Alexis Peirce Caudell is a children’s geographer (someone who studies the places and spaces of children’s lives) and lecturer (someone who is focused on teaching and learning) in the Informatics Department. Her scholarly interests focus on questions about the role of technologies in children’s spatial imaginaries and lived experiences.
Dr. Peirce Caudell is committed to bringing the complex relationship between technology and larger social, political, legal, and economic systems to students’ experiences at lU. She earned her Ph.D. in Informatics from Indiana University, and also holds degrees in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia (M.Ed), and Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.LIS). As part of her commitment to teaching responsible computing, Alexis worked on the "Ethics, Values, and Technology: developing character for a digital world" project funded by a grant from Lily Endowment Inc. Alexis was a Global Classroom Fellow in Spring 2023, and is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Justice Fellow (DEIJ) for IU's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning for the 2023-2024 academic year.