Renée Blackburn |
Ph.D, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society
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I have a PhD from the Program in HASTS at MIT.
In 2016-2017, I was part of the inaugural cohort of the Initiative on History and Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School.
At MIT, I worked for four years with the Student Activities Office as the Graduate Assistant for Women's Programming. My job was to provide support for women's student groups on campus and also to oversee the Margaret Cheney Room, MIT's women's community center.
Past and present Cheney Room initiatives include:
Film series: Six Films that Pass the Bechdel Test
Open Mic Night
Women's Lunch Series
Cheney Room Open House
Graduating Women-Alumni Dinner
I served as a graduate representative on the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies Steering Committee. From this work, and along with a fellow HASTS student, came the idea for the MIT Symposium on Gender + Technology. Recently, I also helped organize the MIT event "Challenging Technical Privilege: How Race and Gender Matter."
In addition to the Symposium on Gender + Technology, I have also helped organize the 2012 and the 2015 STS Graduate Conference held at MIT. This conference rotates between MIT, Cornell University, RPI, and York University yearly. I was also part of the planning committee for the 2013 Society for French Historical Studies conference held at MIT. For the 2017 4S annual meeting in Boston, I am part of the planning team for a workshop on non-academic careers for STS scholars. In 2015, I participated in the Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) in the US Department of Transportation, for which I wrote a blog post for the AHA on career diversity.
In 2016 and 2017, I was fortunate to be a Program Assistant for the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), which brings underrepresented and underserved minority undergraduate students to MIT for a summer of research and graduate school preparation.
I received a MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University in 2011. My Masters thesis was titled, "Preserving and Interpreting the Mining Company Office: Landscape, Space, and Technological Change in the Management of the Copper Industry."
I received a BA in Anthropology, with a minor in French Language and Literature from Oakland University in 2009. My Honors College thesis was titled, "Gender and Playground Development in Early 20th Century Detroit."
In 2016-2017, I was part of the inaugural cohort of the Initiative on History and Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School.
At MIT, I worked for four years with the Student Activities Office as the Graduate Assistant for Women's Programming. My job was to provide support for women's student groups on campus and also to oversee the Margaret Cheney Room, MIT's women's community center.
Past and present Cheney Room initiatives include:
Film series: Six Films that Pass the Bechdel Test
Open Mic Night
Women's Lunch Series
Cheney Room Open House
Graduating Women-Alumni Dinner
I served as a graduate representative on the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies Steering Committee. From this work, and along with a fellow HASTS student, came the idea for the MIT Symposium on Gender + Technology. Recently, I also helped organize the MIT event "Challenging Technical Privilege: How Race and Gender Matter."
In addition to the Symposium on Gender + Technology, I have also helped organize the 2012 and the 2015 STS Graduate Conference held at MIT. This conference rotates between MIT, Cornell University, RPI, and York University yearly. I was also part of the planning committee for the 2013 Society for French Historical Studies conference held at MIT. For the 2017 4S annual meeting in Boston, I am part of the planning team for a workshop on non-academic careers for STS scholars. In 2015, I participated in the Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) in the US Department of Transportation, for which I wrote a blog post for the AHA on career diversity.
In 2016 and 2017, I was fortunate to be a Program Assistant for the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), which brings underrepresented and underserved minority undergraduate students to MIT for a summer of research and graduate school preparation.
I received a MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University in 2011. My Masters thesis was titled, "Preserving and Interpreting the Mining Company Office: Landscape, Space, and Technological Change in the Management of the Copper Industry."
I received a BA in Anthropology, with a minor in French Language and Literature from Oakland University in 2009. My Honors College thesis was titled, "Gender and Playground Development in Early 20th Century Detroit."
