Santa Clara University

2006 VID Updates

Here are what the 2005 participants had to say one year later:

Michael Zimmer 

I'm still at NYU writing my dissertation. If you want a blurb on 
that, here it is: 

Michael's dissertation will investigate how the design and widespread deployment of networked vehicle information systems and web search information infrastructures threaten the preservation of fundamental human values within two vital spheres of mobility in modern American life: driving on the public roads and navigating the Internet.
I'm also co-editing a book on search engines, called "Web Searching: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" and co-organizing a graduate student symposium on "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" 

Michael T. Zimmer
Doctoral Candidate, Culture and Communication, New York University
Student Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU Law School
e: michael.zimmer@nyu.edu  
w: http://michaelzimmer.org  

 I'm co-organizing a multidisciplinary graduate student symposium on
"Identity and Identification in a Networked World" this fall at NYU.
Please submit, or pass this along to anyone else who might be
interested.
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/dcc/Home/identity.php     

Jeremy Hunsinger

 Yesterday I mailed back my acceptance letter to be an assistant professor (tenure track) in the school of information and library science at the Pratt institute's Manhattan campus. I'll be working the fields of cultural informatics, digital archives and internet research and NYC will be an excellent place to develop those fields especially given the parallels between Pratt's mission and the sort of applied research that I so frequently do.

 I founded a book series with Jason Nolan, called Transdisciplinary Studies with a highly eminent editorial board. It is with sense publishers in the netherlands.  I'll have a page up soon, so watch for it.

Erich Schienke 

Just landed a prestigious postdoc at Penn State on ethics and climate change (he can send details).  After much deliberation between a really excellent NSF International Research Fellowship postdoc (which would take me back to China for 22 more months) and a postdoc at Penn State (also funded by the NSF) in the ethics of climatic change... I chose the Penn State position. For the next two years, I will be there working with Nancy Tuana on a new initiative to improve integrating ethics into graduate training in the environmental sciences. I will also be teaching a course within their (currently undergoing major revions) STS program. This is just the tip of the melting iceberg. Have an excellent summer everyone, and I wish you all the best with your pursuits!

Shay David

Have been fellows or some such at Yale Law School working on Access to Knowledge.
The A2K conf. website is available at:
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k.html
Check out the Wiki, especially, it includes many valuable resources. 

Eddan Katz 

Have been fellows or some such at Yale Law School working on Access to Knowledge. 

David Ribes 

I'll be dashing over to U.Michigan for a post-doc at the Information School. I'll be researching for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in their 'community engagement' project, working on scientific cyberinfrastructure. A tidy follow-up to my research in the last few years.

 Apparently UMich likes to think of itself as the 'harvard of the mid-west.' In the past I would have sniggered at such things, but all of a sudden it seems unstoppably true. 

Nathan Freier 

I am currently preparing to collect data for my dissertation during summer.  The plan is to write next year and defend in the Spring of 2007.However, I'll be moving to Boston in late December of 2006 to be with my fiancé while she is in a clinical psych internship.  If anyone knows of opportunities in the Boston area for some teaching or research, let me know.  I need time to write, but I also need an income.  Boston is expensive, I hear.

Tish Stringer 

I just defended my dissertation and graduated.  I'm not sure what'll be next career wise. I’m working this summer on an online open source courseware textbook on nanotechnology with Chris Kelty, and then we'll see what’s next. 

Anita Chan 

I don't have any phat new job news to report, but I did just start a year of fieldwork here in Lima, Peru - which is a new position of sorts, spatially speaking. I’ve been hanging with programmers, gov. planners, and indulging in *way* too much Mnjar Blanco (think dulce de leche, but Peruvian). It’s a sweet life. Do drop a line if you find yourself in this corner of the world!

Gordan Euchler

I am still writing my phd, so no big news. If you google 'violence and sexiness' my name comes up, which is more than I could hope for when I started my phd.