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, Memorial University of Newfoundland

PhD, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

TLHE, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Universitetspædagogikum), 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2258887

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. https://doi.org/10.1086/719645

Breslin, Samantha. 2022. “Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony.” Anthropology in Action 29(2): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2022.290201

Breslin, Samantha, & Camacho, Michelle. 2021. “Metaphors of Change: Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education.” Engineering Studies 13(1), 53-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2021.1913173

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2020.1839189

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2019.1678486

Breslin, Samantha. 2017. “Musical boundaries: The making of traditional Newfoundland music(ians).” Shima 11(2): 232-253. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.11.2.16

Breslin, Samantha, & Wadhwa, Bimlesh. 2017. “Gender and Human-Computer Interaction.” In The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set (pp. 71-87). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118976005.ch4

Breslin, Samantha. 2013. “01010000 01001100 01000001 01011001: Play Elements in Computer Programming.” American Journal of Play 5(3): 357-382. https://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/5-3-article-play-elements-in-computer-programming.pdf