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 Stuart
Shulman, Assistant Professor, is named the Director
of the Sara Fine Institute (SFI). SFI was founded
in honor of Sara Fine, a faculty member at SIS who
conducted groundbreaking research on the impact of
technology on interpersonal behavior. The
mission of the Institute is to examine the ways in
which technology may affect our personal interactions,
communications, and relationships with individuals
and institutions. SFI will utilize campus-community
partnerships to undertake research on these social,
political, ethical and educational issues.
Shulman holds a joint appointment in the School of
Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He
is also a Senior Research Associate at Pitt’s
University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR)
and in the Université de Genève-, European
University Institute-, and Oxford Internet Institute-based
E-Democracy Centre.
Dr. Shulman is the founder (2005) and Director of
UCSUR’s Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP),
which is a fee-for-service coding lab currently working
on projects funded by the National Science Foundation
(NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and
other U.S. funding agencies. He has been the
leader of several NSF-funded research projects focusing
on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies,
manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning
efforts in the United States.
Shulman will be bringing together research partners
and teaching faculty from across the University of
Pittsburgh to address pilot projects on topics such
as human information processing and interpersonal relations
in a range of contexts from schools and community centers
to institutions of higher education and governments. Those
interested in learning more about the Sara Fine Institute
should visit www. http://www.sarafineinst.pitt.edu/.
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