Steven Losco Phone: (916) 266-1075 Email: steven.losco@gmail.com Website: www.stevenlosco.com

Education

2015 (Expected) M.S. Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University

2011 B.A. Sociology and Anthropology of Religion, Pitzer College

Publications

Forthcoming

Losco, Steven. (2014) The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online by Judith Donath, for Bulletin of Science Technology & Society

Writing Projects

Losco, Steven. “Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages”

Losco, Steven, “Curating the Sexual: Remediation of Tumblr Porn Blogs and the Drive of Loss”

Presentations

2014 Losco, Steven, “Headless Horseman and Mobile Gay Men: The disciplining of masculinity on Grindr, Growlr and Scuff.” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility: Spinoffs of Mobility, Philadelphia, PA, http://t2m.org/conferences/2014-philadelphia-spinoffsof-mobility/program-philadelphia/

2014 Losco, Steven, (2014): “Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages,” Communication and Information Technology Section of ASA Symposium: [New] Media Cultures, Berkeley, CA www.citasasymposium.info

Under Review

2015 Losco, Steven, “Curating the Sexual: Remediation of Tumblr Porn Blogs and the Drive of Loss” Theorizing the Web 2015, New York, NY, http://theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com/

2015 Adams, Dorian & Losco, Steven (contributed theory on virality), “Viral Martyrs: Gender Identity, Race,

and the Digital Construction of Victimhood” Theorizing the Web 2015, New York, NY, http://theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com/

Invited Guest Lectures

2014 Losco, Steven, “A Brief History of HIV/AIDS in the LGBT Community.” In-class lecture and discussion leader for HIST 298: LGBT in American Society, Dr. Kevin Egan, November 12, 2014

Positions Held

2014 Graduate Research Assistant, Alison Kenner, History and Politics & Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University

“Mapping Perceptions of Environmental Health Risk: A Comparison of Three Philadelphia Communities”

Page 2 2011 Assistant, Karen Yonemoto, Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Syllabus Construction for CMC RSLT 084 “Religion, Race and the Civil Rights Movement” Spr. ‘12

2009 Research Assistant, Phil Zuckerman, Sociology, Pitzer College

Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion, Oxford University Press Nov ’11, Experience credited in Acknowledgements

Professional Service

2014 Presider, Theorizing the Web 2014, New York, NY, theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com

Moderating the panel: The New Flesh: Bodies and Biopolitics

2010 – 2011 Student Senator for Campus Life Committee

n Appropriating funds for academic and recreational events for the Pitzer community along with general Student Senate duties

2010 - 2011 College Council Voting Member as Student Representative of Campus Life Committee,

Pitzer College governance board made up of Faculty, Staff, and Student Senators

Teaching Experience

2010 Citizenship Coaching, SOC 112: Contemporary Social Theory, Pitzer College

n Working with ESL residents of Monterey Park, CA and surrounding areas to obtain U.S. citizenship

2008 – 2009 Biological Anthropology Tutoring, Sacramento City College,

n Working with students in introduction level Biological Anthropology course

n Including tutoring for study and test taking skills.

Professional Membership

American Anthropological Association

Society for Social Studies of Science

American Sociological Association

Honors

2011 Theta Alpha Kappa, Religious Studies Honors Society, The Claremont Colleges

2009 Honors Scholar, Sacramento City College

2007 – 2009 Highest Honors, Sacramento City College

2006 Dean’s List, Wagner College

2006 California Scholarship Federation Lifetime Member

2006 National Honor Roll