Name:	Geoffrey Bowker, Professor gbowker@weber.ucsd.edu		* home page
Education:	Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne (1984)
Research:	Bowker's main current research interests are in the field of classification and standardization: in particular asking how these infrastructural technologies interplay with organizational memory. He has recently begun a study of biodiversity informatics. His central analytic question here is how scientists in the various sciences contributing to the subject of biodiversity communicate both with each other and with policymakers - and in particular how do the data structures and practices in use affect this communication.
Selected Publications:	[with Susan Leigh Star] Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. (MIT, 1999). 'Modest Reviewer goes on a Virtual Voyage: some recent literature of cyberspace', Technology and Culture, 39(3), 1998: 499-511. Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide. (Erlbaum, 1997). Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940. (MIT Press, 1994).