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I'm Marion Boulicault, a PhD candidate at MIT's philosophy department. I have an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge, and I studied philosophy and environmental science as an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill.
I work at the place where philosophy meets science & technology studies. My dissertation investigates fertility metrics; I explore how gender norms and ideologies are reflected in and constructed through the assignment of numbers to the phenomenon of fertility. A chapter of the dissertation was awarded the 2018 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize from the MIT STS Program. Since 2016, I've worked as a Neuroethics Fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology, where I draw on feminist theory and disability studies to analyze the use of metrics in emerging neural technologies. I'm also a member of the Harvard GenderSci Lab, an interdisciplinary research group engaged in generating feminist concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender. In the 2019 - 2020 academic year, I will be a Teaching Fellow with Embedded EthiCS at Harvard, a program aimed at bringing ethical reasoning into the computer science curriculum. For the past two years, I've co-directed PIKSI, a philosophy summer school for students from under-represented groups. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Research Associate at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C. You can reach me at marionb at mit dot edu. |
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