusion Institute. Pittsburgh, PA. June 2013.

STUDENTS

Prospective students:

I will be recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2020. If you are a prospective PhD student interested in working with me, please apply to the UMSI PhD program. If you are a current UM masters student or undergraduate student interested in working with me, please email me with your CV/resume and research interests. I am particularly interested in working with students who want to conduct research on one or more of the following topics: 1) life transitions and social technologies 2) transgender and/or LGBQ+ people and social technologies 3) social media content moderation and marginalized populations.

PhD Students

Dan Delmonaco

PhD Student, co-advised by Gabi Marcu
pronouns: he/him
research interests: health information practices, information access, digital resources

Hayden Le

PhD Student, co-advised by Libby Hemphill
pronouns: they/them or he/him
research interests: computer-mediated communication, computational social science, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, behavior change

Masters Students

Taika Augustaitis

Masters Student, Information
pronouns: he/him
research interests: social media, social determinants of health, human-computer interaction, information seeking needs of marginalized communities

Justin Buss

Masters Student, Information
pronouns: he/him
research interests: gender, social media, identity formation and management, information behaviors

Dykee Gorrell

REMS Visiting Masters Student
pronouns: she/her
research interests: data science, machine learning algorithms, technology, climate change, food deserts, carceral systems, black transgender women, homelessness

Denny Starks

Masters Student, Information
pronouns: they/them
research interests: understanding how transgender and non-binary people of color practice safety and the types of violence they experience in different contexts and environments - to design technology to support their safety

Undergraduate Students

AJ Carter

Undergraduate Student, Information
pronouns: he/him
research interests: social media, LGBTQ+, sociocultural anthropology

Shanley Corvite

Undergraduate Student, Information
pronouns: she/her
research interests: social media, user experience

Jasmine Glover

Undergraduate Student, Industrial and Operations Engineering
pronouns: she/her
research interests: social media, behavior, data analytics

Tianxiao (Sharol) Liu

Undergraduate Student, Psychology
pronouns: she/her
research interests: HCI, social media, user experience, public health

Lingbo Wang

Undergraduate Student, Statistics
pronouns: she/her
research interests: social media, computational social science, marketing models

Zu Weinger

Undergraduate Student, Sociology
pronouns: he/him
research interests: trans people's experiences and interactions with technology, social media, and the world

Brookelyn Wheeler

Undergraduate Student, Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience
pronouns: she/her
research interests: human thoughts and behavior