Jeffrey M. Stanton, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut, 1997) is an associate professor and director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Stanton’s research focuses organizational behavior and technology, with his most recent projects examining how behavior affects information security and privacy in organizations. Stanton has published more than 60 scholarly articles in top peer-reviewed behavioral science journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Human Performance. His work also appears in Computers and Security, Communications of the ACM, the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Technology and People, the Journal of Information Systems Education, as well as Behaviour & Information Technology. Dr. Stanton is an expert psychometrician with published works on the measurement of job satisfaction and job stress, as well as research on creating abridged versions of scales and conducting survey research on the Internet; he is on the editorial board of Organizational Research Methods, the premier methodological journal in the field of management. Dr. Stanton is an associate editor at the journal Human Resource Management. Dr. Stanton's research has been supported through more than ten different grants and awards including the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award.
Kathryn R. Stam, Ph.D. (Syracuse University, 1999) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the SUNY Institute of Technology–Utica. She is a founding member and the associate director of the Syracuse Information Security Evaluation (SISE) project. She has published more than 20 journal articles and conference papers. Her research has appeared in Computers and Security, Journal of Digital Information, Journal of Information Systems Education, Social Science and Medicine, and World Health Forum.