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:

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:

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sociology Harvard Medical School
• PhD, Sociology Brandeis University
• MA, Sociology Brandeis University
• BA, Philosophy Haverford College

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Sociology of health and illness
• Global and transnational health
• Reproductive health, rights and justice
• Experience of illness
• Narrative
• Visual sociology

Bio:

Susan E. Bell, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and her research specialty is the sociology of health and illness. Since the 1970s her scholarship has examined the interaction between patient cultures and embodied health movements, on the one hand, and the changing culture and structure of biomedicine on the other. In her research she investigates the experience of illness, women's health, and narrative representations of the politics of cancer, medicine, and women's bodies. She also investigates the global flow of biomedical knowledge and spatial permeability by listening to and analyzing stories constructed in interactions between immigrant patient populations and staff in U.S. hospital outpatient clinics. She teaches courses about global health and the social and cultural dimensions of health, illness and medical care as well as courses that explore social life through a visual lens.

Previously Professor Bell was Professor of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. While at Bowdoin she also taught hospital-based seminars for the Maine Humanities Council, “Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care” from 2000-2010. She served as Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2013-2014) and is a Board Member of Research Committee 38 (Biography & Society) of the International Sociological Association (2014-2018).

Specialization:

Sociology of health and illness; global and transnational health; reproductive health, rights and justice; experience of illness; narrative; visual sociology

Selected Publications:

Research Projects

• Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship, “Permeable Hospitals, Transnational Communities: A Global Hospital Ethnography in Maine,” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM June – Aug. 2013
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• Scholars Award, “Permeable Spaces and the Global Flow of Biomedical Knowledge,” STS Program, NSF, $186,201 Aug. 2012 – July 2013
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• Co-Principal Investigator, Fund to Advance the Discipline, “Zika Social Science Network: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice,” The American Sociological Association, 2016-2017
• Co-Investigator, Society & Ethics Small Grant Award. “Zika Social Science Network: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice,” The Wellcome Trust (UK), 2016-2017

Books and Journals

• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert, editors. 2015. Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements. Routledge
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• Alan Radley and Susan E. Bell, guest editors. 2011. “Another Way of Knowing: Art, Disease, and Illness Experience.” special issue of health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 15:3.
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• Susan E. Bell. 2009. DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Articles

• Susan E. Bell. 2018. “Placing care: Embodying architecture in hospital care for immigrant/refugee patients.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 40(2): 314-326.
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2012. “Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections: Looking backward, sideways and forward.” Social Science and Medicine, 75(5): 775-783.
• Mary Ellen Bell and Susan E. Bell. 2012. “What to do with all this stuff?: Memory, family, and material objects.”  Storytelling, Self, Society, 8(2): 63-84.
• Susan E. Bell. 2011. “Claiming justice: Knowing mental illness in the public art of Anna Schuleit’s ‘Habeas Corpus’ and ‘Bloom’.” health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 15(3): 313-334.
• Alan Radley and Susan E. Bell. 2007. “Artworks, collective experience, and claims for social justice: The case of women living with breast cancer.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 29(3): 366-390.

Book Chapters

• Susan E. Bell, “Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back in: Seeing Irving Kenneth Zola’s Legacy,” in Sara Green and Sharon Barnartt, eds. Research in Social Science and Disability. 9:143-158, 2017
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2015. “Moving sideways and forging ahead: Re-imagining –izations in the 21st century.” Pp. 19-40 in Bell and Figert, eds., Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics. Routledge.
• Anne E. Figert and Susan E. Bell. 2014. “Big pharma and big medicine in the global environment.” Pp. 456-470 in Daniel Kleinman and Kelly Moore, eds., Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, Routledge.
• Susan E. Bell. 2014. “Disrupting scholarship.” Pp. 119-140 in Rosanna Hertz, Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson, eds., Open to Disruption: Practicing Slow Sociology. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
• Susan E. Bell. 2013. “Seeing narratives.” Pp. 142-158 in Molly Andrews, Corrine Squire and Maria Tamboukou, eds., Doing Narrative Research, second edition. London: Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2010. “Gender and the medicalization of health care.” Pp. 107-122 in Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale, eds. Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Susan E. Bell. 2010. “Visual methods for collecting and analysing data.” Pp. 513-535 in Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Raymond DeVries, and Robert Dingwall, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research. Sage Publications.

