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Jeffrey M. Stanton, PhD (University of Connecticut, 1997) is associate

dean for Research and Doctoral Programs in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Stanton is the co-author, with Dr. Kathryn R. Stam, of The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets—Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust (2009,Information Today, Inc.). In addition, Stanton has published 77 jour-nal articles and book chapters and refereed conference papers on

research topics at the crossroads of organizational behavior andtechnology. Dr. Stanton’s research has been supported through grantsand supplements from the National Science Foundation (NSF),including NSF’s prestigious CAREER Award, as well as from theSociety for Industrial and Organizational Psychology ResearchFoundation, Procter and Gamble, the National Society of Black Engineers, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Before

starting in academia, Dr. Stanton was a software engineer in the pro-fessional audio and electronic publishing industries.

Indira R. Guzman, PhD (Syracuse University, 2006) is an associate pro-fessor of Management Information Systems and Business Administration at TUI University in Cypress, California, and seniorresearch associate of the Information Technology Workforce (ITWF)

project at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Dr.Guzman holds numerous degrees, including a doctorate in informa-tion science and technology and a master’s degree in informationmanagement, both from Syracuse University, master’s and bachelor’s

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degrees in computer science engineering from the Polytechnic

Institute of Donetsk, Ukraine, and advanced graduate studies inbanking and finance from the Bolivian Catholic University, Bolivia.She received the prestigious Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship and NSFfunding for her academic training as well as her research. Dr.Guzman’s business and consulting experience includes more than adecade of work as network administrator and chief of theInformation Systems Department at the Argentinean Nation’s Bank and other international organizations. Her research in informationstudies focuses on the impact of information technologies in organi-zations and in society. She has also conducted research related tohuman resources in information systems, specifically the study of theoccupational culture of information professionals; their organiza-tional role, gender, and ethnic diversity in the field; and recruitmentand retention issues. As a researcher in this field, her accomplish-ments include more than 30 academic presentations and publica-tions. Her work has been published in journals such as InformationTechnology and People, The DATA BASE for Advances in InformationSystems, Human Resource Management , Women’s Studies , Review of Management Innovation and Creativity, Journal of Digital Information, and the Latin American and Caribbean Journal of the Association of Information Systems.

Kathryn R. Stam, PhD (Syracuse University, 1999) is an assistant pro-fessor of Anthropology at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica,New York. She also coordinates an online graduate program inInformation Design and Technology. She has taught more than 25 dif-ferent courses, most of them related to anthropology; cultural diver-sity; or the social, organizational, and ethical aspects of informationtechnology. She earned her PhD in social science from Syracuse

University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.Following this, she completed a 3-year postdoctoral research positionin the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Her mainresearch interests focus on information technology, community health, cultural conservation, and ethnographic methods. She has

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also published a wide range of qualitative research, and her articles

appear in the following journals: Information Technology and People,The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Journal of Digital Information, the Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet , Computers and Security , the Journal of Information Systems Education , Surveillance and Society , Health Education Research ,Social Science and Medicine , and the World Health Forum . She hasreceived financial support for her research from the NSF and theState of New York/UUP Professional Development Committee. Her work has been presented at more than 20 professional conferences inthe past six years. Her background also includes extensive experiencelearning, writing, and teaching about Thai and Lao culture. She worked in Thailand for more than 10 years as a translator, teacher,and program manager in the field of community health. She hascompleted follow-up studies of her research about married womenand HIV/AIDS and has presented her work at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association and the Northeast Anthropological Association. She is currently working on a project topreserve rural Thai culture through the collection and digitization of Thai cremation volumes.

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