Chris Hinnant is the Director of the School of Information and Associate Professor at Florida State University. He is a former Fellow and Assistant Director in the IT Team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. His research interests include social and organizational informatics, digital government, information management and policy, technological innovation, public management, social science research methods, and applied statistics.  He is particularly interested in how public organizations employ Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to alter organizational processes and structures and how the use of ICT ultimately impacts institutional governance mechanisms.  His research has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Library and Information Science Research, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Administration and Society, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and ­IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.  He was recently selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Singapore to study the adoption of Big Data applications in government.

• Ph.D. in Public Administration, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
• Master of Public Administration, N.C. State University
• B.S. Economics, Political Science, & History, N.C. State University

Social and Organizational Informatics, Digital Government, Data Science, Information Policy, Technological Innovation, Science and Technology Management

Information Policy, Information Systems Management, Statistics and Data Analysis for Information Studies, Innovation Management, Project Management