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TIPI Director

Sharon Strover
Ph.D., Professor
Department of Radio-Television-Film
College of Communications
sstrover@mail.utexas.edu

Associate Directors

Gary Chapman
Director, 21st Century Project and Instructor
LBJ School of Public Affairs.
gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu
  Philip Doty
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences
pdoty@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Joseph Straubhaar
Ph.D., Professor
Department of Radio-Television-Film
College of Communications
jdstraubhaar@mail.utexas.edu
   
Friends and researchers

Lon Berquist
Lon is currently a Policy Analyst for the Texas Department of Information Resources. His dissertation research examines the interplay of federal, state, and local policy in developing advanced telecommunications infrastructure. He has been a visiting Instructor at Trinity University, an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film, a Research Associate at the IC2 Institute, and a Research Specialist for the City of Austin's Telecomm. and Regulatory Affairs Office.
Assistant Instructor | Doctoral Candidate, RTF |
berquist@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Ana Boa-Ventura
Assistant Instructor | PhD Student, RTF | anaventura@mail.utexas.edu

Patrick Burkart, PhD
Current research includes comparative Latin American telecom reforms, music ecommerce and digital rights management, Web personalization technology, the organization of "global civil society" in the World Symposium of the Information Society, and the organization of the video game industry.
Affiliate | burkart@mail.utexas.edu

Carolyn Cunningham
Carolyn Cunningham, PhD student, focuses her work on social uses of technology, particularly how new technologies impact women's lives. Her Masters thesis, Technologies of Anxiety: Discourses of Fertility and Infertility, examined shifting notions of fertility throughout the twentieth century. As a Research Associate at TIPI, Cunningham contributes to the "2-1-1 State-by-State" periodic updates, wrote the report, "The Status of Wireless Access to 2-1-1," and participates in the Community Network Evaluation project.
Graduate Research Associate |PhD Student, RTF | carolync@mail.utexas.edu
Holly Custard
Graduate Research Associate | Master's Student, RTF | hcustard@mail.utexas.edu
Martha Fuentes
Graduate Research Associate | PhD Student, RTF | m.fuentes@mail.utexas.edu
Nobuya Inagaki
Graduate Research Associate | PhD Student, RTF | inagaki@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Heekwon Koo
koohk1957@yahoo.com
Christopher Lucas
Graduate Research Associate | PhD Student, RTF | clucas@mail.utexas.edu
Seung-Hwan Mun
Teaching Assistant | PhD Student, RTF | shmun@mail.utexas.edu

Erich Pelletier
Conducts research in several areas relevant to the mission of TIPI, including telecommunications use in social services, intellectual property issues, digital privacy, and digital gaming. He conducted the initial research used in the 211 Project, and has continued work at TIPI through the digital games research for the Digital Media Collaboratory.
Research Assistant | MA Student, RTF | pelletier@mail.utexas.edu

Dorie Pickle
Before attending the LBJ School, Dorie worked in the dot-com field as a project director and a graphic designer. Dorie founded two web-related companies between 1999 and 2001. Dorie is working on issues relating to the telecom panel of the Rural Policy Research Institute and has worked on the Community Networking evaluation project.
MA student, Public School of Affairs | doriepickle@mail.utexas.edu

Jody Waters, PhD
Affiliate | jswaters@mail.utexas.edu

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