Samer Alatout –
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Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
Research Interests: Sociology of science and technology; Environmental
sociology; Social theories of power and the state; Politics of science, space,
and scale.
Rima Apple –
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Professor Emerita, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Ecology
Research Interests: History of motherhood; History of women's health;
History of consumer movements; History of home economics.
Bernadette Baker –
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Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: History and philosophy of knowledge; Curriculum
history
and theory; 'Post' approaches in humanities and social sciences; Transnational
curriculum inquiry; Humanities-based disability studies; Curriculum studies
and
curriculum planning.
Vicki Bier –
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Professor, Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Physics
Research Interests: Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural
products; Critical infrastructure protection; Security; Technological hazards;
Risk analysis; Decision analysis; Operations research.
Deborah Blum –
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Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Research Interests: The intersection between science and society; Ethical issues in science and in science reporting; Science journalism; Narrative and literary journalism; Investigative and watchdog journalism; Issues in international reporting.
Thomas Broman –
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Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History of Science
Research Interests: Science and medicine in the Enlightenment; the Role of science in the public sphere; 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history.
Dominique Brossard –
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Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication and School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Research Interests: Mass media and public opinion; Media effects; Strategic communication; Science communication; Health communication.
R. Alta Charo –
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Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, Law School and Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: Bioethics; Food & drug law; Health law; Legislative drafting; Reproductive rights law; Torts.
Greg Downey –
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Professor and Director, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and Professor, School of Library & Information Studies
Research Interests: History and geography of information & communication technology (especially the often hidden labor behind such technology).
Sharon Dunwoody –
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Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Research Interests: Science communication; Risk communication.
Kristin Eschenfelder –
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Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Studies
Research Interests: Social informatics digital intellectual property
(IP), specifically, access and use regimes — or the complex, multi-level networks of laws, customs, technologies and expectations that shape what information we can access and how we can make use of it.
Noah Feinstein –
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Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: Science education.
Joan Fujimura –
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Program in Science & Technology Studies
Research Interests: Sociology of science, technology, and medicine;
Genomics and society; Gender and science; Genetics, race, and medicine; Biotechnology
and society; Qualitative research methods; Theory; Gender; Sociology of culture;
Sociology of work and organizations; Japanese studies.
Ted Gerber –
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Director, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
Research Interests: Demography; Methods and statistics; Social stratification; Sociology of education.
Dan Hausman –
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Herbert A. Simon Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of economics; Causation; Contemporary
moral issues.
Jill
Harrison –
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Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
Research Interests: Agrofood studies; Environmental conflict; Environmental
justice; Immigration policies.
Linda Hogle –
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Associate Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics and Anthropology
Research Interests: Social, ethical and policy issues in transnational
medical technology innovation and medical practice, particularly regarding regenerative
medicine, biomedical engineering and medical device design; Transnational infrastructures
in stem cell research; European Union & North America.
Rick Keller –
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Associate Professor, Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: European and colonial medicine and public health;
History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis; History of the human sciences, science
and race.
Daniel Kleinman –
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Professor and Chair, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology and Director, Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies
Research Interests: Commercialization of the university and the organization
of the knowledge economy; Democracy and expertise; Agricultural biotechnology
policy.
Susan Lederer –
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Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: History of American medicine.
Maria Lepowsky –
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Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Women's Studies
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; Gender; Historical anthropology; Environmental anthropology; Exchange, ritual, medical/nutritional, psychological anthropology; History of anthropology; Oceania, New Guinea, Native California, California and the American West.
Doug Maynard –
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; General social theory; Social psychology and microsociology; Sociology of deviance, law, and social control; Sociology of gender.
Jon McKenzie – email
Associate Professor, Department of English
Research Interests: The ways in which performativity operates globally through governments, multinational corporations, and international organizations, and also how it is being engaged by networks of artists, activists, and others seeking local and global justice.
Gregg Mitman –
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William Coleman Professor of the History of Science, Professor of Medical History and Science & Technology Studies, and Director, Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Research Interests: Interests span the history of ecology, nature, and health in twentieth-century America across scientific and popular culture. Particular research areas include: History of ecology; Environment and health; 20th century life sciences; Science in America; Science and film.
