Virginia
Eubanks is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at the
University at Albany, SUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Science
and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in August 2004. Prior to her graduate work, she wrote and edited
the cyberfeminist 'zine Brillo and
was active in the community media and technology movements
in the Bay Area of California.
Professor
Eubanks' areas of research focus include information technology
and urban poverty in the United States; the relationship between
public policy and feminist and anti-racist activism; and collaborative
research, design and educational approaches like popular education
and participatory action research. She is currently working on
a book project, titled Popular Technology:
Citizenship and Inequality in the Information Economy. She continues to be
engaged in participatory research and education projects with
women in the YWCA
of Troy-Cohoes community, and is a founder of the Popular
Technology Summer Workshops.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.,
Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(2004)
- M.S., Rhetoric
and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999)
- B.A., American
Literary Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz (1994)
GRADUATE
COURSES
- Feminist
Thought and Public Policy
- Masters'
Internship
- Research
Seminar in Women's Studies
UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES
- Classism,
Racism, and Sexism: Technology
- Advocacy
and Activism in the Age of IT
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES AND
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Making Sense
of Imbrication: Popular Technology and 'Inside-Out' Methodologies."
(with Nancy D. Campbell) Proceedings of
the Participatory Design Conference 2004. Toronto, ON: 65-73.
"Cyberfeminism
Meets NAFTAzteca: Recording the Technotext." In Appropriating
Technologies: Vernacular Science and Social Power. Eds. Ron
Eglash, Jennifer L. Croissant, Giovanna Di Chiro and Rayvon
Foucha. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
"Hacking
Barbie" and "Paradigms and Perversions: A Woman's Place in
Cyberspace." In Public Women, Public
Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism. Eds. Dawn Keetley and John Pettergrew.
Madison, WI: Madison House. 2000.
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