Eden Medina
Assistant Professor of Informatics
- Phone
- (812) 856-1871
- Office
- Informatics West, Room 305
- Web Site
- informatics.indiana.edu/edenm
Other Titles
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
- Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Research Interests
History of technology; science and technology studies; information technology in the developing world; modern Latin American history
Education
- Ph.D. in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, MIT, 2005.
- B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1997.
- Certificate in Women's Studies, Princeton University, 1997.
Biography
Prof. Medina received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the MIT Doctoral Program in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology and holds degrees in electrical engineering and women's studies from Princeton University. Medina's research uses technology as a means to understand historical processes. Her most recent work addressed the history of information technologies in Latin America and the role these technologies played in creating new forms of governance and the advancement of state ideological projects. Her current book manuscript traces the history of state computer use in Chile and its relationship to ideas of modernity during the 1960s and 1970s. The book will focus on the history of the Chilean Cybersyn project, an early computer network designed to regulate Chile's economic transition to socialism during the government of Salvador Allende.
Prof. Medina has received grants from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council for Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. She holds an adjunct appointment in the IU History Department and is affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). In 2007 she received the IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Medina worked as an electrical engineer specializing in image processing and machine vision.
