Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profiles

Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade-Downs
Lecturer, Energy and Resources Group
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Email: renataad@berkeley.edu

Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade-Downs lectures environmental history of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Energy and Resources Group, and California Water Seminar at the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department at UC Berkeley and is currently preparing a manuscript on the subject of culture, science, nature and power in Northeast Brazil since colonial times. Her work situates environmental and social changes in landscapes at the intersection of energy, fisheries/aquaculture and water politics, and the cultural and environmental aspects of traditional coomunities, such as small-scale peasant-fishers, and draws on theories from the disciplines of environmental history, history of science, cultural and environmental anthropology, discourse analysis and science and technology studies.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/people/faculty/andrade_downs.shtml



Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Director Emeritus, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
Email: bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

Ruzena Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Berkeley. She is also director of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science.

Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bajcsy/



David Bates
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Email: dwbates@berkeley.edu

David Bates' current project explores the problem of "human insight" in the rationalist tradition. He is particularly interested in rhetorical conceptions of knowledge in Enlightenment scientific epistemology, in logic and science in 19th-century thought, and in theories of insight at the intersections of 20th-century psychology, philosophy of science, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence research.

Website: http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/



Philippe Bourgois
Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: bourgois@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Philippe Bourgois is writing a book with the photographer Jeff Schonberg on the daily life of homeless heroin injectors based on ten years of participant ethnographic fieldwork in San Francisco, entitled Righteous Dopefiend. Funded as an HIV prevention initiative, the work critically engages epidemiological and public health approaches to drug research to develop a "theory of abuse" that links social structural power relations and disciplinary practices (including drug policy, public health, social services, law enforcement, neo-liberal labor markets, and domestic violence) to the everyday social suffering of indigent addicts. He is also continuing long-term work on the experience of violence (political, structural, symbolic and intimate) among former Salvadoran guerrilla fighters and their children who have migrated to California as undocumented day laborers.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/bourgois_philippe.aspx



Clair Brown
Professor, Department of Economics
Chair, Center for Work, Technology and Society, Institute of Industrial Relations
Email: cbrown@econ.berkeley.edu

Clair Brown has published research on many aspects of the labor market, including unemployment, labor market institutions, the standard of living, and firm employment systems and firm performance. The industries she has studied include semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and automobiles. She is the author of American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 (Blackwell, 1994) and the editor of Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing: Human Resources Analysis (University of California, Berkeley, Fall 1997). Prof. Brown is currently writing a book on innovation and the management of technology in the 21st century and is extending her work on standards of living.

Website: http://iir.berkeley.edu/faculty/brown/index.html



Cathryn Carson
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, Office for History of Science and Technology
Email: clcarson@berkeley.edu

Cathryn Carson works on the history of the physical sciences, broadly defined and mostly since World War II. Her first project dealt with the physicist Heisenberg as an indicator for the changing public role of science in Germany since 1945. She has begun a second project on the history of the science behind nuclear waste management, and she has long-term interests in the history of research administration, including in universities like Berkeley.

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Carson/



James Casey
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Email: jcasey@me.berkeley.edu

James Casey is interested in the history of mechanics, elasticity, fluid mechanics, plasticity, and continuum mechanics, and in the history of civil and mechanical engineering generally.

Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/casey/



Urs Cipolat
Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Field
Email: cipolat@yahoo.com

Urs Cipolat is a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field, College of Letters and Science. His areas of interest and teaching include "The notion of progress" and "Science, Technology and Values." He has been teaching classes for undergraduate students on both topics, with guest lecturers from various disciplines.

Website: http://learning.berkeley.edu/cipolat



Adele E. Clarke
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: Adele.Clarke@ucsf.edu

Adele Clarke's research centers on social, cultural and historical studies of science, technology and medicine with emphases on biomedicalization and common medical technologies such as contraception and the Pap smear. She is the author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' (University of California Press, 1998). She also co-edited a volume focused on scientific practice titled The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences (Princeton University Press, 1992, in French by Synthelabo Press, 1996). In women's health, Dr. Clarke co-edited Women's Health: Complexities and Diversities (Ohio State University Press, 1997) and Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Cultural, Feminist and Technoscience Perspectives (Routledge, 1999). Clarke's book on qualitative research and analysis is just out from Sage (2005), titled Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Her current project takes up the history of biomedicalization and globalization by focusing on how medicines have traveled since the early twentieth century.

Website: http://www.ucsf.edu/medsoc/bios/aclarke.html



Lawrence Cohen
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Email: cohen@berkeley.edu

Lawrence Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Medical Anthropology Program. Since 1993 he has been studying the relation between sex and understandings of political and market forms in north India, along with a linked study of relations between science and cosmopolitanism in the constitution of the emergent gay social movement in urban north India. His 1998 book No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things uses a study of the constitution of senility as a problem to think about the use of the family in the making of postcolonial social science. Since 1998, Cohen has been studying the surgical operation as a political form over the past century, focusing on the cases of transplantation, sterilization, sex-change, and cataract removal.

Website: http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/cohen.html



Marianne Constable
Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Email: constable@berkeley.edu

Marianne Constable teaches in the Department of Rhetoric. Her work focuses on legal rhetoric (she has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy as well as a J.D.) and she is active in the field of law and society. Her current projects include co-editing an undergraduate textbook entitled Troubling Information: News of a Difference in Technology, Law, and Culture. She will be away in 2005-2006, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, but can be contacted via e-mail.

Website: http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/marianne_constable.html



Frederick M. Dolan
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Email: fmdolan@berkeley.edu

Frederick M. Dolan teaches in the areas of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. He studied and taught for several years in Irvine, New York, Princeton, and Paris, and earned his Ph.D. from the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. His primary interests are the relationship of modern political theory to the philosophical tradition and its critics, modernity and post-modernity, the worldly dimensions of imaginative literature, Western religious and spiritual discourses, American political theory, philosophy, literature, film, hermeneutics, and aesthetics (he has an M.F.A. from UC Irvine).

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fmdolan



Brian Dolan
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: dolanb@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Brian Dolan has taught a wide range of courses providing historical perspectives on: biology and evolutionary thought, environmentalism, disease classification, and doctor-patient relationships, as well as general survey courses on early-modern and modern European social history. He has researched and published numerous articles on topics in the history of science, technology and medicine including: the history of scientific publishing, illustration and teaching; the history of chemistry and scientific instrumentation; and the relations between environmental and occupational health debates. He has mainly concentrated on case studies in Britain, France, and Sweden. Most recently he has written on computer-aided diagnosis and the impact of new imaging technologies on the radiology profession in late 20th-century medical practice. Presently, he is conducting research for a book on the history of medical perceptions of the lungs and is the Principal Investigator on a project to develop a major website dedicated to the history of medical imaging technologies, concentrating on the second-half of the 20th century, in collaboration with UCSF's oral history program. He is also the Chair of the History of Science Society's Committee on Education and a member of the advisory committee for the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/dolan_brian.aspx



John Douglass
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Email: douglass@berkeley.edu

John Douglass currently serves as the director of the UC History Digital Archives (UCHDA), and is a co-PI on a new UC-wide undergraduate academic experience study (SERU21). He is pursuing a number of projects focused on California higher education policy issues and the role of higher education in economic development. He is also working toward a book on US science policy as a component of economic policy, and a comparative study of other OECD countries.