Education:

• PhD, Emory University
• BA, MA, Jadavpur University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

Modern South Asian history, urban environmental history, legal history, maritime history, history of economic thought and Anthropocene

Bio:

Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, explores the intersection of legal and environmental history. Professor Bhattacharyya’s research is driven by the desire to understand how legal and economic structures order our conceptualization of environmental transformations and shape how we respond to climate crisis. Her book, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History. The book documents how legal experimentation through the 18th and 19th century was central to reshaping the political economy of urban land and waterscapes in the Bengal delta. Through an environmentally grounded history of the urban land market, it argues that ecological change influenced practices of land speculation, urban planning and property law and shows how marshes were transformed into speculative property in the Bengal Delta.

You can hear Professor Bhattacharyya discuss her book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (July 2020), and talk about her other research, including Urbanism at Water’s Edge: The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta (May 2020), and Empire and Ecology (July 2020).

Currently, she is a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. She is at work on her second book, Monsoon Landscapes: Credit, Climate and Calamity, about the long history of how marine insurance market’s risk apprehensions shaped weather knowledge, colonial oceanographic sciences and a derivatives market in climate futures in the Indian Ocean Region. She is a member of the Collaborative Platform of Ocean Space and an international collaborator in the Narrative Science Project, London School of Economics. Her program of research has been supported by American Institute of Indian Studies, The History Project funded by the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard University, and Social Science Research Council. She held visiting fellowships at International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History (Frankfurt) and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.

Professor Bhattacharyya’s work has been published in the Journal of Social and Economic History of the Orient; Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian Studies; Economic and Political Weekly; Global Environment and Modern Asian Studies. She is the South Asia editor for History Compass and serves on the editorial boards of Environment and History and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her writings have also appeared in The Telegraph, Amrita Bajar Patrika, n+1, The Diplomat and Somatosphere.

She offers classes on South Asian History, environmental history, legal history, urban history and climate history. She was the recipient of the 2018 CoAS Teaching Excellence Award.

Specialization:

South Asian History, Urban and Environmental Studies, Legal History, Transnational History, Postcolonial Theory, Subaltern Studies, History of Modern Economic Thought and Feminist History.

Selected Publications:

Books:

• Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, Studies in Environment and History (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Monsoon Landscapes: Credit, Climate and Calamity (in progress)

Monographs:

2018
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348867 (Indian edition February 2019; Paperback June 2019).

Selected Articles:

2020
“Indian City and its ‘Restive Publics’: A Review Essay,” Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 4 (2020), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000301(invited).

2020
“Speculation: A Concept History,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40, no. 1 (2020), 51-56. Special Issue on “Concepts of the Urban.” https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8186038

2019
“Land Dispossession in South Asia,” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian Studies. ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.189

2019
“Provincializing the History of Speculation from Colonial India,” History Compass, 17: e12517 (2019).  doi:10.1111/hic3.12517

2018
“Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal,” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient. 61, no. 5-6 (2018): 1036-73. Special Issue on “Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights and Law across Modern/Early Modern Divide.” doi:10.1163/15685209-12341466

2018
“Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta,” Global Environment 11, (2018): 236-257. Special Issue on “Environment, Disaster and Property.” doi:10.3197/ge.2018.110203

2017
“Ethics/ Reading /Sex: How do We Read?” Feminist Formations 29, no. 3 (2017): 193-7. doi:10.1353/ff.2017.0041

2016
“Hoarding Land: Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 3 (2016): 465-82. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3699007

2015

“The History of Eminent Domain in British Colonial Thought and Legal Practice in South Asia,” Economic and Political Weekly 50, no. 50 (2015): 45-53.

Selected Book Chapters:

2020

“Politics of Dwelling: Divergent Spaces in Calcutta,” Richardson Dilworth and Timothy Weaver eds. Role of Ideas in Urban Political Development, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), 202-14.

2013

“Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta” Gyanendra Pandey, ed., Unarchived Histories: The Mad and the Trifling in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (New York: Routledge, 2013), 144-58.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2006

Curriculum Vitae:

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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 a 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 and the founding director of 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, Jennifer James & Melanie Jeske. 2020. “Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences,” Engaging Science, Technology & Society, 6: 185-192. DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.389
• Kelly Joyce & Melanie Jeske. 2020. “Using Autoimmune Strategically: Diagnostic Lumping, Splitting, and the Experience of Illness,” Social Science & Medicine 246(February): DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112785
• Kelly Joyce & Melanie Jeske. 2019. "Revisiting the Sick Role: Performing Regimes of Patienthood in the 21st Century,” Sociological Viewpoints 33(1): 70-90. DOI:10.26908/3312019_016
• Kelly Joyce. 2019. “Smart Textiles: Transforming the Practice of Medicalisation and Healthcare.” Sociology of Health and Illness 41(S1): 147- 161. DOI:10.1111/1467-9566.12871.
• 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:

