Education:

• BA, Interdisciplinary Major in History of Science, Evolutionary Biology, and Russian Language and Areas Studies, 1997 
• PhD, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, 2004

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• History of science & technology
• Ecology
• Russian science

Bio:

I am currently writing "The 'Cycle of Life': A History of Experimental Holism," in which I trace how a series of scientists developed laboratory-based methods to investigate a holistic vision of nature known as the "cycle of life." Here I survey late-18th to mid-20th century sciences as varied as biogeography, organic chemistry, plant physiology, microbiology, soil science, and ecosystem ecology.

Specialization:

History of science & technology, ecology, Russian science

Selected Publications:

• "The 'Cycle of Life' in Ecology: Sergei Vinogradskii’s Soil Microbiology, 1885-1940,” Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 40, No. 1, March 2007, 109-145.
• w/ Benno Warkentin, “Introduction,” Footsteps in the Soil: People and Ideas in Soil History (Elsevier, 2006), ed. Benno Warkentin.
• "The Role of Microbes in Agriculture: Sergei Vinogradskii's Discovery and Investigation of Chemosynthesis, 1880-1910," Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 39, 2006, No. 2.
• “Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s Ecological Approach to Soil Microbiology, 1920-1940”), in Evolutionary Biology: History and Theory (St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Institute of History RAS, Nestor-History Press, Russia, 2005), Vol. 3, eds. Yasha Gall and Eduard Kolchinskii, 160-175 (In Russian).

Education:

• BA, Anthropology, Fordham University, 1984
• MA, Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1993
• PhD, Philosophy, Fordham University, 1998

Research Interests:

Ethics, Marxism, Continental Philosophy

Bio:

I am interested in the ethical and philosophical dimensions of Karl Marx’s critique of capitalist society, in particular as illuminated by Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics.

Specialization:

Ethics, Marxism, Continental Philosophy

Selected Publications:

• “Radical Protest and Dialectical Ethics”, in Peace Philosophy and Public Life: Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking, eds. Greg Moses and Gail Presbey, (Rodopi, 2014), 145‐162
• “Decentering and Refocusing Marx”, Review of Marx at the Margins: on Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. Anderson, University of Chicago Press, 2010, Radical Philosophy Review, 14.2 (2011) 217‐221
• “On the Irrelevance of the Beautiful”, Review of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism by Kristin Gjesdal, Cambridge, 2009, Research in Phenomenology, 41.2 (2011) 287‐294
• “Marxist Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics: Outlines of a Hermeneutical‐Historical Materialism”, in Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 4: Philosophy Against Empire, eds. Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006), 235‐242

Education:

• PhD, History, Case Western Reserve University, 2000
• MA, History, Case Western Reserve University, 1994
• BA, History, Kent State University, 1989

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Healthcare, Medicine and Ethics
• Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Science and Technology Studies

Specialization:

Healthcare, medicine and ethics; aging and neurodegenerative diseases; science and technology studies

Selected Publications:

Books

• Volume co-editor, with Peter J. Whitehouse, et al. Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It? Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Self, Senility and Alzheimer’s Disease in Modern America: A History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
• Volume co-editor, with Peter J. Whitehouse and Konrad Maurer. Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Articles

• “The Evolving Classification of Dementia: Placing the DSM-V in a Meaningful Historical and Cultural Context and Pondering the Future of “Alzheimer's.” Co-author with Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 35(3): 417-435, 2011.
• “Progress in the History of Alzheimer’s Disease: The Importance of Context.”  Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 9(3 Suppl):5-13, 2006.
• “Beyond ‘Progress’ in the History of Alzheimer Disease.” Co-author with Peter J. Whitehouse and James Lindemann Nelson. [Editorial] Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders, 13: 130-31, 1999.

Education:

• BA, University of Oregon, 2007
• PhD, In progress Michigan State University, expected December 2017

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Philosophy of Technology
• Ontology and Epistemology
• Social and Political Economies
• FreeSchools

Bio:

Michael Brown is an affiliated scholar in Drexel’s Center for Science, Technology and Society and currently dissertating in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His research explores different philosophical theories about the nature of technology, technological change, and the impacts of technologies on life generally, through the lens of captivity, carcerality and prison in particular. Brown examines the tools and techniques of surveillance and policing deployed by the prison industrial complex, and the artistic educational projects cultivated by prison abolitionists. Brown is also an organizer and archivist for a FreeSchool based in Detroit, Michigan.

Specialization:

Philosophy of Technology, Ontology and Epistemology, Social and Political Economies, FreeSchools

Selected Publications:

Peer Reviewed Publications:

• 2010, Brown, Michael. “Recognition of the Other and Our Requirements to Kill: Thoughts on The Chickenhawk Syndrome.” Radical Philosophy Review. 13;2, 167-172.

Other Publications:

• 2017, Umar. The Watch: Suicide Chronicles. Michael Brown (ed.) Hamtramck Free School Press. Forthcoming.
• 2017, Daniel-Bey, Kyle. Redemption. Michael Brown (ed.) Hamtramck Free School Press. Forthcoming.
• 2017, Thomas, James. Freedom. Michael Brown and Jonathan Rajewski (designers) Hamtramck Free School Press, Hamtramck MI.
• 2016, Qualls-El, Yusef. Thoughts Are Things. Michael Brown and Kate Nacy (eds.) Hamtramck Free School Press, Hamtramck MI.
• 2014, Brown, Michael Philip. “Retribution, Resistance, and the Incarceration of Kids.” Critical Moment. Detroit, Michigan. Spring/Summer.
• 2013, Rajewski, Jonathan and Michael Philip Brown. "ART < WORK" Mousse Magazine. Milano, Italy. Issue #1001. *Equal Authorship

Education:

• BS, Marine Biology, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• MA, Sociology, New School for Social Research
• MS, Natural Resources, University of Michigan
• PhD, Sociology, George Washington University, 1995

Research Interests:

• Critical Theory
• Social Movements
• Social Change
• Environmental Sociology

Bio:

Robert Brulle is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate Professor of Public Heath in the School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has also taught at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, at the University of Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden, and George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. In addition, in 1996 and 1997 he served as a consultant to U.S. National Research Council/Marine Board regarding their studies of maritime risk.

He has a BS degree in Marine Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, an MS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Sociology from George Washington University.

His research focuses on the U.S. environmental movement, critical theory and public participation in environmental policy making. He is the author of over fifty articles in these areas and is the author of Agency, Democracy and the Environment: The U.S. Environmental Movement from the Perspective of Critical Theory, as well as co-editor, with David Pellow, of Power, Justice and the Environment.

In his current position he developed and implemented two academic programs leading to both a BS Degree in Urban Environmental Policy and an MS Degree in Environmental Policy. Prior to his employment in the academic field, Brulle served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for twenty four years, where his area of expertise was in the field of environmental response and pollution prevention.

Specialization:

Environmental policy and politics, critical theory, marine risk, social movements, environmental sociology.

Selected Publications:

• Brulle, Robert J. From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialogue: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 4(1). March 2011.
• Brulle, Robert J. and Jenkins, J.C. Civil Society and the Environment: Understanding the Dynamics and Impacts of the U.S. Environmental Movement. In Understanding 21st Century NGOs. Thomas Lyon (Ed.). RFF Press. 2010.
• Brulle, Robert J. Science, Democracy, and the Environment: The Contributions of Barry Commoner. Organization & Environment, 22:1, March 2009.
• Pellow, David and Brulle, Robert J. (Eds.) Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2005.

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology, University of Montreal, 2014
• MA, Anthropology, University of Montreal, 2009
• BA, Philosophy, UQAM, 2006

Research Interests:

• Science, technology and medicine
• Digital infrastructures, spaces and technologies
• Development and global health
• Medical anthropology
• Cultural and media theory

Bio:

My primary areas of research include digital spaces/technologies, global health, development, and relations between India and Africa.

