Past 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 current Fellows, see the links on the left. Below are a list of the past 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. Some of the information below may be out of date; to update their information, former Fellows should e-mail Lauren Schiff.
Erik Aarden is working on his PhD dissertation with the Department of Health, Ethics and Society of Maastricht University. His research explores the rationalities behind the organization and provision of genetic health services in health care delivery schemes in the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain. Within this area, his work focuses on the politics of provision for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, risk assessment and monitoring for familial breast cancer and diagnosing familial hypercholesterolemia, to make a comparison of both different national contexts and different applications of genetics in medicine.
Peter Alagona received his PhD in history, with emphases in environmental history and the history of science, from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. His research focuses on the cultural and political histories of ecology and the related life, environmental, and conservation sciences. He is currently working to turn his dissertation, on the history of endangered species and biodiversity conservation in California, into a book.
Jay Aronson's research focuses on issues at the intersection of the life sciences, biotechnology, politics, and law. His current research explores the uses of DNA evidence in British immigration tribunals, as well as in international human rights work in Argentina, Central America, and the Former Yugoslavia. He is also interested in the challenges and benefits of public participation in bioethical decision-making.
Stève Bernardin research combines ethnographic and historical methods. He investigates the influence of history on the practices of bureaucrats and scientists within the current federal administration for traffic safety. His dissertation shows how previous social reformers met scientists in order to promote new visions of the citizen-consumer. By shedding light on shifts that occurred during the interwar period and in the mid-1960s, Stéve's forthcoming dissertation shows how 'legitimate science' was defined in the field of traffic safety in the United States.
Regula Valerie Burri is a sociologist and an associated research scholar at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich. Her research interests focus on the social, political, and cultural implications of science and technology, and involve topics like (visual) knowledge, uncertainty, identity, citizenship, participation, risk, and governance, especially in the fields of biomedicine, biosciences, and emerging technologies. With the support of the Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (TA-Swiss), she has recently conducted an ethnographic study of a citizen panel on nanotechnologies, health, and environment in Switzerland. Her current research focuses on emerging technologies and public policy, with special emphasis on public engagement.
Robert Doubleday is a Research Associate at the Department of Geography University of Cambridge. He works at the intersection of science and technology studies with geography, and focuses on the politics of science and emerging technologies.
Jim Dratwa's research and publications address issues of transnational or multi-level expertise, legitimacy, and governance — probing the interfaces between policy making, science, and other knowledge-claims. In particular, building on ethnographic inquiries into international organizations to unpack and enrich notions such as 'responsibility', 'proof', 'ethics', or 'experimentation', he pursues the import of the precautionary principle in risk regulation and of impact assessment in better regulation.
Adrian Ely visited the STS Program from SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex in 2004-5, whilst carrying out his PhD fieldwork. His doctoral project, completed in 2006, compared the ways in which scientific evidence was employed in the formulation and support of policies surrounding genetically modified maize (Bt corn) in the USA, UK, France and Austria.
Emanuela Gambini is a researcher in Philosophy of Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza (Italy), Law Faculty, and research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Science, Technology and Society Program in 2006.
Pru Hobson-West is a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Ethics. She is based at the University of Nottingham and is currently a visiting fellow in the Harvard STS Program. Pru holds an MA (hons.) from the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD investigated organised parental resistance to childhood vaccination policy in the UK. The thesis argues that risk is an insufficient framework for understanding vaccination attitudes, and that issues of trust and images of science and technology are more important.
Myanna Lahsen's research focuses on the production, dissemination, and contestation of climate-related science within U.S., international, and Brazilian scientific and political institutions. Through ethnographic methods, she has analyzed U.S. controversies involving climate science, relating the controversies to tensions rooted in socio-cultural and political transformations in science and society since the Second World War.
Jennifer Keelan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include public health policy, civic and social epistemology, the Public's understanding of science, and the history of medicine.
Christopher Kirchhoff serves in Washington, D.C. and Baghdad, Iraq as the lead writer on a comprehensive study of Iraq reconstruction by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent, Congressionally mandated office under the Department of Defense and State. He is on leave from his doctoral program at the Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University.
Monika Kurath is a post doctoral visiting researcher from the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich and the Program for Science Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the social and political implications of technological risks and comparative policy analysis. In her dissertation, she compared discourses on biotechnology between Europe and the U.S. She has been a Research Associate at the Office for History of Science and Technology at the UC Berkeley in 2001/2002. Currently, she works on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, comparing regulatory cultures of nanotechnologies.
Brice Laurent is a graduate student at the 'Corps des Mines' in Paris and employed by the French state ministry of industry. He has previously studied the role of consulting companies in industrial research and works now on nanotechnology and public policy, with a special interest on public engagement. He is interested in the ways public approaches are framed in the US and France.
Deborah Mascalzoni is currently working as Senior Researcher in Science and Society at the European Academy of Bolzano, Institute of Genetic Medicine. Her research interests include Philosophy of Science, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Science Policy, Philosophy of Politics. She is looking at the interaction between ethical, legal and social aspects of science dealing with the public.
