Gabriella Coleman - Faculty Bio. Gabriella Coleman. Education[edit] After completing her high school at St.
John's School in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Coleman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies from Columbia University in May 1996.[2] She moved to the University of Chicago where she completed a Master of Arts in socio-cultural anthropology in August 1999. She was awarded her Ph.D in socio-cultural anthropology for her dissertation The social construction of freedom in free and open source software: Hackers, ethics, and the liberal tradition[3] in 2005.[2] Academic career[edit] Coleman held positions including a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University and the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program in Science, Technology & Society, University of Alberta[2] before being appointed assistant professor of media, culture and communication at New York University in September 2007.[4] Gabriella Coleman.