My current book project, "Bandwidth for Life: Anthropological Incursions into the Pan-African e-Network", explores a transnational network through which tertiary hospitals in India provide medical teleconsultations to health centers across Africa. This is a colossal network, aimed at caring for patients at a distance. Drawing upon extensive field research carried in India and West Africa, the book examines how digital technology transforms the space of clinical work and reconfigures the distribution of medical care. It suggests that the network points towards new practical horizons of intelligibility within which human lives come to matter to people, to take shape as objects of medical knowledge and intervention. The book also investigates how the Pan-African e-Network contributes to the emergence of new transnational markets between India and Africa.

Over the past two years, I have also explored the impact of mobile connectivity on global health. In collaboration with colleagues from the Centre de recherche en santé de Nouna (CRSN), I have studied the effects of mobile devices on medical monitoring and care in rural Burkina Faso. To do so, I have examined the implementation process – challenges, limitations, and unintended consequences – of a mobile health (mHealth) network, MOS@N. My research aims to: a) explore the impact of data connectivity on the daily operations of primary healthcare centers and the lives of patients and laypersons; b) gain a better understanding of how mHealth forges new relations between technology, social life, and healthcare; c) provide ethnographic insight into issues of scaling and replicability which are ubiquitous in the global health world.

Finally, I am currently developing a research project devoted to the problematic use of media devices in urban India. Specifically, I aim to explore the enigmatic, contested yet severe mental health condition of Internet addiction (IA). On the one hand, I want to examine what the debates surrounding IA as a diagnostic category reveal about socially accepted, digital forms of life. On the other hand, I will work with specialized treatment centers to understand the experience, and therapeutic management of IA in India.

Specialization:

Digital spaces/technologies, global health, development, and relations between India and Africa.

Selected Publications:

• “Life at a Distance,” Limn, invited paper for a special issue on “Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods,” forthcoming. See limn.it.
• “Situating mobile health: a qualitative study of mHealth expectations in the rural health district of Nouna, Burkina Faso,” with Yé, M. et al., Health Research Policy and Systems, 15(Suppl 1):47, pp. 44-53, 2017. See: health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-017-0211-y.
• “Inhabiting Media: An Anthropology of Life in Digital Speed,” Cultural Anthropology, 32 (1): 20-26, 2017. See: culanth.org/articles/880-inhabiting-media-an-anthropology-of-life-in.
• “Speed: An Introduction,ˮ Nguyen, V-K & T. Sanchez-Criado, Cultural Anthropology, 32 (1): 1-11, 2017. See: culanth.org/articles/878-speed-an-introduction.
• “The map and the territory: an ethnographic study of the low utilisation of a global eHealth network,” Journal of Information Technology, 31(4): 334-346, 2016
• “Anthropotechnique: sur la relation entre technologie et humanité chez Peter Sloterdijk,” Sociétés, 131: 41-49, 2016.
• “Spacecraft(ing)” in “Translating Vitalities” series, with Farquhar, Judith et al., Somatosphere, 2016. See: somatosphere.net/2016/03/spacecrafting.html.
• “Global eHealth: Designing Spaces of Care in the Era of Global Connectivity,” Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(1):154-164, 2015. See: medanthrotheory.org/read/4925/global-ehealth.
• “A Win-win Renaissance? ICT, Healthcare, and Indo-African Economic Resurgence,” Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 2(1): 7-34, 2014.
• “Building Capacities: The Resurgence of Indo-African Technoeconomic Cooperation,” India Review, 11(4): 209-225.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2006

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Emerging Technologies and Biocapital
• Media and Democratic Cultures
• Radical Social Movements
• Sociology of Markets
• Political Sociology
• Ethnographic Methodologies

Research Projects

• Two-Year Colleges and the Invention of Nano-Labor: Between Promise and Possibility. Co-Principal Investigator. A collaborative research project with Dr. Amy Slaton (History & Politics, Drexel University) with support from the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) investigating technical education in nanomanufacturing and the links to the development of a nanotech-based economic sector in the Philadelphia region.
• Translational machines: Nanobiotechnologies in two postindustrial regions, Philadelphia and Milan. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Prof. Paolo Milani (Physics, University of Milan) on technological transfer in the nanobiotech sector as it is emerging in Philadelphia and Milan. Support provided by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Faculty Development and Equity, Drexel University.
• Pharmaceutical advertising and ethnography of marketing. Principal Investigator. Support provided by the Advertising Educational Foundation, New York, NY.

Bio:

Mary Ebeling is associate professor of sociology and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Drexel University. Mary is an ethnographic sociologist and researches the intersections of marketing, health, biomedical science and digital life. Her new book, Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) is focused on data brokers, data mining, marketing surveillance, private health data, and algorithmic identities.

Her work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the European Union (5th Framework Programme). She has been awarded a Regional Faculty Fellowship at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2017-18 academic year.

She collaborates with scientists, artists and urban farmers to reimagine presents and futures, particularly Paolo Milani, Rachel Ellis Neyra, RAIR, the Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia and alternative art spaces and collectives, such as Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, and several artists’ collectives in Philadelphia including Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi.

More information about Mary can be found at: maryebeling.net

Specialization:

Sociology of science and technology, data brokers and big data, healthcare privacy, marketing communication, medicine, health, knowledge and power in late capital, the production of value and alternatives, anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces, collectives and feminist methodologies

Selected Publications:

• Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (Palgrave, 2016)
• Ebeling, M. and Amy Slaton (2016) “Promise Her Anything: Education for Work in the American ‘Nano-economy’ International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, Volume 5 (in press).
• Ebeling, M. (2014) “Marketing Mediated Diagnoses: Turning Patients into Consumers,” in Jutel, A. and Dew, K. (eds.) Sociology of Diagnosis: A Guide for Practitioners. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Ebeling, M. (2011) "'Get with the Program!': Pharmaceutical marketing, symptom checklists and self-diagnosis," Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011): 825-832.
• Ebeling, M. (2010) “Marketing Chimeras: The biovalue of rebranded medical devices,” in Aronczyk, M. and Powers, D. (eds.) Blowing Up the Brand Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. Pp. 241-259.

Education:

• MA, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
• PhD, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh 1998

Research Interests:

• Green Politics and Environmental Political Theory
• Human-Animal Studies
• Urban Sustainability

Bio:

Christian Hunold, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and affiliated with Drexel University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society. His research on deliberative policymaking, participatory environmental policy, and urban sustainability has been published in Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, and Political Studies. Hunold’s current work examines the politics and culture of urban wildlife, both as means to foster urban wildlife spaces “after nature” and to understand how the blurring of human and nonhuman worlds is generating new forms of environmental political engagement. Hunold serves on the editorial board of Environmental Politics.

