Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research bridges the history of technology and the history of Latin America and asks how studies of technology can enrich our understanding of broader historical processes. Her most recent work uses computer history in Chile to study the connection between political innovation and technological innovation. Medina received her Ph.D. in 2005 from MIT in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology. She also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from Princeton University. An extended profile is available here.

• Awarded the 2012 Edelstein Prize for outstanding book in the history of technology and the 2012 Computer History Museum Prize for outstanding book in the history of computing for Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT Press, 2011).
• Recipient of a 2012 Trustees Teaching Award.
• Awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation for my new project historical perspectives on information technology and human rights. The award allows "established scholar-teachers to pursue formal substantive and methodological training in addition to the PhD."
  
• Named a 2012 Fulbright Senior Specialist in the area of Engineering Education.
• Awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the workshop and edited volume STS in Latin America: Beyond Imported Magic.
• My book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile has been released by MIT Press (2011). You can order the book from Amazon.com. The book documents the history of Project Cybersyn (or Proyecto Synco in Spanish).
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