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Beth Robertson is a historian of science, technology, and medicine with a focus on gender, sexuality, and disability. She is affiliated with the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University. Her research bridges feminist science and technology studies with critical disability studies, and she has led significant projects such as the IDRC-funded 'Gendered Design in STEAM for LMICs.'
Her research interests include the history of the body and the senses, queer theory, visual and material culture, public history, transnationalism, and disabilities. She situates technologies as forms of knowledge, particularly exploring how assistive and sensory devices shaped and were shaped by societal understandings of disability in postwar Canada.
The recent publications and projects reflect a strong trend in transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship, combining gender analysis with the history of science and technology. Her work often centers marginalized communities, especially people who are blind, and investigates how scientific and technological practices are gendered and embodied.
- 2017 History Fellowship, Association of Computer Machinery
Beth Robertson has secured competitive research funding, including a $1.1 million IDRC grant for her project on gendered design in STEAM for low- and middle-income countries. She has advised or mentored scholars through collaborative research projects and editorial roles, notably as book review editor for Scientia Canadensis.
Her current research project, Blind Machina, investigates technologies related to blindness in postwar Canada, analyzing how these devices were co-constituted with social and medical understandings of disability.
