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  • Amir, Sulfikar (PhD, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). Assistant Professor, Division of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Research interests: politics of technology, technological nationalism, design studies, development studies, science and technology policy, cultural studies of science and technology.

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  • Brake, David. PhD. Media, London School of Economics. Internet Consultant and Journalist. Interests: Helping non-profits and the public sector use Internet technologies to improve their internal processes and to better serve the public, Website strategy, information architecture and editing, The social, economic and political impact of the Internet, The Internet and the voluntary and community sector
  • Brooks, Lonny. (PhD. Communication, University of California, San Diego 2004). Professor in Organizational Communication at California State University, East Bay. Dissertation: Working in the Future Tense: Materializing Stories of Emerging Technologies and Digital Culture at the Institute for the Future. Interests: Narrative shaping and performance of organizational identity, historical and ethnographic exploration of the Foresight industry (futures research thinktanks), visions of ubiquitous computing.

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  • Coleman, Gabriella (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago 2005, B.A. Religous Studies, Columbia University, 1996) Fellow, Center for Cultural Analysis Interests: Hackers, Liberalism + Anarchism, Free and Open Source Software, Psychiatric Survivors, History of Psychiatry, Pharma, American politics.

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  • DeNardis, Laura (Ph.D. Virginia Tech STS 2006, M.Eng. Cornell, A.B. Dartmouth) Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project Interests: History and Politics of Internet Technical Standards and Network Security.
  • DeNicola, Lane (Ph.D. Candidate, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Interests: modeling, simulation, and visualization technologies; environmental and geospatial informatics; science and technology in South Asia; gaming and pedagogy
  • Diggle, Rebecca (BSc (Hon) Environmental Science, MA Social Research Methods (Genetics, Biorisks and Society), PhD Candidate, Institute for the study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society, University of Nottingham, funded by ESRC/NERC.) Interests: chemical mixtures including pesticides, democratization of science, environmental health, environmental justice and the use of science in policy.

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  • Eglash, Ron (MS Systems Engineering, UCLA 1983; Ph.D. History of Consciousness, UCSC 1992). Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, RPI, Troy, NY 12180. Interests: Sociology and philosophy of science and technology, complexity theory and practice, indigenous knowledge, IT and NT, technology appropriation, cultural design.

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  • Feng, Patrick (Ph.D, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication & Culture, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. Interests: Science and technology policy, scientific and technical standards-setting, social informatics, health policy, participatory design, philosophy of technology.
  • Francisco, Matthew (Ph.D Student, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Interests: cultural, social and psychological aspects of social science research methods, social network analysis, machine learning, computer modeling, distributed artificial intelligence or multi-agent simulation, computer science, computational social science, design of information technology, and the computer-assisted design of human organizations.

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  • Galloway, Anne (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University; MA Anthropology Trent University 1999; BA Anthropology University of Alberta 1996) Sessional Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Interests: mobile, wearable, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, urban cultures and technology, user-centred and participatory design.
  • Gillespie, Tarleton (Ph.D. Communication, University of California, San Diego 2002) Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, with affiliations to Department of Science and Technology Studies and Department of Information Science; Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School. Interests: digital copyright, law and technology, structures of knowledge production, media technologies, technological discourse.
  • Greenberg, Josh (Ph.D. S&TS, Cornell University 2004, B.A. History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1998). Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of History and Art History, George Mason University; Associate Director of Research Projects, Center for History and New Media. Interests: History/Sociology of Information Technology, Public Understanding of Science, Amateur Cultures

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  • Hamlett, Patrick W. (Assoc. Professor, Science, Technology & Society Program, North Carolina State University). Interests: Public deliberations about S&T, S&T policy making, democratic theory.
  • Hanson, Todd (Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies (Science and Technology Studies), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque). Interests: Ethnography of physics, scientific and technical communities of practice, material culture studies of science, and critical technology studies theory and methods.
  • Hecht, Gabrielle (Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1992). Associate Professor, Dept. of History and Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Univ. of Michigan. Interests: technology in post/colonial Africa; technopolitical histories of uranium; global nuclear proliferation; technology and globalization.
  • Hewitt, Carl (Ph.D. Mathematics, MIT Mathematics 1971) MIT EECS (emeritus).
  • Hoholm, Thomas (Ph.D. Candidate, Innovation and Economic Organisation, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo). Interests: organisational, technological and commercial aspects of innovation processes, networked knowing and learning practices, innovation in food industries (agriculture and aquaculture).
  • Hovland, Jon (Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim). Interests: Practices, logics and meanings of statistics technologies in acts of governing.
  • hunsinger, jeremy (Ph.D. Candidate, STS, Virginia Tech) Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, Pratt Institute, Manhattan. Interests: Cultural Informatics, Digital Archives, Internet Research, E-science/Cyberinfrastructure, Internet/Information/Knowledge/Cultural/Research/Innovation/Higher Education Policy, Digital Habitus/Ecologies, Social and Political Theory, critical and analytic methods

