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I am currently employed at the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences. In past lives, I've worked in the same capacity at the University of Kentucky's School of Library and Information Science and in a complementary but different role as a reference librarian at Pullen Library of Georgia State University.

In my former (and lengthy) lives as a student, I've been involved in several research projects and grants (led by other people/institutions, of course). I've been involved in various types of research and development activities including projects related to aviation (as an undergraduate researcher in a project funded by Wright-Patterson AFB which entailed the mathematical modeling of the effects of runway profiles on the integrity of military aircraft, and as a graduate student on project funded by the Federal Aviation Administration which provided an investigation of security issues at general aviation airports), software development (as an undergraduate at AT&T Bell Laboratories primarily on a proprietary CAD program), and policy research (as a graduate student on a grant to model infant mortality and morbidity at the Shands Center for Health Policy Research and on a study of the economic and social impact of public libraries in the state of Pennsylvania).