Cindy Tekobbe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Gender and Women's Studies; Communication
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UH 1210
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About
Cindy Tekobbe is an assistant professor in critical feminist science and technology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She researches and writes about digital literacies, identities, pedagogies, methodologies, cultures, and activism. Weaving together traditional stories and contemporary case studies, Tekobbe’s 2024 monograph, Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces, published by Utah State University Press, represents the culmination of six years of research in online indigeneity, focusing on the work of activists and artists on Facebook, Twitter, and cryptocurrency platforms. Tekobbe has also published more than 14 articles and chapters on gendered online harassment, cryptocurrencies, social media, post-truth, and white supremacy in academic and general interest venues such as Information Communication and Society, Newsweek, enculturation, and Present Tense. Prior to her academic career, Tekobbe was a software developer for web-enabled technologies. Her experience gives her insight specifically into the values and stigmas that are imbued in technologies in the development process, including gender, racial, and identity biases. She is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project and an Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy Fellow. Cindy Tekobbe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Education
PhD, Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics, Arizona State University
MA, English, Arizona State University
BA, English major, Women’s Studies minor, Arizona State University