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  • Ito, Mimi (Ph.D. Education, Stanford 1998; Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford 2003). Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California. Interests: kids and new media, mobile phones, electronic gaming, fans and amateur cultural production, peer-to-peer communication, all of the above in Japan and the US.

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  • Jesiek, Brent (Ph.D. Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech). Manager, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Interests: history and social studies of computers and computing, engineering studies, Internet studies, free-libre/open source software and hardware.
  • Johansson, Mikael (Ph.D. School of Global Studies, Social Anthropology, Gothenburg University, Sweden). Interests: Anthropology of Science and Technology, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Cosmology.
  • Jones, Peter (Clinical Specialist: NHS Care Record Service Project, Lancashire Care NHS Trust, UK). Interests: Hodges' Health Career Care Domains Model, Health, Social & Community Informatics, Visualization in Social Sciences, Care Systems, Global Health, Astronomy, Environment.

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  • Kelty, Christopher (Ph.D MIT, 2000, B.A. UC Santa Cruz, 1994) Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston TX. Interests: History and social study of software and networks, free and open source software and derivatives, scientific visualization, nanotechnology, ethnographic fieldwork, the Internets.
  • Kim, Eun-sung (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006). Postdoctoral Research Associate,Holtz Center for STS at UW-Madison, Social and policy studies of bioethics, risk, and science associated with public health and the environment. Stem cell research. Nano-biotechnology. Poststructuralism. Social justice
  • Kuo, Wen-Hua(Ph.D Program in Science, Technology and Soceity, MIT 2005, M.D. National Yang-Ming University, 1993, M.A. National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan), 1997) Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT, Cambridge MA. Interests: History and social study of medicine, especially in East Asia and about pharmaceutical industry and regulation. Other interests include theories concerning globalization, race, and nation-state.

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  • Lawson, Sean (Ph.D. student, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) Interests: Military technology, strategy, and doctrine; military knowledge formation; Information Age military theory/theories of warfare (e.g. information warfare, infowar, cyberwar, netwar, network-centric warfare, asymmetric warfare, forth generation warfare [4GW], neocortical warfare, softwar); rhetoric of technoscience; nonlinear science as metaphor in military rhetoric; military reform movement; John Boyd; revolution in military affairs (RMA); military transformation.
  • Lee, Mary E. No current position. (Ph.D., Sociology, Texas A&M University, 1993). Sociology and Philosophy of Science, Technology, Knowledge. Complexity theory. Theories of Consciousness.
  • Lin, Yuwei (Ph.D., Sociology, University of York, UK, 2004). Research Fellow, Department of Information Systems and Logistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Interests: Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) studies, virtual communities, gender and ICT, innovation and knowledge dynamics, Human Computer Interactions (HCI).

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  • Mancuso, Katherine (B.A. U of South Carolina, 2005) Ph. D. Student, Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Interests: disability studies, medical anthropology, public health, new media, blogging, digital sociability, informatics.
  • Mason, Arthur (Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2004). Assistant Professor, Arizona State University; Fulbright Scholar, University of Calgary (2006-07). Interests: cultural anthropology; arctic energy development; forecasting and speculative economies.
  • Matwyshyn, Andrea (Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University 2004). Assistant Professor of Law/ Executive Director Center for Information Research, University of Florida; Affiliate, Centre for Economics and Policy, University of Cambridge. Interests: technology and information law, data security, data privacy, identity


  • Meier, Andrea.
    • Education: Ph.D.,, 1999, UNC at Chapel Hill.
    • Clinical Assistant Professor. CHAI (Communication for Health Applications and Interventions) Qualitative Research Specialist, UNC School of Social Work, UNC at Chapel Hill .
    • Interests: Multi-method Intervention Research Methodologies; Therapeutic Applications of Internet; Prevention and Treatment of Depression/Substance Abuse; Social Support Groups. Dr. Meier's research has focused on interventions to promote resilience in lay and professional caregivers and in technology-mediated support groups .
    • PubMed Abstracts.



