Dr. Chris Hagar,

Chris Hagar joined the full-time faculty at the iSchool in Fall 2012. Prior to joining SLIS, Dr. Hagar was an Associate Professor at Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 2008-2012. Dr. Hagar holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Dr. Hagar’s primary teaching and research interest is in the areas of crisis informatics. Her research focuses on information needs and information seeking in crises, disaster health information, and roles for librarians and information professionals in crisis preparedness and recovery. Dr. Hagar is the editor of Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies, published in 2012. She is an Associate of the Disaster & Development Centre, University of Northumbria, UK. Dr. Hagar has worked as an academic librarian in the USA and UK in a variety of positions. Her professional experience also includes serving as Head of Library Development for INASP an international non-government development organization based in Oxford, UK; lecturer positions at the International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, University of Nicholas Copernicus, Torun, Poland; and at the Department of Information Studies, Northumbria University, UK.