I am currently a researcher at Georgetown University, working in the Communication, Culture, and Technology technology program.  I finished up my master’s degree at CCT last spring, and have been since working with my advisor, David Ribes, on a variety of projects on technologies of scientific collaboration.   I’m currently in the process of applying to a number of Ph.D programs for next fall, so things are a bit up in the air at the moment.

I do a lot of work on communities of knowledge production in highly technologically-mediated environments, and the bulk of my research has been on Wikipedia.  I approach this topic from a number of disciplinary angles, including media studies, sociology of science, critical social theory, information and organization science, philosophy of technology, and more – it helps to have never actually been indoctrinated into an single academic discipline.  In terms of academic fields, I’m most in conversation with people from Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Actor-Network Theory (ANT).  (In case you don’t see the difference, academic disciplines aren’t capitalized and don’t have cool acronyms, but they also don’t grant degrees).  Methodologically, I like to remain open to both qualitative and quantitative methods, and often use more statistical or analytical forms of analysis to contextualize and further support ethnography.