
- mhaigh@uwm.edu
- 414-229-5397
- Northwest Quadrant D 2835
- http://www.tomandmaria.com/Maria/
Maria Haigh
- Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
Education
- PhD Major: Information Systems June 2002
Minor: Scholarly Communication
College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA - M.S. Information Science March 1994
College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA - B.S. Major: Computer Science May 1987
Minor: Applied Mathematics
National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Bio
Associate Professor 2011 – current
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Fulbright Scholar January 2007- July 2007
Lecture and Research in Computer Science Department of the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Teaching two courses on social informatics and intellectual property issues. Research on intellectual property issues, role of libraries in transitional Ukrainian society.
Assistant Professor January 2004 – 2011
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Courses Taught
INFOST 410: Database Information Retrieval Systems
INFOST 691: Big Data and Society
INFOST 675: Information Technology and Organizations
Sample Publications
M Haigh, T. Matychak, M.Dorosh, “Beyond Fake News: Learning from Information Literacy Programs in Ukraine”. forthcoming in Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization, Misinformation, and Suppression, part of the Advances in Librarianship book series.
M. Haigh, "Re-Imagined Communities: One Ukrainian Library in Four Nations", February 2020, 41st Annual Conference of the SWPopular Culture Association
M Haigh, T Haigh “Fighting and Framing Fake News”, forthcoming in THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF PROPAGANDA, Paul Baines, Nicholas
O'Shaughnessy & Nancy Snow (eds.) (Sage, 2020): pp.305-324.
M Haigh, T Haigh, T.Matychak, “Information Literacy vs. Fake News: The Case of Ukraine”, The Open Information Science Journal, 2019, #3, pp.154-165
M. Haigh, Haigh, T. D., Kozak, N. “Stopping Fake news: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter-Propaganda” Journalism Studies, 2018 Oct 26;19(14), pp.2062-87
Maria Haigh, Thomas Haigh,” The “Goodbye Petrovka” Plan: The Moral Economy of File Sharing in Post‐Soviet Society,” Harvard Law School workshop on Free Culture, October 23, 2009, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/Main_Page
Maria Haigh, “Requirements Engineering for Business Stakeholders: Applying Quality Views Framework to Software”, System Research and Information Technologies journal, 2012, issue 1, pp. 31-38
Maria Haigh, “Of Ducks and Downloads: The Moral Economy of Intellectual Property in Post-Soviet Society”, Libri, Volume. 59, Issue 4, pp. 248-258, December 2009
Maria Haigh, “Making Ukrainians in the Library: Language, Libraries and National Identity” , Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Volume 33, Issue 3-4, pp.141-159 September/December 2009.
Maria Haigh, “Research versus practice in software engineering: comparison of expert opinions to measured user priorities”, System Research and Information Technologies, pp.133-142, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2009
Maria Haigh, “Downloading Communism: File-Sharing as Samizdat in Ukraine”, Libri, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp.165-178, September 2007
Maria Haigh, "Divided by a Common Degree Program? Profiling Online and Face-to-Face Information Science Students", Education for Information, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 93-110, June 2007
Maria Haigh, “Escaping Lenin’s Library: Library and Information Science Education in Independent Ukraine”, The International Information and Library Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 72-79, June 2007
Teaching Specializations & Interests
Databases, It and Organizations, Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News, Big Data, Society
Research Interests by Topic
Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News, Big Data, Society