Sue Brown Appointed as Editor In Chief at MIS Quarterly

Sue Brown, Stevie Eller Professor and MIS Department Head in the Eller College of Management has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ). 

“I am honored and humbled to be among a group of 14 absolutely phenomenal academics and scholars in the discipline who have served as editor-in-chief of MISQ,” says Brown. “I have a great deal of respect for the previous editors and truly appreciate all they have done to make MISQ what it is today.”

Brown has worked with MISQ for almost 30 years—having published various papers in the journal, won reviewer of the year, served two terms as an Associate Editor and served two terms as a Senior Editor of the journal.

“I am extremely proud of Sue for this incredible honor,” says Karthik Kannan, dean and Halle Chair in Leadership in the Eller College of Management. “Her dedication to the MIS department and collaboration with external partners has made a huge impact at the Eller College. I am confident that she will do the same at MISQ.”

As the second female editor-in-chief of MISQ, Brown emphasizes that the editor-in-chief is a role model for the field—particularly women. “There is a generation of younger academic women who can now look to the journal and see themselves in the role, and to me, that’s powerful.” 

Brown is excited about the future of MISQ. “The journal will continue to be the journal in the discipline, and the way it does that is by continuing to welcome all different types of research and scholars from around the world,” she says. “I want everyone in information systems to feel like their research has a place at MISQ.”

She will begin her term in January 2024, following the current editor-in-chief, Andrew Burton-Jones.

Brown joined the Eller College of Management as associate professor in 2005 after teaching at Indiana University for nine years. She was appointed head of the Department of Management Information Systems in 2017. She earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota in 1997. Her research interests include individual motivations for and consequences of IT use, mediated interactions, diffusion of misinformation, and research methods. In 2017, she was given the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Fellow Award and in 2022, she received a Woman of Impact Award from the University of Arizona.

A version of this article originally appeared in MIS Quarterly.