Past Visiting Scholar & Student

Marc Pollock

PMH Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Editor and Manager of the Science and Technology Section, Los Angeles Review of Books Email: m.pridmorebrown@gmail.com, mpb@berkeley.edu, mpb@lareviewofbooks.org Dissertation Fascist Modernism and the Poetics of Technology Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature with an Emphasis in the History of Science :: Stanford University
B.A. Math and English :: Pomona...

Matt Rafalow

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

Senior Researcher, YouTube

Completed 2016 Degrees Ph.D. Sociology :: University of California-Irvine (2016)
M.A. Human Development :: Columbia University Teachers College (2010)

Matt is finishing a book on how digital tools are taken up and evaluated in different educational contexts. He compared how members of three technology-rich middle schools perceived the value of innovative new technologies and used them to teach so-called 21st century skills. He found that teachers drew on organization-level understandings of student...

Jessica Riskin

Graduate Student & Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The quarrel over method in natural science and politics during the late enlightenment." Completed 1995 Frances and Charles Field Professor of History Stanford University

Richard Rocco

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Samuel Merritt University

Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha

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

Universidad Estadual de Feira de Santana (State University of Feira de Santana)

Advisor(s) Cathryn Carson Degrees Ph.D. History of Science :: Program in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia; UFBA) (2015)
M.A. History of Science :: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais; UFMG). (2006)
B.S. Physics :: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais; UFMG). (2003)

My project takes as its starting point the categories of "...

Joshua Roebke

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees M.Sc., Theoretical Particle Physics :: McGill University (2003)
BA, Nuclear Physics and Spanish Literature :: Michigan State University (2001)

Joshua received his B.S. in Nuclear Physics and Spanish Literature with High Honors from Michigan State University. He then received a Master's in Theoretical Particle Physics from McGill University in Montréal. Currently, his areas of interest are physics in the 20th Century (especially particle physics and quantum physics in their cultural contexts), and science in the media, arts, literature, and popular culture....

Miguel Sánchez Romero

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Tiago Saraiva

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Assistant Professor, Department of History & Politics
Drexel University

Dissertation "The Urban Dynamics of Science: Madrid and Lisbon, 1851-1900” Advisor(s) Antonio Lafuente Degrees Ph.D. History of Science :: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Sobresaliente “Cum Laude”) (2004)
M.A. History and Philosophy of Science :: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2000)
B.Sc, Materials Engineering :: Superior Technical Institute (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (1997)

Science and fascism (Italy, Germany,...

Arne Schirrmacher

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Heisenberg Fellow, History
Senior Lecturer, History of Science
Humboldt University, Berlin
Technical University of Berlin

Degrees PhD Physics, Habilitation History of Science

Arne had studied natural sciences and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg, Oxford and Munich and came to Berkeley first as a physics postdoc at LBNL. After a stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin he was a long-term research scholar at the Deutsches Museum in Munich with projects in history of physics, history...