Specialization:

• Green Politics and Environmental Political Theory
• Human-Animal Studies
• Urban Sustainability

Selected Publications:

• Why Not the City?: Urban Hawk Watching and the End of Nature . Nature and Culture 12 (2), 115-136.
• Hunold, C., Y. Sorunmu, R. Lindy, S. Spatari, and P. L. Gurian. (2017). Is Urban Agriculture Financially Sustainable? An Exploratory Study of Small-Scale Market Farming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 7 (2), 51-67.
• Hunold, C. & Jeske, M. (2015). Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative: Linking Country to City, and the Traditional to the High-Tech. In Borowiak, C., Dilworth, R. and Reynolds, A., eds. Exploring Cooperatives: Economic Democracy and Community Development in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Extension Publications.
• Travaline, K., Montalto, F., & Hunold, C. (2015). Deliberative Policy Analysis and Policy-Making in Urban Stormwater Management. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. (Published online March 26, 2015.)
• Hunold, C., & Leitner, S. (2011). ‘Hasta la vista, baby!’ The Solar Grand Plan, environmentalism, and social constructions of the Mojave Desert. Environmental Politics, 20(5), 688–705.
• Hunold, C. (2011). Deliberative Policy Making. International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Travaline, K., & Hunold, C. (2010). Urban Agriculture and Ecological Citizenship in Philadelphia. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 15(6): 581-590.
• Hunold, C., et al. (2009) Ecological Modernization, Risk Society, and the Green State. In Arthure P.J Mol, David A Sonnenfeld & Gert Spaargaren (Eds.), The Ecological Modernisation Reader . New York: Routledge.
• Hendriks, C., Dryzek, J. S. & Hunold, C. (2007). Turning Up the Heat: Partisanship in Deliberative Innovation. Political Studies 55(2): 362-383.
• Hunold, C. & Dryzek, J. S. (2005). Green Political Strategy and the State: Combining Political Theory and Comparative History. In John Barry & Robyn Eckersley (Eds.), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (pp.75-95). Boston, MA: MIT Press.
• Hunold, C. (2004). Procedural and Substantive Criteria for Siting Justice. Swiss Political Science Review 10(4): 192-201.
• Dryzek, J., Downes, D., Hunold, C. & Schlosberg, D. (2003). Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hunold, C. (2002). Canada’s Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Problem: Voluntarism Reconsidered. Environmental Politics 11: 49-72.
• Dryzek, J. & Hunold, C. (2002). Green Political Theory and the State: Context is Everything. Global Environmental Politics 2(3): 17-39.
• Dryzek, J., Hunold, C. & Schlosberg, D. (2002). Environmental Transformation of the State: The USA, Norway, Germany, and the UK. Political Studies 50(4): 659-682.
• Hunold, C. (2001). Environmentalists, Nuclear Waste, and the Politics of Passive Exclusion in Germany. German Politics and Society 19 (4): 44-64.
• Hunold, C. (2001). Corporatism, Pluralism, and Democracy: Toward a Deliberative Theory of Bureaucratic Accountability. Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration 14(2): 151-167.
• Peters, B.G. & Hunold, C. (1999). European Politics Reconsidered, Second Edition. New York: Holmes & Meier.
• Hunold, C. (1998). Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: Local Democracy in the Context of Globalization. Southeastern Political Review 26: 635-653.
• Hunold, C. & Young, I. (1998). Justice, Democracy, and Hazardous Siting. Political Studies 46: 82-95.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Boston College
• BA, Anthropology, Brown University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Aging
• Healthcare and Medicine
• Qualitative Social Science Methods
• Science and Technology Studies

Bio:

Kelly Joyce, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Drexel University. Professor Joyce is the author of the award winning book "Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency" (Cornell University Press, 2008) and is co-editor of "Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens" (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010). Joyce studies the social, cultural and political dimensions of medical technology innovation. Her research is situated at the crossroads of medical sociology and science and technology studies. Professor Joyce's research on the ethics of algorithms, big data and smart textiles has been funded by awards from the National Science Foundation and the NIH.

Joyce previously was an associate professor of sociology at the College of William and Mary. She also served as a program director for the Science, Technology, and Society program and the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program at the National Science Foundation during 2009-2011. She received the Director's Award for Collaborative Integration for contributing to the education of ethical scientists, interagency collaboration and extraordinary efforts in integrating ethical expertise with scientific knowledge in 2011.  More recently, she served as the Director for the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Drexel University in 2012-2018.

Specialization:

Political, cultural and organizational dimensions of clinical medicine, social dimensions of technological innovation, and technology, science and aging

Selected Publications:

Special Journal Issue

• Kelly Joyce and Laura Senier, guest editors. 2017. Environmental Exposures: Technologies, Techniques, and Politics. Environmental Sociology 3(1).

Books

• Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe, editors. 2010. Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Ageing, Technology, and Science Lens, 16th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
• Kelly Joyce. 2008. Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. *Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award given by the Medical Sociology section, American Sociological Association, awarded 2010.

Articles

• Kelly Joyce, Dalton George, Kendall Darfler, Jason Ludwig, and Kris Unsworth. 2018. “Engaging STEM Ethics Education.” Engaging Science, Technology and Society 4: 1-7.
• Diane Sicotte & Kelly Joyce. 2017. “Not a 'Petro Metro': Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion.” Environmental Sociology DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2017.1344919.
• Kelly Joyce & Laura Senier. 2017. “Why Environmental Exposures?” Environmental Sociology 3(1): 1-6.
• Fahmida Chowdhury and Kelly Joyce. 2011. “Pushing the Boundaries of Transdisciplinary Science Through Cyber-Enabled Research,” American Journal of Preventative Medicine,40(5S2): S103–S107.
• Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe. 2010. “A Sociological Approach to Ageing, Technology and Health,” Sociology of Health and Illness 32(2): 171-180.
• Kelly Joyce. 2006. “From Numbers to Pictures: The Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Visual Turn in Medicine,” Science as Culture 15(1): 1-22. *Honorable mention winner, IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology, awarded 2007.
• Kelly Joyce. “Appealing Images: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Authoritative Knowledge,” Social Studies of Science, 35(3): 437-462.
  Reprinted and translated into Korean in Brain, I, and US: What Does Neuroscience Tell Us About Ethics?, 2010, edited by S. Hong and Dayk Jang, 257-304. Seoul: Badabooks.

Handbook Entries

• Kelly Joyce, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven and Florian Kohlbacher. 2016. “STS and Aging: Theorizing the Socio-Material Construction of Later Life” in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark Miller and Laurel Smith-Doerr, 915-942. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Kelly Joyce, Meika Loe and Lauren Diamond-Brown. 2015. "Science, Technology and Ageing" in the Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, edited by Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin, 157-164. UK: Routledge.

Reports & Notes

• Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best, and Kelly Joyce. 2016. A Relational Model for Understanding the Use of Research in the Policy Process Report, 148 pages. (Funded by NSF Award #1441446).
• Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best, and Kelly Joyce. 2015. “Social Science Research and Public Policy,” ASA Footnotes 43(3): 3.

Book Chapters

• Kelly Joyce. 2011. “On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice,” In Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences, edited by Martyn Pickersgill and Ira Van Keulen, 75-98. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Kelly Joyce. 2010. "The Body as Image: An Examination of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Difference" in Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the United States, edited by Adele Clarke, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Fishman, and Janet Shim, 197-217. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo. 2006. “Graying the Cyborg: New Directions in Feminist Analyses of Aging, Science, and Technology” in Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, edited by Toni Calasanti and Kathleen Slevin, 99-121. New York: Routledge.

Education:

• PhD, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2012
• MA, Women’s Studies, University at Albany, SUNY, 2006 
• BA, English, University at Albany, SUNY, 2003 

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Science, technology, and health
• Environmental health problems
• Cities and place
• Feminist theory
• Medical anthropology
• Digital humanities

Bio:

I am an anthropologist trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). I specialize in the study of contemporary health practices, and how biomedical science and emerging technologies shape the way we understand and care for chronic disease conditions.

My research and teaching focus on 1) environmental health and the politics of care, 2) the spaces in which health and disease are produced (homes, cities, clinics, and public health networks), and 3) how embodied experiences of health and disease are technologically mediated. My current research examines the experiences of asthmatics and how asthma is cared for across different U.S. contexts; my analysis focuses on the ethical and epistemic problems surrounding environmental health conditions.

As an instructor, my seminars are organized around the complex medical, environmental, and technological problems that require interdisciplinary research and analysis.  Students learn to evaluate knowledge claims to gain understanding of scientific controversies, the politics of technology, and the social organization of medical research, for example.  I am committed to helping students develop the capacity for research, and I look forward to teaching STS courses on health, medicine, the body, and feminist theory as a new faculty member at Drexel.

