Shaowen Bardzell is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, where she is also the “Professor-in-Charge” of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) faculty group. Previously (2018-2020) she was Professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University and Affiliate Faculty of the Kinsey Institute and the Department of Gender Studies. She was the Vice President at Large (2019-2021) and the Executive Vice President (2021-2022) on the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee.

She is the co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2017) and co-author of Humanistic HCI (Morgan & Claypool, 2015).