Faculty & Fellow

Greg Niemeyer

Professor
Department of Art Practice

Greg Niemeyer is a digital artist and teaches in the intersection of new media and society. He teaches "Foundations of American Cyberculture" with Professor Charis Thompson. His creative work focuses on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a collective through technological means, and emphasizes playful responses to technology. Organum, his 2003 collaborative art project, explores the human voice through sound, image and technology. The Black Cloud (2008) was funded by the MacArthur Foundation to provide an alternate reality game and a social network for sensing air...

Aihwa Ong

Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology

Aihwa Ong's research interests focus on global technologies, modes of governing, biosecurity, and citizenship in Asian contexts. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific STS network. Publications relevant to STS include co-edited volumes Global Assemblages (2005), and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2011). Her current project examines biotech assemblages in Singapore and China, and a style of disease-driven research that seeks to increase diversity and potentiality for fostering life in an emerging region.

Nancy Lee Peluso

Distinguished Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science and Resource Policy in the College of Natural Resources and the Program Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics, housed in the Institute of International Studies. She serves as a faculty member in the Society and Environment Division of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, where she teaches courses in Political Ecology. Her research since the 1980s has focused on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia, primarily in Indonesia. She has done field research in various...

Thomas M. Philip

Professor
Graduate School of Education
Degrees Ph.D. Cognition & Development :: University of California, Berkeley (2007)
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences :: University of California, Berkeley (1998)

Thomas M. Philip’s research focuses on how teachers make sense of power and hierarchy in classrooms, schools, and society. He is interested in how teachers act on their sense of agency as they navigate and ultimately transform classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. His recent scholarship explores the possibilities and tensions...

Dorothy Porter

Professor
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Dorothy Porter is Professor in the History of Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her last monograph was published by Routledge entitled Health, Civilisation and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1999). She is currently writing a history of the relationship between the social sciences and medicine in twentieth-century...

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Editor and Manager of the Science and Technology Section, Los Angeles Review of Books Email: m.pridmorebrown@gmail.com, mpb@berkeley.edu, mpb@lareviewofbooks.org Dissertation Fascist Modernism and the Poetics of Technology Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature with an Emphasis in the History of Science :: Stanford University
B.A. Math and English :: Pomona...

Leigh Raiford

Professor
Department of African American Studies

Leigh Raiford earned her doctorate in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2003. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she was the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Her teaching and research interests include race, gender and visual culture with an emphasis on film and photography; race and racial formations of the United States; twentieth century African American social movements; race and memory; and black popular culture.

Francesca Rochberg

Professor Emerita
Department of Near Eastern Studies

Francesca Rochberg is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Office for the History of Science and Technology, and a member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman traditions in the celestial sciences and their interrelation with religion. She sets Babylonian celestial sciences in various contexts, from cultural to cognitive history and has introduced the...

Christine Rosen

Associate Professor
Hass School of Business

Christine Rosen's interests include both historical perspectives on the problem of industrial pollution and contemporary strategies for reducing business's environmental impacts. She is investigating the history of the American cultural responses to industrial pollution, the development of technologies and public policies for abating industrial pollution, the role of the courts in mediating society's response to industrial pollution, and the evolution of knowledge (both medical and popular) about the hazardous impacts of industrial pollution since the 1840s. She also does research and...

Caitlin Rosenthal

Associate Professor
Department of History

Caitlin Rosenthal is a historian of 18th- and 19th-century U.S. history. Her work focuses on the development of management practices, and seeks to blend methods and insights from business history, economic history, and labor history. Her current book project, tentatively titled From Slavery to Scientific Management (under contract at Harvard University Press) investigates the complex relationship between slavery and capitalism in American history. Traditional narratives in business and economic history...