| Biografía |
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a faculty affiliate in the History of Science Department. Her scholarship and teaching address questions of science, technology and medicine, focusing on the politics, cultures, and ethics of hacking. She is the author of two books on computer hackers and the founder and editor of Hack_Curio, a video portal into the cultures of hacking (you can learn more about the project here). In 2022, she hosted the BBC4 radio and podcast series, The Hackers. She formerly held the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
She is currently completing a multi-year research project with Matt Goerzen on the security field and hacker professionalization during the 1990s and early 2000s. Wearing Many Hats the first of two articles based on this research has been released by the project’s funder and sponsor, Data and Society. She is also working on a book of essays about hackers and the state and delivered material from the book for the 2022 Henry Morgan Lectures.
Her first book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking was published in 2013 with Princeton University Press. She then published Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014), which was named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association.
Committed to public ethnography, she routinely presents her work to diverse audiences, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, and has written for popular media outlets, including the New York Times, Slate, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Huffington Post, and the Atlantic. She sits on the board of The Tor Project. (Extraído de https://gabriellacoleman.org/) |
