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Kavita Philip

Associate Professor, Women's Studies

Credentials:
Ph.D., Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies
M.S., University of Iowa, 1989, Physics

University of California
1328 Bioscience3
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Mail Code: 2655
Irvine, CA 92697

Email: kphilip@uci.edu

Interests:

science technology history theory

Abstract:

For full research details, see:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/kp/index.html

BIO: Kavita Philip is Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Program in Women’s Studies.
Her research interests are in technology in the developing world; transnational histories of science and technology; gender, race, globalization and postcolonialism; environmental history; and new media theory.

Her essays have appeared in the journals Cultural Studies, Postmodern Culture, NMediaC, Radical History Review, and Environment and History. She 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 work in progress includes a monograph entitled Proper Knowledge,on technology and property.

THE SECTION BELOW LISTS FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAMPUS INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE THAT I MAY BE OFF CAMPUS AT THESE TIMES, BUT CAN BE CONTACTED VIA EMAIL OR CELL PHONE.

January 2009
Jan 12, Leonardo Art/ Science Evening

February 2009
February 11, iConference, Panel discussant, Postcolonial Studies and Information Science

March 2009
March 13, Asia's Ecologies of Development workshop, UCA

April 2009
April 7-9, Keynote Lecture, Center for South Asian Studies Annual Symposium (Memory, Environment, Sustainability)

May 2009
May 11-13, Science Studies and South Asia invited lectures, UW-SSNet

Sept 2009
Sept 17 - 19, Environment and South Asia, Plenary Address, Belmont & East-West Center

Oct 2009
Oct 28 - 31, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Presenter, "Postcolonial Technopolitics" and Discussant, Code Studies panel.

Nov 2009
Nov 18, Technoscience panel, CSULA

Dec 2009
Dec 10, Invited Lecture, Madras School of Social Work



Courses:

Politics of Information, Gender and Science; Gender and the Politics of Nature; Gender, Biology and Environmental Ethics; Women’s Studies Intro: Reproducing and Resisting Inequality; Women’s Studies Senior Seminar; Graduate courses: Feminist Readings in/of Political Economy, Cultural Geography and Science Studies; Feminist Knowledge and Social Change (Foucault and Technoscience Studies).

Independent Studies:
Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Information, Code Studies, Environmental Politics.


Affiliations at UCI:
Department of History
Department of Anthropology
Arts, Computation, Engineering
Critical Theory Institute
The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS)
Center for Law, Society and Culture
Center for Ethnography

Publications:

For complete CV, please email kphilip@uci.edu

Books and Edited Volumes

Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India
Rutgers University Press (U. S. edition) 2003; Orient Longman (Asia/UK edition) 2004

Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. B. da Costa and K. Philip, editors, Boston: MIT Press, 2008

Homeland Securities, K. Philip, D. Serlin, E. Reilly, editors, Radical History Review, Issue 93 (Durham: Duke University Press), Fall 2005 [Awarded “Best Special Issue” prize for 2005 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals].

Multiple Contentions, K. Philip and Andor Skotnes, eds., Radical History Review (Durham: Duke University Press), Issue 88, Winter 2004.

Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip, M. E. Sharpe, 2003