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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D.
Educational Background:
2004 Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral Dissertation: Exploring the Design-Use Interface: The Agency of Boundary Objects in Educational Technology
Committee: David J. Hess (Chair), Ron Eglash, Nancy Campbell, William A. (Al) Wallace
2002 M.S., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1999 B.A., Computer Science and Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude, with Honors), Case Western Reserve University
Employment Background:
Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, January 2007 – present.
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006 – December 2006.
Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, August 2004 – May 2007 (on leave August 2006 – May 2007)
Funded Research Grants:
National Science Foundation, $150,000 (total value of collaborative award: $300,000).
National Science Foundation, $700,000.
University of Maryland, $40,421.
National Science Foundation, $106,667 (total value of collaborative award: $160,000).
National Science Foundation, $15,000.
National Science Foundation, $60,517 (total value of collaborative award: $90,000).
Florida State University, $14,000.
Council on Research and Creativity, “Comparing 3D and 2D Displays in Educational Software,” PI: K.R. Fleischmann, Summer 2005.
National Science Foundation, $7,990.
Published and In-Press Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Fleischmann, K.R. & Wallace, W.A. In Press. “Ensuring Transparency in Computational Modeling: How and Why Modelers Make Models Transparent.” Forthcoming in Communications of the ACM.
Jaeger, P. T., Fleischmann, K. R., Preece, J., Shneiderman, B., Wu, F., & Qu, Y. 2007. “Community Response Grids: Facilitating Community Response to Biosecurity and Bioterror Emergencies through Information and Communication Technologies. Forthcoming in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science.
Jaeger, P. T., & Fleischmann, K.R. 2007. “Public Libraries, Values, Trust, and E-Government.” Information Technology and Libraries 26(4): 35-43.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2005. “Virtual Dissection and Physical Collaboration.” First Monday 10(5).
Published and In-Press Book Chapters:
Robbins, R.W., Fleischmann, K.R., & Wallace, W.A. 2008. “Computing and Information Ethics: Challenges, Education, and Research.” In Handbook of Research on Technoethics, Edited by R. Luppicini & R. Adell. The Idea Group.
Wallace, W.A. & Fleischmann, K.R. 2005. “Models and Modeling.” In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Edited by C. Mitcham. Macmillan Reference.
Published Book Review:
Refereed Conference Papers Published in Proceedings:
Refereed Conference Presentations (without proceedings):
Fleischmann, K.R., Robbins, R.W., & Wallace, W.A. 2008. “Educational Simulation for Information Ethics.” Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2006. “Values Embedded in IT: Applying a Research Agenda to Education and Practice.” Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Wallace, W.A. & Fleischmann, K.R. 2006. “The Ethical Implications of Designing Computational Models to be Transparent,” 54th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Pittsburgh, PA.
Crapo, A., Fleischmann, K.R., & Wallace, W.A. 2006. “Implementing Transparency in Computational Models,” 54th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Pittsburgh, PA.
Zhou, Y., Wallace, W.A., Fleischmann, K.R., Baumes, J., Magdon-Ismail, M., & Goldberg, M. 2006. “Exploration of Values and Group Formation Using the Enron Email Corpus,” 54th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Pittsburgh, PA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2005. “Past Futures and Technoscientific Innovation: Science Fiction in the Lives of Scientists and Engineers.” 29th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Pasadena, CA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2004. “Knowledges and Values in Educational Computer Simulations.” 2nd Annual HumaniTech Conference, Albany, NY.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2003. “The Ethics of Virtual Bodies.” 1st Annual HumaniTech Conference, Albany, NY.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2001. “Simulating Surgery: Travels in CorpoReality.” 15th Annual Society for Literature and Science (SLS) Conference, Buffalo, NY.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2000. “Dissecting Cyberfrogs: Computer Simulations and the Animal Rights Movement. Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, St. Paul, MN.
Conference Panels Organized:
Fleischmann, K.R. 2008. “Social and Ethical Implications of Digital Libraries: Community Engagement, Learning, and Human Values.” Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2003. “IT and Education.” 27th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Fleischmann, K.R. & Eglash, R. 2001. “The Mutual Construction of Virtual and Physical Worlds.” 25th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Cambridge, MA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2000. Technoscience and the Agency of the Dead. 24th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference (co-organized with the European Society for Studies of Science and Technology), Vienna, Austria.
