Feminist Anthropologist
collaborating with communities in science, engineering and technology to broaden participation & enhance civic engagement
“The point of studying power relations is to change them.”
Dr. Coleen Carrigan is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. She uses feminist ethnography to investigate the cultural dimensions of technology and the politics of knowledge and reproduction. She shares the findings from her research to foster welcoming environments in technological fields and help strengthen alliances between liberal arts scholars, engineers, scientists, activists and policy makers. Her commitment to justice in technology also includes holding institutions of science and technology accountable to commonweal values and democratic oversight. She is a recipient of a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her research into the intersections of gender, race and social values in computing. Her book, Cracking the Bro Code, is available from MIT Press.
Dr. Carrigan’s work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Public Interest Technology University Network, the Luce Foundation, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and has been cited in Prism, USA Today, Science, The Seattle Times, LA Times, and Inside Higher Ed.
→ See current projects in The Carrigan Lab
→ We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2023 (Vol. 9 No. 2) issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, featuring a Special Issue on Interdisciplinary Collaborations, edited by Caitlin Wylie and Coleen Carrigan.