Faculty & Fellows

Stacey Van Vleet

Assistant Professor
Department of History

Stacey Van Vleet is a historian of Tibet and Inner Asia. Her research is concerned with transformations in knowledge, economy, culture, and governance between the early modern and modern period. She teaches the history of science, technology, and medicine in the broader sphere of East Asia.

Her book in progress, The World the Medicine Buddha Built: Tibetan Medical Technologies and Infrastructure in Qing Inner Asia, examines the rise of a vast network of Tibetan medical institutions across Inner Asia during the period of Qing Empire (1644-1911), and its central role in...

Sarah Vaughn

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Sarah Vaughn is a sociocultural anthropologist whose focus is the critical study of climate change and its expertise in the present. This concern informs her recent articles and book in-progress entitled Engineering Vulnerability: An Ethnography of Climate Change and Expertise. The book develops a case study of coastal flooding in Guyana as a site to think with and through how people learn to pay attention to hydraulic modeling operations across forms of expert labor. In privileging hydraulic models, she seeks to analyze the ways scientific narrative devices are enacted and become...

Steven Weber

Professor
Department of Political Science
School of Information

Steve Weber, a specialist in International Relations, is an associate with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and the International Computer Science Institute, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. His areas of special interest include international politics, and the political economy of knowledge intensive industries.

Ashton Wesner

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

David Winickoff

Former Director, Former Associate Professor
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Former Director, Berkeley Program in STS and PhD Designated Emphasis in STS (2011-2017)

Former Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley

David Winickoff's research centers on the interaction of science, norms, and political structure in the governance of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on biotechnology and the law. The work draws upon law and Science, and Technology Studies (STS) to analyze and address socio-legal problems...

Michael Wintroub

Professor Emeritus
Department of Rhetoric

Michael Wintroub's areas of research are the history of science, the "Scientific Revolution," museum studies, early modern cultural history, ritual, travel, social change, identity formation, alterity, cross-cultural contact, popular and court culture, state-building, religion, humanism, vernacular consciousness and literature, material and visual culture, sociology of science, history of anthropology and intellectual history.

Alexei Yurchak

Professor
Department of Anthropology

My interests and areas of expertise include Soviet history and the processes of post-socialist transformation in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; political institutions and ideologies in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia; political philosophy and language philosophy; the interface between language/discourse and power; comparative studies of communism and capitalism anthropology of media; visual anthropology; experimental artistic scenes (especially, Russia and US); urban geography and anthropology of space. I am both an Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of...

Nasser Zakariya

Associate Professor
Department of Rhetoric

My research interests concern science, narrative and documentary; topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics; and science, law and race. My latest book centers on the emergence of the so-called “scientific epic” as one among a set of possible frames or genres for synthesizing branches of knowledge according to a narrative, historical structure. Over the last several years, I have been involved in interrelated collaborative research projects, including studies of the genealogy and structure of technoscientific futurist imaginaries, the relationship between...

Hannah Zeavin

Assistant Professor
Department of History

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.

Zeavin’s first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy ...