Amy Slaton
I'm a professor of history and Drexel University in Philadelphia. I'm very interested in how the epistemics of technical labor (in both schools and workplaces) reflect power, in even the most routine uses of instruments, measurement and factory skills (that's why SHOT is so important to me). My earlier work was on the whiteness of American engineering and I'm currently writing about the false promise of high-tech knowledge for economic inclusion in the US, esp. through stratified higher ed opportunities (for example, community colleges' "nanotechnician" programs.). I'm increasingly interested in activist scholarship and asking questions about the social consequences of familiar historical approaches.
