Dr. Traci Carte, PhD University of Georgia is a professor of information systems. Recently concluded a six-year term as director of the School of Information Technology and previously served as department chair at Kennesaw State University. Her next role will be returning to the best job on the planet - faculty member! During her time in administrative roles, she successfully led ABET reaccreditation twice and spent considerable time on curriculum development.

She has been recognized by her peers and former students with 15 separate teaching awards. She has taught at the undergraduate, masters and PhD level. Further, she completed a Fulbright fellowship during which she conducted research and taught in the MBA program at the Postgraduate Institute of Management in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Her research expertise is in the area of collaboration using technology, and her work has been published in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of AIS. She received an MISQ best paper award, an AMCIS best paper award and multiple outstanding reviewer awards. In 2024 she was named an AIS Fellow.

She provides leadership to the discipline through the Association of Information Systems where she has served as a program chair for both ICIS and AMCIS as well as serving as a , track chair at ICIS multiple times, a mini track chair at AMCIS multiple times, and as a frequent reviewer. Most recently, she served 4 years as the VP of Conferences for AIS.