Enid Montague – email
Assistant Professor and Anna Julia Cooper Fellow, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Trust in technology; Human computer interaction; Technology integration; Human factors and ergonomics; Macroergonomics; Patient safety.
Paul Nadasdy –
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in American Indian Studies
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and knowledge; Environmental/ecological
anthropology; Hunter-gatherer studies; Aboriginal people and the state; Ethnography
of the state; Politics of wildlife management; Political economy; Property and
ownership, Arctic/subarctic studies; North American anthropology; Anthropology
of Eastern Europe.
Pilar Ossorio –
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Associate Professor of Law and Medical Ethics, Law School and Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Research Interests: Intellectual property; Law & medicine; Patent
Law; Law & bioethics.
Tim
Osswald –
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Rheology Research Center and Co-Director, Polymer Engineering Center
Research Interests: Plastics design; Extrusion; Injection molding; Blow molding; Film blowing; Compression molding; Composites; Modeling and simulation in polymer processing and composites; Biopolymers; Intellectual property; Ethics.
Sarah Pfatteicher –
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Assistant Dean, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences and Research Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering education; History of ethics and
professionalism in engineering (particularly related to engineering disaster
response).
John Rudolph –
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Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: History of science education in American high schools
(specifically the role school science has played in mediating the
relationship between
institutional science and the lay public).
Jeffrey Russell –
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Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Construction management; Constructor pre-qualification and failure; Constructability; Maintainability; Innovative project delivery systems; Risk in construction; Construction automation and robotics.
Walton Schalick –
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Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics, Rehabilitation
Medicine, History of Science and Pediatrics
Research Interests: History of medieval medicine and pharmacology;
History of children with physical disabilities in 19th- and 20th-century
Europe and the US; Practical ethics of pediatric emergency research.
Eric Schatzberg –
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Associate Professor, Department of History of Science
Research Interests: History of technology; Technology and culture; Science
and technology in the postwar era.
Dietram Scheufele –
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Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Research Interests: Public opinion about science and technology; Nanotechnology;
Biotechnology; Public understanding of science.
Lawrence
Shapiro –
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Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of psychology; Cognitive
science; Philosophy of
biology.
Jennifer Sheridan – email
Executive and Research Director, WISELI (Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute)
Research Interests: The status of women in science and engineering; Occupational sex segregation; Long-term effects of childhood abuse.
Elliott Sober –
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Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.
Constance Steinkuehler – email
Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: Forms of culture and cognition in massively multiplayer online games; Informal science; Digital and print literacy; Computational literacy; Collective problem solving; Distributed apprenticeship; Pop cosmopolitanism.
Rob Streiffer –
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Associate Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics and Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics of modern biotechnology, both medical and
agricultural. Particular research areas include: Intellectual property and biotechnology;
Genetically engineered food; the Application of modern biotechnology to animals;
Use of human embryonic stem cells to create animal/human chimeras.
Jeremi Suri –
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Professor, Department of History
Research Interests: International history, Social movements, America
since 1789.
Matthew Turner –
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Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
Research Interests: Political ecology; Development theory; Politics
of conservation and conservation science; Remote sensing/GIS applications to
natural
resource
management; Pastoralism and common property theory; Ecology of
tropical savanna/steppe vegetation; Range ecology.
Claire Wendland –
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Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History & Bioethics)
Research Interests: Biomedicine in Africa; Professional education
and values; Critical medical anthropology; Cross-cultural ethics and cross-cultural
communication in medical practice; Social and cultural aspects of women's health
care.
Paul Wilson – email
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Department of Engineering Physics; Chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy (EAP) Program of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Analysis methods of isotopic inventories in nuclear systems and the implications on nuclear non-proliferation policy; The development of next generation nuclear power systems to fulfill a role in future energy policy and needs
Michael Witmore – email
Professor, Department of English
Research Interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; Early modern intellectual history; Rhetoric; Theories of narrative and interpretation; The history of materialism.