Kavita Philip

Kavita Philip is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at U C Irvine. She received her M.S. in Physics from the University of Iowa in 1989, and her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in 1996, Her recent writings have been in the fields of colonial environmental history, human rights and globalization, feminist science studies, and critical technology studies. Her monograph, Civilizing Natures, appeared in two editions in 2003 and 2004 (Orient Longman-Asia and Europe edition; Rutgers University Press- U.S. edition). She is currently co-authoring a book with Terry Harpold: Going Native: Cyberculture and Postcolonialism. Her other collaborative editorial work includes Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited with political scientists Andrew Nathan, Mahmood Monshipouri, and Neil Englehart; and Multiple Contentions, (Radical History Review Issue 89), co-edited with historian Andor Skotnes.