Faculty & Fellow

Michael Mascarenhas

Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Michael Mascarenhas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada (2012) and New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity. Good Intentions on the Road to Help (2107). He has written on water, wolves, seed-saving, standards, supermarkets, family farms, and forests; examining the interconnections between contemporary neoliberal reforms, environmental change, and environmental justice and...

Maria Mavroudi

Professor
Department of History
Department of Classics

Research interests include the reception of ancient Greek science in Byzantium and Islam and the contact between Byzantine and Islamic science. Mavroudi is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2004-2009). Her most recent relevant publication is a volume co-edited with Paul Magdalino and titled The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (La Pomme d'or, Geneva, 2007).

Massimo Mazzotti

Professor
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...

Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor
Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature (Designated Emphasis in New Media Studies) :: UC Berkeley (2011)
B.A. Comparative Literature and English, Minor in Spanish (2003)

Tom McEnaney investigates the meaningfulness of sound at the intersection of literature, technology, and politics. His book, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (FlashPoints at Northwestern University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the...

Aimee Medeiros

Associate Professor
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Assistant Professor, History of Health Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Aimee Medeiros is an Associate Professor and Director of the History of Health Sciences Program at UC San Francisco and an affiliated faculty of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on the reciprocity between diagnoses, preventive care measures, and societal expectations of the body in medicine. Her research areas include the history of pediatrics, race and medicine, history of pharmaceuticals, and twentieth-...

Carolyn Merchant

Distinguished Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Carolyn Merchant is engaged in research on the role of science in environmental history. She focuses on the scientific revolution in seventeenth century Europe and on the United States since the colonial period. She is interested in the ways that assumptions about science shape and justify uses of nature and natural resources and the human ethical relation to nature. Her current interests include the role of narrative in Western culture's engagement with nature, the ways that gender shapes that engagement, and the development of a partnership ethic between humanity and nature. Merchant is...

Guy Micco

Co-Director, PMH; Clinical Professor Emeritus
Joint Medical Program, Division of Health & Medical Sciences

Guy Micco is currently working on a geriatric community-based experiential learning project bringing students into contact with elders in retirement communities to better understand aging in our time and culture. He is also a part-time hospice/palliative care physician.

Minoo Moallem

Professor
Department of Gender & Women's Studies

Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. She was the Chair of Gender and Women's Studies department at UC Berkeley from 2008-2010 and the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University from 2001-2006. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, University of California Press, 2005. She is also the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation. Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State, Duke University Press, 1999,...

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
School of Public Health

My research focuses on environmental health and environmental justice. I am particularly interested in addressing the double jeopardy faced by communities of color and the poor who experience high exposures to environmental hazards and who are more vulnerable to the toxic effects of pollution due to poverty, malnutrition, discrimination, and underlying health conditions. How do matters of race and class affect distributions of health risks in the United States? What are the causes and consequences of environmental disparities and health inequalities? How can research create "upstream"...

Deirdre K. Mulligan

Professor
School of Information

Deirdre K. Mulligan comes to the I School from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was a clinical professor of law and the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. She served previously as staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington.

Professor Mulligan’s current research agenda focuses on information privacy and security. Current projects include qualitative interviews to understand the institutionalization and management of privacy within corporate America, and role of law in corporate information security...