  • Mitcham, Carl (Ph.D., Philosophy, Fordham University, 1988). Professor, Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401. Interests: philosophy of science and technology; science, technology, and ethics.
  • Monahan, Torin (Ph.D., Science & Technology Studies, RPI, 2003). Assistant Professor, School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University. Interests: Surveillance and security, technological infrastructures, social control, globalization, urban studies.
  • Mykytyn, Courtney Everts, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California, Dept. of Anthropology, Los Angeles, CA. Interests: anti-aging medicine, aging, medical anthropology, predicting, scientific prizes.
  • Monteiro, Marko (Ph.D. Social Sciences, State University of Campinas, Brazil, 2005). Professor, Catholic University of Campinas. Interests: biotechnology, anthropology of technology, gender and masculinities, language and representation theories, art and media studies, body/technology interfaces.

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  • Norton, Peter D. (PhD, University of Virginia, 2002). Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22904-4744 / norton@virginia.edu. Historian of technology; author: Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (forthcoming). Interests: modern technology; streets, traffic and people; jaywalking; social implications of technology.

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  • O'Donnell, Casey (Ph.D. Student, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy). Interests: Work & Industry, Video Game Development, Software Development, Globalization, Race, Class, Sex, and Gender.

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  • Parthasarathy, Shobita (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2003). Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 4202 Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091. Interests: comparative and international politics of genetics and biotechnology, politics and policy in science and technology.
  • Pinch, Trevor (Ph.D., Sociology, Univ. of Bath, 1982). Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Interests: Sociology of science and technology, music, users, on-line reviews and identities.

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  • Restivo, Sal (Professor of Sociology, Science Studies, and Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; salrestivo.org). Interests: sociology and anthropology of science, mathematics, social robotics, and neuroscience.



  • Ronald, Lorna (Ph.D. Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy). Interests: commodification of healthcare, pharmaceutical marketing, comparative health governance.

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  • Sabanovic, Selma (Ph.D. Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy). Interests: social, cultural and cognitive aspects of technoscientific practice, transdisciplinary knowledge spaces and hybrid sciences, STS interventions in scientific practice, technoscientific imaginaries, social robotics, human-robot interaction (HRI), the application of social science research methods and theory to the study of HRI.
  • Schienke, Erich (Ph.D. Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy). Interests: STS theory and practice, anthropology of technoscientific systems, globalization, ecology, information systems, contemporary science and technology in China, non-Western engagements with technoscience.
  • Silverstone, Roger (Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE)
  • Smagula, Stefan (BA, English, Yale University, MA, American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin). Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Texas at Austin and Senior Information Architect at AT&T. Teaches undergraduate seminar Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society . Interests: Ethics and technology, human-computer interaction, the origins of counting and writing, history of computing, group-forming networks, information architecture, user-centered design, and information visualization.

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  • Till, Jim.
    • Education: Ph.D , Biophysics, 1957, Yale University. M.A., Physics, 1953, University of Saskatchewan. BA Arts and Science, 1952, [www.usask.ca University of Saskatchewan].
    • Senior Scientist, University Health Network, Toronto University Health Network .
    • Interests: Internet and the dissemination, exchange and discussion of health-related information. Population eHealth. Open access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Cancer Research, Decision Making, Ethical Issues, Informatics, Knowledge Transfer. .
    • PubMed Abstracts.
    • Prizes:Lasker Prize, 2005


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  • Valkenburg, Govert (institutional, private) (PhD Candidate, Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente, The Netherlands) Interests: Genomics, Political Philosophy, Public debate, Discourse analysis.
  • Vigneswara Ilavarasan, P (PhD {Sociology}, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2004). Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. Interests: Science, Technology & Society, Work & Industry, and Indian Information Technology Industry.

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  • Rob Wilson. (B.A. Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 1985, Ph.D. Philosophy, Cornell University 1992). Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, since 2000; also taught at Queen's University (1992-1996) and The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996-2001). Interests: Philosophy of biology, mind, and psychology; history of eugenics and notions of normalcy; disability, reproductive autonomy, and contemporary biotechnology; currently working on a book "Domains of the Social", and on a longer-term project "What Sorts of People Should There Be?".

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