Past Graduate Student

Angelo Matteo Caglioti

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology, CSTMS
Dissertation Meteorological Imperialism: Colonialism and the Making of Meteorology in Liberal and Fascist Italy (1870-1940). Completed 2017 Advisor(s) Massimo Mazzotti Degrees Ph.D. History with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies (STS) :: University of California, Berkeley (2017)
M.A. History :: University of California, Berkeley (2013)
Laurea triennale (2009) and Magistrale (2011) in History :: Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) Assistant Professor of History ...

Liz Carlisle

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Department of Geography
ompleted 2015 Advisor(s) Nathan Sayre, Jake Kosek Degrees BA Folklore and Mythology :: Harvard University (2006)

Can "situated science," rooted in particular places and relationships, support more ecologically sustainable and socially just food systems? What can we learn from existing on-farm science and knowledge networks? I came to these research questions (and graduate school) from my upbringing in Montana, my experience conducting ethnographic research in rural America, a brief career as a country singer, and a stint working for a US...

Rachel Ceasar

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies

PhD, Medical Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco

Completed 2015

last updated: March 20th, 2018

John Cheng

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Amazing, astounding, wonder: Popular science, culture, and the emergence of science fiction in the United States, 1926-1939." Completed 1997

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Renee Michelle Courey

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Participants in the development, marketing and safety evaluation of the oral contraceptive, 1950-1965: mythic dimension of a scientific solution." Completed 1994

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Savannah Cox

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of City & Regional Planning
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Advisor(s) Stephen Collier and Sarah Vaughn Degrees MA International Affairs :: The New School
BA Political Science and Spanish :: Bellarmine University

I study the technologies and forms of expertise that cities use to constitute climate change as a problem that requires intervention. Specifically, I examine how these instruments—such as catastrophe models, financial risk assessments and ratings, and flood maps—become authoritative to urban planners, as well as the assumptions and values that often undergird them. As planners typically employ these...

Shannon Cram

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Geography
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Completed 2015 Advisor(s) Jake Kosek Degrees MA in Geography :: University of Oregon (2006)
BA in Geography :: Humboldt State University (2002)

My research explores the politics of nuclear waste management at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. I am particularly interested in the social and scientific making of "permissible exposure," and how suffering bodies, contaminated lands, and nuclear materials are understood within the multiple frameworks of ecological science, medicine, environmental activism, and bureaucratic...

Donald T. Critchlow

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The Brookings Institution: the early history 1916-1952 expertise and influence in a democratic society." Completed 1978

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Paula De Vos

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The art of pharmacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mexico." Completed 2000

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Eduardo A. Escobar

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Dissertation Technology as Knowledge: A Study of Cuneiform Procedural Recipes and Materials Completed 2017 Degrees MA :: Columbia University
BFA :: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

My research focuses on technical and medical procedural recipes from the ancient Middle East, composed in Akkadian on cuneiform tablets during the late second and first millennia BCE.

I study the languages, historiography, and the production of scientific and technical knowledge in Assyrian and Babylonian scholarship.

My...