Kevin G Crowston
Professor
crowston@syr.edu
348 Hinds Hall
(315) 443-1676
http://crowston.syr.edu/
Overview
Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Interests
Research Interests
His research examines new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information technology. He approaches this issue in several ways: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations (especially virtual organization); theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of systems to support people working together. He is currently a PI on 2 NSF sponsored projects: NSF SOCS Grant 09-68470 for "SOCS: Socially intelligent computing to support citizen science" (see here for details) and NSF SOCS Grant 11-11107 for "SOCS: Socially intelligent computing for coding of qualitative data" (see here for details). Descriptions of past projects can be found at http://floss.syr.edu/ and http://genres.syr.edu/.
Teaching Interests
Research methods; systems analysis; cyber-infrastructure.
Professional Interests
co-Editor in chief for the journal Information, Technology and People. Vice-chair for International Federation of Information Systems (IFIP) Working Group 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations. Program-chair for the Academy of Management Organizational Communications and Information Systems Division.
Personal Interests
reading, travel.
Teaching History