Website: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/jdouglass/biography.html



Daniel Farber
Sato Sho Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law
Email: dfarber@law.berkeley.edu

Daniel Farber's major research areas are environmental law and constitutional law. Within environmental law, his interests include how to make tradeoffs between cost and environmental quality, how to make regulatory decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty, and how to take into account the interests of future generations.

Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=1141



Alex Farrell
Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Email: aef@berkeley.edu

Alex Farrell's primary research interest is in improving our understanding of the environmental and social aspects of energy systems, and in the development of energy systems that support the world we desire to live in. He is particularly interested in better characterizing environmental impacts of energy production and transformation, especially air pollution and greenhouse gases, and in the economic, political, and other social aspects of energy systems with reduced environmental impacts. He also has a general interest in the social processes by which energy and environmental policy is created and implemented, and the outcomes that result from such policy choices. This includes a specific interest in understanding how to improve the use of scientific and engineering information in policy-making.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/Pages/afarrell.html



Jerome Feldman
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Email: feldman@cs.berkeley.edu

Jerome Feldman has been working for some years on related problems in the STSC area. One applied project is the Berkeley Center for the Information Society (BCIS). The Berkeley Center for the Information Society is a research center focused on the social impact of the information technology revolution. BCIS has also started a supplementary grant to support UC Berkeley students researching topics in Technology and Society. A more general effort is the attempt to build a computational environment for Cooperative organization and activity. The Communities of Practice Environment (CoPE) is a novel software platform for supporting cooperative effort among formal and informal groups of people who may be separated in time, space, and language.

Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfeldman



Louise Fortmann
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development
Chair, ESPM, Division of Society and Environment
Email: fortmann@nature.berkeley.edu

Louise Fortmann's research is on the politics and practice of participatory research. It is part of her larger interest on the democratization of science. Her current work approaches the question of the democratization of science through the lens of the practice and politics of participatory research. Presently she is collaborating with conventional biophysical and social scientists who have done successful (in their minds) participatory research. Their account of the research process and outcome is compared with that of the participating civil scientists.

Website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/espm/directory/fac/fortmann_l.html



Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: fourcade@berkeley.edu

Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas is interested in how political cultures and institutions constitute how individuals in different countries understand what they do and who they are. She is currently completing a book on the historical trajectories and transformations of economics as a discipline and profession in the United States, Great Britain and France since the end of the nineteenth century, Economists and Societies. Other work deals with transitions to neo-liberal economic policies in Europe and Latin America (with Sarah Babb), and varying forms of civic engagement and political strategies across nations (with Evan Schofer).

Professor Fourcade-Gourinchas' new research, tentatively titled Price and Prejudice: An Inquiry into the Social Construction of Value continues her long-standing interest for the social construction of economic representations across nations. Through an in-depth study of the valuation of ecological damage in two landmark pollution cases in France and the United States, this work seeks to analyze the cultural and technological dimensions of the relationship between subjective valuation and objective (monetary) valuation.

Website: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/FOURCADE-GOURINCHAS/



Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies
Director, Center for Race and Gender
Email: englenn@berkeley.edu

Evelyn Nakano Glenn's teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary methods, political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. Her articles have appeared such journals as Social Problems, Signs, Feminist Studies, Social Science History, Stanford Law Review, Contemporary Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economy, as well as in numerous edited volumes. She is the author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (Temple University Press), Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (Routledge), and Unequal Freedom, How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizen and Labor (Harvard University Press).

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/aas/glenn.html
and http://crg.berkeley.edu



Kenneth Goldberg
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Email: goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu

Kenneth Goldberg is the series Director of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium, the monthly lecture series that brings together artists, scientists, scholars, curators, students, faculty, and the public to discuss contemporary issues at the intersection of digital media, emerging technologies, and aesthetic expression, and how these issues impact our culture.

Website: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg



Deborah R. Gordon
Research Specialist, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine
Email: dgordon@itsa.ucsf.edu

Deborah Gordon’s research career has focused on the social and cultural infrastructure of models and practices of science, biomedicine, nursing, and bioethics in sites in the USA and Italy (e.g., Biomedicine Examined, co-edited with M Lock, l988). Working at a Cancer Center in Florence, Italy from 1984—2001, she conducted research on disclosure practices, palliative care (Narrazione e la fine della Vita, Franco Angeli, 2000), and responses to the new genetics and cancer genetic risk (in particular breast cancer) in various European countries and the USA. Her current relevant projects include: 1) “Engaging Tuscans in Italy in the Haplotype Map Project,” (NIH funded) in Florence Italy, a participatory/critical study of the Hapmap Project’s effort to produce ethical blood for studies of human diversity; and 2) the political uses of epidemiological science and technology in occupational health and cardiovascular disease.



Roger Hahn
Professor, Department of History
Email: rhahn@berkeley.edu

Roger Hahn is engaged in making a critical edition of Laplace's unpublished manuscripts dealing with his criticism of established religion (Christianity) given the contradictory information contained in the New Testament regarding miracles. The problem his rejection of revealed religion poses for him is by what mechanism the mind acts on the body, more generally how the spiritual and material realms are connected. A second research interest is the development of mathematical theories of elasticity and plasticity in the 19th century. Professor Hahn has a third concern with the attempts of secular rational thinkers like Henri La Fontaine and George Sarton to link science with pacifism, particularly at the time of World War I.

During the Summer of 2000, Professor Hahn organized a week-long International Summer School for History of Science on the Berkeley campus on the subject of "Science and High Technology in the 20th century." Over 50 individuals, mostly advanced graduate students from Europe and North America, attended and heard lectures from a panel of experts and visited sights in Silicon Valley and the biotech industry. The School is part of an on-going series of summer programs organized by the Office for History of Science and Technology in Berkeley, and the Universities of Bologna, Paris, and Uppsala.

