Carleen Maitland

Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs
Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy

• Graduate Programs • Research and Graduate Affairs
411F Eric J. Baron Innovation Hub
123 Burrowes Street
State College, PA 16801

Email [email protected]
Phone 814-863-0640
Pronouns she, her, hers

Areas of Expertise

Humanitarian Informatics
Refugee Tech
Critical Data Studies
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)

Education

Ph.D., Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Section of Economics of Infrastructures Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2001
M.S., Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford University, 1995
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1988

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Carleen Maitland Penn State

Dr. Carleen Maitland is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. She researches IT use in organizations providing humanitarian assistance and fostering economic and social development. Her work has been carried out in the United States, Europe, East Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, while working with diverse organizations such as the UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR), the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Save the Children, and the U.S. State Department, to name a few.

Outcomes from her work, including over 100 refereed articles, have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Information Technology, The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy, and Information Systems Frontiers. Carleen’s research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and UN agencies, among others.

She received a Ph.D. in the economics of infrastructure from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2001, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University. Also, from 2010-2012 she served as a Program Manager in the U.S. National Science Foundation, both in the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

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