Liza Potts is the director of WIDE, a research center in the College of Arts and Letters. Her major project examined the use of social media during times of disaster. Her current work looks at participatory memory, fan and artist co-production, and social media pedagogies. Liza is leading a new program in Experience Architecture, and teaches in our Professional Writing and Digital Humanities programs. She is chair of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC). She has worked for Microsoft, consultancies, and start-ups in the tech industry. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
