Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Maddie is a third year Ph.D. Student in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management. Their research brings together disability studies and environmental justice to explore how disabled and chronically ill communities are affected by climate change.
They graduated from Barnard College in 2017, and their experiences navigating ableism while working in the environmental field led them to their current research interest at UC Berkeley. In their free time they enjoy knitting, playing music, and exploring the Bay Area with their dog, Winnie.
My research revolves around the relation between legible and illegible in visual experiences. A particular interest is the problematic idea of time- or culture-specific object, wherein emerge questions of repetition and singularity, representational technologies, transhistorical hermeneutics, and the margin of writing.
Advisor(s) Mariane Ferme and Sarah Vaughn Degrees M.Sc. Social Anthropology :: London School of Economics (2016) M.A. Economics :: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2015) M.A. Geography :: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008)
I study the ways in which economists shape our society. My dissertation research is an ethnographic study of academic development economists in the United States. I’m interested in how economics produces its object of study, and the impact of that process of production on our societies.
Degrees BA Biology and Comparative Literature :: Swarthmore College (2010)
Suzanne Winter is a PhD Candidate in the History Department. She works in the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on the history of sexology in medical education and women's history in 19th century Western US hospitals. Prior to graduate school, Suzanne taught sexual education, science, and literacy to middle and high school students in New York City, and she previously developed wine educational and promotional campaigns with Austrian, German, and local winemakers. She completed a double...