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Hahn



Bronwyn H. Hall
Professor, Department of Economics
Email: bhhall@econ.berkeley.edu

Bronwyn Hall has published articles on the economics and econometrics of technical change in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, and Research Policy. Her current research includes comparative analysis of the U.S. and European patent systems, the use of patent citation data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level investment and innovation studies (the G-7 economies), measuring the returns to R&D and innovation at the firm level, analysis of technology policies such as R&D subsidies and tax incentives, and of recent changes in patenting behavior in the software and ICT sectors. She has also made substantial contributions to applied social science research via the creation of software for econometric estimation and of firm-level datasets for the study of innovation, including the widely used NBER dataset for U.S. patents. Professor Hall also runs a graduate seminar on innovation, together with Prof David Mowery of the Haas Business School.

Website: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/bhhall/index.html



Jodi Halpern
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Joint Medical Program
Email: jhalpern@berkeley.edu

Jodi Halpern uses philosophical methods to analyze concepts at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. She has focused on complex interpersonal barriers to genuine empathy in her book From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001) and in more recent papers, including a paper on social reconciliation after mass trauma. She is currently engaged in a fundamental critique of existing models of health decision-making that presume that people can predict their future emotional states under varying health conditions. For example, recent papers in this area focus on how bioethical ideals of autonomy fail to take into account how emotions like fear influence critical medical decisions.

Website: http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/halpern.htm



Gary Handman
Director, Media Resources Center
Email: ghandman@library.berkeley.edu

Gary Handman writes and publishes extensively on subjects related to media librarianship and curatorship. His primary work involves building and curating one of the largest video collections in a US academic library. He is intensively involved in developing resources and programs that assist students in becoming information-literate in their particular disciplines. His particular areas of subject expertise are in film studies, mass communications, new media, and popular culture. He is additionally involved in working with faculty to build curricula that include many of the rich resources within the Media Center and the library.

Website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC



Donna Haraway
Professor, Department of History of Consciousness
Email: haraway@ucsc.edu

Donna Haraway teaches feminist theory, science studies, and animal studies at The History of Consciousness Department at The University of California at Santa Cruz. Her current research explores the ties between human beings and other animals. She is at work on Notes of a Sports Writer’s Daughter, a popular book about the people and dogs who play the sport of agility, and When Species Meet: Encounters in Dogland. This book examines health and genetics practices; competitive sports; relations between commodity value and other kinds of value; training practices; questions about love and violence; and needed conversations between behavioral and evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, and philosophers about the relationships between human beings and dogs in the contemporary United States.

Website: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/histcon/faculty_haraway.htm



Gillian Hart
Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Major in Development Studies
Chair of Undergraduate Major in Development Studies
Email: hart@berkeley.edu

Gillian Hart's work is deeply informed by Gramsci's challenge: how do we steer a course between the economism that "only one thing is possible" and the voluntarism that "anything is possible" so as to illuminate concrete possibilities for social change? In grappling with this question, she has paid particular attention to how in-depth ethnographic studies and what she calls relational comparisons can do critical work, both analytically and politically. Professor Hart began her academic career doing battle with economistic and Eurocentric understandings of agrarian change in Java, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. Questions of gender and power figure prominently in this work. More recent research is in her native South Africa, where she has traced divergent post-apartheid dynamics in two towns and adjacent townships, and their connections with East Asia. In Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (University of California Press, 2002) she draws on this work to engage critically with discourses of "globalization," and explore alternatives to neoliberalism. Professor Hart has also become increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of journalism, contributing to debates over the future of post-apartheid South Africa in a series of newspaper articles.

Website: http://geography.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/G_Hart.html



John Harte
Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Email: jharte@berkeley.edu

John Harte's research focuses on the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, and climate. This work spans a range of scales, from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field manipulation experiments, the analysis of patterns in nature, and mathematical modeling. Two specific current goals are to understand the extent to which ecosystem responses to climate change may result in feedbacks to climate that can either ameliorate or exacerbate global warming, and to develop, test, and apply to conservation issues, a general theory of the scaling properties of the distribution and abundance of species. The overarching goal of his work is to understand the interdependence of human well-being and the health of ecosystems.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/people/faculty/harte.shtml



Corine Hayden
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: cphayden@berkeley.edu

Corine Hayden's general areas of research and teaching include the anthropology of science, primarily in the Americas; kinship, gender, and sexuality; and postcolonial science studies. She has written on north-south pharmaceutical prospecting collaborations When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2003). She is now working on a project tentatively titled (Re)distribution, which tracks how pharmaceutical and bioscience politics and practice are reconfiguring relations between the private and the public good, focusing on recent campaigns for access to medicines/generic drugs in Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/hayden.html



David Hollinger
Professor and Chair, Department of History
Email: davidhol@berkeley.edu

David Hollinger's science-related engagements focus primarily on the construction and political-cultural uses of theories of science in the United States since the Darwinian controversy. This has been a theme in his Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (1975) and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996) and in a number of articles and conference papers. He is currently interested in the ways in which frankly non-scientific and ostensibly scientific conceptions of "race" are competing for attention and being put to a variety of political uses. Professor Hollinger offers several historically based arguments concerning this highly contested and policy-relevant terrain in the Winter 2005 issue of Daedalus in an essay entitled "The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule."

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Hollinger/



Ernest B. Hook
Professor, School of Public Health
Email: ebhook@berkeley.edu

Ernest B. Hook's research interests in the STS field include the history of medicine and related topics in the history of biology, inferences from the history of developments in STS pertinent to the philosophy of science, the social contexts of scientific discoveries, and what if anything one can infer about past social attitudes to diseases -- specifically "non-monstrous" births -- from surviving "fiction" in the absence of other evidence. He has published on these topics in Teratology, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and The Journal of the History of Biology and edited the volume Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect (University of California Press, 2002). He teaches courses in the School of Public Health on the history of medicine and public health and organizes occasional seminars on "Patterns of Discovery."

Website: http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/hook.htm



Sally Smith Hughes
Academic Specialist, Regional Oral History Office
Email: shughes@library.berkeley.edu

Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D., is an Academic Specialist in History of Science in the Regional Oral History Office at The Bancroft Library. She has conducted close to 150 archival quality oral histories for the Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies, which she directs and which reflects the areas of her research interests. She is the author of The Virus: A History of the Concept (Heinemann, 1977) and "Making Dollars out of DNA: The First Major Patent in Biotechnology and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology, 1974-1980," Isis 2001, 92:541-575.

Website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/biosci



Alastair Iles
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Co-director, The Science, Technology and Society Center
Email: iles@nature.berkeley.edu

In brief, his research and teaching objectives are: To develop research on the intersections of science, technology and environment that contributes to public policy, community welfare, environmental justice and increased democracy in societal governance; To encourage undergraduate and graduate students to develop a critical understanding of, and the ability to participate eventually in helping shape, STE developments; and To promote service-oriented education in which students and faculty collaborate with community organizations, policy-makers, leading companies and other actors to generate enduring social change.

