Rate My Professor Christine Borgman

Christine Borgman is Distinguished Research Professor and Presidential Chair Emerita in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Education and Information Studies. She joined UCLA in 1983 and has held positions including Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Distinguished Professor, Department Chair, and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies. Her research centers on scientific data practices, information policy, knowledge infrastructures, and open science. She earned a PhD in Communication from Stanford University, an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BA in Mathematics from Michigan State University. Borgman has authored more than 300 publications in fields such as information studies, computer science, communication, and law, including three award-winning books from MIT Press: Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (2015), which won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing and Information Sciences; Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (2007); and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (2000), both named Best Information Science Book of the Year by the Association for Information Science and Technology.