Academic Careers in Science and Technology Studies & History

Date/Time
Thursday
25 Apr 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Panel


Hear recent alumni of the Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies speak of their success on the academic job market in 2017-2019. Learn what approaches helped them acquire postdoctoral fellowships and tenure-track faculty positions in the disciplines of History and Sociology as well as other fields. How did they benefit from resources within and outside their departments while at UCB? How did the DE in STS enable their success on the academic job market?

Angelo M. Caglioti will be an Assistant Professor in European and Environmental History at Barnard College of Columbia University in Fall 2020. In 2019-2020, he will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy of Rome. He received his PhD in History with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley in 2017. His research focuses on the environmental history of Italian colonialism.

Camilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California Santa Cruz. She is also a principal faculty affiliate of the Science and Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Geography with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018. Her work explores the politics of Blackness and citizenship in Italy.

Julia Lewandoski will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in a Digital World Program at the University of Southern California from 2019-2021. This summer she will receive her PhD in History with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. Her research explores indigenous property ownership, sovereignty, and cartography in eighteenth and nineteenth century North America.

This event is sponsored by CSTMS.
Additional sponsorship comes from:  CSTMS