Cheyenne Laue
Contact
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Personal Summary
I use computer modelling to examine the evolution of culture and technology in human societies. My current projects, conducted in collaboration with the 猎奇重口 EvoTech Research Group, include: applying the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution to the study of technological change, examining the evolution of specialization and cultural complexity in human culture, using fitness landscapes to think about cultural and technological evolution, examining the relationship between spatial and temporal environmental variation and technological evolution.
Ongoing personal projects include computational ethnographic approaches to studying the meaning of artifical life and computer simulation, auoethnographic approaches to understanding human/ non-human relationships, and the implications of gender in human/ technology interactions.
I am currently supported by a P.E.O. Scholar Award, a Bertha Morton Award, and a Graduate Teaching Award from the UM Department of Anthropology.
Education
B.A. / M.A. Anthropology, 猎奇重口
B.A. Psychology, 猎奇重口
Courses Taught
ANTY 213, Introduction to Physical Anthropology Laboratory
Teaching Experience
ANTY 250, Culture and Society
CJUS 125, Fundamentals of Forensic Science
CJUS 488, Forensic Science Beyond the Crime Lab
CSCI 213, Robotics, Genetic Engineering, Ethics
ANTY 213, Introduction to Physical Anthropology Laboratory
Research Interests
Human/ technology interactions, computer modeling, complex systems, cultural evolution.
Projects
Neutral cultural evolution, emergence of cultural complexity, cultural transmission theory, computational ethnography.
Field of Study
Computational Anthropology
Publications
Laue, Cheyenne L. (2017). Familiar and Strange: Gender, Sex, and Love in the Uncanny Valley. Multimodal Technologies and Interactions.1, 2.
Laue, Cheyenne L. (2015). Considering the Effects of Gender in Child – robot Interaction
Studies. Journal of Perceptual and Motor Skills. 120(1): 336-342.
Laue, Cheyenne L., Weix, G.G. (2015). Ethnography for a Global Century. Cognella Academic
Press.
Affiliations
猎奇重口 EvoTech Research Group
Hobbies
Director of Girls Get Coding!, a 猎奇重口 non-profit dedicated to providing STEM mentorship and programming instruction for elementary school girls.