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Susan Leigh Star is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is a leading scholar in the field of science and technology studies, and her research focuses on the social organization of knowledge and the politics of information. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Structure of Scientific Collaboration, The Politics of Expertise, and The Ethnography of Infrastructure.
Star was born in Rhode Island and received her B.A. from Brown University in 1976. She then went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and 1983, respectively.
Star has held numerous academic positions throughout her career, including at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, San Diego. She is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Star has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1998, and the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award in 2004.
As of 2021, Susan Leigh Star's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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56 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
3 July 1954 |
| Birthday |
3 July |
| Birthplace |
Rhode Island |
| Date of death |
24 March 2010, |
| Died Place |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Susan Leigh Star Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In 2010, she died in her sleep of unknown causes. At the time, she held the Doreen Boyce Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and was authoring the book "This is Not a Boundary Object" with her husband, Geoffrey Bowker.
In addition, she has been an invited speaker at many universities and industrial firms, such as: Harvard, MIT and Xerox PARC. She was also co-Editor-in-Chief of Science, Technology, and Human Values and was president of the Society for the Social Studies of Science from 2005-2007.
From 2004 to 2009 she held a position as a professor at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.
After Irvine, Star held a Senior Lectureship and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Keele. In 1992, Star and partner Geoff Bowker went to the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Illinois until 1999. After leaving the University of Illinois, they moved back to California and into the Department of Communication at the University of California San Diego where they remained until 2004. Star and Bowker moved north in 2004 and worked at Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society. In 2009 they moved to the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences, where Star was awarded the Doreen Boyce Chair.
From 1987 to 1990, Star was an assistant professor at UC Irvine's Department of Information and Computer Science. She taught a variety of subjects including: social analysis of technology and organizations, computers and society, research methods and gender and technology. In 1987-1988 Star held a fellowship at Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation in Paris and worked with Bruno Latour and Michel Callon. They worked on French/American approaches to technology and science.
Star later returned to school and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1976 with a degree in Psychology and Social Relations. She then moved to California and began graduate school in the philosophy of education at Stanford University. The program was not the right fit and she pursued her graduate education in sociology at the University of California. She completed her dissertation, under Anselm Strauss, in 1983. She became interested in computer science while studying the decision-making process of the scientific community as a metaphor for artificial intelligence with Carl Hewitt.
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach. She was also known for developing the concept of boundary objects and for contributions to computer-supported cooperative work .
In the article “Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39”, Star and her co-author Griesemer introduce the concept of boundary objects. In this article, Star and Griesemer analyze the formative years of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology by expanding the model of interessement developed by Latour and Callon, to form their concept of boundary objects. Star and Griesmer initially defined boundary objects as “objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs and the constraints of the several parties employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites...The objects may by abstract or concrete.” For the purpose of this article, Star and Griesmer defined four kinds of boundary objects: “repositories, ideal types, coincident boundaries and standardized forms,” however Star later commented that she never intended this to be a comprehensive list; rather she imagined the article as starting “a kind of catalog of some of the characteristics of boundary objects”.
