Sharon Jean Traweek is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles.
12 Facts About Sharon Traweek
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In 1980, Traweek began teaching for the Stanford University Program in Values, Technology, Science, and Society.
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Sharon Traweek was a professor in the MIT Program in Anthropology and Archeology as well as the Program in Science, Technology, and Society from 1982 to 1987.
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Sharon Traweek has been a professor at UCLA since 1994.
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Sharon Traweek held visiting faculty positions at the Mt Holyoke Five College Women's Studies Research Center, the Anthropology Department at the University of California at San Diego, the Program in Values, Technology, Science, and Society at Stanford University, and Sokendai, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, in Japan.
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The modes of inquiry Sharon Traweek employs include collecting oral histories, conducting archival research, and performing ethnographic fieldwork.
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Sharon Traweek's talks, given in over a dozen countries, span the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, history, information studies, Japan studies, science and technology studies, science education, and women's studies.
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Sharon Traweek's book, Beamtimes and Lifetimes, is an ethnographic study of disciplinary formation within a research community.
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In Beamtimes and Lifetimes, Sharon Traweek describes variations in the way physicists approach their work and the nature of knowledge in physics; for example, she compares how experimentalists and theorists relate to detectors and the results that are produced from them.
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Sharon Traweek includes voices not usually included in discussions of knowledge production in physics, such as women physicists in Japan or the trajectory of postdocs who are not hired to continue work in high energy physics after years of investment in the profession.
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One Japanese woman, Sharon Traweek describes, found ways to perform physics research without funding by acquiring data through her ties with a large multinational research group by asking for a dataset that was known to be interesting, but not the most desirable.
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Since 2009, Sharon Traweek has turned her attention to the ways digital data practices are changing and shaping scholarship, such as the development of new digital modes of scholarly communication and diverse styles of digital knowledge making.