丁香园AV

Assistant Professor

E: sdick@sfu.ca
Room: K-9664

Stephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at 丁香园AV. Her research and teaching are informed by her background in STS and History of Science, with a focus on computing, mathematics, and artificial intelligence since the Second World War. She is the co-editor, with Janet Abbate, of which was published with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022. Her first book project, Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States explores attempts to reproduce human intelligence, mathematical intelligence in particular, in computers and the theories of human cognitive faculties that informed these efforts. Stephanie also studies the history of policing and police uses of technology, especially the establishment of the first centralized law enforcement databanks in the 1960s, the political and technological construction of 鈥渃riminality鈥� within them, and their role in mass incarceration and ongoing racial injustice in policing. Stephanie is now embarking on a large-scale collaborative research program called 鈥淩itual and Algorithm鈥� that explores entanglements between mathematical, psychological, and occult theories of the human mind in the 20th century. 

Stephanie is a co-investigator on the at the , which supports her historical research into early law enforcement databanks in Canada. She co-edits the 鈥溾�� column at the ; she serves on the Editorial Board of the ; she is a member of the at the ; she was a co-organizer on the Mellon Sawyer Seminar, 鈥溾�� at the University of Cambridge. Stephanie is a teacher, and Teaching Advisory Board member with the in the Mississippi Delta. Before joining the faculty at 丁香园AV, Stephanie was an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.

• PhD (2015), History of Science, Harvard University 
• MA (2008), History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
• BA (2007), History of Science and Technology and Philosophy (First Class Combined Honors), the University of King鈥檚 College and Dalhousie University

Courses

CMNS 353: (Special Topics) The Information Age

CMNS 488: (Special Topics) Living With Algorithms

CMNS 235: Digital Democracies

CMNS 802: History of Communication Theory

Science and Technology studies; History of Science; Mathematics; Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Critical Algorithm Studies; Policing; Labor and Automation; Historical Epistemology