Professor Kavita Philip is President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at The University of British Columbia, Professor of English Language and Literatures, and a Faculty Associate in Geography.

Dr. Philip does research and writes on various aspects of science, technology, and society. Recently she has explored the networks of connection between colonial history, postcolonial studies, histories of environment and technology, and science fiction studies. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Iowa, and a B.Sc. in Physics (with Chemistry and Mathematics minors) from Stella Maris College, India. She comes to UBC via the University of California, Irvine, where she was Professor of History, and affiliated Professor of Informatics. She began her teaching career at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she founded the group Science, Technology, and Race, and taught in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture’s undergraduate major in Science, Technology and Culture. You can find more at http://kavitaphilip.info/

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