Dr. Stuart W. Shulman ~ Brief Bio |
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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman received a Bachelors degree from Boston University (Political Science and English) in 1989 and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (Political Science) in 1999. He is holds an appointment in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Senior Research Associate at Pitt’s University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) and in the Université de Genève-, European University Institute-, and Oxford Internet Institute-based E-Democracy Centre.
Dr. Shulman is the founder (2005) and Director
of UCSUR’s Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), which is a
fee-for-service coding lab currently working on projects funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
and other U.S. funding agencies. He has been the Principal Investigator
and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded
research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language
technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and
service-learning efforts in the United States. In 2007, Dr. Shulman w Dr. Shulman was the organizer and chair for federal agency-level electronic rulemaking workshops funded by the NSF and held at the Council for Excellence in Government (2001), the National Defense University (2002), the National Science Foundation (2003 & 2006), and The George Washington University (2004). In November of 2006, he chaired a NSF-funded workshop at Pitt titled “Coding across the Disciplines,” which brought social and computer scientists together to discuss annotation science. For three years, Dr. Shulman served on the Program Committee for the NSF’s National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). He was the dg.o 2006 Workshop and Tutorial Chair and also the Chair of the inaugural Digital Government Society Election Committee. In 2008, he will be the dg.o 2008 Conference Co-Chair. Dr. Shulman reviews individual NSF proposals from multiple cross-cutting NSF divisions and has sat on a NSF proposal review panel.
In May 2006, Dr. Shulman became the next
Editor of the international Journal of E-Government, which has since
been re-named the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. He was
the 2004-2005 President of the American Political Science Association's
organized section on Information Technology & Politics and he is the
current editor of the section newsletter, The ITP News. “Stu” is a
former Oregon Tilth certified organic farmer who teaches courses on
American national government, environmental policy, sprawl, information
technology, qualitative research methods, digital citizenship,
governance, and service-learning. |
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named Director of the Sara Fine Institute and he became a Core
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