ProfessorDirk Hovorka

BA (Honours) MS (Geology), MS (Telecommunications) PhD

Dirk S. Hovorka is a Professor in the Business Information Systems discipline. He holds as MS in Geology and an MS in Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and received his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Colorado.

His current research addresses how scientific and societal practices bring forth ‘worlds’ through theory, design, and conceptualizations of ‘the future’. Recognizing that the future is implacably resistant to full prediction and control, and that increasing rates of societal change render our knowledge about the past less indicative of future states, his research focuses on speculative approaches to ‘knowing’ regarding technology, society, and biophysical environments.

Dirk is a coauthor of the AIS 2011 Best Paper"Secondary Design: A Case of Behavioral Design Research". He is Senior Editor of JAIS (Research Perspectives), Editorial Board Member of ISR, and Co-chair of the HICSS "Informing Research: Engaging with Futures" mini-track.

Dirk is honored as the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year (2018) and recognized by the Wayne Lonergan Award for Outstanding Teaching (2018), the Dean’s Award for Teaching (2022) and numerous USS Teaching Citations.