Judith Van Alstyne

Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Professional Development & Education Reform

Education

PhD, University of Rochester

Biography

Judith Van Alstyne is a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments as a liaison for Warner’s Research Subjects Review Board (RSRB), as a senior researcher for the National Science Foundation-funded project “Creating a Model for Sustainable Ambitious Mathematics Programs in High-Need Settings,” and for the Center for Professional Development and Education Reform, where she will be exploring the group information management practices in mentoring contexts, such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). Van Alstyne also teaches courses in the teaching and curriculum program. Before pursuing her doctoral degree, she worked in public libraries and as a K-12 school librarian. Helping students keep track of digital information led her to discover the field of Personal Information Management and the lack of research on youth. Van Alstyne’s dissertation is titled “Toward an Understanding of the Personal Information Management Discourses of Youth.” Her research focuses on the digital information practices of youth in multiple settings including academic (e.g., learning management systems) and extracurricular (e.g., digital art and gaming) contexts