Past Visiting Scholar & Student

Cansu Guner

Visiting Student Researcher
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees M.A. International Relations :: Koc University (2013)
B.A. International Relations (Double Major) :: Istanbul Bilgi University (2009)
B.A. Public Relations (Double Major) :: Istanbul Bilgi University (2009)

PhD Candidate, Munich Center for Technology in Society
Technical University of Munich

Cansu's academic research interests lie at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Entrepreneurial Studies, and Feminist TechnoScience. Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on (re)configuring entrepreneurship, the future of work in...

Linda Hatofsky

PMH Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Linda Spector-Hatofsky has devoted the better part of fifty years to working in many aspects of community theatre -- as a director, playwright and instructor of acting and improvisation. Her students -- disabled, able-bodied, young and old, range in ages from 6 to 100.

For 27 years, she served as co-director and playwright for STAGEBRIDGE, a senior theater company whose goal is to use Drama and Storytelling to bridge the gap between generations and make dramatic activities an opportunity for elders. Linda has also created what she calls "Imaginations Workshops", working with...

Elke Heckner

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees PhD :: Johns Hopkins University (2000)

Sandra Herbert

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
President-elect, History of Earth Sciences Society

Completed 1968 Degrees Ph.D. :: Brandeis University (1968)
M.A. :: Brandeis University (1965)
B.A. :: Wittenberg University (1963)

last updated: June 29th, 2020

Norriss Hetherington

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Shizue Hinokawa

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Nian-Sheng Huang

Visiting Scholar
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees Ph.D. in History :: Cornell University (1990)
M.A. in History :: Cornell University (1987)
M.A. in History :: Tufts University (1983)

Trained in history, he has published extensively on the life and legacy of the colonial polymath Benjamin Franklin, including Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture and Franklin's Father Josiah (both by the American Philosophical Society). As a visiting scholar at CSTMS, he will continue a research project connecting history with physics, which is titled “Einstein’s Unifying Theory Explained.” About ten years ago,...

Adeline Holmedahl Hvidsten

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees M.S. Innovation and Entrepreneuriship :: BI Norweigian Business School, Oslo, Norway (2014)
B.A. Art and Design :: Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway (2012)

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Strategy, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway


My Ph.D. research project aims to explore the dynamics between design and use with a special focus on the unexpected consequences/effects of technological innovation, through a combination of ethnographically inspired methods and participatory design/action research. It examines the...

Lina Ingeborgrud

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture; Center for Technology and Society
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Completed 2017 Advisor(s) Vivian Anette Lagesen and Knut Holtan Sørensen (NTNU, Norway) Degrees M.S. Science and Technology Studies :: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014)
B.S. Art and Theater Studies :: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2012)

In my Ph.D, I am exploring knowledge and learning practices of sustainable city and...

Karena Kalmbach

Visiting Student Researcher
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation CHERNOBYL – TCHERNOBYL: National and Transnational Facets of a Contested 'Truth'. The British and French Debates on the Accident's Impact in Comparative Perspective. Degrees Master of Research (Department of History and Civilization) :: European University Institute, Florence (2011)
Magister Artium (Master equivalent) in History, Political Science and Communication Science :: Freie Universität Berlin (2009)

PhD Candidate, Department of History and Civilization
European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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