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Social Science Advisory Board Members

Bill Aspray
Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Research Area: History/Policy

Lecia Barker
Lead Research Associate, ATLAS Institute, Evaluation and Research Group, University of Colorado
Research Area: Communication, Education, IT Workforce Research & Evaluation

Sylvia Beyer
Professor, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Research Area: Gender & Self-perception in Computing

Maureen Biggers
Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Computing Research Diversity Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing
Research Area: Computing pipeline, including impacting student retention

Justine Cassell
Professor, Media Technology & Society, School of Communication, Northwestern
Research Area: Communication, Gender & Technology

Sapna Cheryan
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, University of Washington
Research Area: Individual and Group Stereotypes, Women, Minorities, & Computing

Joanne Cohoon
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, & Society, University of Virginia
Research Area: Sociology of Gender, Technology & Education; Evaluation

Margaret Eisenhart, Co-chair
Professor of Education, Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, University of Colorado
Research Area: Educational Anthropology & Research Methodology

Mary Frank Fox
NSF Advance Professor, School of Public Policy
Co-director, Center for Study of Women, Science, and Technology, Georgia Tech
Research Area: Sociology/Gender, Science, & Technology

Dr. Lisa Frehill
Executive Director, Commission on Professionals in Science & Technology

Angela Ginorio
Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington
Research area: Access to and the Experiences of Under-Respresented Groups in Science and Engineering

 

 

 

Deborah Johnson
Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics & Department Chair Department of Science, Technology, & Society, University of Virginia
Research Area: Ethics, Science & Technology

Sarah Kuhn
Associate Professor, Department of Regional Economic and Social Development and Faculty Associate, Center for Women and Work, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Research Area: Human/Computer Interaction; IT Workforce

Elsa Macias
Director, Research & Development, Center for Urban Education, USC
Research area: Academic Leadership and Organizational Change in Higher Ed, Minority Access to Higher Ed, and Educational Technology

Jane Margolis, Co-chair
Researcher, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Research Area: Social Inequity, Gender, Ethnicity & Education

Rose Marra
Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
Research Area: Online Learning and Learning Technologies

Mia Ong
Project Leader, Center for School Reform, TERC
Research area: Electronic Communities, Social dynamics of Higher Education Physics and Engineering Programs

Gerhard Sonnert
Sociologist of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University
Research Area: Science & Society

Janice Stockard
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
Research Area: Cultural Anthropology, Gender, Family & Technology

Roli Varma
Professor, University of New Mexico
Research area: Science and Technology Policy, Women and Minorities in IT Education, Management of Industrial Science, The Tenure System in Engineering

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