Hannah Star Rogers

Born in 1982 in Raleigh, NC/USA.

Hannah Star Rogers is an art and science studies scholar, curator, and poet. She received her Ph.D. at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA in science and technology studies, where her research concerned the intersection of art and science, particularly critiques of science in contemporary art.

She has taught at Columbia University, New York, NY/USA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA/USA, Highlands Biological Station, and Mountain Lake Biological Station. She was guest curator for Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh and Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future. She is a fellow of the Imaginary College at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ/USA.

Her scholarly publications have appeared in Configurations, Photomediations, and A New Synthesis. Her curatorial project, »Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott«, received an exhibits prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She gave an invited lecture at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art on the installation, and her students designed a synergistic outreach event, in cooperation with the Fralin Museum of Art and the School for Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, for girls on physics and photography.