Ashley Shew

Ashley Shew is an Associate Professor in Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. Her current research is about disabled expertise and disability-led narratives about technologies (in contrast to the tropey stories we usually get). Shew is co-editor-in-chief of Techne, the journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. She’s working on open educational resources on Technology & Disability with a team of student researchers, made possible through an NSF CAREER Grant #1750260 (2018-2023). Shew believes in cross-disciplinary, cross-disability, and public-facing scholarship: she has written for IEEE Technology & Society, Nursing Clio, Nature, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. She is a grateful participant with her local disability advocacy-activist communities in the Disability Alliance and Caucus at Virginia Tech and the New River Valley Disability Resource Center. She is co-editor of three volumes in philosophy of technology and sole author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (2017). Her popular audience book Against Technoableism comes out with Norton in Fall 2023.