Past Visiting Scholar & Student

Marissa Mika

Visiting Student Researcher
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation “Surviving Experiments: Cancer Research in Uganda 1950s to the Present” Degrees Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science :: University of Pennsylvania (in progress)
MHS :: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (2007)
BA, Development Studies, Honors :: University of California, Berkeley (2003)

My dissertation, tentatively titled “Surviving Experiments: Cancer Research in Uganda 1950s to the Present” is a historical ethnography of how research initiatives on cancer created a fragile but longstanding culture of experimental oncology at the...

Takuto Miyamoto

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Alessandro Mongili

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Professor, Sociology
Università di Padova

Takashi Nishiyama

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Mona Park

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

PhD Student, Institute for Medial Psychology / Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU)
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Degrees M.Sc. :: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2010)

My dissertation project maps the intersection of art and neuroscience in the past, present and future. I am investigating how art and neuroscience relate to each other: how each discipline uses and benefits from the other’s perspectives and methods, how new knowledge is produced and how impulses and applications evolve from cross-...

Bibia Pavard

Visiting Scholar
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Paris Pantheon-Assas University

Degrees Ph.D. in History :: Sciences PO Paris (2010)
M.A. in History :: Sciences PO Paris (2003)
B.A. in History :: University of Toulouse II (2001)

Dr Bibia Pavard is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Paris Panthéon-Assas University. Her work is at the crossroads of the history of mobilizations, media analysis and history of social change with a special focus on gender and feminism. She has published on the issues of contraception and abortion in...

John Perkins

Research Associate
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Degrees AB Biology :: Amherst College (1964)
PhD Biology :: Harvard University (1969)
Postdoctoral Fellowship History of Science :: Harvard University (1971)

Member of the Faculty Emeritus, The Evergreen State College

John Perkins has been a Visiting Scholar at CSTMS from August 2018 to September 2020. He is currently a Research Associate at CSTMS.

John Perkins completed his undergraduate and graduate educations in biology, and his PhD work focused on the physiological and genetic...

Andrea Ploder

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Researcher on "Academic Media of a Theory of Practice: Harold Garfinkel and Ludwig Wittgenstein", DFG Collaborative Research Center "Media of Cooperation"
Siegen University

Degrees Ph.D. Philosophy :: University of Graz (2017)
M.A. Sociology :: University of Graz (2012)
M.A. Philosophy :: University of Graz (2012)

Curriculum Vitae (Ploder)

Andrea received her PhD in Philosophy with High Honors from Graz University. She studied...

Joanna Ploeger

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology