Phoebe J. Sengers

Professor
Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Sciences/Information Science, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

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Contact Information

110E Gates Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p: (607) 255-6554

Phoebe J. Sengers

Professor
Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Sciences/Information Science, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Expertise

Human-computer interaction; sociology of technology; infrastructure studies; rural computing

Current Research Interest

Social impact of digital agriculture; history of rural infrastructure in Newfoundland and Labrador; speculation and imaginations in technology design; values in the design of infrastructure; time and technology

Distinction

Cornell Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Fulbright Fellowship

Selected Publications

Rubambiza, Gloire, Phoebe Sengers, and Hakim Weatherspoon. “Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture.” In CHI ’22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article no. 451 (April 2022): 1–15. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 

Sengers, Phoebe. “What I Learned on Change Islands: Reflections on IT and Pace of Life.” Interactions 18, no. 2 (2011): 40–48. 

Cornell Research Website Article

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