Prof. Dunbar-Hester is an ethnographer who studies the intersection of technical practice and political engagement. Her book on early-21st-century activism around low-power FM radio in the U.S. will be published in 2014 by MIT Press. Her recent research centers on advocacy to raise awareness about "diversity" issues in hackerspace and free software communities.
She joined Journalism & Media Studies at SC&I in 2010 and Women's & Gender Studies as an affiliated faculty member in 2011. Prior to Rutgers, she was a fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Andrew J. Mellon Humanities Project, and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology & Society. She is an affiliated scholar at the McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University (since 2008) and an associate editor of the International Collaborative Dictionary of Communication (since 2010), a project of the Social Science Research Council.
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