Before joining Drexel, I was Managing Editor and Program Director at Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. I have taught in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Albany, SUNY.

Specialization:

Science, technology, and medicine, environmental health, cities and place, feminist theory, medical anthropology, experimental ethnography

Selected Publications:

• (2016) "Asthma on the Move: How Mobile Apps Remediate Risk for Disease Management." Health, Risk and Society, 17(7-8): 510-529. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698575.2015.1136408
• (2014) “Designing Digital Infrastructure: Four Considerations for Digital Publishing Projects.” Cultural Anthropology, 29(2): 264-287. culanth.org/articles/737-designing-digital-infrastructure-four
• (2014) Fortun, M., Fortun, K., Costelloe-Kuehn, B., Saheb, T., Price, D., Kenner, A., Crowder, J. “Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis:Continuing Challenges,” in Heterogeneity in Asthma, Allan R. Brasier, ed. New York: Springer, 321-332.
• (2013) The Healthy Asthmatic." M/C Journal 16(6). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/745
• (2008) “Securing the Elderly Body: Dementia, Surveillance, and the Politics of ‘Aging in Place.’” Surveillance & Society 5(3): 252-269.

Education:

• BA, History and Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
• MA, History, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
• PhD, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

My work focuses on risk and disaster, with particular interests in modern cities, technology, and public policy. My most recent book is "The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America" (UPenn Press, 2011), and I am series co-editor of "Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster" (UPenn Press, launch 2014).  Presently I am also a faculty research fellow of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware.  Since 2011, I have been a member of the Fukushima Forum collaborative research community, with which I am currently co-authoring an edited volume on the Fukushima disasters.

I am active in the Philadelphia historical community--in 2009 I published an edited volume titled "Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City" (UPenn Press, 2009), and I have contributed to the "Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia".  My work has appeared in academic venues such as Technology and Culture, Isis, History and Technology, Annals of Science, the Journal of American History and the Journal of the American Planning Association. I also write for more popular publications like the New York Times, The Hill, U.S. News and World Report and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.  I have enjoyed the opportunity to discuss disaster history and politics on the Marty Moss Coane Show and the Leonard Lopate Show.

In 2013-2014 I served on Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter's Special Advisory Commission on Licenses and Inspections.

Specialization:

History of technology, disaster, and public policy

Selected Publications:

• The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
• Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City (Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
• "Defending Philadelphia: A Historical Case Study of Civil Defense in the Early Cold War" Public Works Management & Policy, (Vol. 11, No. 3, 2007): 217-232.
• “Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States,” History and Technology (Spring, 2003): 9-28.
• “Knowledge for Use: Science, Higher Education, and America’s New Industrial Heartland, 1880-1915,” Annals of Science (January, 2002): 1-20 (with Robert H. Kargon).
• “Industrial Versailles: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T,” Isis (March, 2001): 1-33 (with Stuart W. Leslie).

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 2009

Research Interests:

• Visual and socio-cultural anthropology
• The global circulation of fashion, music and aesthetics
• DIY, amateur, and independent media
• New media and mediated subjectivities
• Street fashion, streetwear, and street style blogging
• Youth culture in the United States and Indonesia

Bio:

Brent Luvaas is a visual and cultural anthropologist interested in the production and global circulation of fashion, music, and photography. He is the author of "Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging" (Bloomsbury 2016) and "DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture" (Berg 2012). He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant and the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. He is also the blogger behind Urban Fieldnotes (urbanfieldnotes.com).

Specialization:

DIY and independent media production; transnational consumer culture; popular music; new media and mediated subjectivities; youth culture in the US and Indonesia.

Selected Publications:

• Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• “Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style,” in Fashion Theory, 2013.
• “Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand,” in Cultural Anthropology (in press — February 2013.
• DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2012.
• “Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut ’n’ Paste” in Visual Anthropology Review 26(1): 1-16, 2010.
• “Dislocating Sounds: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop,” in Cultural Anthropology 24(2): 246-279, 2009.
• “Re-Producing Pop: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of a Contemporary Dance Music,” in International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2): 167-187, 2006.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of California-San Diego
• MA, Social and Cultural Studies, University of California-Berkeley
• BA, History, Stanford University

Research Interests:

• race/sexuality/gender
• social movements/community advocacy
• HIV/AIDS
• racial health disparities
• science and technological studies
• Black Studies

Bio:

Kevin M. Moseby, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Sociology. His research specialties and teaching interests are in the areas of the social and cultural studies of biomedicine/health, particularly as those domains intersect with and through the institutions of race/sexuality/gender, social movements/community advocacy, HIV/AIDS, racial health disparities, science and technological studies, and Black Studies. His current research examines the salience of race over the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, documenting how HIV/AIDS prevention practices and knowledge “crossed the color line.”

Recently, Moseby was an invited participant at a meeting of scholars, grantmakers, and AIDS activists to begin a dialogue leading to an agenda for new histories of HIV/AIDS: "Foundations, Nonprofits, and HIV/AIDS in the United States: New Histories of an Epidemic" Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York, June 13-15, 2017. In addition to teaching courses within his specialty areas, Moseby teaches the course Introduction to Sociology.

Prior to joining Drexel in the very cold winter quarter of 2015/16, Moseby was a UC President Postdoctoral Fellow in the (Medical) Sociology program of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. In his dissertation years, he also spent time as a Fellow in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before all of his training in California, Moseby was born in Little Rock and raised in rural Arkansas in counties within and just outside of the Mississippi Delta.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Moseby, Kevin M. 2017. “Two Regimes of HIV/AIDS: The MMWR and the Socio-Political Construction of HIV/AIDS as a Black Disease.” Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 39 No. 7, pp. 1068–1082 doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12552

Education:

• PhD, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
• BS, Science, Technology and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
• BAE (Aerospace Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

I became interested in science and technology studies (STS) as an undergraduate engineering student in Georgia. When my flight performance professor off-handedly mentioned fuel dumping, I immediately wanted to know: Dumping on whom? With what consequences? And who gets to decide whether that’s okay?

As a graduate student in an interdisciplinary environmental studies program, I pursued questions about the human, political and environmental dimensions of science and technology. That led me to research at the intersection of STS and environmental justice studies, focusing on social inequality in the distribution of environmental hazards and decision-making power.

I came to Drexel in 2014 from the University of Washington-Bothell. I teach classes in Science and Technology Policy, Environmental Politics and Citizen Science. I also advise MS students in the Science, Technology, and Society and Environmental Policy Programs. My research group, the Fair Tech Collective, welcomes students from all levels and backgrounds who are interested in mobilizing science and technology to empower environmental justice communities. We use an apprenticeship model: students learn by doing alongside more experienced researchers.

Current research

My research on science, technology, and environmental justice has three parts that combine big ideas with real-world relevance:

• Empirical – I observe and analyze environmental controversies in order to understand the disconnects between how technical experts understand environmental issues and how people actually live with these environmental hazards.
• Ethical – I use political and ethical theory to envision ways that science and technology could better support environmental justice and more effectively empower communities.
• Experimental – I collaborate with scientists, engineers and community members to put theory into practice: we create technologies and design studies to address environmental justice issues, then we assess their impact.

For example, in one project I document the history of community-based air monitoring at oil refinery fencelines (empirical) while collaborating with community air monitoring activists to develop an interactive website (airwatchbayarea.org) and an app for exploring real-time air quality data in the Bay area (experimental).

Honors and Recognition

My book, "Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges", was awarded the 2015 Rachel Carson prize for a work of social or political relevance by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

I received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for my project “Environmental Justice and the Ethics of Science and Technology.”

I currently serve as an elected member of the 4S Council (2015-2018), and on the editorial boards of Energy Research and Social Science and Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.

