DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
CHAIR OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
Dr. Jiangping Chen was appointed the Chair of the Department of Information
Science at the University of North Texas in 2018. Dr. Chen currently serves as a professor in the department, teaching graduate courses on data modeling and information science research. She also supervises the department’s Graduate Academic Certificate in Digital Content Management. Dr. Chen graduated from Syracuse University in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Information Transfer. She earned her B.S. from Wuhan University and M.S. from the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Access, Data Analysis & Data Science, and Information Systems Evaluation. Dr. Chen’s research has been continuously funded, and she has secured more than a million dollars in grants in recent years. She published a monograph on multilingual access and services for digital collections by Libraries Unlimited in 2016 and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Library, one of the top international Information Science journals.
CHAIR OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
Dr. Yunjo An was selected to serve as the new Chair of the Learning Technologies Department on September 1, 2020. Dr. An previously served as an Associate Professor in the department. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, and she has taught a variety of courses in Learning Technologies/Instructional Technology over the last 12 years. Dr. An’s research interests include digital game-based learning, gamification of learning, complex problem solving and learning in technology-enhanced learning environments, learner-centered technology integration, and teacher professional development.
CHAIR OF LINGUISTICS
Dr. William Salmon joined UNT in 2022 as Professor of Linguistics and Chair
of the Department of Linguistics. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University in 2009, where he worked on semantic and pragmatic issues in Brazilian Portuguese. He then moved to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2008-2011 for a postdoctoral position. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in Duluth in 2011, where he broadened his work on semantics and pragmatics to include sociolinguistics and work on languages of Belize, such as Belizean Creole, Garifuna, and Mopan. He served as Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at UMD from 2018-2021 and at this time began to work on varieties of Texas English as well. Dr. Salmon received his MA in Linguistics from UNT in 2003, working with Dr. Haj Ross, and is very happy to once again be Mean Green!
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