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Beth A. Robertson is a gender and sexuality historian specializing in science, medicine, and technologies of marginalization. She holds an academic role at Carleton University, focusing on research and teaching. Her work bridges history with critical disability studies and feminist science studies.
Education: BA, MA, Ph.D. (details not specified in text).
Research interests include the history of the body and senses, queer theory, visual/material culture, public history, transnationalism, and disabilities. Her current project Blind Machina: Disability, Technology and the Body in Postwar Society, 1945-1989 explores technologies used by blind individuals in postwar Canada, funded by a 2017 ACM History Fellowship.
Grants include a $1.1M IDRC grant (2019-2020) for 'Gendered Design in STEAM for LMICs.' She is the Book Review Editor for Scientia Canadensis.
Key awards include the 2017 ACM Fellowship and a 2017-18 WGSRF Scholarship nomination for her book Science of the Séance.
Her recent publications include contributions to Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canada (2018) and A Companion to Canadian Women’s and Gender History (2019).
