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You're here because you want a bio from me for a grant proposal, speaker introduction, printed blurb, etc. Below is some sample text that can be used for such things. I've included a range of sizes and types. Select an appropriate bio and edit as you wish. Probably no need to confirm the text with me ... unless you think there is. If there are other bios in a list, or other speakers being introduced, please keep my bio in sync wrt tone and length. Whatever your house style is for address, titles, etc. is fine with me.
If you prefer that I finalize one for you just let me know which one comes closest and I'll update it and optimize it for the venue.
Allen H. Renear, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Allen H. Renear is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Including my position before GSLIS:
Allen H. Renear is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining GSLIS he was Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group.
Including a (vague) reference to what I do:
Allen H. Renear is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses and conducts research in information modeling and digital publishing. Prior to joining GSLIS he was Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group.
Allen H. Renear is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses and conducts research in information modeling and digital publishing. Prior to joining GSLIS he was Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative and as the first Chair of the Open E-Book (OEB) Publication Structure Working Group, and has been President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit. Currently at GSLIS Renear teaches courses and leads research on information modeling and digital publishing. His current research focus is on developing strategies for integrating scientific data models and ontologies with the global STM publishing system. Renear received a BA from Bowdoin College and an MA and PhD from Brown University.
-->Tempted, but can't quite bring myself to puff anymore than I have already. If the occasion absolutely demands even more of a drumroll in order to put the funders, punters, VicePrincipal/Rector/Dean, etc. in the appropriate frame of mind you can probably adapt the long version above. Let me know if you want help -- I'm not going to pretend like I haven't a clue where you can find some suitably impressive descriptions of my work.
Ok, you're on.
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Hey...hey!
Well, well, well, look who showed up.
uh, have you got those slides working yet?
The (author|speaker) teaches library and information science at a large public university in the mid-western United States.