Specialization: Ethnography & Communication

• Curtis Atkisson

  

  Curtis Atkisson joined the eScience Institute in Feb 2024. He received his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UC Davis with a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science. His dissertation was on how changes in people’s complex social networks impact their cooperative behavior. This work involved ethnography, participant observation, and surveys done amongst the Makushi (and…

• Cecilia Aragon

  

  Cecilia Aragon is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where she is director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab. Previously, she was a computer scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2005, after earning her Ph.D. in Computer Science…

• Anissa Tanweer

  

  Anissa Tanweer is a Senior Social Scientist at the eScience Institute, an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Communication, and a sociotechnical expert for the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). She conducts ethnographic research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science, and applies a sociotechnical lens to the design and implementation of training…