Two UC Berkeley graduate students and a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with CSTMS have secured tenure-track academic positions for the following year.
Emily Redman, a History of Science PhD candidate, has accepted an Assistant Professorship in the University of Massachusetts Department of History. She will contribute to the history of science program within the department, focusing primarily on the 20th century United States. Redman’s dissertation, The National Science Foundation and a Comparative Study of Precollege Mathematics and Science Education Reform in the United States, 1950-2000, examines how the federal government has been historically involved in reforming mathematics curriculum for the K-12 classroom. This summer, she will complete her PhD from Berkeley’s History Department, where Cathryn Carson is her primary advisor. Redman’s next anticipated projects will look at the cultural history of the New Math and the ways in which educational programming has brought mathematics instruction to television.
Javiera Barandiaran, an STS PhD Designated Emphasis student, has accepted an Assistant Professorship in Global Environment and Law at UC Santa Barbara’s Global & International Studies Program. She will contribute to interdisciplinary work in Global Studies and across the university on issues of environmental law, sustainable development and climate change. Javiera’s dissertation, Contesting Democracy, Buying Experts: Environmental Conflicts and Assessments in Chile, examines how scientific and technical rationality are used in public decision-making. She draws on environmental politics, public policy and science studies to examine these issues. In May of this year, she will complete her PhD from Berkeley’s Environmental Science, Policy & Management Department, where David Winickoff is her primary advisor. Javiera’s next anticipated project will look at lithium mining and development in the Andes desert.
Christopher Jones has accepted a faculty position in Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. He will teach classes in history of energy, environment, sustainability, and capitalism and continue his research on the causes and consequences of America’s first energy transitions. Chris is currently a Ciriacy-Wantrup fellow at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania History & Sociology of Science Department and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center of the Environment.