I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology,
where my disciplinary focus is cultural anthropology and my research focus is
the intersection of technology and society. I am working with Dr. Charles
Frake, and am finishing my fourth year as an IGERT fellow. I earned a BA in
Anthropology and Religion from Syracuse University, where I had the opportunity
to conduct fieldwork with Hmong refugees in central New York. I earned my MA
from SUNY Buffalo, focusing on notions of culture in cognitive geographic
research.
My research interests include gender, society and
computing, and internet communities as a locus for ethnographic research. I
have a continuing interest in Japan, and have conducted research on apology in
Japanese culture, non-native wayfinders in Japan, and the use of biological and
chemical weapons by Japanese terrorist organizations. I am currently working
on a project investigating conflict resolution among members of an internet
community. I will be returning to Japan during the summer of 2003 to work on
two projects: an ethnographic study of women working in the GIS field and a
visual project documenting the ways that non-Japanese people create senses of
place for themselves in Japan. I am also beginning work on my dissertation, a
qualitative investigation of women working as GIS professionals.
