DIANE H. SONNENWALD
Assistant Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Office: (919) 962-8065; Fax: (919) 962-8071
dhs@ils.unc.edu; http://www.ils.unc.edu/sonnenwald

EDUCATION:

>BS Mathematics and German, Muhlenberg College; May, 1976 MA Computer Science, Montclair State University; May, 1984 Ph.D. Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University; May, 1993

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

• 1995 - present Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science

• 1993 - 1995 NSF Postdoc Fellow and NATO Postdoc Fellow, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark

• 1985 - 1993 Director, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)

• 1980 - 1985 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs

• 1977 - 1980 Senior Systems Analyst, Warner-Lambert Co.

• 1976 - 1977 Systems Analyst, Prudential Insurance Co.

HONORS, AFFILIATIONS, AND SERVICE:

• Finalist, UNC-CH Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Award (1998)
• Director, Collaborative Electronic Learning Laboratory (CELL), Partnership for Minority Advancement in Biomolecular Sciences (PMABS), UNC-CH, (1998-present)
• ASIS Mid-Year Conference on Collaboration, Technical Program Co-chair (1998)
• Member, International Advisory Board for Agents-Oriented Knowledge Communication Environments Project, University of Warwick, UK (1995-1998)
• Hoechst-Celanese Young Investigator Award (1996, 1997)
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Contribution Award (1996)
• Junior Faculty Development Award (1994)
• Bell Communications Research Doctoral Education Award (1991-1993)
• American Society of Information Science (ASIS) Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Award (1991)
• Executive Women of New Jersey Graduate Merit Award (1991)
• IEEE, Senior Member (1991)
• Rutgers Graduate School Merit Fellowship Award (1991)
• Bellcore Award of Excellence (1987)
• Phi Kappa Phi (1984)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sonnenwald, D.H., & Iivonen, M. (to appear.) An integrated human information behavior research framework for information studies. Accepted for publication in Library and Information Science Research, 25 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Sonnenwald, D.H., & Pierce, L. (to appear.) Information behavior in dynamic work group contexts: Interwoven situational awareness, dense social networks, and contested collaboration in command and control. Accepted for publication in Information Processing & Management. 20 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Iivonen, M., Sonnenwald, D., Parma, M. (to appear.) Establishing collaboration among librarians across national boundaries: An example from the Barents area of northern Europe. In John F. Harvey (Ed.), International Librarianship: Cross Border Idea and Information Transfer. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 13 manuscript pages.

Meho, L., & Sonnenwald, D.H. (to appear). Citation ranking versus peer evaluation of senior faculty research performance: A case study of Kurdish scholarship. Accepted for publication in JASIS. 38 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Sonnenwald, D.H. (1999). Evolving perspectives of human information behavior: Contexts, situations, social networks and information horizons. In T. D. Wilson & D. K. Allen (Eds.), Exploring the Contexts of Information Behavior: Proceedings of the Second International Conference in Information Needs. London: Taylor Graham. 13 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Sonnenwald, D.H., Iivonen, M., Alpi, J., & Kokkinen, H. (1999). Collaborative learning using collaboration technology: Report from the field. In A. Eurelings (Ed.), Integrating Information and Communications Technology to Higher Education. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 18 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Sonnenwald, D.H., Marchionini, G., Wildemuth, B. M., Dempsey, B.L., Viles, C.R., Tibbo, H.R., Smith, J.S. (1999). Collaboration services in a participatory digital library: An emerging design. In T. Saracevic (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS ’99.) 12 manuscript pages. (Refereed.)

Iivonen, M., & Sonnenwald, D.H. (1998). From translation to navigation of different discourses: A model of search term selection during the pre-online stage of the search process. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49 (4), 312-326. (Refereed.)

Iivonen, M., Sonnenwald, D.H., Parma, M., & Poole-Kober, E. (1998). Understanding cultural differences: Examples from education. 64^th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Conference, August 1998.

Sonnenwald, D.H., & Lievrouw, L.A. (1997). Collaboration during the design process: A case study of communication roles and project performance. In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen & B. Dervin (Eds.), Information Seeking in Context (pp. 179-204). London: Taylor Graham.

Pejtersen, A.M., Sonnenwald, D.H., Burr, J., Govindaraj, T., & Vicente, K. (1997). The Design Explorer Project: Using a cognitive framework to support knowledge exploration. Journal of Engineering Design, 8 (3), 289-302.

Sonnenwald, D.H. (1996). Communication roles that support collaboration during the design process. Design Studies, 17, 277-301.

Sonnenwald, D.H. (1995). Contested collaboration: A descriptive model of intergroup communication in information system design. Information Processing and Management, 31(6), 859-877.

Sonnenwald, D.H., & Pejtersen, A.M. (1994). Towards a framework to support information needs in design: A concurrent engineering example. In H. Albrechtsen & S. Oernager (Eds.), Knowledge Organization and Management (pp. 161-172). Frankfurt/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1994.

COLLABORATORS:

Meurig Beynon, CS, University of Warwick, UK Walter Bollenbacher, Biology, UNC-CH Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., CS, UNC-CH Ruben Carbonell, Chemical Engineering, NC State University Shan-Ju Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Joseph M. DeSimone, Chemistry, UNC-CH Dorothy A. Erie, Chemistry, UNC-CH Denis Gray, NC State David Haase, NC State Mirja Iivonen, Information Studies, University of Oulu, Finland Mike Jaffe, NJ Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University,NJ Kevin P. Jeffay, CS, UNC-CH

Leah Lievrouw, Information and Library Science, UCLA Bob Losee, SILS, UNC-CH Gary Marchioni, SILS, UNC-CH Linda Pierce, US Army Research Lab Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risø National Labs, Denmark Don K. Smith, CS, UNC-CH Richard Superfine, Physics, UNC-CH Russell Taylor, CS, UNC-CH Helen R. Tibbo, SILS, UNC-CH Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia Barbara Wildemuth, SILS, UNC-CH Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Graduate Students Advised

Doctoral Students (past and present – 11 total)

Dr. Maureen McCreadie, Dr. Jacqueline Algon, Dr. Lynn Whitener, Jennifer Arns, Lokman Meho, Sueng-Lye Kim, Deborah Swain, Russell Vanneman, Eileen Kupstas-Soo, Pi-Hwa Sun, David Meyer

Master Students (past and present – 11 total)

Jeffrey Alpi, Evelyn Poole-Kober, Jennifer Smallwood, Matthew Mielke, Lee Altman, Jennifer Hoffman, Ron Bergquist, Nancy Underwood, William Sibert, Schawna Schnorr, Victoria Edrington