Samantha Breslin
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Email: samantha.breslin@anthro.ku.dk
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Education:
BMath, Honours Computer Science (Co-op), Joint Honours Anthropology, University of Waterloo
MA, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
PhD, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
TLHE, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Ծٱٲæ岹Dzܳ), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Research Interests:
Computing Cultures; Entrepreneurship; Expertise; Subjectivities; Education and Training; Gender; Labour; Norms; Social Inequality; Futures; Anthropology of Technology; Engineering Studies; HCI
Selected Publications
Books
Breslin, Samantha. Forthcoming. Render the World: Coding Exclusions in Computer Science Education. University of Toronto Press.
Selected Articles
Breslin, Samantha. 2024. “Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education.” Journal of Cultural Economy 17(6): 737-756.
Breslin, Samantha, Blok, Anders, Enggaard, Thyge Ryom, Gårdhus, Tobias, & Pedersen, Morten Axel. 2022. “’Affective Publics’: Performing Trust on Danish Twitter during the COVID-19 Lockdown.” Current Anthropology 63(2): 211-218.
Breslin, Samantha. 2022. “Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony.” Anthropology in Action 29(2): 1-10.
Breslin, Samantha, & Camacho, Michelle. 2021. “Metaphors of Change: Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education.” Engineering Studies 13(1), 53-77.
Barber, Lachlan, & Breslin, Samantha. 2020. “‘Wherever I can work, I've got to go’: Negotiating mobilities in the context of volatility in the Canadian construction industry.” Labour & Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work 30(4): 358-377.
Chen, Diana, Mejia, Joel Alexander, & Breslin, Samantha. 2019. Navigating equity work in engineering: contradicting messages encountered by minority faculty. Digital Creativity 30(4): 329-344.
Breslin, Samantha. 2017. “Musical boundaries: The making of traditional Newfoundland music(ians).” Shima 11(2): 232-253.
Breslin, Samantha, & Wadhwa, Bimlesh. 2017. “Gender and Human-Computer Interaction.” In The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set (pp. 71-87). Wiley-Blackwell.
Breslin, Samantha. 2013. “01010000 01001100 01000001 01011001: Play Elements in Computer Programming.” American Journal of Play 5(3): 357-382.