My commentary and analysis has been featured in The Washington Post, Contra Costa Times, Issues in Science and Technology, as well as in blogs such as PLOS One – Citizen Science and Backchannels.

I’ve been quoted in Grid Magazine, Public Source, and by the National Public Radio affiliate WHYY, as well as other publications focusing on energy, design, science and the environment.

Specialization:

Environmental justice, energy, air quality, citizen science, big data, expertise, science and engineering ethics

Selected Publications:

Public Scholarship

• “A Missing Link in Making Meaning from Air Monitoring,” Backchannels (Society for Social Studies of Science Blog), April 16, 2016.
• “Technology that ‘works for us and not against us’,” The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Blog, March 4, 2016.
• “Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline,” Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2016: 72-78.
• “Is it good science? Activism, values, and communicating politically relevant science." Journal of Science Communication 14 (2015).
• “Groundbreaking Air Quality Study Demonstrates the Power of Citizen Science,” PLOS Blogs – Citizen Science, November 6, 2014.
• “Residents must be integral part of any monitoring system,” Contra Costa Times, September 5, 2014.

Books

• 2013 Gwen Ottinger, Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges. New York: New York University Press.
• 2011 Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin R. Cohen, editors, Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Urban and Industrial Environments Series.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 2017 Gwen Ottinger and Elisa Sarantschin, “Exposing Infrastructure: How Activists and Experts Connect Ambient Air Monitoring and Environmental Health,” Environmental Sociology 3(2): 155-165.
• 2014 Gwen Ottinger, Timothy Hargrave, and Eric Hopson, “Procedural Justice in Wind Facility Siting: Recommendations for State-led Siting Processes,” Energy Policy 65: 662 – 669.
• 2013 Gwen Ottinger, Richard Worthington, Warren Gold, Kern Ewing, James Fridley, Rodney Pond, and Brooke Kiener, “Interdisciplinary CBR with Disciplinary Expertise: Bridging Two (or more) Cultures in Undergraduate Projects,” Currents in Teaching and Learning 5(1-2): 4 – 16.
• 2013 Gwen Ottinger, “The Winds of Change: Environmental Justice in Energy Transitions,” Science as Culture 22(2): 222 – 229.
• 2013 Gwen Ottinger, “Changing Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and Knowledge Gaps: STS Insights into Procedural Justice,” Science, Technology, and Human Values 38(2): 250 – 270.
• 2012 Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin R. Cohen, “Environmentally Just Transformations of Expert Cultures: Toward the Theory and Practice of a Renewed Science and Engineering,” Environmental Justice 5(3): 158 – 163.
• 2011 Gwen Ottinger, “Environmentally Just Technology,” Environmental Justice 4(1): 81 – 85.
• 2010 Gwen Ottinger, “Constructing Empowerment through Interpretations of Environmental Surveillance Data,” Surveillance and Society, 8(2): 221 – 234.
• 2010 Scott Frickel, Sahra Gibbon, Jeff Howard, Joanna Kepner, Gwen Ottinger, and David Hess, “Undone Science: Charting Social Movement and Civil Society Challenges to Research Agenda Setting,” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 35(4): 444 – 473.
• 2010 Gwen Ottinger, “Buckets of Resistance: Standards and the Effectiveness of Citizen Science,” Science, Technology, and Human Values 35(2): 244 – 270.
• 2009 Gwen Ottinger, “Epistemic Fencelines: Air Monitoring Instruments and Expert-Resident Boundaries,” Spontaneous Generations 3(1): 55 – 67.

Book Chapters

• 2016 Gwen Ottinger, "Social Movement-Based Citizen Science." In The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science, edited by Darlene Cavalier and Eric B. Kennedy, 89-104. Tempe, AZ: Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.
• 2016 Gwen Ottinger, Javiera Barandiarán, and Aya H. Kimura, “Environmental Justice: Knowledge, Technology, and Expertise,” pp. 1029 – 1058 in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th Edition, edited by Ulrike Felt, Clark A. Miller, Rayvon Fouché, and Laurel Smith-Doerr. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 2011 Gwen Ottinger, “Rupturing Engineering Education: Opportunities for Transforming Expert Identities through Community-based Projects,” pp. 229 – 248 in Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement, edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin R. Cohen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 2006 Gwen Ottinger, “Belief in ‘Cancer Alley’: Church, Chemicals, and Community in New Sarpy, Louisiana,” pp. 153 – 166 in Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World, edited by Andrew M. Gardner and David M. Hoffman. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Reviews

• 2014 Gwen Ottinger. “Absence and Expectation,” Response to Special Issue on “Absences,” in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3(8): 10-12.
• 2013 Gwen Ottinger, “Peopling Petrochemical America,” Review of Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America, in Southern Spaces, 26 November 2013.
• 2012 Gwen Ottinger, Review of Edward Snajder, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia, in Political and Legal Anthropology Review 35(1): 147 – 148.

Education:

• PhD, Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• MA, Philosophy, University of Pavia, Italy

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic

Bio:

Flavia Padovani is an associate professor of Philosophy. She is also on the faculty of Drexel’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Geneva in 2008. Before and after joining Drexel, she held postdoctoral positions and visiting fellowships in various international institutions.

Her research addresses issues in both history and philosophy of science (especially the interplay between science and philosophy in the early twentieth century) and general philosophy of science (objectivity in science, the nature of scientific principles, the structure of scientific theories and theory change, and problems surrounding the intertwined themes of measurement and coordination).

Specialization:

Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic

Education:

• PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Science & Technology Studies, 2006
• MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Science &Technology Studies, 2002
• BS, Saint Vincent College, Chemistry, 1999

Research Interests:

Intersections of emerging molecular sciences and public policy and the ways in which tensions brought about between the two get resolved

Bio:

Roberts’s work explores the intersections of emerging molecular sciences and public policy and the ways in which tensions brought about between the two get resolved. He received advanced degrees in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech, where he cultivated an interest in the practice of the molecular sciences and the ways in which they are shaped by internal architecture and design (e.g., technologies of the laboratory) and the politics of the broader world (e.g., chemical regulations). Those interests became the basis for the projects that formed CHF’s Environmental History and Policy Program, which explores social, technical, and policy innovations for governing molecules. Before becoming the first manager of the Environmental History and Policy Program, he was the Charles C. Price Fellow and Gordon Cain Fellow at CHF. Roberts is a senior fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program. He also lectures in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Center for Public Policy at Drexel University. Roberts holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Saint Vincent College.

Current Research Projects

• From Inception to Reform: An Oral History of the Toxic Substances Control Act
• Consortium for Community-Based Science
• Exposed Communities: Ambler

Specialization:

Intersections of emerging molecular sciences and public policy and the ways in which tensions brought about between the two get resolved

Selected Publications:

• Vogel, Sarah A. and Jody A. Roberts. 2011. “Why the Toxic Substances Control Act Needs an Overhaul, And How to Strengthen Oversight of Chemicals I the Interim.” Health Affairs May, 30(5), pp. 898-905.
• Roberts, Jody A. 2011. “Creating and Controlling Chemical Hazards: A Brief History.” Pp. 3-14 in Global Collaborations in Managing Chemical and Environmental Risks. Edited by Philip Wexler, Jan van der Kolk, Asish Mohapatra, and Ravi Agarwal. London and New York: CRC Press.
• Roberts, Jody A. 2008. New Chemical Bodies: A Conversation on Human Biomonitoring and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals. Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.
• Choi, Hyungsub, Sarah Kaplan, and Cyrus C. M. Mody, and Jody A. Roberts. 2008. Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of Nanotechnology: A Summary of the Joint Wharton–Chemical Heritage Foundation Symposium on the Social Studies of Nanotechnology. Wharton and Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.

