Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Dean

Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason is dean of the School of Information, Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science at U-M, and a professor in the School of Information, the School of Public Policy, and the Department of Economics. He is well known for his pioneering research on the economics of the Internet, including his projects on spam reduction, peer-to-peer resource sharing, and incentives to increase information security. He has taught courses on incentive-centered design for information systems, the economics of information, information policy, human choice and learning, and antitrust.

MacKie-Mason earned his bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from Dartmouth College, his master’s degree in public policy from U-M, and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1990-91 and a University Partnership Fellow with IBM in 1998-2001. MacKie-Mason was the founding director of the Program for Research on the Information Economy at U-M. He also founded and is the past director of the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions doctoral fellowship program.

Thomas Finholt
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty

Thomas Finholt is a professor at the School of Information and the senior associate dean for faculty. He is responsible for faculty life at SI, including faculty searches, junior faculty mentoring, and overseeing the development of teaching among all faculty and doctoral students.

Finholt's research focuses on the design, deployment, and use of cyberinfrastructure in science and engineering. His recent work has focused on the development of NEESgrid, the collaboratory component of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. In addition, Finholt is the co-founder of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work and the Center for Information Technology Integration. He was also a co-developer of the world's first operational collaboratory, the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory, which was a finalist in the science category for the 1998 Smithsonian/Computerworld awards. Tom earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in social and decision science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Margaret Hedstrom
Associate Dean for Academic Programs

Margaret Hedstrom is associate dean for academic programs and a professor in the School of Information. She has lead responsibility for student experience and the content and management of SI’s undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs.

Hedstrom has been a leader in curriculum development for the master’s and PhD programs at U-M, and she played a major role in developing and managing the Archives and Record Management and the Preservation of Information specializations in SI. Her current research interests include digital preservation strategies and cultural preservation and outreach in developing countries. Hedstrom led the CAMiLEON project with the University of Leeds and has been a consultant to more than a dozen government archival programs, the World Bank, and the International Council on Archives. She has served on doctoral committees at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Michigan. Hedstrom earned master's degrees in library science and history and a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Douglas Van Houweling
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation

Douglas E. Van Houweling is a professor at the School of Information and the associate dean for research and innovation. He is responsible for overseeing all research and grant activities at SI.  He previously served as the vice provost for information and technology at U-M, where he was responsible for the University's strategic direction in the information technology arena.

Van Houweling has been president and CEO of Internet2, a consortium of universities, government, and industry developing ultra-high-speed computer networking. In addition, he played a major role in Internet development in the United States, including chair positions on the boards of MERIT, Inc., the Advanced Network and Services Corporation, and EDUCOM. Before coming to U-M, he served as vice provost for computing and planning at Carnegie-Mellon and as director of academic computing at Cornell. Van Houweling earned his bachelor’s of science degree at Iowa State University and a PhD in government at Indiana University.