Past Graduate Student

Spencer Adams

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS

Department of Rhetoric

Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies

Advisor(s) Nasser Zakariya Degrees B.A. Physics :: Amherst College (2013)

I am a 2nd year PhD student in the Rhetoric department, pursuing designated emphases in critical theory and in science & technology studies. I came to the Rhetoric department with an interest in bringing a background in Physics to a study of philosophy, literature, and critical theory. My work thus far as a PhD has had two primary focuses. First, I'm interested in the reception of modern physics and its implications for critical theorizations of space, time, and knowledge...

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Sonja Amadae

Graduate Student

Office for the History of Science and Technology

Dissertation "Rational choice theory in U.S. economic, political, and policy science, 1944-1985: social scientists transform the language of democracy." Completed 1999

last updated: August 29th, 2012

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Sokhieng Au

Graduate Student

Office for the History of Science and Technology

Dissertation "Medicine and modernity in colonial Cambodia." Completed 2005

last updated: August 29th, 2012

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Ellen Bales

Graduate Student

Office for the History of Science and Technology

Dissertation "An element of uncertainty: Radon and the quantification of risk in 20th-century America, 1945-2000." Completed 2009

last updated: August 29th, 2012

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Javiera Barandiaran

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS

Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies

Dissertation Regulatory Science in a Developing State : Environmental Politics in Chile, 1980-2010 Completed 2013 Advisor(s) David Winickoff Degrees Master in Public Policy :: UC Berkeley (2008)
MA in Politics :: University of Edinburgh (2000)

Assistant Professor, Global Environment and Law
University of California, Santa Barbara

My dissertation, Contesting Democracy, Buying Experts: Environmental Conflicts and Assessments in Chile, examines how scientific and technical...

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Renata Barreto-Montenegro

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS

School of Law

Degrees JD / PhD :: University of California, Berkeley (2022)
B.A. International Economics & Political Science :: Reed College (2013)

Renata Barreto is pursuing a JD / PhD at Berkeley Law with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. Broadly, her research focuses on AI ethics, technology law, and computational social science. More specifically, Renata is interested in understanding how algorithmic bias impacts marginalized communities and developing scalable interventions for technology companies. She has interned at Twitter and Facebook, where she...

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Patrick Baur

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS

Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Completed 2016 Advisor(s) Alastair Iles Degrees BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy :: Harvard University (2007)

My research explores the history and politics of technological development and knowledge production in agriculture and food systems, with an eye toward democratizing these processes. Currently, I am developing a project to analyze emerging tensions between three distinct "progressive" trajectories in US agriculture -- local food, sustainable agriculture, and food safety -- through case studies of fresh produce supply...