Ann Shivers-McNair

Ann Shivers-McNair’s research and teaching focus on justice-centered, transdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to design. Current team projects with funding from the National Science Foundation include a community science platform redesign and equity-centered design education initiatives. Shivers-McNair is the author of Beyond the Makerspace: Making and Relational Rhetorics (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and editor of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) book series with Routledge. In addition to serving as core faculty in the College of Information Science, Shivers-McNair is a faculty member in the University of Arizona's graduate interdisciplinary programs in Applied Intercultural Arts Research and in Social, Cultural and Critical Theory.

Courses

• INFO 696E Graduate Seminar: The Use and Misuse of Stories in Design
• LIS 506 Research Methods for Library and Information Professionals

Honors & Awards

• Research Leadership Institute Fellow, The University of Arizona, 2023-2024
• Hispanic Serving Institution Fellow, The University of Arizona, 2021-2022
• Early Career Scholars Award, The University of Arizona, 2020