Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
School of Information
Chair of the Designated Emphasis in STS Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Information
University of California, Berkeley
Degrees Ph.D. Communication; Minor in Anthropology :: Stanford University (2013) M.S. Information Management and Systems :: University of California, Berkeley (2006) B.A. Computer Science :: University of California, Berkeley (2004)
Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. The...
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Senior Researcher, ToftH University of California, Berkeley
CSTMS Research Unit: Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies, CSTMS Affiliation period: July 2022 - June 2024 Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature :: Harvard University M.A. Comparative Literature :: Harvard University B.A. M.A. equi. Comparative Literature and Slovenian Language and Literature :: University of Ljubljana
Nina Beguš was a Postdoctoral Scholar for CSTMS from July 1, 2022 until June 30, 2024. She now serves as an Assistant...
Degrees Ph.D., Department of French and Romance Philology :: Columbia University (2020) M.A., French and Romance Philology :: Columbia University (2015) B.A., Lettres et traduction françaises :: McGill University (2010)
William (Will) M. Burton is an assistant professor in the Department of French. Professor Burton's research examines how 'literary' authors position their work with regard to other disciplines and domains in the 18th and 20th centuries. The authors that Burton studies are concerned with imaginative writing's political potential and its capacity to...
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Department of History
Associate Professor, Department of History Director, MEDS University of California, Berkeley
Sandra Eder works on the history of medicine with a specific focus on gender and sexuality, clinical practice, patient records, and the circulation of knowledge. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Making Gender: Sex, Body, and Norm in American Medicine and Science, which explores the development of our modern concept of gender within 1950s medical practices and American culture.
Degrees Ph.D. History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society :: MIT (2016) M.S. Electrical Engineering :: Columbia University (2003) B.E. Electronics Engineering :: University of Mumbai (2002) Research Areas
Social studies of algorithms, data, and AI; History and anthropology of computing; Science and technology studies; Social studies of work, labor, and expertise
Shreeharsh Kelkar is an interpretive social scientist interested in understanding how our new computing infrastructures of humans, algorithms, software, and data (or “AI”) are...
Degrees Ph.D :: Columbia University (2013) Akash Kumar (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a scholar of medieval Italian literature, with particular focus on the history of science and philosophy, Mediterranean studies, and digital humanities. His first book project, Dante’s Elements: Translation and Natural Philosophy from Giacomo da Lentini to the Comedy, explores the confluence of scientific thought and the early lyric tradition that creates a vernacular intellectual identity vital to the writing of Dante’s Commedia.
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Department of History
Professor, Department of History Director, PhD Designated Emphasis in STS Director, OHST
Massimo Mazzotti's research interests lie at the intersection of the history of science and science studies. He is especially interested in the historicity and situatedness of mathematics, logic, and deductive reasoning, and in the social processes that can make them universally valid. He is also interested in using technological systems and artifacts as ways of entry for the explorations of specific forms of social organization and...
Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of the History of Science and New Media in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Department of History
Lecturer, Department of History Degrees Ph.D. History :: University of Washington (2022) M.A. History :: Peking University (2012) B.A. International Studies :: Peking University (2009)
Xiaoshun Zeng researches the history of medicine and public health in modern China, and he is especially interested in the intersection of disease, socialism, and race and ethnicity in the Chinese context. His current book project, "Diagnosing Minorities: STD Control and Nation-state Building on the Ethnic Frontiers of Modern China," studies the history of syphilis...
