Monika Sengul-Jones (she/her), PhD, is an expert in technology, culture, and society. She is the Director of Strategy & Operations of Society + Technology at UW, hosted in the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, and supports the Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) community. Monika has a doctorate in Communication and Science Studies, and in 2020, she was honored with the Dean’s Fellowship Prize for Humanistic Studies for her graduate research.
Monika also holds an MA and an MPhil in Gender Studies, from Central European University, where she served as an Ambassadorial Scholar of Goodwill supported by the Rotary Foundation International, and a BA in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington.
As an instructor and teaching artist, Sengul-Jones has taught at the University of Washington, UC San Diego, Central European University, Hugo House in Seattle, and Write Doe Bay. Across her work, she encourages students to take risks by listening, following ideas, and naming the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Much of her work has been collaborative and falls at the intersection of public scholarship, education, and internet research. She designed and co-led an Art+Feminism qualitative research project on reliable sources and marginalized communities on Wikipedia. The report, Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedia, was published in June 2021. In 2017-18, Sengul-Jones was the OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence for the Wikipedia+Libraries: Better Together project, where she designed and delivered courses and webinars for U.S. public library staff and led the promotions campaign. Her work has been supported by and conducted with Art+Feminism, Knight Foundation, OCLC, Network of National Libraries of Medicine, WikiCred, Wiki Edu, and Wikimedia Foundation.
As a creative writer and journalist, Sengul-Jones has contributed to publications such as Ms. Magazine, Afar, West Trade Review, Information Today, European Journalism Centre’s Data Journalism.com, and Easy Jet Magazine. She’s published academic work on writing, information access, and gender in book collections from publishers such as Palgrave and Routledge. From 2014-16, Sengul-Jones was a co-managing editor and web developer for Catalyst, a peer-reviewed feminist technoscience journal.
Her award-winning writing has been described as “moving” and “emotionally exciting.” She has studied creative writing at the University of Washington, with poet Sabrina Orah Mark, and writer Amanda Castleman. In 2020, Sengul-Jones funded a scholarship with Castleman’s women-focused writing program Write Like A Honey Badger.
Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD 