CV

Education

• Current Ph.D. student in Creative Technology and Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
• M.A. Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
• J.D. University of Colorado Boulder, 2016 (licensed attorney in CO)
• B.A. Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, 2010

Research Experience

• Research Assistant, CU philosophy department, AY 2017-2018
• Research Assistant, CU law school, Fall 2015, Summer 2014

Teaching Experience

• Graduate Assistant, Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, AY 2019-2020
• Teaching Assistant, CU philosophy department, AY 2018-2019
• Teaching Assistant, CU law school, Fall 2014

Conference Presentations

• The Stillness in the Room: An Escape Room Game and Immersive Emily Dickinson Reading Room in Virtual Reality, Emily Dickinson International Society panel on Dickinson at a Distance, July 2020
• Explore Plato's Cave in Virtual Reality, DH2020, July 2020
• Promoting Library Accessibility and Outreach with Special Collections in Virtual Reality, DH2020, July 2020
• The Freedom of Computer-Generated Speech, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, April 2020 (accepted through peer review, canceled due to COVID-19)
• The Special Collections of CU Fairytale Library in Virtual Reality, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference, August 2019
• The Individual Right to Free Speech on Social Media, American Philosophical Association Central Meeting, February 2019
• Gamifying Philosophy, Public Philosophy Network Conference, February 2018

Publications

• Julia Uhr, “Art, Nature, and the Sublime in Virtual Reality,” xCoAx 2021: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X (forthcoming).
• Torin Hopkins, Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic, and Ellen Do, “User Interfaces in Smart Cities,” in Handbook of Smart Cities, ed. Juan Carlos Augusto, Springer Nature.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

• Epic MegaGrant 2020
• Center for Humanities and Arts Shelter in Place Microgrant, summer 2020
• Best of Show Award, Broadcast Education Association, October 2019
• Center for Humanities and Arts 2nd Leg Summer Fellowship, summer 2019
• CU Provost's Fellowship for Information Science, spring 2019
• 2nd Place, Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship Data Visualization Contest 2018
• CU Engaged Arts and Humanities Fellowship 2018
• CU Law School Rothgerber Teaching Fellowship 2014
• CU Law School Dean’s Fellowship 2013
• CU Law School Dean’s List, fall 2013

Community Service

• Judge, Mentor, AR workshop instructor, T9 Hacks, 2021
• ALTEC Immersive Technologies Taskforce, 2021
• Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship Advisory Board, 2020-22
• Chair, Philosophy Department Programming Group, 2018-20