Martha Poon
mpoon@ucsd.edu

Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0533
La Jolla, CA 92093

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Education: B.Sc., McGill University
M.A.,  McGill University
Research Internship, Centre de sociologie de l’innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris

Research interests: Social studies of finance, anthropology of calculation, economic sociology, history of consumer finance

Publications:
Poon, Martha. “Scorecards as Market Devices for Consumer Credit: The case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated”. In Market Devices. Eds. Michel Callon, Fabian Muniesa and Yuval Millo, Blackwell Publishing, 2007 (forthcoming)

Fellowships/Awards:
2005 NSF-STS Dissertation Improvement Award;
2005-06 Bourse Chateaubriand (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France)