Susan Leigh Star

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susan Leigh Star
Occupation	Professor
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1954(1954-07-03)
Age	70
Date Of Death	March 24, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
Birthplace	Rhode Island
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Susan Leigh Star Biography

Susan Leigh Star is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on July 3, 1954 in Rhode Island, United States.

Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach. She was also known for developing the concept of boundary objects and for contributions to computer-supported cooperative work .

Star later returned to school and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1976 with a degree in Psychology and Social Relations. She then moved to California and began graduate school in the philosophy of education at Stanford University. The program was not the right fit and she pursued her graduate education in sociology at the University of California. She completed her dissertation, under Anselm Strauss, in 1983. She became interested in computer science while studying the decision-making process of the scientific community as a metaphor for artificial intelligence with Carl Hewitt.

Susan Leigh Star Net Worth

Susan Leigh Star is one of the richest Professor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan Leigh Star 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the article “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39”, Star and her co-author Griesemer introduce the concept of boundary objects. In this article, Star and Griesemer analyze the formative years of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology by expanding the model of interessement developed by Latour and Callon, to form their concept of boundary objects. Star and Griesmer initially defined boundary objects as “objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs and the constraints of the several parties employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites…The objects may by abstract or concrete.” For the purpose of this article, Star and Griesmer defined four kinds of boundary objects: “repositories, ideal types, coincident boundaries and standardized forms,” however Star later commented that she never intended this to be a comprehensive list; rather she imagined the article as starting “a kind of catalog of some of the characteristics of boundary objects”.

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In 2010, she died in her sleep of unknown causes. At the time, she held the Doreen Boyce Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and was authoring the book “This is Not a Boundary Object” with her husband, Geoffrey Bowker.

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