Cindy Tekobbe, PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor
Gender and Women's Studies; Communication
Contact
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UH 1210
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About
Cindy Tekobbe is Assistant Professor in Critical Feminist Science & Technology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is dual 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. She has published in journals such as Present Tense, Enculturation, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, First Monday, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Media + Society. Her book, published by the University Press of Colorado, is titled Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces. She is the co-chair of the Indigenous Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She is an ICQCM Scholar. Cindy was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, graduating 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