Education
Ph.D. (Sociology), The New School for Social Research, New York, United States of America (2017-20)
Masters of Philosophy (Sociology), The New School for Social Research, New York, United States of America (2017)
Masters of Arts (Sociology), The New School for Social Research, New York, United States of America (2013)
Masters of Arts (Media Studies), The New School, General Studies, New York, United States of America (2009)
BA (Anthropology and Cinema Studies) Honours (Cinema Studies), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (2005)
Work
Research Network Producer, Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, United States of America (2017—Current)
Pre-screener, Documentary Fortnight, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America (2008-09)
Archival Internship, Anthology Film Archives, New York, United States of America (2007)
Volunteer, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, United States of America (2006)
Volunteer, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Australia (2005)
Teaching
Teacher’s Assistant, Integrative Seminar 1 & 2, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, United States of America (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Teacher’s Assistant, Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, United States of America (Spring, Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
Teacher’s Assistant, Introduction to Visual Culture, Parsons The New School for Design New York, United States of America (Fall 2011)
Teacher’s Assistant, Understanding Media Studies, The New School, New York, United States of America (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011)
Teacher’s Assistant, Sexual Personae on Film, The New School, New York, United States of America (Spring 2009)
Teacher’s Assistant, Avant-Garde and The Moving Image, The New School, New York, United States of America (Fall 2008)
Teacher’s Assistant, Foundations of Media Design, The New School, New York, United States of America (Fall 2007)
Publications
“Digital Aesthetics in Everyday Technologies: A Case Study of the NY Art Beat iPhone Application”, in Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip and Karim Gherab Martin, Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
“Looking at Digital Art: Towards a Visual Methodology for Digital Sociology”, The American Sociologist, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-018-9384-2
News Editor, Sociology Lens (September 2012-February 2013)
Founder, First Five (February 2012-April 2013)
Co-founder and Producer, First Five and Lady Justice, New Criticals (August 2013 onwards)
“Founding First Five”, PhD2Published, http://www.phd2published.com/2013/07/03/founding-first-five-by-tamsyn-gilbert/ (2015)
Presentations
“Social Media and Cyberfeminism/s: The Artist and The Performance of Instagram”, Guest Lecture: Social Media and Global Change, Instructor: Linda Herrera, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States of America (2016)
“Cyberfeminism/s: The Strategies of Feminism in a Digital Age”, Guest Lecture: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology, Instructor: Sharon Irish, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America (2015)
“Cyberfeminism/s: The Strategies of Feminism in a Digital Age”, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, United States of America (2015)
“Cyberfeminism: Performing Gender in a Post-Industrial Age”, Tenth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Madrid, Spain (2014)
Awards
The New School for Social Research, John R. And Elsie Everett Dissertation Fellowship (2019-2020)
The New School for Social Research, Travel Fund Award (2018)
The New School for Social Research, Travel Fund Award (2016)
The New School, General Studies, Media Studies Departmental Scholarship (2006-12)
Associations and Memberships
Advisory Board, Modern Greek Studies at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014-2015)