Website: http://cnr.berkeley.edu/ileslab/



Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Assistant Professor, Department of Demography
Email: johnsonhanks@demog.berkeley.edu

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks' work focuses on the relationship between population rates and social processes, particularly those related to marriage and childbearing in West and Central Africa. She is interested in the quotidian practices of family making as they can be understood ethnographically, and in how these quotidian practices aggregate into demographic facts. Her first book looks at how educated Cameroonian women manage the social timing of their entry into motherhood, in negotiating sexual relationships, contraception and abortion, and child fosterage. She is currently developing a new field project on the role of sexual and reproductive intentions in shaping rates of childbearing in Burkina Faso.

Website: http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~johnsonhanks/



Daniel M. Kammen
Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Professor, Department of Public Policy
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
Email: kammen@berkeley.edu

Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Through the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Kammen works with faculty colleagues, several postdoctoral fellows, and roughly 20 doctoral students on a wide range of science, engineering, economics and policy projects related to energy science, engineering and the environment. The focus of his work is on the science and policy of clean, renewable energy systems, energy efficiency, the role of energy in national energy policy, international climate debates, and the use and impacts of energy sources and technologies on development, particularly in Africa and Latin America.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kammen/



William Kastenberg
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Email: kastenbe@nuc.berkeley.edu

William E. Kastenberg is currently the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Kastenberg teaches courses in risk assessment and risk management, ethics and the impact of technology on society, and nuclear reactor safety. Professor Kastenberg's research interests include the development and application of risk assessment and risk management methods for complex technological and natural systems. More recently, he has focused on ethical issues concerning the development of new technologies (e.g. biotechnology, nanoscale science and technology, nuclear technology and information technology), multi-stakeholder decision making and on the quantification of uncertainty. He is also developing a new approach to educating undergraduate engineering students, which is called "A Humanistic Approach to Undergraduate Engineering Education."

Website: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/kastenberg.htm



Sharon Kaufman
Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Professor, Institute for Health and Aging
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Email: sharon.kaufman@ucsf.edu

Sharon Kaufman is Professor of Medical Anthropology (in Residence) in the Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. She has several lines of inquiry: 1) identity and how it is produced, contested and negotiated, for example, among the very old, frail and demented, in the context of illness, within health care bureaucracy, and for persons who are neither “dead” nor “alive” but are maintained by medical technologies; and at the site of cultural formations of “old age,” “the person,” and “the human.” 2) the culture of medicine, including the evolution of goals, values, ethics in medical practice and research; the ways in which health care delivery systems and biotechnologies are changing understandings of “illness,” “the patient,” “life extension” and “life enhancement;” the relationship of clinical practice to biomedical research; the changing nature of medical responsibility and the doctor-patient relationship; the discursive biomedical enterprise as one source of subjectification. 3) the ways in which cultural narratives and rhetoric -- about individualism, dignity and suffering for example --can be used to think about the boundaries of the moral and the practical in medicine, and how they operate as “background” assumptions through which individual stories and societal discourses are lived, constructed, and told. 4) the anthropology of “life itself,” that is, the fact that all kinds of life forms (such as, the gene, the stem cell, the embryo, the fetus, the disabled, the comatose, the demented, the old) are culturally malleable and negotiable, the result of scientific manipulation, market pressures, commodification and political debate, and the ways in which medical, legal, religious and commercial forces are brought to bear on the meaning and value of those life forms.

Website: http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/iha/faculty/kaufman.htm



Ann Keller
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Email: annk@berkeley.edu

Ann Keller is an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and received her Ph.D. in political science from Berkeley. Her research focuses on the use of scientific and technical expertise in public decision making. She has published in the Public Administration Review on the question of institutional stability in managing long-lasting, hazardous wastes. Her work on the political frames operating in the debate surrounding weapons plutonium disposition appears in The Non-Proliferation Review. Currently, Keller is working on a book manuscript that examines scientists' participation in the policy-making processes for acid rain and climate change. In a related study, she is researching organizational strategies for maintaining credibility and relevance in applying scientific expertise to political decision-making. Recently, she has begun a study of the development and maintenance of expertise at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the face of shifting trends in national morbidity and mortality. Her teaching areas include environmental politics and health policy in the United States; public administration and organization theory; and science and technology policy.

Website: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hptp/rwjf_past.htm#AK



Todd R. La Porte
Professor, Department of Political Science
Email: tlaporte@socrates.berkeley.edu

Todd La Porte teaches in the areas of organization theory, technology and politics and the organizational and decision making dynamics of large, complex, technologically intensive organizations, and the problems of governance in a technological society. His research concerns the evolution of large-scale organizations operating technologies demanding very high level of operating reliable (nearly failure free) performance across a number of management generations, and the relationship of large-scale technical systems to political legitimacy. This took him to Los Alamos National Laboratory examining the institutional challenges of multi-generation nuclear missions. More recently, he has been drawn into questions of crisis management.

Website: http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/Faculty/bio/permanent/LaPorte,T/



Ann Lage
Principal Interviewer, Regional Oral History Office
Email: alage@library.berkeley.edu

Ann Lage directs oral history projects and conducts research interviews in the fields of disability history, university history, and environmental protection and natural resource management in California and the West. Since 1996, she has directed the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which has completed more than one hundred in-depth oral histories with Bay Area and national disability leaders and participants, available on line along with associated archival documents in the California Digital Library. She is currently bringing together her interests in disability issues, university governance, and state government, working to launch a collaborative program of education, research, and documentation on the California's Stem Cell Research Initiative, the scientific research it funds, and the political, economic, and ethical contexts of the undertaking.

Website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/



Thomas Laqueur
Professor, Department of History
Email: tlaqueur@berkeley.edu

Thomas Laqueur's research interests include various topics in the history of medicine and in the cultural history of biology more generally; most recent relevant publications include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Solitary Sex, A Cultural History of Masturbation and various articles on the history of sexuality and medicine, the good death, the market in blood, smoking, autopsies and recent human rights activism.

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Laqueur/



John Lie
Dean, International and Area Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: johnlie@berkeley.edu

John Lie's research interests are broadly in social theory and political economy. His next two books are on violence and on scholarly communication, both of which entail engagement with historical and social scientific works on science and technology.

Website: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/LIE/
and http://ias.berkeley.edu/general/deanbio.html



Kristin Luker
Professor, Boalt School of Law
Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: luker@berkeley.edu

Kristin Luker is Professor of Sociology and a professor in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall School of Law. She is the author of many scholarly articles, as well as three books: Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (1975), Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984) and Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996). She is currently at work on her fourth book, tentatively entitled Bodies and Politics, which is about sex education controversies in the United States. Professor Luker has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, and was invited to the White House by President Clinton to discuss issues of politics and social policy. She has been awarded grants from the Spencer and Ford Foundations, as well as the Commonwealth Fund, and has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Website: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/LUKER/



Stephen Maurer
Acting Director, Information Technology and Homeland Security Project
Email: maurer@econ.berkeley.edu

Stephen Maurer is the Acting Director for the Information Technology and Homeland Security Project. The Goldman School's Project on Information Technology and Homeland Security ("ITHS") uses social science to analyze grand challenge problems facing information technology and homeland security. Current initiatives include (a) working with UCB, UCSF, and Duke colleagues to adapt open source methods to drug discovery for developing world diseases, (b) working with LLNL colleagues to study WMD terrorism, (c) using modern innovation economics to design R&D strategies for procuring technologies (e.g. bioweapons vaccines, drugs for neglected diseases) where patent incentives are inadequate.

Website: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/maurer.htm



Maryanne McCormick
Associate Director of Policy and Outreach, Senior Attorney - Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Email: mmccormick@law.berkeley.edu

Maryanne McCormick joins Boalt School of Law from the Molecular Sciences Institute, an interdisciplinary genomics research laboratory where she was Counsel and Director of Outreach. Prior to MSI, she spent over a decade at the intersection of technology and public policy, serving in the office of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, managing public policy for Corning Incorporated, working at the Federal Communications Commission, and representing the California Small Business Roundtable. She is a member of the California bar.

Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=6488



Laura McCreery
Program Director, Regional Oral History Office
Email: lmccreer@library.berkeley.edu

Laura McCreery directs ROHO's program in politics and government. In addition to developing government and public policy aspects of the stem cell research project, her current projects include: a legislative oral history program of the California State Archives; a U.S. Supreme Court project “Law Clerks of Chief Justice Earl Warren”; and a California Supreme Court documentation project. Recent publications include a Book review of Women’s Oral History: The Frontiers Reader (Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2004), and “Ten basic steps and ten practical tips for oral history” (California Historian, Spring 2004).

Website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/



Carolyn Merchant
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Email: merchant@nature.berkeley.edu

Carolyn Merchant is engaged in research on the role of science in environmental history. She focuses on the scientific revolution in seventeenth century Europe and on the United States since the colonial period. She is interested in the ways that assumptions about science shape and justify uses of nature and natural resources and the human ethical relation to nature. Her current interests include the role of narrative in Western culture's engagement with nature, the ways that gender shapes that engagement, and the development of a partnership ethic between humanity and nature.

Website: http://www.ecohistory.org



Hélène Mialet
Visiting Scholar, Department of Rhetoric
Email: mialet@berkeley.edu

Hélène Mialet is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She has held positions in the department of STS at Cornell University and at Oxford University and post-doctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. She is on the editorial board of Social Studies of Science. Her interests are in sociology, history and anthropology of science, continental philosophy and philosophy of science. Themes of interest include: cognition, innovation, discovery and creativity in science and industry, and the sociology of technology and techniques, subjectivity, self-fashioning, relations between humans and machines, disability studies, leadership and organizations. Her book, the Subject of Invention, will be published this winter by the Presses Universitaires de Grenoble. She is currently finishing a book on Stephen Hawking, entitled Hawking Incorporated, which is under contract with The University of Chicago Press.



Deirdre K. Mulligan
Acting Clinical Professor, Boalt School of Law
Director, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
Email: dmulligan@law.berkeley.edu

Deirdre K. Mulligan is the Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley and an Acting Clinical Professor of Law. Through the Clinic, Mulligan and her students foster the public’s interest in new computer and communication technology engaging in client advocacy and interdisciplinary research, and participating in the development of technical standards and protocols. Through its work, the Clinic has advanced and protected the public’s interest in free expression, individual privacy, balanced intellectual property rules, and secure, reliable, open communication networks. Mulligan writes about the risks and opportunities technology presents to privacy, free expression, and access and use of information goods. Current research topics include the effect of digital rights management technologies on information policy and public use of information goods, the effect of technological advances, such as sensor networks and networked cameras, on norms and laws that protect privacy in public places and private homes, and the effect of various regulatory and market interventions on privacy practices and organizational structure within institutions.

Website: http://www.samuelsonclinic.org
and http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=1018



Greg Niemeyer
Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice
Email: niemeyer@berkeley.edu

Greg Niemeyer is a digital artist and teaches in the intersection of new media and society. He teaches "Foundations of American Cyberculture" with Professor Charis Thompson. His current collaborative art project, Organum, explores the human voice through sound, image and technology.

Website: http://art.berkeley.edu/organum



Alva Noë
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Email: noe@berkeley.edu

Alva Noë received a BA from Columbia in 1986, a B.Phil. from Oxford in 1988, and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995. He has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, a Visiting Scholar at UC Irvine and at the Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS in Paris, and a McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. From 1996 to 2003, he was a member of the philosophy faculty at UC Santa Cruz. He has been a recipient of a UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities and an ACLS/Ryskamp Fellowship. Noë has written articles on topics in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and other topics. He is the editor of Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion (Thorverton, 2002), and (with Evan Thompson) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (The MIT Press, 2002). Noë is currently at work on Perception and Consciousness: A Sensorimotor Approach (with J. Kevin O'Regan). Action in Perception (The MIT Press) is his most recent publication.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe



Richard Norgaard
Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics
Email: norgaard@berkeley.edu

Richard Norgaard's research emphasizes the contradictions between neoclassical economic theory and biological and social science understandings of nature and society, how the resolution of complex socio-environmental problems challenges modern beliefs about science and policy processes; and development as a process of coevolution between value, knowledge, technological, organizational, and environmental systems. His writing is informed through work on energy, environment, and development issues around the globe¬ but especially Alaska, Brazil, and California. He currently serves on the Independent Science Board of CALFED (California Bay-Delta Authority) and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Redefining Progress, and EcoEquity. He has served as President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA, as a member of the U.S. committee of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), on numerous panels of the National Research Council, the former Office of Technology Assessment, and in other state and federal advisory capacities.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/people/faculty/norgaard.shtml



Aihwa Ong
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Email: aihwaong@berkeley.edu

Aihwa Ong's new research project is on the biotechnology industry in Singapore where the life sciences as a major opportunity for economic growth and political prestige. She is particularly interested in the links between nationalism and biotechnology; the ethical representation of stem-cell research; the co-articulations race, ethnicity, and biological facts; and the construction of an Asian biological citizenship. She is organizing a conference (with Nancy Chen, UC Santa Cruz) on "Asian Biotechnology" that will be held in Australia next year.

Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/ong.html



Abena Osseo-Asare
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Email: osseo@berkeley.edu

Abena Osseo-Asare interests include the historical and contemporary study of science and medicine with a focus on the African experience. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the history of drug discovery in tropical West Africa, building on her PhD thesis, "Bitter Roots: African Science and the Search for Healing Plants in Ghana, 1885-2005."

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Osseo-Asare/



Nancy Lee Peluso
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Email: npeluso@nature.berkeley.edu

Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science and Resource Policy in the College of Natural Resources and the Program Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics, housed in the Institute of International Studies. She serves as a faculty member in the Society and Environment Division of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, where she teaches courses in Political Ecology. Her research since the 1980s has focused on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia, primarily in Indonesia. She has done field research in various parts of Indonesia—West and Central Java, East and West Kalimantan and in Sarawak, Malaysia. Her work addresses questions of property rights and access to resources, forest policy and politics, histories of land use change, and agrarian and environmental violence. She is the author or editor of three books: Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (UC Press, 1992 – still available); Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation and Development (Oxford Press, 1996 and 2003, ed. with Christine Padoch); and Violent Environments (Cornell Press, 2001, ed. with Michael Watts.), and nearly fifty journal articles and book chapters. Professor Peluso speaks or reads four languages besides English. In 2003, she was awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled, “Ways of Seeing Borneo: Landscape, Territory, and Violence”.

Website: http://espm.berkeley.edu/directory/fac/peluso_n.html



Michael Pollan
Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Email: michaelpollan@berkeley.edu

Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the author of three books: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World; A Place of My Own; and Second Nature. For many years he served as Executive Editor of Harper's Magazine. His writing has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association. He is completing a book on the ethics and ecology of eating, which should be out in Spring 2006. The working title is The Omnivore's Dilemma.

Website: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/pollan/



Dorothy Porter
Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: porterd@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Dorothy Porter is Professor in the History of Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her last monograph was published by Routledge entitled Health, Civilisation and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1999). She is currently writing a history of the relationship between the social sciences and medicine in twentieth-century Britain and examining the emergence of life-style medicine in the post-war period. Earlier monographs, which she wrote with Roy Porter, examined the experiences of health and illness of doctors and patients within the context of the eighteenth century Enlightenment: Patient's Progress. Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England, (Stanford University Press, 1989); In Sickness and In Health: the British Experience 1650-1850 (Fourth Estate Books & Basil Blackwell, 1988)]. She has edited numerous volumes on the history of social medicine, medical ethics, public health and the politics of medicine and published widely in academic journals in history, literary studies and in medical journals including the BMJ and The Lancet.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/porter_dorothy.aspx



Paul Rabinow
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: rabinow@berkeley.edu

Paul Rabinow's work has consistently centered on modernity as a problem: problem for those seeking to live with its diverse forms, a problem for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. This work has ranged from descendants of a Moroccan saint coping with the changes wrought by colonial and post-colonial regimes, to the wide array of knowledges and power relations entailed in the great assemblage of social planning in France, to his work of the last decade on molecular biology and genomics. He is currently working on an NSF funded project on the "Global Biopolitics of Security" with Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff, located at the Molecular Sciences Institute. His work will center on "zones of virulence and their regulation under a security regime." Specifically he is doing some work on avian flu and Foucault's concept of "the milieu" as well as a project on synthetic biology as a new field.

Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/rabinow.html



Leigh Raiford
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies
Email: lraiford@berkeley.edu

Leigh Raiford earned her doctorate in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2003. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she was the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Her teaching and research interests include race, gender and visual culture with an emphasis on film and photography; race and racial formations of the United States; twentieth century African American social movements; race and memory; and black popular culture.

Website: http://violet.berkeley.edu/~africam/faculty/raiford.html



Jennifer Reardon
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: reardon1@ucsc.edu

Jenny Reardon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Adjunct Research Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in August 2002. From Fall 1999-Spring 2002, she was a Fellow in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She taught in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University from 2002-2004, and was a fellow at the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy and a research assistant professor Women's Studies at Duke University from 2004-2005. Her book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in 2005. Under a sole-investigator grant from the National Science Foundation, Reardon is currently investigating the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront researchers, policy makers and potential research subjects who seek to address the problems of governance and research design created by the focus on human groups as objects of genomic analysis. She is also engaged in a study of the emergence of genomic medicine that aims to clarify the concepts of health, disease, justice, individual, race, population, and environment that both shape and are formed by efforts to translate genomic information into medical practice. In all her research, Reardon seeks to extend our emerging understanding of how science and the social order are constituted together, and explores how such understandings might help us to more adequately address questions of social justice in a technoscientific age. She is a primary organizer of a two-year Science and Justice Initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Website: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=34



Francesca Rochberg
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies - UCB
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Email: rochberg@berkeley.edu

Francesca Rochberg is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Office for the History of Science and Technology, and a member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman traditions in the celestial sciences and their interrelation with religion. She sets Babylonian celestial sciences in various contexts, from cultural to cognitive history and has introduced the evidence of ancient cuneiform science into the philosophy of science through investigations of empiricism, prediction, logic and reasoning.



Gene Rochlin
Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Email: grochlin@berkeley.edu

Gene I. Rochlin is Professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at U.C. Berkeley for seven years before retraining in political science at MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley. He returned to the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley in 1975, becoming Full Professor in 1990. He teaches science and technology studies, organization theory, and political economy and public policy related to energy and environmental decision-making as well as social science methods. Most recently his teaching and student advising has focused on the social construction and political economy of risk, risk management and safety. He co-edits a series on science, technology and the environment for the MIT Press, and is on the editorial board of several journals.

Rochlin will spend Fall 2005 in Oxford. What he intends to begin work on while at the Oxford Internet Institute are the newer and more salient social and political effects of "embedded" computer/IT networks and structures, particularly the ways in which modes of dependency are emerging -- and being responded to only by those few who are really knowledgeable about their workings. This extends to inquiry into issues of risk, safety, and dependency in ways that he says he still finds somewhat difficult to articulate. The increasingly tightly integrated combination of personal computers and networks lends itself to increased control, increased surveillance, and increased vulnerability as well as increased capabilities. It also raises the prospect of new types of failures, ranging from the loss of personal information (and even identity) to catastrophic failures of large and critical socio-technical systems

Website: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~rochlin/



Christine Rosen
Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
Email: crosen@haas.berkeley.edu

Christine Rosen's interests include both historical perspectives on the problem of industrial pollution and contemporary strategies for reducing business's environmental impacts. She is investigating the history of the American cultural responses to industrial pollution, the development of technologies and public policies for abating industrial pollution, the role of the courts in mediating society's response to industrial pollution, and the evolution of knowledge (both medical and popular) about the hazardous impacts of industrial pollution since the 1840s. She also does research and teaches about the shifts taking place today in how our businesses and society as a whole deal with the mounting environmental problems associated with industrial activity as a result of changes in the European regulatory environment, the implementation of the Kyoto treaty and similar market based strategies for incenting firms to reduce their environmental impacts, the development of various certification and eco-label systems for communicating information about the environmental characteristics of products to consumers, and efforts by NGOs to apply creative market based pressures on firms to improve their environmental performance. Professor Rosen's particular research interest is in how firms in the computer industry are organizing themselves and their supply chains to engage in design for environment, product take back, and other activities to reduce their environmental impacts.

