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Christine L. Borgman, Distinguished Research Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, conducts research in scientific data practices and information policy. She is the author of more than 300 publications in information studies, computer science, communication, and law, which include three books from MIT Press: Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (2015), winner of 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). The latter two books won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the Association for Information Science and Technology.

She 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) in the Netherlands; Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary; and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, U.K.

Professor Borgman is a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council; a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center; member of the CLARIAH International Advisory Panel; and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery. She previously served on the U.S. National Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information, U.S. National CODATA, and the  Council of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She chaired the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library and co-chaired the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation and Attribution.

Current editorial board activities include the Harvard Data Science Review, PLOS One, Journal of Data and Information Science, International Journal of Digital Curation, and Policy and Internet, Other honors and awards include the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE; Award of Merit and the Research in Information Science Award, both from the Association for Information Science and Technology; and a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh. She has keynoted conferences and events in the sciences, social sciences, computer science, data science, medicine, law, and the humanities. Prof. Borgman also holds the title of University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Emerita. She holds the PhD in Communication from Stanford University, MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and BA in Mathematics from Michigan State University.