Samer Alatout –
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Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology
Research Interests: Sociology of science and technology; Environmental
sociology; Social theories of power and the state; Politics of science, space,
and scale.
Rima Apple –
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Professor Emerita, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Ecology
Research Interests: History of motherhood; History of women's health;
History of consumer movements; History of home economics.
Bernadette Baker –
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Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: History and philosophy of knowledge; Curriculum
history
and theory; 'Post' approaches in humanities and social sciences; Transnational
curriculum inquiry; Humanities-based disability studies; Curriculum studies
and
curriculum planning.
Vicki Bier –
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Professor, Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Physics
Research Interests: Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural
products; Critical infrastructure protection; Security; Technological hazards;
Risk analysis; Decision analysis; Operations research.
Thomas Broman –
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Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History of Science
Research Interests: Science and medicine in the Enlightenment; the Role of science in the public sphere; 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history.
Dominique Brossard –
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Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Research Interests: Mass media and public opinion; Media effects; Strategic communication; Science communication; Health communication.
R. Alta Charo –
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Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, Law School and Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: Bioethics; Food & drug law; Health law; Legislative drafting; Reproductive rights law; Torts.
Greg Downey –
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Associate Professor, Schools of Journalism & Mass Communication and Library & Information Studies
Research Interests: History and geography of information & communication technology (especially the often hidden labor behind such technology).
Sharon Dunwoody –
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Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Research Interests: Science communication; Risk communication.
Kristin Eschenfelder –
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Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Studies
Research Interests: Social informatics digital intellectual property
(IP), specifically, access and use regimes — or the complex, multi-level networks of laws, customs, technologies and expectations that shape what information we can access and how we can make use of it.
Joan Fujimura –
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Program in Science & Technology Studies
Research Interests: Sociology of science, technology, and medicine;
Genomics and society; Gender and science; Genetics, race, and medicine; Biotechnology
and society; Qualitative research methods; Theory; Gender; Sociology of culture;
Sociology of work and organizations; Japanese studies.
Ted Gerber –
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Director, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
Research Interests: Demography; Methods and statistics; Social stratification; Sociology of education.
Dan Hausman –
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Herbert A. Simon Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of economics; Causation; Contemporary
moral issues.
Linda Hogle –
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Associate Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics and Anthropology
Research Interests: Social, ethical and policy issues in transnational
medical technology innovation and medical practice, particularly regarding regenerative
medicine, biomedical engineering and medical device design; Transnational infrastructures
in stem cell research; European Union & North America.
Rick Keller –
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Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: European and colonial medicine and public health;
History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis; History of the human sciences, science
and race.
Daniel Kleinman –
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Professor, Department of Rural Sociology and Director, Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies
Research Interests: Commercialization of the university and the organization
of the knowledge economy; Democracy and expertise; Agricultural biotechnology
policy.
Susan Lederer –
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Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Medical History & Bioethics
Research Interests: History of American medicine.
Maria Lepowsky –
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Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Women's Studies
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; Gender; Historical anthropology; Environmental anthropology; Exchange, ritual, medical/nutritional, psychological anthropology; History of anthropology; Oceania, New Guinea, Native California, California and the American West.
Doug Maynard –
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; General social theory; Social psychology and microsociology; Sociology of deviance, law, and social control;
Sociology of gender.
Gregg Mitman –
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William Coleman Professor of the History of Science, Professor of Medical History and Science & Technology Studies, and Director, Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Research Interests: Interests span the history of ecology, nature, and health in twentieth-century America across scientific and popular culture. Particular research areas include: History of ecology; Environment and health; 20th century life sciences; Science in America; Science and film.
Paul Nadasdy –
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in American Indian Studies
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and knowledge; Environmental/ecological
anthropology; Hunter-gatherer studies; Aboriginal people and the state; Ethnography
of the state; Politics of wildlife management; Political economy; Property and
ownership, Arctic/subarctic studies; North American anthropology; Anthropology
of Eastern Europe.
Pilar Ossorio –
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Associate Professor of Law and Medical Ethics, Law School and Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Research Interests: Intellectual property; Law & medicine; Patent
Law; Law & bioethics.
Tim
Osswald –
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Rheology Research Center and Co-Director, Polymer Engineering Center
Research Interests: Plastics design; Extrusion; Injection molding; Blow molding; Film blowing; Compression molding; Composites; Modeling and simulation in polymer processing and composites; Biopolymers; Intellectual property; Ethics.
Sarah Pfatteicher –
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Assistant Dean, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences and Research Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering education; History of ethics and
professionalism in engineering (particularly related to engineering disaster
response).
John Rudolph –
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Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Research Interests: History of science education in American high schools
(specifically the role school science has played in mediating the
relationship between
institutional science and the lay public).
Walton Schalick –
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Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics, Rehabilitation
Medicine, History of Science and Pediatrics
Research Interests: History of medieval medicine and pharmacology;
History of children with physical disabilities in 19th- and 20th-century
Europe and the US; Practical ethics of pediatric emergency research.
Eric Schatzberg –
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Associate Professor, Department of History of Science
Research Interests: History of technology; Technology and culture; Science
and technology in the postwar era.
Dietram Scheufele –
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Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Research Interests: Public opinion about science and technology; Nanotechnology;
Biotechnology; Public understanding of science.
Lawrence
Shapiro –
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Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of psychology; Cognitive
science; Philosophy of
biology.
Elliott Sober –
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Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.
Rob Streiffer –
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Associate Professor, Departments of Medical History & Bioethics and Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics of modern biotechnology, both medical and
agricultural. Particular research areas include: Intellectual property and biotechnology;
Genetically engineered food; the Application of modern biotechnology to animals;
Use of human embryonic stem cells to create animal/human chimeras.
Jeremi Suri –
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Professor, Department of History
Research Interests: International history, Social movements, America
since 1789.
Matthew Turner –
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Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
Research Interests: Political ecology; Development theory; Politics
of conservation and conservation science; Remote sensing/GIS applications to
natural
resource
management; Pastoralism and common property theory; Ecology of
tropical savanna/steppe vegetation; Range ecology.
Claire Wendland –
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Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History & Bioethics)
Research Interests: Biomedicine in Africa; Professional education
and values; Critical medical anthropology; Cross-cultural ethics and cross-cultural
communication in medical practice; Social and cultural aspects of women's health
care.