Education:

• VMD, University of Pennsylvania
• M Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:

• Bioethics

Bio:

John Rossi, PhD, previously held a two year post-doctoral fellow position in CHP, under the mentorship of Michael Yudell, with funding from Pfizer. He holds both a doctorate in veterinary medicine and a masters in bioethics from University of Pennsylvania, and completed a post-doctoral program at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), prior to joining the School of Public Health two years ago.

Rossi’s role includes serving as the Associate Director of the Program in Public Health Ethics and History, with Michael Yudell, PhD, as the Director. He works closely with Yudell on University initiatives related to training in the responsible conduct of research, to help Drexel achieve University- wide compliance with NIH and NSF training requirements. He helps develop Program initiatives in ethics education for students as well as other public health audiences.

Specialization:

Bioethics, ethics education for students as well as other public health audiences

Education:

• PhD, History of Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2004
• BSc, Materials Engineering, Superior Technical Institute (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, 1997

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

Science and Fascism (Italy, Germany, Portugal), Science and Global History, Life Sciences and Agriculture, Science and the City

Bio:

My current work deals with the historical connections between science, food, and politics. Mixing approaches from history of science, history of technology and environmental history, I follow the transnational circulation of Californian oranges from and into Brazil, Palestine, Algeria and South Africa. I am interested in what travels attached to Californian technoscientific oranges such as cloning practices, viruses, growers’ cooperatives and racialized labor relations. In my new book manuscript, “Cloning Democracy”, I tinker intensively with oranges in order to assert the importance of California in the remaking of the Global South in the first half of the Twentieth Century.

Together with Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, and John-Bosco Lourdusamy, I am now exploring new ways of writing global history through the history of crops. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science generously supports our ongoing project “Moving Crops and the Scales of History” aimed at producing a multi-authored narrative of crops on the move through areas of the globe beyond the West and crossing different time periods.

My approach to citrus draws heavily on my previous research on genetics, food and fascism. In my book, “Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism” (MIT Press, 2016), I researched emblematic themes of fascist ideology, such as ‘rootedness in the soil’ and Lebensraum, by looking at the cultivated plants and domestic animals that materialized these ideas in the landscape in Italy, Germany and Portugal, and their respective imperial territories in Eastern Europe and Africa. The book connects geneticists’ research and food policies of three different fascist regimes, and it aspires to make laboratory production of industrialized organisms a central component of the history of fascism.

I have been an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University since the fall of 2012. Prior to that I was a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) of the University of Lisbon for seven years and a visiting professor at UCLA (2007/2008 and 2011) and UC Berkeley (2011/2012). I lectured several graduate and undergraduate courses in history of science, history of technology, environmental history, global history and history of fascism. My special topics courses include history of commodities and theories in science and technology studies (STS).

Specialization:

History of science, history of technology, environmental history, science and technology studies

Selected Publications:

Selected Publications:

Tiago Saraiva, Fascist Pigs: Technoscienctific Organisms and the History of Fascism (MIT Press, 2016).

Tiago Saraiva, “Fascist Modernist Landscapes: Wheat, Dams, and Forests, and the Making of the Portuguese New State”, Environmental History, 21.1, (2016): 55-71;

Tiago Saraiva, “Oranges as Model Organisms for Historians”, Agricultural History, 88.3 (2014): 410-16

Tiago Saraiva, “The Production/Circulation of Standardized Karakul Sheep and Frontier Settlement in the Empires of Hitler, Mussolini and Salazar “, in Dolly Jørgensen, Sara Pitchard, and Finn Arne Jørgensen (eds.), New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013): 135-150;

Tiago Saraiva (2013), “Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners”, in Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis (eds.), Cosmopolitan Commons: Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press): 185-212;

Tiago Saraiva, “The History of Cybernetics in McOndo”, History and Technology, 28.4 (2012): 413-420

Tiago Saraiva and M. Norton Wise (eds.), “Autarky/Autarchy: Genetics and the Political Economy of Fascism”, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 40, n. 4 (2010): 419-428.

Tiago Saraiva, “Fascist Labscapes: Genetics, Wheat and the Landscapes of Fascism in Italy and Portugal”, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 40, n. 4 (2010): 457-498;

Tiago Saraiva (2007), “Inventing the Technological Nation: the Example of Portugal (1851-1898)”, History and Technology, 23 (3): 263-273;

with Antonio Lafuente (2004), “The Urban Scale of Science and the Enlargement of Madrid”, Social Studies of Science, 34: 531-569

Education:

• BA, Chemistry and History, Swarthmore College
• MA, History of Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• PhD, History of Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• History of science
• Italy
• Europe

Bio:

My research focuses on the historical intersections among science, medicine, and religion, especially in the early modern era (roughly the 1400s through the 1700s). This was a time of great change in Europe and around the globe: new ways of thinking about God, nature, and humanity emerged in Europe and new ties bound together distant societies, disrupting older patterns of belief and action. In my 2011 book Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice, I revealed how people struggled to understand and distinguish natural phenomena from supernatural in this era, using the records of Inquisition witchcraft trials and other sources found in various libraries and archives in the city of Venice and in and around the Vatican.

I am currently exploring the influential place of healing clerics -- exorcists -- in early modern society for a book tentatively titled Spiritual Medicine: The Practice of Exorcism in Early Modern Europe. I will show how religious and medico-scientific authority aligned and conflicted in this era, and how an emerging professional community of exorcists constructed and defended their expertise -- for a time, anyway -- even in the face of significant resistance from powerful institutions in society. This is an issue we confront today as we are bombarded by claims about what “experts say” about this or that scientific or medical question. The question of who speaks for nature, who gets to determine what is or is not “natural,” is one that we struggle with in much the same ways as early modern society did. My work on this project has been supported by grants from the American Historical Association and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Undergraduates interested in these topics can contribute to a project I have put together on magic and witchcraft practices closer to home -- in colonial Pennsylvania. Apply for an undergraduate research fellowship through the College of Arts and Sciences! The classic witch-craze of Salem gets all the attention, but that episode gives a misleading picture of the beliefs and practices that European colonists brought with them across the Atlantic, as my research in this project is demonstrating.

Specialization:

History of science, Italy, Europe

Selected Publications:

• Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• “Interconnected Inquisitors: Circulation and Networks among Peripheral Tribunals,” in The Roman Inquisition: Center versus Peripheries, eds. Katherine Aron-Beller and Christopher Black. Boston: Brill, expected 2018.
• “In Defense of Exorcism,” in The Science of the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kathryn A. Edwards. New York: Palgrave McMillan. Submitted for publication.
• “‘The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain’: The Challenges of Prosecuting Witchcraft in Early Modern Venice,” Renaissance Quarterly vol. 62 (2009), pp. 102-133.
• “Aristotelismo” and “Pierre Gassendi” in Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, ed. Adriano Prosperi in collaboration with Vincenzo Lavenia and John Tedeschi. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2010.

Education:

• AB, History and Literature, Harvard, 1988
• MA, Sociology and Historical Studies, New School For Social Research, 1993
• PhD, Sociology and Historical Studies, New School For Social Research, 1997
• Honorary Doctoral Degree in Sociology, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2015

Curriculum Vitae:

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Interests:

• Mobilities Research: travel, transport, mobile communication, mobile art
• Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: low-carbon transitions and futures
• Caribbean Studies: citizenship, democratization, tourism, geo-ecologies
• Urban Theory and Planetary Urbanization

Bio:

Mimi Sheller, AB Harvard University (1988), MA (1993) and PhD (1997) New School for Social Research, is a professor of sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (2014-2017), co-editor of the journal Mobilities, which she co-founded in 2006, and associate editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.

