Harlan Weaver

Postdoctoral Scholar


CSTMS Research Unit: Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Affiliation period: August 2012 - December 2015
harlanweaver@berkeley.edu
Degrees Ph.D. History of Consciousness :: University of California, Santa Cruz (2012)

Harlan Weaver graduated from UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program with a parenthetical emphasis in Feminist Studies in 2012; his dissertation is titled "Thinking and Feeling with 'Trans Affect'". Funded by the National Science Foundation and located at the UC Berkeley STSC, Harlan's postdoctoral project, "'Dangerous' Dogs and the Fuzzy Sciences of Animal Profiling," combines animal shelter fieldwork, science and technology studies, animal studies, critical race theories, queer theories, and feminist studies. Harlan is an advocate of pit bull-type dogs and loves reading up on all things dog-related.

last updated: November 20th, 2017