Visiting Scholars with STS Interests

Are you a graduate student or post doc at another university and interested in visiting the Center for an extended period of time? If so, please visit the UC Berkeley Visiting Scholar and Post Doc
Affairs Program Website and the Berkeley International Office Website for details about becoming a visiting scholar. Then, if you meet the requirements, contact STSC.
Please note that due to budget cuts, STSC is not currently accepting applications for visiting scholars.

The International Visitors and Exchange Office (IVEO website ~coming soon) at UC Berkeley has graduate student exchange partnerships with many universities around the world. Check their website to see if your university participates in this program.

Profiles

Daniela Crocetti
University of Bologna, Italy


Email: terzogenere@yahoo.com

Crocetti is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is interested in the interaction of medical technology and the social definitions of the normal body in terms of definition and the practice of genetic testing and body modifying technologies. Her work focuses on the dialectics of medical definition and the practices surrounding gender norms in intersexuality, transexuality, and standard gender presentation. She questions how technologies such as surgery, endocrinology and genetic testing - in conjunction with the history of medical definition of the gendered body and the corresponding juridical, social and ethical paradigms - create medical practice and guide social definition.

Website: http://www.cis.unibo.it/sth/doc_students/curricula/crocetti.html

Kerry Holden
King's College, UK


Email: kerry.holden@kcl.ac.uk

Kerry Holden is completing a doctoral thesis in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. Her research is focussed on scientific careers in academia in relation to the governance of higher education. She primarily used a biographical interview method with scientists at different career stages from PhD to Professorial level to open up some of the tensions between science, innovation policy and scientific identity. Kerry is also a research assistant on a project in the BIOS Centre at the London School of Economics looking at scientists involved in various forms of public participation.

Neide Mayumi Osada
University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil


Email: mayumi.osada@gmail.com

Osada is a Ph.D student in the Department of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil. Her research focuses on gender, social class, and racial relations at the production of knowledge in laboratories of molecular which work mainly with genomics. The project aims to analyze the relation between female and male researchers and the subject of their work, their laboratories, their students, the academic institution where they work and sponsoring agencies in order to understand how scientists built their carriers, the strategies they used to achieve higher hierachical positions in the academia, and how gender, social class, and race affect their professional lives.

Website: http://www.ige.unicamp.br