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About the CIO

John Unsworth

Vice Provost for Library & Technology Services
and Chief Information Officer

Email: unsworth@brandeis.edu
Office: 781-736-4540
Cell: 217-390-2043
Twitter: @unsworth
Appointments: contact Andrea Mooney

December 21, 2011: John Unsworth named new head of Library & Technology Services

Employment

• Vice Provost for Library & Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis University, 2012-present
• Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (also Professor, Department of English, and Professor, Library Faculty), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003-2012
• Director, Illinois Informatics Institute, 2008-2011
• Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1993-2003 (tenured 1996)
• Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1993-2003

Education

• University of Virginia: Ph.D. in English, 1988
• Boston University: M.A. in English, 1982
• Amherst College: B.A. Magna Cum Laude in English, 1981

Recent Publications

• "The Crisis of Audience and the Open Access Solution" in Hacking the Academy, ed. Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt. Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing (online, 2011) and the University of Michigan Press (in print, forthcoming).
• "Medievalists as Early Adopters of Information Technology." Introduction to "Selected Proceedings of the "Third International MARGOT Conference, The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research." Digital Medievalist 2011 (forthcoming).
• "Collaborative Research: an interview." Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Edited by Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Ashgate: London, forthcoming.
• "Computational work with very large text collections: Interoperability, Sustainability, and the TEI." Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 1, June 2011. Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 TEI Conferences.