People: Eric Kansa

Executive Director

Eric C. Kansa is Executive Director of the Information and Service Design (ISD) program at UC Berkeley's School of Information. The ISD Program supports research in “service science” and a clinical program that integrates research and instruction in collaborative IT projects. Before joining UC Berkeley in 2007, he was co-founder and Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute, and led development of Open Context, an online system for publishing collections and field research in archaeology and natural history. After earning his doctorate in 2001 at Harvard University, he joined their Anthropology faculty for two years as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor. His research efforts focus on open scholarly communication, information architectures for the field sciences and intellectual property frameworks for field-based research. Eric is currently Convener of the Society for American Archaeology's Digital Data Interest Group and is a member of the Disciplinary Advisory Board for Archaeoinformatics.org.