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.

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

Maria Elvira Callapez



Maria Elvira Callapez's research focuses on the analysis of the prohibition of substances used by the plastics industry, namely the use of phthalates in the production of toys made of PVC for babies and children under 5 years of age. It concentrates on episodes and controversial aspects around the use of phthalates, especially in articles used by children, since they are exposed very early to these substances, also presenting the reactions of the PVC industry to the ban that was put into effect in Europe and the USA.

Limor Samimian Darash
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology


Email: limordarash@berkeley.edu

Limor Samimian Darash is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include: risk theories, anthropology of violence and disasters, medical anthropology and anthropology of science. Darash's dissertation research examines state’s discourses and practices in relation to emerging non-conventional threats. She has conducted a multi-sited fieldwork research of the Israeli state preparedness apparatus against non-conventional threats. She is specifically interested in the preparedness against biological threats and in the emergence of new configurations of Bio-Security.

Elihu M. Gerson
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Tremont Research Institute


Email: emg@tremontresearch.org

Elihu Gerson is a sociologist studying the organization of technical work. His concern is with twentieth-century American evolutionary biology, but he has also been working on natural history. Analytically, his research focuses on the ways that institutions and organizations shape the intellectual content of research-- theories, methods, and concepts. He is also interested in the history of scholarship, and in research methods.

Website: http://tremont.typepad.com/technical_work

Victoria Höög
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden


Email: victoria.hoog@fil.lu.se

Victoria Höög is a visiting scholar in the Office for History of Science and Technology, and an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden. Her present research is about the establishment of the philosophy of science in Sweden from the 1960s onward, with special focus on the American-Swedish connection.

Silke Schicktanz
University of Goettingen, Germany


Email: silke.schicktanz@medizin.uni-goettingen.de

Schicktanz is Associate Professor for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine in the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Her work focuses on the interplay between ethical and cultural aspects of biomedicine. She is investigating medico-social practise, ethical discourses and socio-cultural meanings of organ transplantation, genetic testing, end of life decisions, and reproductive medicine. The main paradigms she is interested in are a) cultural differences in and between bioethical discourses and laymoralities b) the social and normative relevance of "cultural identity" and "collective autonomy" c) the re-shaping and re-interpretation of central normative concepts such as responsibility by biomedical technologies, and d) the normative relevance of socio-cultural meanings of gender, body and ageing for bioethics.

Website: http://www.egmed.uni-goettingen.de/egm/index.php?page=abt_mitarbeiter_schicktanz.html

Elly Teman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Bain Research Group


Email: mslula@gmail.com

Elly Teman is a postdoctoral fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. She is jointly affiliated with the Science, Technology and Society Center and the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, with sponsorship from the Rothschild Foundation (Yad Hanadiv) and the Ginsberg Foundation. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she conducted research on surrogate motherhood arrangements in Israel. Her interests include the anthropology of reproduction, medical anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and Jewish Folklore.