The San José Gateway PhD program spans two continents with students and faculty residing in North America, plus faculty in Australia. Because the program is primarily online, students have the opportunity to earn their PhD degrees without leaving their current careers or relocating their families. Current students hail from five states and three Canadian provinces, providing a unique, international perspective to the close-knit research community.

San José Gateway PhD program students are active participants in the research community. Many have published articles, poster sessions, and presentations. We invite you to explore the Student Bibliography of published research.

Current students’ research areas include:

• Information sharing with virtual teams
• Information use and behaviors in social media, content creation
• Information practices in education
• Archival research and practice

We invite you to click on the names below to learn more about our current doctoral students and celebrated alum of the San José Gateway PhD program.

San José Gateway PhD Program Current Students

Laura Anderson  Proposal Title: Information Sharing in Virtual Collaboration: A Software Engineering Perspective	Jamal Cromity Proposal Title: Lessons learned from incorporating UCD principles into a rapid development environment to spawn innovation
Melissa Fraser‑Arnott  Proposal Title: Professional Identities of “Hidden Librarians” (Library and Information Science Graduates in Non-Traditional Roles)	Melissa Hunt Glickman  Proposal Title: How Cloud Computing Affects Business Process Records Management Lifecycle and Retention Schedules
John Horodyski  Proposal Title: The Impact of Social Media Technology on Information Discovery and Knowledge Transfer in Large Organizations	Susan Lai  Proposal Title: Representations of Taiwanese Youths' Ethnic/Cultural Identities in Self-Produced Videos
Clarence Maybee  Proposal Title: Learning to Use Information: Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom	Maria Otero‑Boisvert  Proposal Title: Factors Affecting Funding of the Academic Library
Mary‑Jo Romaniuk  Proposal Title: Developing emerging leaders in the library profession: The relationship between program content, competency and self-confidence	Nilo Sarraf  Proposal Title: Affective Search: How do Emotions Affect Search Performance?

San José Gateway PhD Program Alumni

Mary Ann Harlan (2012)  Dissertation Title: Information Pathways: The Information Practices and Experiences of Teen Content Creators	Tina Inzerilla (2013) Dissertation Title: Community college faculty's teaching social networks and their implications for librarians
Cheryl Stenström (2012)  Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing Funding Decisions by Elected Politicians at the State/Provincial Level: A Case Study of Public Libraries in Canada	Virginia Tucker (2013) Dissertation Title: Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts
Diana Wakimoto (2012) Dissertation Title: The History of Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950