Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman conducts research in scientific data practices and information policy. Her publications in information studies, computer science, communication, and law include three award-winning books from MIT Press and more than 250 journal articles, conference papers, and other scholarly products. She has held Visiting Scholar positions at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society; Lund University in Sweden; the University of Oxford; Oliver Smithies Fellow at Balliol College; Oxford Internet Institute and Oxford eResearch Centre; Digital Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and the eHumanities Group in the Netherlands; Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary; and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, U.K.

Professor Borgman is a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council; a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center; member of the CLARIAH International Advisory Panel; and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery. She previously served on the U.S. National Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information, U.S. National CODATA, and the  Council of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She chaired the Committee to Visit the Harvard Library and co-chaired the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation and Attribution.

Current editorial board activities include the Harvard Data Science Review, PLOS One, Journal of Data and Information Science, and International Journal of Digital Curation.

At UCLA since 1983, Prof. Borgman has held the titles of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Distinguished Professor, Department Chair, and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies.