Sean Gilleran

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Education

• PhD — Univeristy of California Santa Barbara (In Progress)
  • Fields: History of Technology, History of Science, US History, Critical Infrastructure Studies
  • Advisor: Patrick McCray
• MA — Washington State University, Pullman (2017)
  • Thesis: Carl Sagan’s Groovy Cosmos: Public Science and American Counterculture in the 1970s
  • Major Field: US History
  • Advisor: Matthew Avery Sutton
• BA — University of Washington, Seattle (2015)
  • Major: History
  • Minors: History of Science, Latin

Academic Positions

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara (2017–Present)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Washington State University (2015–17)

University and Professional Service

• Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
  • Research Assistant, WhatEvery1Says (WE1S), Summer 2018–20
• Washington State University
  • Undergraduate Mentor, RCI Conference, Fall 2016
  • RCI Steering Committee, History Graduate Student Association Representative, 2017–18
  • Athletic Tutor, Department of English, Summer 2016
  • Undergraduate Mentor, RCI Conference, Spring 2016
• University of Washington
  • Social Media Director, Senior Class Gift Committee, 2012–13

Awards

• 2019. Lawrence Badash Prize, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
• 2017. Edward and Margery Bennett History Graduate Scholarship, Washington State University
• 2016. Edward and Margery Bennett History Graduate Scholarship, Washington State University

Publications

• Review of Sigrid Schmalzer, Daniel S. Chard and Alyssa Botelho, eds., Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018), in Isis no. 1 (March 2019), 220–1, https://doi.org/10.1086/702523

Conference Presentations

• 2020. “Computing and the Future of Work in the 1980s–90s,” Panelsit, Southern UC History of Science Graduate Student Workshop, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
• 2019. “‘We Have Your Mechanical Brain,’” The Internet Revolution at Malcolm X Hall," Panelist, Southern UC History of Science Graduate Student Workshop, University of California Los Angeles
• ——— “‘We Have Your Mechanical Brain,’” The Internet Revolution at Malcolm X Hall," Panelist, Back to the Future: Visions of Tomorrow in History, Northwestern Univeristy, Chicago
• ——— “‘We Have Your Mechanical Brain,’” The Internet Revolution at Malcolm X Hall," Panelist, Grad Slam 2019, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
• ——— “Revolution and the Internet at UCSB,” Panelist, “People,” Engineering LA: Science and Technology in Southern California, Huntington Library, Los Angeles
• 2018. “Farther Out: Carl Sagan, Space Colonization and American Counterculture,” Panelist, “New Media and New Technology,” Center for Cold War Studies and International History 2018 Graduate Symposium, University of California Santa Barbara
• 2017. “Carl Sagan’s Groovy Cosmos: Public Science and the American Counterculture in the 1970s,” Panelist, “The Culture of Science,” Southern UC History of Science Graduate Student Workshop, University of California Santa Barbara