• Energy Justice
• Climate Change
• Feminist Political Theory
• Asthma and Air Quality
• Experimental Ethnography
• Urban Politics

Bio:

Alison Kenner is Associate Professor of Politics, with a joint appointment in the Center for Science, Technology, and Society. Her research is concerned with human-environment relations in late industrialism, particularly how people inhabit their homes, think about and experience environments, and work to create change in the world. Working in the traditions of experimental and collaborative ethnography, Kenner’s research tacks between political economy, everyday life, and the infrastructures that underpin both. Her first book, Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), documents how care is materialized at different scales -- from medication use to mobile phone apps and environmental policy – to address the U.S. asthma epidemic.

Kenner’s latest research, The Energy Rights Project, investigates energy vulnerability in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region, and looks at how organizations and government policies enable affordable access to water, electricity, and heating fuel. This project is funded by a National Science Foundation standard grant through the Science and Technology Studies Program.

Kenner’s teaching focuses on the politics of science, technology, and energy in society, and she offers courses on climate change, feminist political theory, and the politics of environmental health. Her courses are organized using feminist pedagogy, peer collaboration, and project-based learning.

Previously, Professor Kenner co-organized Climate Ready Philly with a team of nonprofit educators in Philadelphia. Between 2014-2020 she led the Philadelphia Health and Environment Ethnography Lab, which facilitated collaborative projects between Drexel students, governmental and nongovernmental partners, and community organizations.

Much of her academic work invests in the development of digital infrastructure for equitable scholarship and publishing. She is currently Associate Editor of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, an open access journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and she has been involved in the development of the Platform for Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography since 2013.

Specialization:

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

Selected Publications:

Books

Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Refereed Articles

Chloe Ahmann and Alison Kenner. 2020. “Breathing Late Industrialism.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6: 416-438.

Alison Kenner. 2020. “Scrapping the Workshop of the World: Civic Infrastructuring and the Politics of Late Industrial Governance.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6: 514-533.

Alison Kenner, Alexandra Skula, Deepa Mankikar, Ian Zimmermann, Eliza Nobles, Julia Menzo, Thomas Flaherty, and Russell Zerbo. 2020. "The Climate-Ready Home: Teaching Climate Change in the Context of Asthma Management." Environmental Justice 13(4): 101-108.

Alison Kenner, Aftab Mirzaei and Christy Spackman. 2019. “Breathing in the Anthropocene: Thinking Through Scale with Containment Technologies.” Cultural Studies Review, 25(2).

Alison Kenner. 2019. “Emplaced Care and Atmospheric Politics in Unbreathable Worlds.” Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419851347

Essays

Zakia Elliot, Alison Kenner, and Morgan Sarao. 2020. “Dumping Over Dignity: The Fight for Climate Justice and a Just Transition for Sanitation Workers.” Science for the People, 23(2): 33-35.

Alison Kenner. 2019. “STS Theory Studio.” Backchannels, Society for the Social Studies of Science, April 22.

Alison Kenner. 2019. “Pharmakon Mold.” In An Anthropogenic Table of Elements. Editor’s Forum: Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology, June 27.

Education:

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

Research Interests:

• Visual Anthropology
• Digital technologies and mediated cities
• Photography and the urban imagination
• Street photography, street fashion, and street style blogging
• DIY, amateur, and independent media
• New Media and Mediated subjectivities
• United States and Southeast Asia

Bio:

Brent Luvaas is a visual and socio-cultural anthropologist interested in digital technologies and their impacts on creative practice and everyday urban experience. 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), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. Visit his personal website and see his visual work at brentluvaas.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:

• The Anthropology of Dress and Fasion: A Reader (editor, with Joanne Eicher) London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Street Style Geographies: Re-Mapping the Fashion Blogipelago, in International Journal of Fashion Studies 5(2): 289-308, 2018.
• Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style, in Fashion Studies 1(1): 1-20, 2018.
• Unbecoming: The Aftereffects of Autoethnography, in Ethnography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1466138117742674?ai=1gvoi&=3ricys&af=R, 2017.
• The Affective Lens, in Anthropology & Humanism 42(2): 163-179, 2017.
• What Does a Fashion Influencer Look Like? Portraits of the Instafamous, in Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture 4(3): 341-364, 2017.
• Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Internet Famous in Real Life: Becoming a Street Style Star at New York Fashion Week, in Cultural Anthropology 31(2) online edition, 2016.
• Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style, in Fashion Theory, 17(1): 55-76, 2013.
• Shooting Street Style in Indonesia: A Photo Essay, in Clothing Cultures 1(1): 59-81, 2013.
• Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand, in Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 127-143, 2013.
• Exemplary Centers and Musical Elsewheres: Performing Authenticity and Autonomy in Indonesian Indie Music, in Asian Music 44(2): 95-114, 2013.
• Third World No More: Re-Branding Indonesian Streetwear, in Fashion Practice 5(2): 203-228, 2013.
• DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, London and New York: Berg, 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.

