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Susan "Leigh" Star

Professor and Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library and Information Sciences

602 IS Building
412-624-9310

slstar@sis.pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
PhD, Sociology. University of California, San Francisco, California.

Research Interests:

Information worlds and naturalistic studies of information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology and history of science, medicine, technology, and information systems; qualitative methods; feminist theory; sociology of work