Nadia Caidi is a Professor at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto. Trained in Linguistics (Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, France) and Communication (MST from Universite Stendhal, Grenoble, France), she also holds an MLIS and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Caidi was the inaugural Director of International Student Engagement for the Faculty.

She joined the Toronto iSchool in 2000, and since then has been teaching, researching, and mentoring students in the areas of human behaviour, information policy and the social implications of information and communication technologies.

Prof. Caidi’s recent funded research has examined misinformation in digital newcomer spaces (funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, with community partner Refugee613), immigrant women in STEM (MITACS funding, with TechGirls Canada), securitizing sacred pilgrimage sites (SSHRC, with Prof. Simon Coleman), and reading as belonging for multilingual youth (School of Cities funding). She has a broad network in the information fields and co-publishes extensively with students in top refereed journals. Past alumni are established academics, and innovators in science communication, online education, and urban policy.

Her co-edited book “Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Design” (published by Routledge, 2021) examines the changing conceptions of diversity, equity and inclusion in the information fields. She is also the executive producer on a 5-min animated film “We Were Here All Along: Canada’s Failed Promise to Women in STEM” (in partnership with TechGirls Canada) based on our research.

Dr. Caidi is a Faculty Affiliate with the School of Cities, with the GLAM Incubator at the University of Toronto, a member of the Data Sciences Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Centre de Recherches en Education Franco-Ontarienne (CREFO).

Dr. Caidi is the recipient of the 2019 ALISE Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award and the 2020 Watson Davis Award for Service (from ASIS&T). She was the 2016 President of the International Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), and was the President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) in 2011. She sat on the Executive Board of the DC-based Council of Scientific Society Presidents, and has extensively consulted on information and media practices for a range of governmental agencies and foundations.