More About the Author
Christena Nippert-Eng, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Her research interests include cognitive sociology, culture, everyday life, privacy, work, gender, the home, time and space, technology, ethnography, and the Western Lowland Gorillas of the Lincoln Park Zoo.
For reviews and more information on her most recent book, Islands of Privacy, see her website:
www.islandsofprivacy.com
Dr. Nippert-Eng's work has been featured extensively in the media, including radio, television and newspaper interviews ranging from NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "848" to programs on PBS and MSNBC and stories for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Working Mother and Fast Company. She has been an invited speaker for such diverse venues as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Smithsonian Museum, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons' Pediatric Group, Reason Magazine's Dynamic Visions conferences, the MotherRead/FatherRead literacy organization, and the Industrial Design Society of America.
Dr. Nippert-Eng lives with her family in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She studies improvisational comedy, musical improv, and comedy writing at the Second City and the Annoyance Theater.
