Advisor(s) Jake Kosek Degrees M.Sc. Geography :: University College London (2015) B.A. Literature :: Northwestern University (2007) Bachelor of Music, Musicology :: Northwestern University (2007)
Advisor(s) Francesca Rochberg Degrees MA in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (Summa Cum Laude) :: Tel Aviv University, Israel (2014) BA in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, and East Asian Studies (Magna Cum Laude) :: Tel Aviv University, Israel (2009)
I received a B.A and an M.A. in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures from Tel Aviv University, Israel. I also received a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the same institution. While most of my studies focused on the languages and civilizations of the Ancient Near East, I...
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Gardiner is a doctoral student in the division of Society and Environment working in the disciplines of human geography and the environmental humanities. His research interests include disaster studies, environmental justice, disability studies, queer ecology, and environmental media. He is particularly invested in studying the interactions between disability rights and emergency management policy as they manifest in practice.
Gardiner’s personal and environmental nonfiction has been previously published in Edge Effects, Blue Mesa Review, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. He was...
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Society and Environment at UC Berkeley. I am also a member of two Designated Emphasis (DE) programs: DE in Women and Gender Studies and DE in Science and Technology Studies. Before arriving in Berkeley, I studied for two years in the Ph.D. program of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at NYU. I was born and grew up in Colombia, amid the beautiful and high altitude of Cordillera de Los Andes' mountains, in Boyacá Department. I moved to Bogotá after high school to study Sociology and then my master's in Literature and Philosophy. I love riding bikes.
Degrees M.A. Anthropology :: The New School for Social Research (2018) B.A. International Studies and Sociology :: Northwestern University (2012)
S.’s research explores the use of biometric technology within humanitarian responses to forced displacement. As contained sites such as camps or detention centers mark an increasingly small proportion of displaced persons in need of aid, humanitarian organizations are turning to biometric registration and other forms of large-scale data collection to identify populations continuously on the move. This project asks how “...
PhD Designated Emphasis in STS & History of Medicine
Department of History
Degrees MA History :: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2017) BA History and French :: University of Georgia (2009)
Elizabeth Hargrett is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UC Berkeley, a graduate student researcher at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS), and a co-organizer of the STS Futures Initiative. Though her previous research has covered medical jurisprudence in Gold Rush-era California and eugenic sterilization in postwar Georgia, her dissertation project examines the co-production of North Carolina's...
Advisor(s) Jovan Lewis and Jake Kosek Degrees BA Environmental Analysis :: Pitzer College
My research explores how the identity of a place gets formed through visuality, technology and racialization. How does a place like Oakland become a "Black city" in the public imagination, regardless of its actual Black population, and particularly in the midst of rapid gentrification and displacement? How does its identity transcend geographical borders through hyper-connectivity and visual technologies? And simultaneously, how does Oakland's position within the U.S. West and its white settler...
My current research pertains to disability, class, and the history of medicine and technology. I'm interested in how debates about formalism in literary culture, the life sciences, and clinical practice have shaded into, or served as proxies for, sites for the negotiation of what it means to be an embodied being. Part of this work involves recuperating and reconfiguring the history of medicine for disability studies. A longstanding concern in which these interests have found some traction is the science, social construction, and aesthetic representation of pain--as a non-object that...
