People

Scholars working in STS take up a broad spectrum of questions. Topics currently pursued by Berkeley researchers include:

• Legal: Regulatory regimes; intellectual property; patents and innovation; science and jurisprudence.
• Political: Governance and accountability; R&D policy and funding; science and democracy; technology and the post-Cold-War international order; biological citizenship; gender, race, nation, and science; social justice; globalization.
• Ethical: Distributive justice issues; deployment of new technologies; stem cell research; health care disparities; digital divides; technologies of racialization and racial profiling.
• Humanistic: Conceptions of agency, value, and selfhood; the rhetoric and performativity of science; science and violence.
• Societal: Expert-lay interactions; functioning of large technological systems; unintended consequences of technological change; sustainability; political economy of science; scientific dissent and science activism.
• Philosophical and psychological: Meanings of modernity; the epistemic distinctness of scientific knowledge; the nature of creativity; perception and mind.
• Local: regional roots of innovation; science and technology in California, and California in the world; stratification.
• Global: New patterns of technology transfer and circulation of knowledge; North-South equity; post-colonial studies of science; transnational scientific-technical-medical traffic; division of scientific labor.

The Center keeps updated information about people with STS interests. Learn about research being done in the field; make connections with other scholars. Lists can be viewed by category: faculty and researchers, visiting scholars, and graduate students.

STSC welcomes the participation of faculty, staff, and students. Interested in having your information added to our site? Please contact STSC staff.

STSC Location and Contact Information

360 Stephens Hall #2300
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2300
Telephone: 510-642-9656
Fax: 510-642-9466
E-mail: stsc@berkeley.edu
URL: http://stsc.berkeley.edu/