The SIGDOC Board consists of volunteers who help actively advance the organization and its endeavors. Throughout its history, SIGDOC has benefited greatly from the many volunteers who have served in various capacities. SIGDOC is seeking active participation from members; if you would like to get involved, please contact us at sigdocacm@acm.org.
SIGDOC Executive Committee
| Name & Affiliation | Role | Bio |
|---|---|---|
| Huiling Ding North Carolina State University | Chair | Huiling Ding is a professor of English and Director of Labor Analytics and Workforce Development at the Data Science Academy at North Carolina State University. She teaches technical communication, responsible AI, writing in the disciplines, and writing for publication. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence and society, health risk communication, technical communication, labor market analytics, intercultural communication, and social justice. |
| Luke Thominet Florida International University | Vice Chair | Luke Thominet is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Florida International University in Miami. He has published articles in a range of writing studies, technical communication, and rhetorics of health and medicine journals, including Patient Education and Counseling, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Communication Design Quarterly, and Technical Communication Quarterly, as well as several edited collections. He has ongoing research projects on patient and physician framing of cancer progression, the design of grading systems, the construction of disciplinary identity through academic websites, and qualitative research methodology in AI-assisted projects. He previously served as SIGDOC Communications Manager (2019-2021). |
| Chen Chen Utah State University | Secretary-Treasurer | Chen Chen is an assistant professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Utah State University. Her research focuses on advocacy and resistant rhetorical practices by marginalized communities as civic and tactical technical communication in transnational contexts. Her work has been published in Enculturation, Technical Communication, SIGDOC Proceedings, and several edited collections. She has also published on pedagogical research and has done work examining professionalization processes of graduate students and early career faculty in extra-institutional disciplinary spaces. |
| Timothy Amidon University of Rhode Island | Editor-in-Chief, CDQ | Amidon is an Associate Professor in the Professional and Public Writing Department within the Harrington School of Communication at URI. His research program spans the fields of digital rhetoric, technical and professional communication, and public health. His scholarship has appeared in journals such as Technical Communication Quarterly, Kairos, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Communication Design Quarterly. Additionally, he has nearly 25 years of industry experience in fire and emergency services. |
| Daniel P. Richards Old Dominion University | Past Chair | Daniel P. Richards is an associate professor and associate chair of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. His research focuses on environmental rhetoric, risk communication, the public understanding of science, and the politics of higher education. |
SIGDOC Advisory Board
| Name & Affiliation | Role | Bio |
|---|---|---|
| Quan Zhou Metro State University | Member at Large | Quan Zhou is a Professor in the Department of Technical Communication and Interaction Design at Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities, MN. He directs the Design of User Experience graduate certificate. Quan’s research examines the effects of cognitive biases in user experience and communication design. His scholarly work can be found in Technical Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Communication Design Quarterly, etc. |
| Jason Tham Texas Tech University | Member at Large | Jason Tham is an Associate Professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University, where he co-directs the User Experience (UX) Research Lab. He teaches courses in UX research, information design, instructional design, web publishing, and digital rhetorics. He is a Research Partner with the Digital Life Institute, Ontario Tech University. His current research interests are design thinking approaches in technical communication pedagogy and practice. |
| Sherena Huntsman Boise State University | Access Chair | Sherena Huntsman is an assistant professor of technical communication at Boise State University where she also serves on the University IT Accessibility Council and the Idaho Digital Access Consortium. Her research investigates the intersection of technical communication and disability studies. Her research focuses on the way power structures function in digital design processes that both generate and inhibit access to social and political systems. |
| Michelle McMullin North Carolina State University | Grants / Awards/ Workshop Manager | Michelle McMullin is an assistant professor of technical communication in the English department at North Carolina State University. She teaches courses in TPC theory and research methods and project management. She directs the internship program for undergraduate and graduate students and enjoys mentoring and coaching students as they professionalize in the field. She studies collaboration and infrastructure, and is particularly interested in the ways people work together to respond to problems in a variety of contexts. She is a member of the faculty leadership team for Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing. With other Crow researchers she continues to study Constructive Distributed Work, which is Crow’s approach to administration, project management and team building for a large distributed team. |
| Chris Lindgren North Carolina State University | Website Manager | Chris Lindgren (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the English Department at North Carolina State University. He teaches courses on information and web design. His research and outreach work brings TPC’s critical and rhetorical practices to quantitative data work. His research can be found in Technical Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Written Communication, and Reflections. |
| Morgan Banville Massachusetts Maritime Academy | Communications / Social Media Manager | Morgan Banville is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her research interests include the intersection of technical communication and surveillance studies, often informed by feminist methodologies. You can find her recent work in Surveillance & Society, the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, as well as Programmatic Perspectives, IEEE ProComm Proceedings, Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and more. |
| Bradley Dilger Purdue University | Student Research Co-Chair | Bradley Dilger (he/his/Dilger) is Professor of English and Director of Writing at Purdue University. He studies writing networks, programs, and transfer, using mixed empirical methods. Dilger is one of the co-leaders of Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing—the first learner corpus linked to a repository of pedagogical texts. He is invested in creating digital tools to study writing and developing sustainable practices for interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanistic social sciences. With Neil Baird, he is building an online toolkit supporting the use of text-based interviews in writing research. |
| Allegra W. Smith Georgia Institute of Technology | Student Research Co-Chair | Allegra W. Smith (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on designing communication for access and equity, including improving technological experiences for older adults aged 60+, as well as building and iterating technical and professional communication (TPC) courses through learner experience design (LxD). |
| Ashley Hardin Redhat | Industry Liaison | Ashley Hardin is a Content Strategist at Red Hat, who has experience in project management, structured authoring, web content strategy, science and medical writing, and is a regular contributor to open-source project documentation. |
| Carlos J. Costa Universidade de Lisboa | Chair of EuroSIGDOC | Carlos J. Costa is Associate Professor at ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics and Management), University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa). Carlos is a member of IEEE and ACM. Carlos holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technologies in the field of Information Systems and Databases from ISCTE. His research interests include Information Systems Theory, ERP, gamification and Free and Open Source Software. Carlos has more than 200 publications. |
Past Chairs
- Daniel P. Richards: 2019-2023
- Emma Rose: 2018-2019
- Claire Lauer: 2016-2018
- Liza Potts: 2013-2016
- Rob Pierce: 2012-2013
- Brad Mehlenbacher: 2005-2012
- Scott Tilley: 2003-2005
- Kathy Haramundanis: 1997-2003
- Nina Wishbow: 1993-1997
- R. John Brockmann: 1989-1993
- Diana Patterson: 1980-1989
- Tom D’Auria: 1977-1980
- Joe Rigo: 1975-1977