Website: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/rosenc.html



Pamela Samuelson
Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law
Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Email: pam@sims.berkeley.edu

Pamela Samuelson's principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Since 2002, she has also been an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam. She was the principal organizer of a conference cosponsored by the School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal on the "Law and Technology of Digital Rights Management" that was held February 27-March 1, 2003.

Website: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~pam
and http://www.ivir.nl/index-english



AnnaLee Saxenian
Dean, School of Information Management and Systems
Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Email: anno@sims.berkeley.edu

AnnaLee Saxenian is an internationally recognized expert on regional economic development and information technology; and has published extensively on the social and economic organization of production in technology regions like Silicon Valley. Her current research explores how immigrant engineers and scientists are transferring technology entrepreneurship to regions in Asia. Her publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (Public Policy Institute of California, 2002). Professor Saxenian's website contains information about her research on the social organization of production in technology industries/ regions.

Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno



Nathan Sayre
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Email: nsayre@berkeley.edu

Nathan Sayre is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. His interests include political economy and political ecology; environmental history; the history of rangeland science, management and administration; conservation of endangered species and biodiversity; and exurban and suburban development in the western US. He received his initiation into ranching as a student at Deep Springs College, then completed his BA at Yale and his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He subsequently held a post-doctoral research position with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service-Jornada Experimental Range and worked as a consultant before taking his current position. Professor Sayre has worked with numerous ranchers and rancher-organized non-profit organizations, including the Malpai Borderlands Group, the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, and the Redington Natural Resource Conservation District. He is the author of The New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands (Quivira Coalition, 2001) and Ranching, Endangered Species and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital (University of Arizona Press, 2002); and Working Wilderness: the Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range (Rio Nuevo Press, 2005).

Website: http://geography.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/N_Sayre.html



Harry N. Scheiber
Professor, Boalt School of Law
Director, Institute for Legal Research
Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law
Email: scheiber@law.berkeley.edu

Harry Scheiber’s interests include research on history of fisheries oceanography; on history of technology and law in the US; and on contemporary questions of marine biodiversity and of scientific management for sustainability of marine resources in international law.

Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=102



Randy Schekman
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Email: schekman@berkeley.edu

Familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (FAD) are promoted by mutations in at least three proteins that engage in the production of the amyloidogenic peptide (Abeta42) that characterizes neuritic plaques believed to be responsible for neurodegeneration. Abeta42 is the product of proteolysis of a type I membrane protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), which is produced in a variety of tissues but which appears to generate amyloid only in the hippocampus and the amygdala. Proteolysis is facilitated by a complex called the gamma-secretase, one subunit of which, presenilin 1 (PS1) (and its homolog PS2), is implicated in unscheduled proteolysis of APP. Randy Schekman’s lab has initiated a study of the traffic of APP and PS1 using a cell-free vesicle budding reaction that recapitulates the first step in the transport of membrane proteins from the ER to the Golgi complex in mammalian cells. They find that mutations in PS1 retard the packaging of mutant PS1 and of wild type APP into transport vesicles. Their working hypothesis is that this delay in transport may potentiate the cleavage of APP in the ER leading to an accumulation of Abeta42 peptide in this intracellular location. The mechanism that restricts the accumulation of Abeta42 to nerve cells remains unexplained. He wishes to examine this pathway in normal and PS1 mutant-transfected human embryonic stem cells. They have already performed the basic experiment with mouse embryonic stem cells, but the mutant transgenes are of human origin, thus the homologous reaction will be more pertinent and potentially instructive. As more is learned about the differentiation of hESCs in vitro, it will be possible to examine the traffic of APP and PS1 in neuronal and other differentiated cell types derived from the hESCs. The hope is that such a line of investigation will illuminate neuronal specific aspects of the generation of amyloid.

Website: http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/schekman.html



Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: nsh@berkeley.edu

Nancy Scheper-Hughes works in critical medical anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, and childhood and the family. She has conducted research, written on, and been politically engaged in topics ranging from mother love and child death (Death Without Weeping, 1993), schizophrenia as a projection of cultural political themes in rural Ireland (Saints, Schlars and Schizophrenics, 2000 ), AIDS and human rights in Cuba and Brazil, death squads and the extermination of street kids in Brazil, popular justice and human rights in South Africa, clerical celibacy and child sex abuse, to the repatriation of the brain of a famous Yahi Indian, Ishi (kept as a specimen in the Smithsonian Institution) to the Pit River people of Northern California. Her most recent research is a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global traffic in humans for their organs which she interprets as a form of invisible and sacrificial violence. Her next book, Parts Unknown: the Global Traffic in Organs, is to be published by the University of California Press. She is co-founder and Director of Organs Watch, a medical human rights project, and she is currently an advisor to the World Health Organization (Geneva) on issues related to global transplantation. In the Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley she directs the doctoral program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body.

Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/nsh.html



Suzanne Scotchmer
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Email: scotch@berkeley.edu

Suzanne Scotchmer is Professor of Economics and Public Policy. Her graduate degrees are in economics and statistics. She has written on intellectual property law, incentives for innovation, rules of evidence, tax enforcement, cooperative game theory, club theory, and evolutionary game theory. She has served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, and on committees of the National Research Council (National Academies of Sciences). She is currently a member of the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division has used her as a consultant on antitrust matters related to innovation; and she has been a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She recently published Innovation and Incentives MIT Press, and teaches both innovation and science policy. She has held visiting appointments at University of Auckland, University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), Tel Aviv University, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Boalt School of Law, the University of Toronto Law School, Yale University, Stanford University, and the New School of Economics, Moscow, and began her career at Harvard University, Department of Economics.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch
and http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/innovation/



Barbara Shapiro
Emeritus Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Email: bshapiro@berkeley.edu

Barbara Shapiro works in the area of early modern science and its cultural relations.

