Scout Calvert came to Wayne State University from Santa Cruz, California, where she worked in the public library system and earned her PhD at the University of California in History of Consciousness, a non-disciplinary, problem-based program. Calvert’s graduate teaching work at UCSC spanned film and digital media, and science and technology studies. Her dissertation researched looked to the insights of feminist epistemology, science and technology studies, and continental philosophy to investigate problems of library science classification and the production of knowledge and subjects in the library, through media like books and category systems. Calvert’s new research inquires about the role of archival documents, amateur family history, genealogical libraries, livestock breeding, DNA genealogy, and tissue research in our construction of the family and the human. An abiding concern with how knowledge is stored, accessed, and used in libraries, archives, and documents is the continuity in Calvert’s research interests, which ally library science with science and technology studies.

• University of California, Santa Cruz, PhD, History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies), 2008
• University of Arizona, MA, Information Resources and Library Science, 1999
• New College of California, BA, Humanities (Gender Studies), 1998

2007 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCSC Academic Senate

Organization of knowledge, library epistemology, philosophy of librarianship, librarians in culture, information society.

Science and technology studies; philosophy of classification; new media; genetics, genomics, and society; kinship studies; food and animal studies; epistemology; continental philosophy; post-structuralism; the library in society.