Phyllis Kayten
Outreach and Instruction Librarian, Learning and Outreach
Prior to coming to Stanford University, I served as a Human Performance Investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), investigating the human causes of major transportation accidents. I was also the Deputy Scientific and Technical Advisor for Human Factors to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and a Human Factors Research Scientist at the US Merchant Marine Academy.
Topic Guide
Course Guide
- PWR 1CK: Investigating the News: Journalism, Technology and the Future
- PWR 1HF: From Ghost Bikes to the Googleplex: Digital Rhetoric and Social Action
- PWR 1TD: Anatomy of a Discipline: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine.
- PWR 1WG: Reading Minds: The Rhetoric of Consciousness
- PWR 1KR: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
Education
B.A., Brandeis University, Psychology (1971)
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Developmental Psychology (1978)
Expertise
Outreach & Instruction
General Reference
Contact
- Mail Code: 6068
- pkayten@stanford.edu
Last updated March 10, 2025