KAYLEIGHPERKOV.COM

Welcome to the website of Kayleigh C. Perkov, PhD

I (she/her) am an assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. My current book project, Making Technology Artisanal: Gender, Craft, and Personal Technology, 1965-1980 offers an alternative history of personal technology through the lens of craft history and theory. You can read more about this project on my Research page.

I am the U.S. exhibition reviews editor for The Journal of Modern Craft.

My research appears in the peer-reviewed journals The Journal of Design History, The Journal of Modern Craft, and Technology and Culture. I have contributed essays to exhibition catalogues from the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), and the Museum Frieder Burda (Baden-Baden, Germany), among others. I have also written for the magazines Art in America and Art Jewelry Forum.

My past research has been generously supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty/ACLS, a predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Center for Craft, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.

Contact me at kayleighperkovATgmail.com.