https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/fc05a462-f9d4-4c1f-a8db-9351f89420bd/IMG_0488.JPG Contact Oprah Winfrey and Dr. France Winddance Twine, receiving Honorary degrees at Colorado College in 2019. https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/teaching daily 0.75 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/f2cd04d5-0e76-4627-847c-d7a604ac3f84/profile3_edit.jpg Teaching - Courses Critical Ethnography (graduate) Field Research Methods (graduate) Sociology of the Body (undergrad/graduate) Digital Sociologies (undergraduare) Sociology of Digital Technologies (graduate) Sociology of Girls & Girlhood (undergraduate) Race, Class and Gender (graduate) Race, Ethnicity, Nationalism (graduate ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/cebcb21d-fe21-49de-bdb8-8c5b73f9bfff/Screen+Shot+2022-10-05+at+3.21.33+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/a6f755d7-ede3-4db0-8368-94bef7c6a952/IMG_1764.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/990656b8-39ae-4f44-88b5-40d267f01915/IMG_1766.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641832492814-ZLS0KG1WEHR0WK9KZS6J/unsplash-image-OW5KP_Pj85Q.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641832734755-A54PTJ3U7HB7676TLDYU/unsplash-image-vZJdYl5JVXY.jpg Teaching https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/research daily 0.75 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641596217608-2JITAJE8WTK1BD17CNBN/unsplash-image-vzfgh3RAPzM.jpg Current Research Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/7242f4b5-2870-40ae-af83-7a352226ee04/group1.JPG Current Research Projects Lisa Parks, Kim Yasuda and Winddance Twine celebrating after co-teaching their Sawyer Seminar in Fall of 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/01d3a474-230f-4d90-ad16-a502606e18df/group2_compressed.jpg Current Research Projects Twine is second from right https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/about daily 1.0 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/8cd68574-b411-4fa7-bf7e-023a929eea96/book_cover.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/b74df062-a831-4005-858e-a75ada493aff/Photo_FB_Color_Twine_022+copy.jpg About - About I am a Professor of Sociology, an ethnographer, documentary filmmaker, a feminist race theorist and a visual artist. I am a research affiliate at Cambridge University where I collaborate with the Sociology of Reproduction research group. Before returning to UCSB, I was a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. My research sits at the intersections of feminist studies, science & technology studies, comparative race studies and justice studies. My research is engaged with debates in a number of disciplines and sub-fields in cultural and political sociology, gender and sexuality studies, comparative racial studies and critical technology studies. My research on social inequalities is intersectional, international and innovative. I am the author and editor of eleven books. I have conducted field research in Brazil, Britain, UK and Spain. Before the joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, my first academic appointments were in Women’s Studies and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle where I founded the Latin American Studies unit within the Jackson School of International Studies. I introduced the concept of racial literacy in a 2014 article published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. In A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010), I further developed this concept. Racial literacy is one of my theoretical contributions to critical race studies and refers to forms of intellectual labor, cultural practices and strategies employed to counter and respond to anti-Black racism. In 2020, I was awarded the Distinguished Career Award from the Race, Gender and Class section of the American Sociological Association. In 2020, I was awarded a $225,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to program a year-long Sawyer Seminar on the theme “Race, Precarity & Privilege: Migration in a Global Context”, an interdisciplinary collaboration that was held during the 2021-22 academic year. During the Fall term, I co-developed and co-taught an interdisciplinary Sawyer Seminar with Professor Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies and Professor Kim Yasuda (Art) on the theme of race, immigration and white supremacy in California. In 2022, I founded the Technologies for Justice Lab at UCSB, housed at the Center for Feminist Futures, which is committed to intergenerational, intersectional, public-facing research. The Tech Justice Lab is a think space, a collaboratory and an interdisciplinary salon that brings graduate students from the arts, humanities, social sciences into dialogue and collaboration with engineering and computer science students. The Tech Justice Cafe will launch a speaker series in the Fall of 2022 and salon devoted to the intersections of justice studies, critical technology studies and comparative racial and ethnic studies. https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/publications daily 0.75 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641422979498-BX436N4MAHI0BIBNF9N4/AWhiteSideOfBlackBritain.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641423070430-30OHCIM3W8S3F4GD6SLR/GeographiesOfPrivilege.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641423098152-2UJMPJ674RA4GI47R7UM/OutsourcingThe+Womb.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641427872429-0R3648F48XPIBE0FDRU7/FeminismAndAntiRacism.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641427987264-3GDAFHQQC6J7C95U21TZ/RacismInARacialDemocracy.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1641852447341-RNIBBEHR74UE5VTCX4X8/GirlsWithGuns.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/8cd68574-b411-4fa7-bf7e-023a929eea96/book_cover.jpg Publications - An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry’s failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that “lifts the Silicon veil” to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and at various start-ups in the San Francisco Bay area. Geek Girls captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley. https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/press daily 0.75 2022-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/1823f604-b56f-45a8-a609-3738817cf853/twine+comp+rev.jpg Press - Press and Media For print and digital inquiries and for press copies of Geek Girls, please contact Sydney Garcia at sydney.garcia@nyu.edu For marketing and sales of Geek Girls, please contact Mary Beth Jarrad at marybeth.jarrad@nyu.edu For general inquiries contact Ilene Kalish at ilene.kalish@nyu.edu NYU Press, 411 Lafayette Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10003 https://www.francewinddancetwine.net/technologies-for-justice-lab daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/07e3a2e4-34ec-4dfc-931e-786b3821136a/Westbrook.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/46d972f4-73a2-44af-810a-595d16897ba3/nemer2.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ba446199804616a8f7c09a/a60b1765-e5c3-4504-b1b5-8ce2957cc58b/David_Nemer_Photo_022.jpg