The Rutgers Board of Governors announced today it has approved the promotions of SC&I Assistant Professors Britt Paris and Dajung (DJ) Woo to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective July 1, 2025.

“The promotion recognizes their outstanding scholarly, teaching, and service accomplishments,” said SC&I Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Dafna Lemish. “These two promotions are so well deserved! Congratulations to DJ and Britt, their departments, and the SC&I community as a whole!”

Britt Paris
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
Promoted to Associate Professor of Library and Information Science with Tenure  

Paris is a critical informatics scholar who studies the political economy of information infrastructure, as it relates to evidentiary standards and political action.

She has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, artificial intelligence-generated information objects, digital labor, and civic data, analyzed through the lenses of political economy, cultural studies, and feminist social epistemology.

Paris' research and teaching emphasize the following themes: 

• Critically investigating contemporary discourse and practice around using data-driven technology to solve growing social, political, and environmental problems. 
• Uncovering political, ethical, and aesthetic assumptions built into Internet infrastructure. 
• Understanding the labor, economics, and systems of power that undergird today’s information and communication landscape.  
• Organizing alternatives to market-driven information systems design.

 These streams of research focus on developing a broader understanding of the social, political, economic, and historical forces that have shaped our current information and communication environment to allow us to envision sociotechnical systems that might better support a future worth fighting for. 

Dajung (DJ) Woo
Assistant Professor of Communication
Promoted to Associate Professor of Communication with Tenure

Woo’s scholarship centers on exploring the intricate communication dynamics within organizational and vocational contexts. Her specific research interests include employee socialization, interprofessional and interorganizational collaboration, and stakeholder engagement—key processes essential for both organizational success and the success of its members.

Woo’s research examines how communicative behaviors, such as knowledge sharing and identity work, both facilitate and constrain collaborative work processes and outcomes. She also studies the implications of vocational and organizational socialization for individuals’ capacity to navigate the increasingly interconnected work environment and dynamic career landscape.

As a field researcher, Woo collects data by directly engaging with organizations and their members (e.g., interviews and observations) to gain a grounded understanding of communication practices.  

Learn more about the Departments of Communication and Library and Information Science at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) on the website.