The content of my research and teaching examines issues of the representation of information and the organization of such representations.
Representation is particularly problematic for topics and groups of the margins.
Focussing on the margins has both ethical and intellectual purposes. Because of a commitment to pursuing information equity, I find it impossible not to destabilize the status quo by focussing on people in the margins. Intellectually, focussing on the margins is an effective means of identifying the foundational presumptions of standard practice so that they may be reconsidered with the purpose of producing more effective access to information for any members of society. Courses that I teach in this area include Organization of Knowledge and Information and Cataloguing and Classification . The metaphysics of social and logical classification.