Presentations for Conference Panels:
Fleischmann, K.R. 2008. “Digital Libraries and Human Values.” Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2005. “Comparing 3D and 2D Displays in Educational Software.” 68th Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Charlotte, NC.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2003. “Exploring the Design-Use Interface: Knowledges and Values Embedded in Educational Computer Simulations.” 27th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2001. “Boeing Meets Baudrillard: Simulation in a Hyperreal World.” 25th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Cambridge, MA.
Fleischmann, K.R. 2000. “Designing the Digital Dead: Medical Education in the 21st Century.” 24th Annual Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference (co-organized with the European Society for Studies of Science and Technology), Vienna, Austria.
Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Founders Award of Academic Excellence, October 2003.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1999-2002, $81,300.
Callender Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in anthropology, May 1999.
Susie Scott Christopher Prize for excellent contributions to the French program, May 1999.
Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, May 1998.
Inducted into Phi Sigma Iota (International Foreign Language Honor Society), May 1998.
Inducted into Golden Key National Honor Society, February 1997
President’s Scholarship, Case Western Reserve University, 1995-1999, $50,400.
Reviewing for Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Human Factors in 2006 and 2007
The Information Society in 2005
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction in 2007
New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia in 2007
Journal of Educational Technology and Society in 2007
Transactions on Information Systems in 2007
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in 2007
Reviewing for Edited Books:
The Handbook of Computer Networks in 2006
Other Honors:
Selected and funded to participate in and present at the First Annual Graduate Webshop, hosted by the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of California, Berkeley, and funded by the National Science Foundation (IIS-0086143), June 2001.
Courses Taught:
|
Course Title
|
University |
UG/Grad |
Off/Online |
Term |
Enrollment |
|
Information Ethics
|
Maryland |
Graduate |
Offline |
Spring 2008 |
|
|
Transformational Information Technologies |
Maryland |
Graduate |
Offline |
Spring 2008 |
|
|
|
Maryland |
Graduate |
Offline |
Fall 2007 |
6 |
|
Maryland |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2007 |
36 |
|
|
Information Ethics
|
Drexel |
Graduate |
Online |
Winter 2007 |
19 |
|
Analysis of Interactive Systems |
Drexel |
Graduate |
Offline |
Fall 2006 |
10 |
|
Societal Implications of the Information Age |
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2005 |
24 |
|
Interface Design
|
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2005 |
48 |
|
Societal Implications of the Information Age |
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Spring 2005 |
28 |
|
Interface Design
|
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Spring 2005 |
48 |
|
Societal Implications of the Information Age |
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2004 |
15 |
|
Interface Design
|
Florida State |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2004 |
50 |
|
Medicine and Society
|
Rensselaer |
Undergrad |
Offline |
Fall 2003 |
31 |
Current Doctoral Student Advising:
An-Shou Cheng
Reviewer for events included within the following conferences:
International Conference on Information Systems in 2006 (3)
Americas Conference on Information Systems in 2007 (2)
Other professional service activities:
Co-Organizer, Working Boundaries Graduate Conference, hosted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, spring 2001.
College service activities:
In 2007-2008, I am serving on the Faculty Search Committee of the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland.
In the spring of 2007, I served on the Curriculum Committee and the Undergraduate Planning Committee of the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland.
In 2005-2006, I served on the doctoral program team of the College of Information of Florida State University.
In 2004-2005, I served on the undergraduate program team and the information services team of the College of Information of Florida State University. As a member of the information services team, I was involved in writing part of the report for the College of Information’s successful American Library Association accreditation review.
In 1998-1999, I served on the Committee on Educational Programs of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
University service activities:
In the spring of 2007, I served as the Liaison of the College of Information Studies to the University of Maryland Libraries.
In the fall of 2003, I served as an Ambassador to Potential Donors for Institute Advancement at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In the spring of 1999, I served as a Selection Committee Member for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University.