I am an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Technology and Design in the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. I teach courses on web design and development, programming and computational thinking, and on telling stories with data.

My research interests focus on understanding the experiences people have during life transitions and how those experiences are represented in sociotechnical systems. I am particularly interested in how people make decisions about the data that are left behind in the wake of a romantic relationship ending, and how those decisions contribute to the formation of post-break-up identities.

I am concurrently an Adjunct Part-Time Faculty member in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, where I have taught through Penn State's World Campus program since 2016. I am also involved in the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), most recently as a Research Advisor for a team of 2022 i3 Scholars.

• 01 October 2024

  I've been named courtesy faculty in the Department of Information Science at CU Boulder.

• 27 April 2024

  With Jed Brubaker, I've published a full paper in the PACM. The paper will be presented at CSCW 2024.

• 12 December 2023

  I have published an essay on my job search in Commonplace. Read here.

• 14 July 2023

  I've been honored as the iSchool Inclusion Institute's (i3) Mentor of the Year for 2022-23!

• 01 October 2024

  I've been named courtesy faculty in the Department of Information Science at CU Boulder.




• 27 April 2024

  With Jed Brubaker, I've published a full paper in the PACM. The paper will be presented at CSCW 2024.




• 12 December 2023

  I have published an essay on my job search in Commonplace. Read here.




• 14 July 2023

  I've been honored as the iSchool Inclusion Institute's (i3) Mentor of the Year for 2022-23!




• 01 June 2023

  I'm thrilled to be selected as an ASSETT/CTL Faculty Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year!




• 25 April 2023

  I have received a Small Grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts to support my work around music and memory!




• 17 March 2023

  A poster project with i3 Scholars Katha Patel, Janai Adams, and Martia Williams was presented at iConference 2023 this week!




• 14 February 2023

  I created Valentine's Day cards using generative AI. See more here.




• 14 November 2022

  I'm presenting at CSCW 2022 this week, on work I did with Jed Brubaker. Link here.




• 19 October 2022

  Jack Manning (CTD undergraduate) and I contributed to a game hosted by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at CU Boulder.




• 29 July 2022

  I have published a book chapter, co-authored with Pam Wisniewski and Arup Ghosh. See more here.




• 10 June 2022

  I'm participating in i3 as a Research Advisor for the 2022 cohort.




• 21 March 2022

  I'll be joining the ATLAS Institute as an Teaching Assistant Professor starting Fall 2022.




• 17 March 2022

  I successfully defended my dissertation!




• 09 February 2022

  I placed 2nd at CU Boulder's annual 3 Minute Thesis competition!




• 09 August 2021

  I'll be participating in the Doctoral Consortium at CSCW 2021!




• 06 May 2021

  I'm a recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Research Assistant Award from CU Boulder GPSG!




• 23 February 2021

  Redesign – in celebration of passing candidacy, I've redesigned my site!




• 12 February 2021

  With the defense of my dissertation proposal, I've officially advanced to candidacy!

I completed my PhD in Information Science, also at CU Boulder, working with Jed Brubaker and the Identity Lab. My dissertation explored how people consitute post-break-up identities in social media sites, making decisions about the types of identities they want to display to their audiences, and how platform design helps or hinders that identity re-formation process.

Prior to that, I completed my B.S. and M.S. in Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University in 2015 and 2017, respectively. My M.S. was overseen by Lynette (Kvasny) Yarger.

I spend most of my free time riding or thinking about bikes and skis (depending on the season). I ride all disciplines on bikes year round, but train specifically for long rides and races like the Leadville 100 MTB . I am also the jumps and multi-events coach at Boulder High School, and I hold a USATF Level 2 Coaching Certification in the Jumps.

Generally the best way to contact me is via email: anthony.pinter@colorado.edu.

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Generally the best way to contact me is via email: anthony.pinter@colorado.edu.

I maintain a Twitter, but I only use it during conferences.

I can be found on Github.

I'm also on Instagram, if you'd be interested in seeing what I do in my personal life.