Joanne McGrath Cohoon joined the department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor in 2003. She teaches Gender, Technology and Education, in addition to other courses, and supervises both graduate and undergraduate student research. Dr. Cohoon has also been Research Assistant Professor in the department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at UVA since 2000. She researches, publishes, and speaks on women's under-representation in IT and gender segregation in higher education. Her research interests include technology and gender, gender and education, higher education, and organizations.

Dr. Cohoon is currently a member of the National Center for Women in IT Social Science Network, the Georgia Tech College of Computing Diversity Advisory Board, the PROACT Advisory Board, and has recently been appointed to the Working Committee on Women in Computing of ACM-W. She has a BA in Philosophy (Ramapo College, New Jersey), an MA in Student Personnel Administration in Higher Education (Columbia University), and a PhD in Sociology (Dissertation on Non-Parallel Processing: Gendered Attrition from Undergraduate Computer Science) from the University of Virginia.