Samantha Dawn Breslin

Short presentation

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology and affiliated with the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS). My research centres on political economy and gender in relation to computing cultures. My current research examines the value(s) of tech entrepreneurship to different actors (entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors) in Newfoundland, Canada. 

My PhD Thesis entitled "The Making of Computer Scientists: Rendering Technical Knowledge, Gender, and Entrepreneurialism in Singapore" explored how a technical worldview, binary gender norms, and affective performances of passion are cultivated and reproduced in undergraduate computer science education in Singapore. 

I was employed as a postdoctoral research fellow at as part of the REvolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Education (RED) project at the University of Sandiego, which sought to foster themes of social justice, peace, sustainability, and humanitarian practice as part of undergraduate engineering education. I have also worked as part of the On the Move project at Memorial University of Newfoundland studying employment-related geographic mobility, and as part of the Built Environment and Active Populations (BEAP) lab at Memorial University. 

CV

Education

PhD, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2018

Visiting Research Student, Lancaster Universty, 2013

MA, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011

BMath, Computer Science & Anthropology, University of Waterloo, 2008

Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 2019 - present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego, 2019

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Business, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2018

Research Assistant, Built Environments and Active Populations (BEAP) Lab, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2018

Research Assistant, On the Move Partnership, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2017-2018

Teaching

Autumn 2019 - Digital Identities