[2] Feeling she didn’t fit in at Radcliffe and deterred from getting a religion degree, Star dropped out, married, and moved to Venezuela, where she co-founded an organic commune.
[2] Star later returned to school and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1976 with a degree in psychology and social relations.
[4] While doing research with Carl Hewitt about the scientific community’s decision-making process as a metaphor for artificial intelligence, she became interested in computer science.
At the time, she held the Doreen Boyce Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and was authoring the book This is Not a Boundary Object with her husband, Geoffrey Bowker.
After Irvine, Star held a Senior Lectureship and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Keele.
Star and Bowker moved north in 2004 and worked at Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society.
In this article, Star and Griesemer analyze the formative years of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology by expanding the model of interessement developed by Latour and Callon, to form their concept of boundary objects.