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Samantha Breslin

 

Contact:

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, Ӱɴý

PhD, Anthropology, Ӱɴý

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.