Christine Borgman

Distinguished Research Professor and Presidential Chair, UCLA Department of Information Studies

Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Research Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Emerita, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research in scientific data practices, knowledge infrastructures, and information technology and policy has led to publications in information studies, computer science, communication, and law. These include three award-winning books from MIT Press and more than 250 journal articles, conference papers, and other scholarly products. Her current roles include serving as a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council; the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and editorial boards such as the Harvard Data Science Review and PLOS One. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery. Prof. Borgman has held Visiting Scholar positions at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society; Lund University in Sweden; the University of Oxford; Oliver Smithies Fellow at Balliol College; Oxford Internet Institute and Oxford eResearch Centre; Digital Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and the eHumanities Group in the Netherlands; Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary; and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, U.K. A recipient of multiple research awards and honors, she has keynoted events in the sciences, social sciences, computer science, data science, medicine, law, and the humanities.

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