[2] Her research concerns technology and society, human–computer interaction, and sustainable computing, particularly focusing on experiences in rural areas, among the working classes, and in the developing world.
Sengers studied computer science at Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1990 with a minor in German.
[3] She completed a self-defined Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and cultural theory in 1998, at Carnegie Mellon University.
Her dissertation, Anti-Boxology: Agent Design in Cultural Context, was supervised by Joseph Bates.
[3][4] After postdoctoral research as a Fulbright Scholar at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany, and at the [[German National Research Center for Information Technology]] [de] (now part of the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik), she came to Cornell as an assistant professor in both the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Department of Information Science in 2001.