Research Fellows

Nina Beguš

Researcher
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Senior Researcher, ToftH
University of California, Berkeley

CSTMS Research Unit: Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies, CSTMS
Affiliation period: July 2022 - June 2024 Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature :: Harvard University
M.A. Comparative Literature :: Harvard University
B.A. M.A. equi. Comparative Literature and Slovenian Language and Literature :: University of Ljubljana

Nina Beguš was a Postdoctoral Scholar for CSTMS from July 1, 2022 until June 30, 2024. She now serves as an Assistant...

Lisa Allette Brooks

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Degrees

Ph.D. South & Southeast Asian Studies (Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies): University of California, Berkeley

M.A. Religious Studies: University of Colorado Boulder

M.A. African Studies: Yale University

B.A. Human Biology: Stanford University

Lisa Allette Brooks studies the history and practice of medicine and healing in first millennium South Asia and contemporary Āyurvedic medicine in Kerala. Her research focuses on gendered medical embodiment, expertise, and agency,...

John A. Douglass

Senior Research Fellow
Center for Studies in Higher Education

John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Globalization's Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World (Public Policy Press, 2009), and the author of The Conditions for Admissions (Stanford Press 2007) and The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2000 and 2007; published in Chinese in 2008 and in Japanese 2012). Among the research projects he co-founded and remains the...

Laura Draetta

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Affiliation period: November 2019 - December 2022 Degrees Ph.D. in Sociology :: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris- France (2003)
Masters in Environmental Science :: Universite de Liege- Belgium (1999)
Laurea in Political Science :: Universita di Milano- Italy (1996)

Associate Professor, Telecom Paris Tech Graduate School, Paris, France
Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation, CNRS/ Telecom Paris Tech/ Mines Paris Tech. Ecole Polytechnique
Affiliated...

Sam Weiss Evans

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Research Assistant Professor, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Tufts University
Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology & Society, Harvard University
Research Affiliate, Program on Emerging Technology, MIT

Sam studies the way research and technology become "of security concern" for states. He draws on and contributes to the literature on classification, boundary work, international political/technological institutions, and the co-production of social and technological systems.

From 2011-...

Gretchen Gano

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

University of Massachusetts Amherst

last updated: November 6th, 2017

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...

Ashton Wesner

Research Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society