Specialization:

• inequality and status hierarchy
• innovation and entrepreneurship
• organization theory
• social networks
• sociology of China

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
• MS, Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
• BA, Politics and Environmental Studies, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, 2008

Research Interests:

• Environmental Sociology
• Political Economy
• Place and Space
• Rural-Urban Interface
• Qualitative and historical methodologies

Bio:

Amanda McMillan Lequieu, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches courses related to Environmental Sociology, as well as the department’s introductory course.

McMillan Lequieu is an environmental sociologist of work and home. Her qualitative research interrogates the relationship between the mobility of natural resource capital and the relative stability of social life. Specifically, she is interested in how working-class communities impacted by natural resource economies (broadly understood) adapt to globalizing economies and changing environments across rural and urban contexts. She is currently working on a book project about the long-term residents of post-industrial iron and steel communities.

Prior to coming to Drexel, she was a Visiting Scholar at both the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center for the Study of Instability in Society. She has received awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on Environmental Sociology and Public Sociology, the Society for the Study of Social Problem’s Labor and Community Development Networks, and the Rural Sociological Society.

Specialization:

Environmental sociology, political economy, place and space, rural-urban interface, qualitative and historical methodologies

Selected Publications:

• McMillan Lequieu, A. “'We made the choice to stick it out': Negotiating a stable home in the rural, American Rust Belt.” Journal of Rural Studies 53, pgs. 202-213, 2017.
• McMillan Lequieu, A. “Keeping the farm in the family name: Patrimonial narratives and negotiations among German-heritage farmers,” March 2015, Rural Sociology 80(1), pgs. 39-59, 2015.

Book Chapters:

• McMillan Lequieu, A. “The everyday sociological imagination: Co-creating new knowledge through story and radio,” In Routledge International Handbook on Public Sociology. L. Hossfeld, B. Kelly, and C. Hossfeld (Editors). Routledge: NY, 2019.
• McMillan Lequieu, A. and M. M. Bell. “Power, politics, and rurality.” In Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. M. Scott, N. Gallent and M. Gkartzios (Editors). Routledge: NY., 2018.

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, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
• MS, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
• BA, Humanities Honors and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Urban and Community Sociology
• Sexualities Studies
• Qualitative Methodologies
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• Social Psychology
• Social Theory

Bio:

Jason Orne, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses related to urban sociology, as well as the department's introductory course. His book "Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago" was published with University of Chicago Press. Boystown examines the importance of sex to queer male communities and the transformation of gay enclave neighborhoods, “gayborhoods.”

He currently is working on two related projects. The first project examines racial disparities in PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and how they relate to urban patterns of consumption in bars, clubs, and the unique sexual networks, “sexy communities,” he described in his earlier work. The second project studies the social experience of inebriation within communities with high rates of alcohol abuse, as in queer male communities, and how regulations like liquor laws shape these experiences.

He specializes in qualitative methods, including interviewing, focus groups and ethnography. Before joining Drexel's faculty, he co-founded the academic consulting firm, Qualitative Health Research Consultants, which collaborates with medical and public health faculty on the qualitative components of nationally-funded research.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Orne, Jason. 2017. Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
• Orne, Jason and Michael M. Bell. 2015. "An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach". Routledge: New York.
• Orne, Jason. 2013. “Queers in the Line of Fire: Goffman’s Stigma Revisited.” The Sociological Quarterly. 54(2): 229–253.

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

Bio:

Sharrona Pearl, PhD, is an associate professor of Medical Ethics in the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions' Department of Health Administration,  and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Science, Technology and Society and the Department of History, in the Drexel College of Arts and Sciences. A historian and theorist of the body and face, Pearl researches the relationship between the face and how we perceive people.

