Mar Hicks, Ph.D.
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Education
Research Interests
About
Seeking Ph.D. students with interests in:
Critical computing studies
History and historiography of science and technology
Queer STS
Gender and sexuality studies
Professional Society Memberships
Current Projects
Hicks is currently working on a new book about the prehistory of transgender algorithmic bias, the intersections between queerness and resistance in the history of digital computing, and the uses of early computing history for understanding our present technological moment.
Awards & Honors
2018-2019 National Humanities Center Fellowship (Founders’ Fellowship)
2018 PROSE Award for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (for Programmed Inequality)
2018 Sally Hacker Prize Winner, from the Society for the History of Technology (for Programmed Inequality)
2018 Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (for Programmed Inequality)
2018 Wadsworth Prize Winner, awarded by the British Archives Council (for Programmed Inequality)
Associate Editor for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Vice Chair (USA) for the Special Interest Group on Computers and Information in Society within the Society for the History of Technology
Lewis College of Human Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, 2016
Visiting Research Fellowship from John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, UK, 2014
Hagley Exploratory Research Grant, 2014
Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grant Award to the Charles Babbage Center on the History of Computing, 2013
Science and Society Dissertation Research Grant
Charles Babbage Institute’s Tomash Fellowship for History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota
Selected Publications
"Hacking the Cis-tem" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (March 2019)
“The Long History Behind The Google Walkout” The Verge (November 2018)
"When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead" IEEE Computer (October 2018)
“Why Tech’s Gender Problem is Nothing New” The Guardian (October 2018)
“Women Were Foundational to The Field of Computing” The Washington Post (August 2017)
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing MIT Press (2017)
"Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems," Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, & Technology (Fall 2016, issue 10)
"Against Meritocracy in the History of Computing," CORE: The Magazine of the Computer History Museum (2016, starts on p. 28)
"Using Digital Tools for Classroom Activism: Exploring Gender, Infrastructure, and Technological Discipline through a Public Bathroom Project,"SYLLABUS Journal 4, no. 2 (2015)
“De-Brogramming the History of Computing,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (January-March 2013)
"Only the Clothes Changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950-1970," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32, no. 2 (October-December 2010)
"Meritocracy and Feminization in Conflict: Computerization in the British Government" in Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing, ed. Thomas Misa (IEEE-CS Press/Wiley, 2010)
"Repurposing Turing's Human Brake." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30, no. 4 (October-December 2008)
"Integrating Women at Oxford and Harvard Universities, 1964-1977." In Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History, ed. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Hicks also occasionally contributes blog posts at sigcis.org.
