RPI Degree Program: Science and Technology Studies, Ph.D.

Area of Research / Interest: critical access studies, disability epistemologies, patient activism, connective tissue variance

Undergraduate Studies: Medicine, Health & Society and English Literature, Vanderbilt University

Biography: Katie Sullivan is a PhD student in STS, thinking, tinkering, and living with the vibrant and frictional offerings of disability culture. Her current research attends to the diagnostic politics of connective tissue disorders and the access-making practices of chronically ill scientists. Sullivan is also a member of the Critical Design Lab. Beyond academic life, however, she is really into making Wikipedia contributions, writing comics, crocheting, and other things of crafty ilk.

Hometown: Wisconsin

Email: sullik7@rpi.edu