Name:	Susan Leigh Star, Professor lstar@ucsd.edu		* home page
Education:	Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, San Francisco (1983)
Research:	Star's research has been in the sociology of science and technology, especially concerned with new information technologies and life sciences. She has analyzed work practices and knowledge production in a range of venues, including museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries and high-tech research and development sites. Her analytic approach draws on symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and feminist theory.
Selected Publications:	[with Geoffrey Bowker]Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (MIT Press, 1999) editor, The Cultures of Computing (Blackwell, 1995) editor, Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology(SUNY Press, 1995). Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty (Stanford University Press, 1989). Journal article," Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice: Working on the Fringes." 2002. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 14 (2): 107-122.