Dr. Eileen M. Trauth is a professor emerita in the College of IST.

Dr. Trauth's research was concerned with societal, cultural, and organizational influences on information technology and the information technology professions with a special focus on the role of diversity and social inclusion. During 2008, she held the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies.

She had lectured about and investigated gender underrepresentation in the information technology professions in Austria, Australia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, Spain, the UK, and the United States. Trauth was also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award to investigate socio-cultural influences on the emergence of Ireland's information economy. She had lectured about and analyzed cultural, economic, infrastructure, and public policy influences on the development of the information technology sectors in The Netherlands, Egypt, Romania, and various locations in the United States.

Trauth's research had been supported by grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council, and Science Foundation Ireland. She had published nine books and over 100 scholarly papers on her work on gender and social inclusion, the information economy, qualitative research methods, critical theory, global informatics, information policy, information management, telecommunications policy, and information systems skills.