Bio

I have been faculty in Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture and Technology Program (CCT) since 2008. I have a Ph.D. in Sociology and Science Studies (STS) from the University of California San Diego (UCSD - 2006), and did a postdoc at the University of Michigan School of Information.  My masters is from McGill University in Montreal and my Bachelors is from York University in Toronto.

My research often focuses on the sociotechnical facets of cyberinfrastructure (i.e., networked information technologies for the support of science) and how it is transforming the practice and organization of contemporary knowledge production.

I am a principal investigator on several National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institues of Health (NIH) grants studying the consequences of novel information technologies on the activities of scientists and users, and exploring new patterns of distributed collaboration. I have several articles published in major peer-reviewed journals, including Information and Organization, and the Journal of the Association of Information Systems.  I have a chapter in the 2008 MIT Press edited volume ‘Scientific Collaboration on the Internet’. I recently co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW) on Cyberinfrastructure and eScience. I am currently editing a special issue on 'The Empirical and Conceptual in STS' for Science, Technology and Human Values (STH&V).

As a member CCT, I teaches courses such as Infrastructure Studies and Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, and methodology courses on grounded theory and qualitative studies of technology.

I grew up in Ottawa and Madrid. I've had six parakeets and they’ve all been called Budgie.