2024 WST Distinguished Lecture: Professional Cultures and Inequality in STEM
The 2024 WST Distinguished Lecture will feature Erin Cech, associate professor in the Departments of Sociology and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She will be joined by Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and Michelle Rinehart, Georgia Tech vice provost for faculty, for a discussion on "Professional Cultures and Inequality in STEM."
Cech earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and sociology from Montana State University. Her research examines cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality in the workforce broadly, and specifically, in STEM fields. Her research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. She has published two recent books: The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (2021) and Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering (with M. Blair-Loy; 2022).
RSVP requested. RSVP via email to mary.fox@gatech.edu.