Texas Center for Digital Knowledge

Kathryn comes to the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge from her native state of Indiana, where she has been working on her Ph.D. in Information Science, minoring in Social Informatics, at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research is on geographically-based community networks and information and communication technology (ICT) use, particularly in rural areas. More abstractly, she seeks to understand center-periphery network tensions and "have-have not" phenomena. Kathryn has taught three summer sessions of the Grant Writing Workshop for librarians at Indiana University. She has written nearly a dozen successful grant proposals totaling about $1 million, including to the Office of Naval Research, the Community Foundation of Crawford County (Indiana), the Indiana Workforce Investment Board, the Southern Indiana Rural Development Project, and Access Indiana, for both academic and community-based projects. Prior to undertaking her Ph.D., Kathryn served as a business systems analyst and technical writer for a major pharmaceutical, a major CD distribution company, the U.S. Navy, county and state government in Arizona, and several non-profit organizations. A true interdisciplinarian, Kathryn enjoys multi-tasking on a variety of projects and looks forward to helping researchers at the University of North Texas obtain the funding needed to pursue their research agendas and expand the boundaries of existing theoretical knowledge.