Faculty

Professor and Director

Email: dhamerly@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6598
Office: Crown Library 311

Education

• PhD, The University of Texas at Austin 
• MLIS, The University of Texas at Austin
• BA, Lamar University

Areas of Specialty

• Broad concepts and issues in informatics
• User-centered research and design for informatics
• School librarian preparation and licensure
• Doctoral-level writing and research 
• Instructional technology

Associate Professor

Email: tbowman@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6653
Office: Crown Library 324

Education

• PhD, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University, Bloomington,
• MIS, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 
• BS, Indiana State University, Terre Haute

Areas of Specialty

• Academic Reward System
• Altmetrics
• Social Media Use
• Open Science
• Scholarly Communication
• Impression Management and Identity

Professor

Email: crowbill@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6513
Office: Crown Library 321

Education

• PhD, Ohio University
• MS (LS), Columbia University
• MA, Ohio State University
• BA, Hunter College

Areas of Specialty

• Higher Education Administration (Interpersonal Communication minor)
• Management of Libraries and Information Centers
• Readers Advisory Services
• Marketing
• Advocacy
• Public Libraries
• Special Libraries
• Folkloristics

Professor

Email: jdelnegro@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6871
Office: Crown Library 334

Education

• PhD, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• MLS, SUNY Geneseo, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences
• BA, CUNY Hunter College, New York City

Areas of Specialty

• Teaches and develops courses at the master’s and doctoral level in the School of Information Studies, including such areas as children’s and young adult literature, storytelling, outreach programming, library services to children and young adults, youth services organization and management, foundations of library and information science, reading in society, and information policy.
• Research interests include folk and fairy tales and popular media, children’s and young adult literature, storytelling, and women in folk and fairy tales.

Associate Professor

Email: adunbar@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6603
Office: Crown Library 342

Education

• PhD, Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles
  Dissertation: Critical Race Information Theory: Applying a CRITical Race Lens to Information Studies
• MLIS, University of California Los Angeles
• MEd,Teaching and Learning, University of Utah
• MA, Communications and Training, Governors State University
• BA, Speech Communications, Eastern Illinois University

Areas of Specialty

• Critical Race Information Theory / Critical Race Theory
• Equity as a catalyst for Justice and Inclusion in LIS
• Information Advocacy and Activism
• Innovative Design of Critical-Culturally Conscious LIS Curriculum
• Leadership and Professional Development
• LIS and Community Engagement

Associate Professor

Email: mpfallon@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6602
Office: Crown Library 334

Education

• EdD, Benedictine University
• MLIS, Dominican University
• MA, DePaul University
• BS, University of Wisconsin–Menomonie

Associate Professor

Email: ygao@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6056
Office: Crown Library 322

Education

• PhD, The University of Western Ontario
• MLIS, The University of Western Ontario

Areas of Specialty

• Master of Library and Information Science
• Master of Science in Information Management

Professor

Email: shuggins@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6580
Office: Crown Library 314

Education

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• M.Sc., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• BA, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Areas of Specialty

• Teaching in the School of Information Studies and Rosary College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor

Email: kmalenfant@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6648
Office: Crown Library 343

Education

• PhD, Antioch University
• MS LIS, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• BA, Allegheny College

Areas of Specialty

• Academic libraries
• Assessment/evaluation
• Leadership and change
• Public policy
• Scholarly communication

Professor, Coordinator/Archives and Cultural Heritage Program
Interim Associate Dean, College of Applied Social Sciences

Email: csalvatore@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6852
Office: Crown Library 324

Education

• PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
• MLS, SUNY at Buffalo
• BA, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

Areas of Specialty

• Archives and Cultural Heritage Resources Management
• Information Policy and Ethics
• Information Behavior Theories
• Information in Underserved and Marginalized Populations
• Ethnography and Naturalistic Inquiry (Research Methods)

Professor

Email: ksnow@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6077
Office: Crown Library 345-A

Education

• PhD, Information Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
• MS, Library Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
• BA, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

Areas of Specialty

• Organization, access, and control of information resources
• Cataloging education
• Knowledge organization ethics
• Quality in cataloging

Associate Professor

Email: mzamir@dom.edu
Phone: (708)524-6954
Office: Crown Library 323

Education

• PhD, Information Science, University of South Carolina
• MA, University of Dhaka
• BA, University of Dhaka

Areas of Specialty

• iSchool
• Informatics
• Information Management
• Library and Information Science

Professor Emerita

Email: kbrown@dom.edu

Education

• PhD, New York University
• MS, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• MA, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Areas of Specialty

• Master of Library and Information Science
• Master of Science in Information Management
• PhD in Information Management

Professor Emerita

Email: skowalczyk@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6482
Office: Crown Library 333

Education

• PhD, Indiana University
• MLIS, Dominican University

Areas of Specialty

• Master of Library and Information Science
• Master of Science in Information Management

Professor Emerita

Email: kmarek@dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6648
Office: Crown Library 300F

Education

• PhD, Emporia State University, Library and Information Management
• MALS, Dominican University
• BA, University of Texas at Austin

Areas of Specialty

• Master of Library and Information Science
• Master of Science in Information Management
• PhD Research interests in Information Policy
• Organizational Storytelling
• Qualitative Research Methods