Phoebe Sengers

Phoebe Sengers is a professor in the Departments of Information Science and Science & Technology Studies (STS), a graduate field member in computer science, associate faculty with the Department of Art, and a member of the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture. Her primary research fields are human-computer interaction and science & technology studies. Her work integrates ethnographic and historical analysis of the social implications of technology with design methods to suggest alternative future possibilities. At Cornell, she leads the Culturally Embedded Computing research group, which explores rural, working-class and global South experiences of technologies, traces the emerging entanglements between people and data, and uses design to speculate about alternative pasts and futures.

She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the SIGCHI Academy, and has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow in the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and a Public Voices Fellow. She received an NSF CAREER award and led the Cornell campus of the Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and cultural theory from Carnegie Mellon University.