BryanSemaan

  • Department Chair
  • Associate Professor
  • INFORMATION SCIENCE
  • COLLEGE LEADERSHIP
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Information Science Department Chair Bryan Semaanis an associate professor at theǸԹ. He examines the role of Informationand Communication Technologies in enabling resilience amongst people immersed in challenging contexts (e.g. people’s experiences with racism and stereotyping, LGBTQ+ people “coming out”, and refugees integrating into new sociocultural contexts). His work draws on critical perspectives (e.g. decolonial, critical race, and feminist)to understand, critique, and createethical, moral, just and equitablesociotechnical systems.

Before coming to CU ǸԹ, Bryan was an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He was also apostdoctoral scholarin theDepartment of Information and Computer Sciencesat theUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa. He obtained hisPh.D. from theDonald Bren School of Information and Computer Scienceat theUniversity of California, Irvine, where he also received his B.S. and M.S. in Information and Computer Science.