Eleanor Mattern

  • SFI Director; Teaching Assistant Professor

Eleanor "Nora" Mattern is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Computing and Information. Her teaching and research interests include archives and digital curation, community-centered information work, civic engagement, and information policy and ethics.

Nora previously worked as librarian and researcher at the University of Chicago Library, where she focused on designing and delivering scholarly communications services and supporting digital preservation activities. Before that, she held a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting faculty member in the University Library System and the School of Computing and Information and a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Scholarship Services at the University Library System. She earned her PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.