Mudd Center • The Ethics of Technology speaker Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Albany will give a lecture for the Mudd Center's series, "The Ethics of Technology." Prof. Eubanks joined the Department of Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She came to her research on technology, poverty and women's citizenship through a history of activism in community media and technology center movements. She is currently engaged in a four-year National Science Foundation funded research project exploring the citizenship effects of welfare administration technologies on clients and frontline caseworkers in New York State.