Cindy Tekobbe, PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor
Gender and Women's Studies; Communication
Contact
- Office Phone:
- (312) 996-2455
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About
Cindy Tekobbe is an Associate Professor in Critical Feminist Science & Technology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is appointed in Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) and Communication. Her work investigates the digital lives, identities, and activism practices of traditionally underserved and erased peoples and communities, as well as the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and gender and sexuality online. She has published in journals such as Rhetoric Review, Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Media + Society. Her 2024 book, published by Utah State University Press, is titled Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces. Her second book, co-authored with Lisa King and Kim Wieser-Weryackwe, American Indian and Indigenous Rhetorics, is forthcoming in winter 2026 from Routledge. Cindy was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University with degrees in English and Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics. Prior to arriving at UIC, Cindy researched and taught in the Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies (CRES) program at the University of Alabama. She is a 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