Jeffrey Bardzell Named Dean of School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jeffrey Bardzell was named Dean of School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following a comprehensive search led by Martin Baker, Partner, of our Higher Education Practice.

Bardzell is a well-established interdisciplinary researcher in human-computer interaction and design, with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and an academic career that spans humanities, design computing and social science. His research has focused on creativity, criticality and design thinking; aesthetic interaction and experience design; social informatics and participatory design; and AI and more-than-human design.

He was previously the Associate Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University, where he worked with approximately 75 full-time faculty and supported more than 2,000 combined undergraduate and graduate students.  

Ranked the No. 2 information and library science program by U.S. News and World Report, SILS is a global leader in digital curation, health informatics, information interaction and retrieval, social informatics and librarianship of the 21st century.

For more information visit www.unc.edu.