I am currently serving as a professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech where I apply my passion for philosophy, ethics, and social studies of Internet and computing technologies.
After teaching Physics, Earth Science, Life Science, and math at the middle and secondary level for several years, I returned to get my Masters and Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies. As a graduate student, I worked as academic advisor and instructor and supervisor for teaching assistants for Interdisciplinary Studies department. Eventually I was awarded a Postdoc and hired as Research Scientist for the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech conducting NSF funded researching in computing in education and studying social impact of computers.
Teaching science and math kept me close to Virginia Tech, and eventually pointed me toward a PhD. in Science and Technology Studies (STS), and that work lead to the Center for Human-Computer Interaction working on projects and research related to computing in education and social network. My interests in STS set me up to begin teaching courses on ethics and social impacts for the Virginia Tech Computer Science department, back in a time where these were less visible and popular. As the computing developed, my growing interests in social impacts of computing became more important and critical.