Martha Poon is completing dissertation work in the Science Studies Program at University of California San Diego. Her research traces the history of the commercial credit scoring technology called a FICOTM score, innovated by the firm Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated. She has been a visiting student at the CSI-ENSMP in Paris, as well as a visiting researcher at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. She is currently located at the Center on Organizational Innovation-ISERP at Columbia University in New York.

Education
Ph.D. candidate, Science Studies Program (SSP) and Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA.

M.A. Department of Sociology, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 1999.

Published Work
“Scorecards as devices for consumer credit: the case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated”. The Sociological Review Monographs. 55s2, 284-306. 2007.

“From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial consumer risk scores and the making of subprime mortgage finance”. Accounting, Organizations and Society (forthcoming, 2009)

“Illustrating Objectivity in an Atlas of Epistemic Virtues”. Review of Daston, Lorraine & Galison, Peter (2007) Objectivity. Zone books. Science, Technology & Human Values (Forthcoming, 2009)