About Me:
Currently a student in the Master of Science in Applied Anthropology program at the University of North Texas. For the last 13 years, I‘ve managed the corporate media archives for Microsoft Corporation in Seattle. I have a Masters degree in Information Science from the University of North Texas and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Texas Christian University (1990). Prior to Microsoft, I was the Manager of Visual Resources at the Dallas Museum of Art for 5 years, and I’ve also worked with the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and for the University of Texas at Arlington.
In my day job I’m a library manager who specializes in digital and analog audiovisual archives - in fact with the help of my staff we manage one of the largest digital repositories in the world. As you can imagine our work involves many large-scale information systems, so over the years my duties have slanted heavily toward technology management, software development and project management in addition to the standard managerial functions of finance and personnel management.
I find every subject within Anthropology equally fascinating (and this somewhat frustrating in terms of honing down a particular area of concentration), but my central interest is in the Anthropology of Information – how people within and across cultures seek, use, value and transfer information – and how an understanding of the foundations of information-seeking behavior can be applied to improving information resources and technologies. I’d also like to learn more about how the disciplines of biological anthropology and evolutionary psychology could be leveraged to set the context for a general theory of human information-related behaviors; and finally the artist within me can’t let me finish here without expressing a profound interest in cultural symbols, semiotics and how art functions in culture as a form of information transfer device.
Area(s) of Training
applied anthropology, other
Current Area of Employment
Library Manager