Specialization:

• Science studies
• history of science and medicine
• critical race, gender, and disability studies
• media studies

Education:

• PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2017
• MA, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2013
• BA, Asian American Studies, University of California at Irvine, 2004
• BA, Political Science, University of California at Irvine, 2004

Research Interests:

African American History; History of Medicine; History of Psychiatry; Urban History; 20^th Century US History; History of Racial Capitalism; History of Sexuality

Bio:

My current research brings together discourses of feminist, queer, and disability studies with political economy, Black studies, and Latinx studies to investigate the history of King-Drew Medical Center, an iconic public hospital built in Los Angeles after the 1965 Watts Uprising. Originally conceived as a vehicle for black medical and economic inclusion, King-Drew piloted a slew of new health institutions -- academic medical centers, comprehensive health clinics, community mental health centers, emergency rooms, and medically underserved areas. My current book manuscript project, tentatively titled “Policing Health: Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986,” demonstrates, however, that local city and medical authorities became complicit in building of new “non-medical” institutions such as a modern skid row, expanded prisons, and enlarged police forces to accommodate Los Angeles’ changing global landscape.

I am also interested in how changing patient demographics after the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid shaped the recruitment and teaching pedagogy of U.S. medical and graduate medical programs after 1965. My second project thus focuses on how certain forms of recruitment and pedagogical strategies taking root elsewhere on U.S. campuses through the form of Ethnic Studies programs were shifted and transformed in U.S. medical education to similar but different ends.

Prior to Drexel University, I was involved with the Race and Medicine Working Group as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race in Science and Medicine, a fellowship supported by the Department of Africana Studies, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Cogut Institute of the Humanities.

At Drexel, I teach a range of courses on the History of Policing, History of Medicine, LGBT History, African American History, and Urban History.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Ramos, Nic John. Article. “Poor Influences and Criminal Locations: Los Angeles’ Skid Row, Multicultural Identities, and Normal Homosexuality” in American Quarterly (72:2) June, 2019, 541-567.
• Ramos, Nic John. Article. “Twenty Years of ‘Punks’: Introduction to GLQ’s Celebration of Cathy Cohen’s ‘Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens’” Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ) January, 2019 (25:1), 137-140.
• Ramos, Nic John. Article. “Pathologizing the Crisis: Psychiatry, Policing, and Racial Liberalism in the Long Community Mental Health Movement.” Special Issue in Honor of Gerald Grob, Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, edited by Kathleen Jones and Nancy Tomes January, 2019 (74:1) 57-84.
• Ramos, Nic John. Article. “Towards an Epistemology of Prince.” Journal of Popular Music Studies. December, 2014 (26:4) 431-446.

Digital Publications and Public Scholarship

• Ramos, Nic John. “Solving our urban crisis involves addressing hospitals in addition to policing” in The Washington Post, Made By History. Published June 1, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/01/solving-our-urban-crisis-involves-addressing-hospitals-addition-policing/
• Ramos, Nic John and Laura Garbes. “Behind the Podcast: Deconstructing scenes from AFRI 0550, African American Health Activism” in Sounding Out! A Sound Studies Blog. Published November 25, 2019 https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/11/25/so-podcast-79-behind-the-podcast-deconstructing-scenes-from-afri0550-african-american-health-activism/

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:

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

Research Interests:

Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political 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:

Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

Education:

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

Curriculum Vitae:

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.

Bio:

Kristene Unsworth, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies at Drexel University. She received her PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington in 2010. Her research centers on information justice, which includes the ethics of data access and use as well as policy development that addresses the equitable use of information across society. She was co-Principle Investigator for a National Science Foundation research project on the Ethics of Algorithms [NSF EESE1338205], which included case study design for ethics education in computer science and engineering. Currently, she is collaborating in the development of a curriculum for the Justice Informatics program that focuses on the intersections between information technology, people and justice.

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.

Zelenkauskaite is also affiliated with the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Zelenkauskaite, A. (2018). Value of user-generated content: Perceptions and practices regarding social and mobile media in two Italian radio stations. Journal of Radio and Audio Media.
• Zelenkauskaite, A. (2017). From talking to the radio to talking through the radio: Addressee analysis of mobile texting. Discourse, Context & Media, 18, 11-19. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.04.001
• Zelenkauskaite, A., & Balduccini, M. (2017). “Information warfare” and online news commenting:
Analyzing forces of social influence through location-based user-commenting typology framework. Social media + Society, (3)3. 1-10. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2056305117718468
• Zelenkauskaite, A. & Niezgoda, B. (2017). “Stop Kremlin trolls:” Ideological trolling as calling out,
rebuttal, and reactions on online news portal commenting. First Monday: Peer reviewed journal on the Internet. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.7795
• Zelenkauskaite, A., (2016). Remediation, convergence, and Big Data: Conceptual Limits of Cross Platform Social Media. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 1-16. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/1354856516631519