Kavita Philip is author of Civilizing Natures (2003 and 2004), and co-editor of the volumes Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (with Monshipouri, Englehart, and Nathan, 2003), Multiple Contentions (with Skotnes, 2003), Homeland Securities (with Reilly and Serlin, 2005), and Tactical Biopolitics (with da Costa, 2008). Her research interests are in transnational histories of science and technology; feminist technocultures; gender, race, globalization and postcolonialism; environmental history; and new media theory. Her work in progress includes a monograph entitled Proper Knowledge, and a co-authored book with Terry Harpold entitled Going Native: Cyberculture and Postcolonialism.
FACULTY AFFILIATIONS:
- Program Faculty, Program in Arts Computation Engineering
- Affiliate Faculty, Dept of Anthropology
- Affiliate Faculty, Dept of History
- Affiliate Faculty, Dept of Informatics
CENTER MEMBERSHIPS:
- Director, Critical Theory Institute
- Member, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
- Member, Center for Law Society and Culture
- Member, Center for Asian Studies
- Member, Center for Ethnography
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.
- 1996 Cornell UniversityScience and Technology Studies
- M.A.
- 1992 Cornell UniversityHistory and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- M.S.
- 1989 University of IowaPhysics
- B.Sc.
- 1985 Stella Maris College Physics (Chemistry and Mathematics ancillaries) Madras University
- Ph.D. Dissertation:
- The Role of Science in Colonial Discourses and Practices of Modernity: Anthropology, Forestry, and the Construction of Nature's Resources in South India, 1858 - 1930
- M.S. Thesis:
- Three Dimensional Integrable Systems and Three-Body Scattering
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
- Stanford University
- Clayman Institute Senior Fellow [Gender and Science] Spring 2008
- Rutgers University
- Center for Historical Analysis, Senior FelloW [Industrial Environments]2002-2003
- NEH Summer Seminar
- Human Rights [w/ Andrew Nathan, Columbia University] Summer '99
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
- Technology, Governance, Citizenship
- Bangalore, Dec 12 14, 2007 [with T. B. Dinesh]
- Feminist Scholarship on the Margins of South Asia Studies
- U C Irvine, Spring 2007 [with Inderpal Grewal and Ketu Katrak; Priya Shah, graduate assistant]
- Next Wave: Feminist Technoscience Studies
- U C Irvine March 2006 [with Jennifer Terry]
- UCI Womens Studies Keywords workshops
- Area Fall 2005; Offshore[with Inderpal Grewal] Spring 2006
- BioArt and the Public Sphere
- U C Irvine, October 2005 [with Beatriz da Costa]
- Science, Technology and Race: Environmental Crises
- Georgia Tech, April 1999
- Science, Technology and Race: Medicine and Health Care
- Georgia Tech, April 1998
- Science, Technology, and Race
- student conference at Georgia Tech, April 1997
- Gender, Nation, and Cultural Politics in India
- Cornell University, April 1995 [with Priyamvada Gopal]
Complete CV available on request