Heather Hudson
Director beginning January 2010
J.D., University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., Communication Research, Stanford University
M.A., Communication Research, Stanford University
B.A., Honours English Language and Literature, University of British Columbia
Heather Hudson will become ISER's director in January 2010. Dr. Hudson is currently a professor of communications technology in the School of Business ad Management at the University of San Francisco. She holds a Ph.D. in communication research from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her professional experience includes broad research on applications and effects of new communication and information technology. Part of her work was in Alaska, where she was a member of a research team that studied the economics of the Alaska telecommunications industry. She has also developed and taught graduate courses in international communications, communication system planning and evaluation, and trends in new technologies.