Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
He moved to UCI at the start of 2012, having held the positions of Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information.
Prior to that, Bowker was Executive Director and Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor at the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.
With his late partner Susan Leigh Star, he has devoted much of his career to examining the values embedded within sociotechnical infrastructures such as databases, visualization strategies, and science and engineering standards.
[2] With Star and Helen Nissenbaum, he founded the NSF-funded Values in Design workshop and research project series to bring together scholars examining these issues across broader sites of study and across disciplines.