S. Hayleyharlin Steele

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT S. HAYLEYHARLIN STEELE

S. Hayley/Harlin Steele (they/she/ze/he) is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at UC Davis, which is on the land of the Patwin people, who continue to serve as its caretakers. They are receiving a dual designated emphasis in Performance and Practice and STS (Science and Technology Studies), and they are a project director at ModLab, an experimental media laboratory at UC Davis, where they have organized several projects to better incorporate ecological data into a variety of media. In 2022, she presented her research exploring the disaggregation of social factors in climate scenarios at the ICONICS Scenarios Forum, a climate data gathering co-sponsored by the IPCC. In 2021 they served as a NASA intern, and also that year they chaired and organized the Climate Data Relations panel at the annual gathering of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Their interest in developing stronger relations between the humanities and geoscience began in 2009, when they co-organized the inaugural conference \'Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities\' at Portland State University, which was a seminal gathering in what is now often called Sustainability Studies. Steele is an Advanced Research Affiliate with the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at the University of California (USC), and has participated in the biannual Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG) since 2016. They were a 2019-20 UC Davis Provost’s Fellow, a 2020 Mellon Public Scholar, and were selected as a HASTAC Scholars Fellow for the 2018-20 and 2021-23 cohorts.