Dr. Timothy D. Bowman is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies (iSchool). Prior to joining the SoIS faculty at Dominican University, Timothy was an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences at Wayne State University for six years. Before, Bowman completed a one-year postdoctoral position at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education (RUSE) at the University of Turku, Finland, where he researched open science, scholarly communication, and altmetrics. Before this, he worked as a research professional at the Universitè de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada investigating scholarly communication, bibliometrics, citation analysis, and altmetrics. While completing his Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington, Timothy taught multiple graduate-level courses as an adjunct faculty member and participated in various NSF and NEH-funded grant projects in the fields of Digital Humanities and Scholarly Communication. His research interest includes applying social, psychological, linguistic, and philosophical theories and methods to the study of scholarly communication, altmetrics, open science, the academic reward system, and the presentation of self in online environments. Timothy enjoys teaching technical and theoretical courses and applying the lessons he learned while working outside of academia to prepare his students to succeed after obtaining their degrees. He is proficient in various programming languages and database systems and uses his technical skill set to collect, analyze, and store large datasets.

Location

Chicago, IL

Disciplines

• Information Science and Technology

Affiliation

Dominican University

Website

http://www.tdbowman.com