Carrie Diaz Eaton

Carrie Diaz Eaton is an Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies and Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning Fellow at Bates College and co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for a Racially Just, Open, and Inclusive STEM education (RIOS Institute). Trained as a mathematical and computational biologist working in complex adaptive systems, their current research projects include data science for social justice and STEM education research at multiple scales. Diaz Eaton is a 2012 MAA Project NExT Fellow, a 2018 Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute Fellow, and in 2020 was awarded the Society for Mathematical Biology John Jungck Excellence in Education Prize. A major emphasis in Diaz Eaton's work is interdisciplinary collaboration which requires team building, trust, and the development of common goals and language. In their time co-founding QUBESHub as Director of Partnerships and Communications, they learned the importance of a coevolving technological environment alongside the social infrastructure. Their research interest in interdisciplinary computational and quantitative education is grounded through teaching courses such as Dystopian Futures - a writing intensive film-based exploration of digital technology, oppression, power, exclusion, and liberation and Calling Bull with R - a quantitative literacy course that focuses on developing data and information literacy and agency, including around topics such as open science and AI. Diaz Eaton's work has been covered by Science, Nature, NPR, and The Washington Post.

Areas of Expertise

• AI literacy Algorithmic bias
• Critical digital studies and QuantCrit
• Community-academic partnerships for research and learning
• Curriculum development
• Cyber-social infrastructure
• Digital citizenship
• Educator support, learning, and leadership
• General education
• Inclusive STEM education
• Open education and open science
• Professional ethics
• Strategic planning