Website: http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/barbara_shapiro.html



Janet Shim - Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences - UCSF

Email: Janet.Shim@ucsf.edu

My research lies at the intersections of three major arenas within sociology: the sociology of health and illness, of science, technology,and medicine, and of racial, class, and gender inequality. I am particularly interested in tracing the relationships between conceptions of risk, definitions of difference, the organization of biomedical science and clinical practice, and the social and cultural landscape. I use social constructionist and symbolic interactionist approaches to investigate social inequalities in health, particularly heart disease; expert and lay knowledge of disease causation; and knowledge production in biomedicine, public health, and population sciences. In the recent past, I have also examined, in collaboration with Sharon Kaufman and Ann Russ, uses of medical technologies in late life. Publications include, among others, articles in Sociology of Health and Illness, health, Social Studies of Science, and PLoS Medicine. I am currently conducting qualitative research on disciplinary theories and practices in epidemiology aimed at addressing multi-level disease causation and health disparities. I am also working on a book-length project on the uses of racial, socioeconomic, and gender categories in epidemiological research.



Justin Suran
Royer Fellow, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: suranj@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Justin Suran is the J. Elliott Royer Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Health Sciences. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Reason's Frontier: The Province of Psychiatry in Twentieth-century San Francisco. His next project will explore the influence of the U.S. military establishment on the practice of medicine since the 1930s.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/fellows/suran_justin.aspx



Margaret Taylor
Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Email: mataylor@berkeley.edu

Margaret Taylor's research focuses on the economic, scientific, and policy dimensions of innovation. The lion's share of her research to date has focused on the successes and failures of the public sector in fostering innovation in pollution abatement and renewable energy technologies. Her articles have clustered around three main themes: (1) exploring the innovative process behind environmental technology and how this process responds to the details of government actions; (2) employing and refining a technique to calculate learning and experience curves for environmental technologies in order to inform long-term climate change economic models; and (3) exploring the importance of individual inventors in innovation, as realized in a consumer product industry as well as a renewable energy industry.

Website: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/people/faculty/taylor.htm



David J. Teece
Professor, Haas School of Business
Director, Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization
Email: teece@haas.berkeley.edu

David Teece is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley where he also directs the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization. Professor Teece has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He also has three honorary doctorates.Professor Teece has authored over 180 publications in the areas of the economics of technological change, technology policy, and technology and intellectual property strategy. His books include Essays in Technology Management and Policy (World Scientific Publishing, 2003), and Managing Intellectual Capital, (Oxford University Press, 2000). He is the winner of the Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics, and the Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize. He has been at Berkeley since 1982.

Website: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/teece.html



Charis Thompson
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Society Center
Email: charis@berkeley.edu

Charis Thompson is the author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press, Inside Technology), May 2005. UC Berkeley teaching that relates to STSC includes: Stem Cells, Cloning, and the Genetic Imaginary; Science, Gender, Race, and Nation; Gender and Science; and Foundations of American Cybercultures.

Website: http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/charis_thompson.html



Nancy Van House
Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
Email: vanhouse@sims.berkeley.edu

Nancy Van House is concerned with people's information creation and use, and the interaction of information systems and technology with knowledge work. She uses the concepts and methods of STS to better understand knowledge work, knowledge communities, and technology development and use. Her current research is concerned with (1) the social uses of photography, and their relationship to the emerging uses of networked, digital imaging technology, and (2) trust and credibility in internet-based information, and the role of knowledge communities in shaping practices and warranting information.

Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse



Hal Varian
Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
Professor, Haas School of Business
Professor, Department of Economics
Email: hal@sims.berkeley.edu

Hal R. Varian is the Class of 1944 Professor at the School of Information Management and Systems, the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1973. Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, econometrics, industrial organization, public finance, and the economics of information technology.

Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/



Elizabeth Watkins
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Email: watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Professor Watkins broadest research interests focus on technological and clinical applications of medical knowledge, the popularization of information about health and medicine, and the roles of gender in medicine. She has written two books, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007) and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970 (1998), addressing the issues of medical and cultural concerns about the long-term use of hormones, the relative merit of clinical observations and epidemiological data in risk-benefit analysis, and the definition of informed consent within the doctor-patient relationship. Her co-edited volume, Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs In History (2007) is the first to explore the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States since World War II, demonstrating the extent to which contemporary debates about pharmaceutical drugs echo concerns voiced by Americans in recent decades. Her current research and most recent article The Medicalization of Male Menopausein Social History of Medicine expands gender studies of health and medicine to include mens experiences along with those of women. She is also working on two additional research projects: a history of the contraceptive implant, Norplant, and a history of hormones in American science, commerce, and culture in the 20th century.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/watkins_elizabeth.aspx



Michael Watts
Professor, Department of Geography
Email: mwatts@berkeley.edu

Michael Watts was the Director of the Institute of International Studies [IIS] 1994-2004, and is currently Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His current research and writing addresses the natural and social history of oil in Nigeria entitled Black Gold: Oil, Nation and Violence in Nigeria. He has also conducted research in Senegambia, Kerala (India), Vietnam and California on a number of issues pertaining to agrarian change, political Islam, agro-food systems, and political ecology. The author of 8 books and over 100 articles, Watts has served as the advisor to over 50 PhD dissertations (as Chair) and over 60 as second reader. He has received a number of awards and fellowships from scholarly organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was educated at University College London and the University of Michigan and has held visiting appointments at the Smithsonian Institution, Bergen, Bologna, and London. Watts has served as a consultant to UNDP, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and a number of NGOs. He serves on the Board of Food first and the Pacific Institute.

Website: http://geography.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/M_Watts.html



Steven Weber
Professor, Department of Political Science
Email: steve_weber@berkeley.edu

Steve Weber, a specialist in International Relations, is an associate with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and the International Computer Science Institute, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. His areas of special interest include international politics, and the political economy of knowledge intensive industries.

Website: http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/Faculty/bio/permanent/Weber,S/



David Winickoff
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Email: david_winickoff@nature.berkeley.edu

David Winickoff's research centers on the interaction of science, norms, and political structure in the governance of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on biotechnology and the law. The work draws upon law and Science, and Technology Studies (STS) to analyze and address socio-legal problems. He is especially interested in the processes and practices through which rules and rights are constructed, decisions exerted, and power exercised in regulatory domains involving the life sciences, e.g., intellectual property, environmental protection, food safety, human research subject protection, and public health. Through this work, he also aims to make theoretical contributions in the areas of bioethics, globalization, constitutional law, and the science-democracy relationship.

Website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/winickoff/



Michael Wintroub
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric
Email: wintroub@berkeley.edu

Michael Wintroub's areas of research are the history of science, the "Scientific Revolution," museum studies, early modern cultural history, ritual, travel, social change, identity formation, alterity, cross-cultural contact, popular and court culture, state-building, religion, humanism, vernacular consciousness and literature, material and visual culture, sociology of science, history of anthropology and intellectual history.

Website: http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/michael_wintroub.html

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