She is author of twelve books, including most recently Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014) and Citizenship from Below (Duke University Press, 2012); and the co-edited volumes Mobilities and Complexities (2018); Mobilities Intersections (2018); The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2013) and Mobility and Locative Media (2014). As founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, co-editor of "Mobile Technologies of the City" (2006) and "Tourism Mobilities" (2004), and author of several highly cited articles, she helped established the new interdisciplinary field of mobilities research.

She is currently completing the book Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene, for Duke University Press, about post-disaster recovery and climate adaptation, with a focus on Haiti. With a production grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Fine Arts she is co-producing a documentary film on bauxite mining and aluminum, Fly Me to the Moon, with director Esther Figueroa.

In Fall 2016 she was Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication. She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015) and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK (2005-2012); the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2008); Media@McGill, Canada (2009); the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark (2009); and the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania (2010).

She has been awarded research funding from the US National Science Foundation for two projects collaborating with engineers and hydrologists on post-earthquake humanitarian responses in Haiti (2010-2012) and adaptation to climate change in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2012-2013). Based on this work she was invited to co-chair the NSF review of all Haiti RAPID grants, and served as an expert advisor to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction in its preparation of a report with the Government of Japan on the Japanese Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

She also was awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the New School’s Janey Program, and the University of Michigan’s Center for African and African-American Studies to support her PhD dissertation and first book, Democracy After Slavery (Macmillan, 2000), winner of the Choice outstanding book award. In the UK she was awarded grants from the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her book Consuming the Caribbean (Routledge, 2003), a history of transatlantic circulation and consumption. Her recently complete research project, ImagineTrains, was supported by the Mobile Lives Forum (Paris), where she also serves on the International Scientific Board.

Specialization:

Sustainable mobility and mobility justice: new cultures and infrastructures of travel, transport, mobile communication, and urbanism; Caribbean Studies: history, culture and political theory of the region, including intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class; Caribbean mobilities: the relation between tourism, migration and air travel across the U.S.-Caribbean borders; tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility and wider mobility regimes, including theorizing transitions in complex systems.

Selected Publications:

Sole-authored Books

• M. Sheller Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018)
• M. Sheller Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014)
• M. Sheller Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke Uni Press, 2012)
• M. Sheller Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (London & NY: Routledge 2003)
• M. Sheller, Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (London & Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2000; Miami: Univ. Press of Florida, 2001)

Edited Books

• Büscher, M., Sheller, M., and Tyfield, D.  (eds) Mobilities Intersections (Routledge, 2018).
• Jensen, O.B., Kesselring, S. and Sheller, M. (eds) Mobilities and Complexities: Reflections on John Urry (Routledge, 2018).
• Hannam, K. and Sheller, M. (eds) Crossing Borders (Routledge, 2017).

• A. de Souza e Silva and M. Sheller (eds), Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces. Routledge, 2015
• Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (London: Routledge, 2014).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Materialities and Mobilities, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, 38 (London: Ashgate, 2006).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Mobile Technologies of the City, (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) Networked Cities Series.
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, (London and New York: Routledge, 2004)
• S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, AM Fortier, and M. Sheller (eds), Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003) (25%)

Journal Special Issues Co-Edited

• M. Büscher, M. Sheller & D. Tyfield (eds) 10th Anniversary Special Issue: ‘Mobility Intersections: Social Research, Social Futures’, Mobilities 11 (4) Sept. 2016.
• M. Sheller, (ed.) E-Special Issue: John Urry, Theory, Culture & Society (August 2016).
• J. Nicholson and M. Sheller (eds) Special Issue: ‘Race and Mobilities’, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2016.
• L. Aceti, H. Iverson, M. Sheller (eds) Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: LA Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2016).
• JC Freeman & M. Sheller (eds) Public Art Dialogue, SI: Digital Art, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2015).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Materialities and Mobilities, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, 38 (London: Ashgate, 2006).

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

• Sheller, M. ‘Theorising Mobility Justice’, in Tempo Social: Revista Sociologica da USP, 2018.
• Hildebrand, J. and Sheller, M. ‘Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility: Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars’, Transfers: Journal of Mobility Studies, 8.1, 2018.
• Sheller M. ‘From Spatial Turn to Mobilities Turn’, Current Sociology 65: 4 (2017): 623-39.
• Sheller, M. and Urry, J. ‘Mobilising the New Mobilities Paradigm,’ Applied Mobilities 1 (1), (2016): 10-25.
• Nicholson, J. and Sheller, M. ‘Introduction: Race and the Politics of Mobility’, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6: 1 (2016): 4-11
• Sheller, M. ‘Uneven Mobility Futures: A Foucauldian Approach,’ Mobilities, 11 (1) 2016: 15-31.
• Sheller, M. ‘Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World: Contested Infrastructure in Post-Disaster Contexts’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, SI on Geographies of Mobility, ed. Mei-Po Kwan
• Sheller, M. and Deleón, Y. ‘Uneven Socio-ecologies of Hispaniola: Asymmetric Capabilities for Climate Adaptation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic’, Geoforum, Special Issue on Climate Justice & the Caribbean, eds. A. Baptiste and K. Rhiney (2015).
• Sheller, M. ‘Racialized Mobility Transitions in Philadelphia: Urban Sustainability and the Problem of Transport Inequality’, City and Society, SI on Cities and Mobilities, ed. M. Freudendal-Pederson, 27 (1): 70-91 (April 2015).
• Sheller, M. ‘How to be seen while being unseen: Finding the un-visible Bahamas in the (dis)assembled works of Tavares Strachan’, E-misphérica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Special Issue on Rasamblaj, ed. Gina Ulysse, Vol. 12, No. 1 (May 2015).
• Sheller, M., S O'Connor, HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, ‘Participatory Engineering for Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti’, Engineering Studies, SI on Engineering Risk and Disaster, eds. SG Knowles and G. Downey.
• Sheller, M. ‘Mobility, Debordering and Territoriality on a Haitian-Dominican Border’, Sociologica, Special Issue on Moving boundaries of mobilities research, 1/2014, Issue 23, eds. J. Caletrio and G. Mandich. Sheller, M. ‘Global Energy Cultures of Speed and Lightness: Materials, Mobilities and Transnational Power’, SI Theory, Culture and Society: Energizing Society, 31 (5): 2014.
• Sheller, M., ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm for a Live Sociology’, Current Sociology, 62: 6 (2014): 789-811.
• Sheller, M. ‘News Now: Interface, Ambience, Flow, and the Disruptive Spatio-Temporalities of Mobile News Media’, Journalism Studies, 16 (1) 2014: 12-26.
• Sheller, M. ‘The Vital Materiality of Aluminum: light modernity and the global Atlantic’ Atlantic Studies, Global Currents, Vol. 11, No, 1 (2014), pp. 67-81.
• Galada, HC; Montalto, FA; Gurian, PL; Sheller, M; Ayalew, T; and S O'Connor ‘Assessing Preferences Regarding Centralized and Decentralized Water Infrastructure in Post-Earthquake Leogane, Haiti.’ Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled, 2014, 1:5 (12 February 2014).
• Jensen, O.B., Sheller, M., and Wind, S. ‘Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families’ Everyday Life and Mobility’, Mobilities, 2014.
• Galada, HC, PL Gurian, , FA Montalto, M Sheller, M Piasecki, T Ayalew, S Oconnor, ‘Attitudes toward Post-Earthquake Water and Sanitation Management and Payment Options in Leogane, Haiti’, Water International, Vol. 38, No. 6 (Sept. 2013): 744–757
• Sheller, M. ‘Aluminum Across the Americas: Caribbean Mobilities and Transnational American Studies’, Journal of Transnational American Studies: Caribbean Issue, eds. B. Edmondson and D. Francis, Vol 5, Issue 1, 2013.
• Sheller, M., HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, S O'Connor, T. Ayalew, ‘Gender, Disaster and Resilience: Assessing Women’s Water and Sanitation Needs in Leogane, Haiti, Before and After the 2010 Earthquake’, wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, 2 (1), May 2013.
• Vukov, T. and Sheller, M. ‘Border Work: surveillant assemblages, virtual fences, and tactical counter-media’ in ‘Charting, Tracking, and Mapping: New Technologies, Labor, and Surveillance’, a special issue of Social Semiotics, Vol. 23, No. 2, (May 2013): 225-241.
• Sheller, M. ‘The Islanding Effect: Post-Disaster Mobility Systems and Humanitarian Logistics in Haiti’, Cultural Geographies, 20 (2) April 2013: 185-204.
• Sheller, M. ‘Mobility’, Sociopedia (2011) (published by the International Sociological Association with ‘state-of-the-art’ entries in social sciences).
• Sheller, M. ‘Air Mobilities on the US-Caribbean Border: Open Skies and Closed Gates’, The Communication Review, Vol. 13: 4 (2010): 269-288.
• Sheller, M. ‘The New Caribbean Complexity: mobility systems, tourism and the re-scaling of development’, The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30 (2009) pp. 189-203.
• Sheller, M. ‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities and the Architecture of Caribbean Paradise’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 41 (2009), pp. 1386-1403.
• Sheller, M. ‘Bodies, Cybercars and the Production of Automated-Mobilities’, Social and Cultural Geography, 8: 2 (2008): 175-197.

