Position Title
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Position Title
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Bio
Kayleigh Perkov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. She examines the intersection of handmaking and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her current book project traces how craft practice has been embraced by people to reassert personal skill when facing mass-produced, black-boxed technological systems. In addition, Kayleigh has an active curatorial practice and writes about contemporary art and design. Her work has been supported by the Getty/ACLS, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Center for Craft, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.