Dr. Thomas P. Mackey

Dr. Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is a Professor of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State College, where his teaching and research center on metaliteracy as a pedagogical framework to empower learners as informed creators of digital information. He co-authored the pioneering book on metaliteracy, Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014), alongside Trudi E. Jacobson, published by Neal-Schuman/ALA Publishing. In their subsequent work, Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World (2019), Tom contributed the framing chapter titled “Empowering Metaliterate Learners for the Post-Truth World.” Together with Jacobson, he has also co-edited four influential books on faculty-librarian collaboration, including Teaching Information Literacy Online (2011).