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Holtz Graduate Student Awardees Panel (Details below)
Naomi Mine: “Generating AI Ethics: Ideology and Agenda in Emerging Sociotechnical Landscapes”
Naomi Mine is a PhD student in the Information School. Her research explores the meeting of social practices and epistemic commitments in communities that congregate around internet and computer technologies. Her work is informed by social histories of formalizing practices (standardization, rationalization, quantification, commensuration), feminist science studies, and the philosophy of science.
Sam Evans: “How Science Teachers Negotiate Identities to Manage Disconnects Between Science In and Outside the Classroom”
Sam Evans is a former high school science teacher of nine years. Outside the classroom, his adventures as a climate activist led him to question the value of the K-12 science curriculum for public engagement with science. He is a current Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, working to build bridges between scholarship in science and technology studies, public engagement with science, and science education.
Younsun Choi: “Rethinking Agency in Digital Education: human and nonhuman relationships with technology”
Younsun is a third-year Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Instruction (curriculum studies and global education). Younsun’s research interest is how visual culture affects people’s notions and shapes “the people” for society from a post foundational approach. To be specific, Younsun wants to know the conditions for making the figure of Man (Sylvia Wynter’s concept) by rethinking the dominant norms in curriculum and the possibilities for making a decolonial curriculum by scrutinizing the relationships between humans and nonhumans.