Marybeth Long Martello's research examines global change science and governance in relation to a number of topics including indigenous knowledge, desertification, climate change and corporate sustainability. Much of her work focuses on the ways in which the practices and claims of global change science shape and are shaped by the identities, knowledges and political standing of environmentally at-risk communities.
Clark A. Miller is Associate Professor of Science Policy and Political Science in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. His current project is an analysis of the epistemological and institutional organization of security in world affairs from 1945 to the present, focusing on a comparative study of the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Katja Patzwaldt studied political science, history and regional development of Eastern Europe at the Berlin Free University in Germany, the Russian State University of Humanities and the Moscow Institute of International Relations. After graduating, she received a research, work and travel grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation and the German Studienstiftung and participated in a post-graduate programme of international affairs. During this time, she worked in research management, migration policy and employment policy and research for UNESCO, the ILO and the World Bank. Katja stayed at the Kennedy School in spring 2006, benefiting greatly from the discussions with Professor Jasanoff and the group of doctoral and post-doc fellows about "games of legitimacy", political decision-making and societal developments.
Roopali Phadke joined the Harvard STS program as a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. Roopali's research is at the nexus of environmental studies, international development and science and technology studies. Her current research focuses on the private and public development of water resources in South Asia. Within STS, her interests lie in the democratization of science and technology decision-making and the hybridization of technical expertise and local knowledge in development administration. She is also concerned with the use of participatory research methodologies and documentary filmmaking. Roopali's PhD is in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation examined how People's Science Movements in the Krishna Valley of India have fostered the equitable distribution of water and alternative designs for large dam development.
Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC-Irvine. He was initially trained as a biologist, obtained his Ph.D. in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology, and works on the anthropology of science and technology. Before joining UC-Irvine, he served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Kennedy School. His recent book titled Biocapital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life (2006) is a multi-sited ethnography of emergent genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India.
Celina Ramjoué works in the area of research policy at the European Commission's Research Directorate-General. In her current position as policy officer, she is in charge of the scholarly communications dossier and deals with the question of how the current scientific publication system (including issues like peer review, impact factor, publishing business models) interacts with research excellence, and what role it plays for access to and dissemination of scientific information.
Jenny Reardon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Adjunct Research Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in August 2002. From Fall 1999-Spring 2002, she was a Fellow in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She taught in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University from 2002-2004, and was a fellow at the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy and a research assistant professor Women's Studies at Duke University from 2004-2005. Her book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in 2005.
Frédérique Santerre's research examines the emergence and evolution of the international regulation of genetic resources, "bio-regulation" and "bio-governance", focusing on issues of conservation, trade and intellectual property rights [patents], as well as risk governance and biosafety.
Janina Schirmer's research focuses on European Innovation policy with an emphasis on frames in European Nanotechnology-Policy. She is based at the Bielefeld University and is working on her PhD in the graduate program "On the Way to Knowledge Society" at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT). Previously, Janina has received a M.A. in Political Science from Hannover University and a M.A. in Science and Technology Studies from Linköpings Universitet/Sweden and Université Louis Pasteur in Stasbourg/France.
Malte Schophaus's research focuses on issues at the intersection of science and technology studies and social movement research. His current research explores the role of scientific expertise for social movements and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the knowledge society.
Stefan Sperling completed his PhD in Princeton's Department of Anthropology. His dissertation, entitled Science and Conscience: Stem Cells, Bioethics, and German Citizenship, looks at bioethics as an ethnographic object. Through fieldwork with a bioethics commission advising the German parliament, and an anthropological re-reading of German history through the analytical lenses of transparency and conscience, the dissertation demonstrates that bioethics in present-day Germany is in part the result of culturally specific relations between the state and its citizens. The state is engaged in the project of shaping itself as morally legitimate, and it remakes its citizenry, as well as its scientists, to conform to collectively recognized standards of virtue. The dissertation further shows how this state-making project is deeply entangled with debates over the ethics of stem cell research and regulation.
Mariachiara Tallacchini joined the Harvard STS program as a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow on Prof. Jasanoff's programme "Reframing Rights: Constitutional Implications of Technological Change" in 2000/2001, working on regulatory models in xenotransplantation. Mariachiara's interests focus on technoscience and the law from a STS and legal philosophy perspective. Her current research involve issues of biomedicine and the law, such as regulatory aspects of human biological materials, tissue engineering, engineered animals, xenotransplantation, as well as more general policy and legal issues, such as the precautionary principle, the democratization of scientific expertise and democratic participatory procedures in science policy, and the political use of ethics as a regulatory measure.
David E. Winickoff has been a tenure-track faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2004. He served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Kennedy School from 2002-2004. Coming from law, bioethics, and STS, Winickoff conducts research on the interaction of science, norms, and politics of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on the governance of biotechnology.
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