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 is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press. The book 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.