SELECTED PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Nitsche, Michael, and Jihan Sherman. “Making, playing, crafting–connecting embodied practices in play, game design, and hybrid making.” In Craft and Design Practice from an Embodied Perspective, edited by Nithikul Nimkulrat and Camilla Groth, pp. 97-108. Routledge, 2024.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Sherman, Jihan, and Michael Nitsche. “The Material Correspondence Framework: Mapping Material Encounters in More than Human Worlds.” In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium, 2024.>

Sherman, Jihan, Romi Morrison, Lauren Klein, and Daniela Rosner. “The power of absence: Thinking with archival theory in algorithmic design.” In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 214-223. 2024.

Sherman, Jihan. “Black feminist technoscience: Sojourner truth, storytelling, and a framework for design.” In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 978-986. 2023.

Sherman, Jihan and Michael Nitsche. “Corresponding Wood Tools: Speculative Fabulations of Material Correspondence in Woodworking.” In Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art. 2022.>

Strohmayer, Angelika, Laura Cortés-Rico, Tania Pérez-Bustos, Afroditi Psarra, Daniela Rosner, Özge Subasi, Irene Posch, Sara Nabil, and Jihan Sherman. “Justice-oriented Participatory Electronic Textile Making: Fostering shared spaces of knowledge dialogues through the process of making, un-making, and re-making justice-oriented participatory praxis.” In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022-Volume 2, pp. 259-262. 2022.

Bosley, Booke and Takeria Blunt, Jihan Sherman, Brandy Pettijohn, Britney Johnson, Amber G. Johnson, Blaire Bosley, Susana M. Morris, André Brock. (2022) Bringing Black Feminist’s Thoughts, Self-Definitions, and Creative Agency to Digital Media and Technology Design. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Nominated for best paper award. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79680

Sherman, Jihan and Takeria Blunt, Patrick Fiorilli, (2019) Telling the Bees: Designing for Immersion, Mediation, and Ritual. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction – TEI ’19, pp. 391-398. https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3301001

TECHNICAL REPORTS

Jihan Sherman, et. al, 2014. Urban Form + Community | A Study of the Cascade Heights Commercial District in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Institute of Technology. Public Report prepared with financial support from the Cascade Heights Improvement District.

WORKSHOPS AND PANELS

Klein, Lauren and Daniela Rosner, Jihan Sherman, Romi Morrison. Attention, Alignment, Learning, Pattern: Reframing AI through Feminist Theory. “A is for Ancestral – Learning and Intelligence”. Panel at 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2025). September 3, 2025.

Bosley, Brooke and Brandy Pettijohn, Jihan Sherman. Joy, Pleasure, and Care in Black Feminism in Design. “Design Counter-stories: Care and Healing with African American Craftswomen”. Panel at Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference (SEWSA 2022). March 24, 2022.

Brooke Bosley, Takeria Blunt, Jihan Sherman, 2019. From #hashtags to Movements: Performance, Collective Narrative and Erasure, a Black Feminist Perspective. Workshop at National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Supported by GVU/IPaT Research and Engagement Grant.

POSTERS AND DEMOS

Yanni Loukissas, Jude Ntabathia, Jihan Sherman, Jer Thorp. The Map Room Project: Documenting the Connections and Disjunctions between Civic Data and Lived Experiences. Making and Doing at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2019), New Orleans, LA, September 5, 2019.