On Monday, January 26, 2026, Dr. Linda Layne will meet with the WST Learning Community residents and other Georgia Tech students. Her short remarks are titled “Career Choices: The Beacon of Feminism, the Pleasures of Interdisciplinarity, and the Versatility of an Anthropological Approach.” 

Students are invited to dinner in Stein study lounge from 6pm to 7pm; Non-residents who wish to participate should RSVP to Carol Colatrella (carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu). Dr. Layne will join us via Zoom. 

Biography: Linda Layne is an American cultural anthropologist, trained at University of Cambridge and Princeton. She taught for most of her career in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer, then worked as a Program Officer for the STS Program at NSF, as an administrator at the Colorado School of Mines, and then returned to teaching anthropology at the University of Cambridge. 

Her main research topics include: 

*Tribal and national identities in Jordan with a focus on their dynamic use of space in co-creating homes and homeland.

*Understanding pregnancy loss in the United States in the context of the women’s health movement, abortion politics, and the myth of meritocracy.

*An intimate case study of one American Single Mother by Choice placing this new family form in the historical context of feminism and neoliberalism.

Other research topics that may be of interest to WST Learning Community members are Feminist Technology; and an auto-ethnography of the experience of having a child spend two months in a neonatal intensive care unit.