Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Current Fellows
The Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard sponsors a small number of stipendary and non-stipendary fellowships each year at the Kennedy School of Government who conduct research and receive advanced training in Science and Technology Studies. For more information on the Fellows Program, click here. For information on past fellows, see the links on the left. Below are a list of the current fellows with the program and a brief description of their backgrounds and interests, with links to more detailed pages containing more detailed information as well as a list of their most recent publications.
Anders Blok is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University. His research concerns the cultural politics of scientific knowledge in global processes of environmental governance. For his PhD thesis, he examines how knowledge claims are authorised, negotiated, stabilized, or contested in two instances of global nature, selected within the fields of biodiversity and climate change.
Iris Eisenberger is a researcher and lecturer at Vienna University's Law Faculty, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her research focuses on emerging technologies. She has a PhD in Law from the University of Graz, Austria and a M.Sc. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Great Britain. Currently, she is working on a project on the legal governance of emerging technologies, particularly in the field of nanotechnology, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship)
Alexander Görsdorf's current research interest is on forms, possibilities and effects of public participation in technology assessment and risk management. His PhD thesis critically examines a popular participatory method, the Danish consensus conference, reconstructing the uses and empirical effects of face-to-face interactions as a means to bring about public reasoning.
Sang-Hyun Kim's current research focuses on the cultural politics of science and technology in Korea (where he grew up and did his first degree in chemistry). For instance, he is interested in how Korea's dominant sociotechnical visions came about, how these visions have informed the development and integration of science and technology into Korean society, and how they are imbued with the imagination of Korean nationhood.
Tolu Odumosu is a visiting fellow from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis examining the Telecommunications Industry in Nigeria focusing on the co-construction of the industry, the State, and conceptions of Democracy and Technological governance, paying particular attention to user agency, appropriation and use/consumption. He holds a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca NY and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Electronics from the University Of Lagos, Nigeria. Tolu is the recipient of the HASS Fellowship at RPI, which currently funds his research.
James Padilla-DeBorst is a lot of things including a husband, father of 6, a researcher, a professor and development practitioner. He is an adjunct Professor of International Development at Eastern University Philadelphia, PA, USA while he teaches in their Capetown, South Africa campus. He has spent nearly 20 years as a development practitioner both in Africa and Latin America, mainly in El Salvador where he made his home for 14 years. His current research focuses on transnational development institutions. He holds a Masters degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University Denver, CO, USA and a Masters degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Political and Economic Development for the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oliver Schilling is a doctoral candidate at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is interested in power-relations instituted through the construction of expertise with regards to institution and capacity building in newly emerging political systems. In his current research project, Oliver investigates the role of international consultants in the process of legal development in Cambodia. He explores issues of ownership and reliability of knowledge production questioning the paradigm of 'technical assistance' in development practice. Furthermore, the study looks at parameters, which determine the competition of different concepts of normativity in a trans-national context.
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