WST Lrn C dinner discussion about graduate school with Alexandra Riggs and Dr. Anne Pollock, King's College, London
Date(s):
October 28, 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:
Stein study lounge
WST graduate partner Alexandra Riggs and Dr. Anne Pollock will offer advice about applying to and attending graduate school for WST Learning Community students. Dinner will be included.
Alexandra (Allie) Riggs is a design researcher, product designer and PhD student in Digital Media, currently at Georgia Tech. Before academia, she worked as a UX Lead at Fantasy, and before that, at Code and Theory. She also studied Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she created narrative games, hypertext poems, and interactive theater performances. Her current PhD work is at the intersection of Queer Human Computer Interaction (HCI), queer theory, critical archives, and tangible embodied interaction design. She focuses on how we might queer technology design through attention to historicism and affective, embodied experiences. In her industry experience design work, she adopts a collaborative and strategic approach, partnering across disciplines to achieve carefully considered, intuitive experiences that span a diverse range of organizations and technologies.
Anne Pollock is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, where she currently serves as Head of Department. She is also President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and an editor at the journal BioSocieties. She received her BA in Sociology with a Certificate in Women’s Studies at Brandeis University, and her PhD in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT. Before moving to the UK in 2018, she spent a decade on the faculty of the Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. Broadly, her research explores feminist, antiracist, and postcolonial engagements with science, technology, and medicine. She is the author of three books: Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (Duke 2012), Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery (Chicago 2019), and Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States (Minnesota 2021), and is engaged in multiple ongoing projects that build from these, on feminist theory and the heart, social studies of pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, and race and the biohumanities.