Past Graduate Student

Abigail Lustig

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The creation and uses of horticulture in Britain and France in the nineteenth century." Completed 1997

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Anne Macpherson

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The human geography of Alexander von Humboldt." Completed 1971

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Marjorie C. Malley

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "From hyperphosphorescence to nuclear decay: a history of the early years of radioactivity, 1869-1914." Completed 1976

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Andrew Mamo

Graudate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Post-industrial engineering: Computer science and the organization of white-collar work, 1945-1975." Completed 2011

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Greta Marchesi

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Geography
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Completed 2016

Greta Marchesi studies emergent forms of knowledge that follow new governance regimes. She studies scientific and popular media in tandem with bureaucratic records to ask how transnational science is diversely mobilized in- and informed by- different political contexts. Presently, this work takes the form of two projects: 1) a study of scientific soil conservation in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States in the reformist era of the 1930s and 2) an exploration of the global links between social ecology, racial science, and anti-imperialism in the early 20...

Abigail Martin

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Completed 2017 Advisor(s) David Winickoff Degrees BA Sociology, Environmental Science (minor) :: Barnard College & Columbia University

I study politics in the biofuel industries of Brazil and the US, looking specifically at: (1) the political economy of ethanol development; (2) the conflicts that have emerged surrounding cellulosic ethanol technologies; (3) how new forms of expertise are emerging across a 'multi-level' policy field to address some of these conflicts

last updated: March 20th, 2018

Nain Martinez

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Advisor(s) Matthew D. Potts, Alastair Iles, & Kate O'Neill Degrees M.S. Ecosystem Management of Arid Zones :: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2014)
B.S. Biology :: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2010)

My research interests focus on understanding the social dimension of the ongoing energy transition in Mexico. Energy transition policies have been successfully promoting the investment in renewable energy projects, but they are facing strong social opposition, especially in indigenous communities. Thus, my research aims to undertake...

Victoria Massie

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Anthropology
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Advisor(s) Cori Hayden Degrees B.A. (Honors) Anthropology and African & African American Studies :: University of Rochester (2011)

My research examines the transnational circulation of genetic ancestry testing information by African-Americans, particularly between (but not exclusive to) the United States and Cameroon. I am interested in the processes by which identities and histories are being narrativized and materialized by varying groups in different geographic spaces simultaneously, and how this refracts the way we conceptualize race, genetics, and...

Beki McElvain

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of City & Regional Planning
Degrees MCP, City and Regional Planning :: UC Berkeley (2016)
BA, Public (Urban) Policy, :: Mills College (2014)

While cities can anticipate an increasing frequency and severity of climate related disasters, political uncertainty and global pandemic fallout are producing fiscal crises in state and local economies. This convergence of crises exposes a ‘muddy politics’ that upends implicit assumptions about the existence of a functioning state and its role in addressing climate risk.

My current research explores how this muddiness came to the surface in Mexico...

Heather Mellquist

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Anthropology
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies