Shaowen Bardzell is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and an Affiliated Faculty of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Bardzell’s research explores the contributions of design, feminism, and social science to support technology’s role in social change. Recent research foci have included criticality in design, care ethics and feminist utopian perspectives on IT, and culture and creative industries in Asia. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Intel Corporation. Bardzell is on the editorial board of the journal Interacting with Computers and Journal of Peer Production. She is the co-author of Humanistic HCI (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2015) and a co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, in press). She co-directs the Cultural Research in Technology (CRIT) Lab at Indiana University.