Education:

• PhD, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
• BA, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Vassar College

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

Chloe Silverman, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society and an associate professor in the Department of Politics. She works in three related areas, which inform her choice of research topics and the courses she teaches. Most centrally, she studies the role of affect in scientific knowledge, how public claims about affect are used to establish authority, and the role of affect as an analytic tool and method in science studies. The second area, the productive entanglements between so-called “lay” and “expert” knowledge, emerges from her work on affect, because the social movements that have engaged medical authorities and patient groups have almost always had an affective dimension. Third, she looks at the modes through which information about scientific practice—as opposed to scientific findings—is communicated to different publics. Discourse about what science is or ought to be shapes both peopleʼs reception of scientific information and their personal investment in science as a form of knowledge.

Silverman’s research topics, including parent advocacy for autism and pollinator health research, serve as ways to explore these problems. In doing so, she uses a range of methods, including archival research, participant observation, open-ended interviews, and the close analysis of texts. She specializes in working collaboratively with scientists as a key means of studying scientific communities.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).

Articles and Essays

• “How Do You Spot a Healthy Honey Bee?” LIMN no. 3. (July 2013).
• “Disease in History, History in Disease: An interview with Charles Rosenberg.” BioSocieties, 8 no. 3 (2013): 360-368.
• “’Birdwatching and Baby-Watching’: Niko and Elisabeth Tinbergen’s Ethological Approach to Autism.” History of Psychiatry. 21, 2 (2010): 176-189.
• “Fieldwork on Another Planet: Social Science Perspectives on the Autism Spectrum Disorders.” BioSocieties. 3, 3 (2008): 325-341.
• “Understanding Autism: Parents and Pediatricians in Historical Perspective.” (with Jeffrey Brosco). Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 161, 4 (2007): 392-398.

Book Chapters

• “Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community,” in Sunder Rajan, Kaushik ed. Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, in press, 2012).
• “Brains, Pedigrees and Promises: Lessons from the Politics of Autism Genetics,” in Gibbon, Sahra and Novas, Carlos, eds. Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities. (London: Routledge, 2008): 38-55.

Education:

• BA, Fine Arts and Art History, Northwestern University, 1978
• MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Pratt Institute, 1980
• PhD, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1995

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• History of technology
• Labor
• Race

Bio:

Amy E. Slaton is a professor in the Department of History. She holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught courses in the history of American science, technology and architecture, as well as in U.S. labor history and race relations. Slaton directed Drexel's Master's Program in Science, Technology and Society from 2001 to 2009 and has been a visiting associate professor at Haverford College.

Slaton has long been interested in the social character of technical expertise and work. She has written on the history of building technologies and materials testing, with a focus on who gets credit when things go well, and who gets blamed when structures and materials fail. Her book, "Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), integrated the histories of materials testing, construction labor, building codes and standards, and aesthetic change surrounding the introduction of commercial reinforced concrete in the United States. Slaton is also interested in understandings of technical aptitude in American manufacturing and engineering more generally, with particular emphasis on the role of race. Her most recent book is "Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line" (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Slaton produces the website, amyeslaton.com centered on equity in technical education and workforce issues, and her commentaries have appeared in Inside Higher Ed, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other outlets. Her current book project is "All Good People: Diversity, Difference and Opportunity in High-Tech America", under contract with MIT Press. She is co-editor, with Tiago Saraiva, of the international journal, History+Technology.

Specialization:

History of technology, labor, race

Selected Publications:

• Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in US Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line  (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010)
• Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 . Studies in the History of Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Education:

• BA, Philosophy and Political Thought, Muhlenberg College
• MA, Philosophy, Stony Brook University
• PhD, Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2007

Research Interests:

Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, American Philosophy

Bio:

• I’ve authored two books, The Deliberative Impulse (Lexington Books, 2011) and A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
• I’m currently working on my third book, on Daniel Quinn’s philosophy. Quinn is a novelist, cultural critic, and theorist of ecological and social sustainability.
• I’m also working on articles in which I assess what facing up to ecological catastrophe should entail and the ethical bases for resisting the main protagonists of ecocide.
• Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, the Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and the International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion.

Specialization:

Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, American Philosophy

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
• BA, Psychology, Case Western Reserve University

Research Interests:

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production

Bio:

Kelly Underman received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine prior to joining the faculty at Drexel. She is a qualitative researcher whose interests include medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production. Her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society and Sociological Forum. Her awards include the Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section.

Specialization:

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production

Selected Publications:

• Underman, Kelly, Paige L. Sweet, and Claire Laurier Decoteau. 2017. “Custodial Citizenship in the Autism Omnibus Proceeding,” Sociological Forum, 32(3): 544–565.
• Underman, Kelly, and Laura E. Hirshfield. 2016. “Detached Concern?: Emotional Socialization in Twenty-First Century Medical Education.” Social Science & Medicine, 160: 94–101.
• Underman, Kelly. 2015. “Playing Doctor: Simulation in Medical School as Affective Practice.” Social Science & Medicine, 136: 180-188.
• Underman, Kelly. 2011. “It’s the Knowledge That Puts You in Control”: The Embodied Labor of Gynecological Educators. Gender amp; Society, 25(4): 431-450.

Education:

• PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• MPH, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• MPhil, U.S. History, City University of New York
• BA, History and Soviet Studies, Tufts University

Research Interests:

• Autism spectrum disorders
• Bioethics
• Emergency preparedness
• Ethics
• Gene-environment interaction
• Genomics
• History of public health

Specialization:

Autism spectrum disorders, bioethics, emergency preparedness, ethics, gene-environment interaction, genomics, history of public health

Education:

• PhD, Mass Communication, Indiana University, 2012

Research Interests:

• Social Media
• User-Generated Content
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Interactivity
• Active Audience Analysis
• Mobile Communication
• Gender and Online Identity
• Prosumer Culture
• Internet of Things
• Quantitative/Qualitative Research

Bio:

Asta Zelenkauskaite earned her PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington with two minor specializations in Information Science and Linguistics. Her research focuses on the ways in which communication occurs through computer network environments as well as mobile telephony. She is interested in the changes that social media bring to mass media landscape by studying these phenomena from a multi-method approach to analyze changing understanding of content, audiences and media companies. Most of her work bridges disciplinary boundaries methodologically and conceptually through her collaborative work with computer scientists and information science scholars.

Specialization: