Curriculum Vitae

David J. Hess Sociology Department Vanderbilt University PMB 351811 Nashville, TN 37235-1811 (615) 322-7505 fax (615) 322-7625 department office (615) 322-8539 direct line david.j.hess@vanderbilt.edu <http://www.davidjhess.org> ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2011-present Professor, Sociology Department, Vanderbilt University James Thornton Fant Chair in Sustainability Studies Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment Director, Undergraduate Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies Director, Undergraduate Program in Sociology 1989-2011 Science and Technology Studies Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2006-2011 Director, Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy

2000-2004 Department chair 1998 Professor 1994 Associate Professor 1989 Assistant Professor

1987-89 Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University

EDUCATION Ph.D. Cornell University, Anthropology with Latin American Studies (1987) M.A. Cornell University, Anthropology (1983) Courses Summer session courses in anthropology and sociology, University of California, Berkeley (part-time, while working) B.A. Harvard University, B.A., Economics (with honors, 1978)

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HONORARY POSITIONS AND AWARDS 2017- Editorial Board Member, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology

and Society 2015- Editorial Board Member, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2012 Star-Nelkin Paper Award, Section on Knowledge and Society, American

Sociological Association, for “Science and Neoliberal Globalization” (coauthored) in Theory and Society

2012-present Editorial Board Member, Science as Culture 2012-present Editorial Board Member, Nature + Culture 2011 Wiley Distinguished Professor Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2011-present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management and Sustainability 2010 Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship, General Anthropology

Division, American Anthropological Association for the article “Crosscurrents,” published in the American Anthropologist

2009 Robert K. Merton Award, Section on Knowledge and Technology, American Sociological Association, for an outstanding book on science, knowledge or technology published during the preceding 3 years

2007-present Editorial Board Member, Social Studies of Science Editorial Board Member, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 2004 Professorial Visiting Fellow, University of Wollongong 2000 Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee of the Anthropology of Science and

Technology and Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association, for the best book or series of published articles in the anthropology of work, science, and/or technology, including biomedicine

1999-present Editorial board member, Qualitative Research 1995-99 Editorial board member, Luso-Brazilian Review 1995 Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Brazil, and visiting professor, Universidade

Federal Fluminense 1995 Rensselaer Early Career Award 1991-1993 Rensselaer Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award 1985-1986 Social Science Research Council Fellowship (dissertation) 1984-1985 Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship (dissertation) 1983-1984 National Resource Fellowship (pre-dissertation) 1981-1983 Andrew Dickson White Fellowship (selective graduate fellowship) RESEARCH GRANTS 2017-2022 Co-Principal Investigator, “PIRE: Science of Design for Societal-Scale

Cyber-Physical System,” NSF, ~$4 million

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2014-2017 Co-Principal Investigator, “Water Conservation and Hydrological Transitions in American Cities,” Hydrologic Sciences, NSF, EAR-1416964, $716,114

2013-2015 Principal Investigator, “Conditions Favoring Consensus in State-Level Energy Policy,” STS Program, National Science Foundation, SES-1329310, $208,763. Included one-week summer training seminar for 19 graduate students from Vanderbilt and other graduate programs across the country.

2010-2012 Principal Investigator, “The Greening of Economic Development.” Science and Technology Studies Program, NSF, SES-0947429 $250k. Supports 8 students in the summer. Study of state and local government policies in the U.S. that support the formation of clean-tech industrial clusters and green jobs training. (This is an average-sized grant in the NSF STS program.)

2010-2011 Co-investigator, “Graduate Teaching Fellows in Community Situated Research: The Triple Helix of University, K-12, and Community Knowledge Production.” PI, Ron Eglash, NSF. $2 million.

2008-2009 Principal Investigator, “Social Enterprise and Sustainable Design,” internal grant, Office of the Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, $25k. The grant included support for my graduate student Jennifer Barton.

2005-2006 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, “Sustainable Technology, the Politics of Design, and Localism,” SES-00425039 $160k

2000-2003 Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, “Product Design in Innovation,” $188k + $200k matching. Cross-school undergraduate curriculum development grant. Lead implementer of the grant in its second and third years. Author of the curriculum for the new bachelor’s degree in Design, Innovation, and Society. As of 2008 the program admitted 30 students per year and had influenced STS-design-engineering collaborations throughout the world. The grant supported STS students Dean Nieusma, Jill Fisher, Torin Monahan, Ken Fleischmann, Sulfikar Amir, and Hector Postigo (each at one or two semesters, all now in tenure-track or tenured positions at research universities).

1996-98 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Scholars Award with graduate student RA, “Public Understanding of Science: Expert and Lay Reconstructions of Science in the Alternative Cancer Therapy Movement,” SES 9511543, $73,500.

1988 Summer Travel Grant, Colgate University Faculty Major Grants Competition (approximately $5,000)

STUDENT AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 2015- James Thornton Fant Chair fund. Numerous graduate student and

undergraduate student coauthored projects.

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2017 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Project, $5000. For project with Madison Renner on conservative parties in Europe and climate-change policies.

2012-2013 Furman University sub-award for student sustainability fellows. $25k. 2012 Director for Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program (alumni

donor), $100k gift. 2003-05 National Institute of Mental Health, NIH. Dissertation support for my

student Jill Fisher, $83k 2000-2011 NSF STS Program Dissertation Improvement grants (each $8-12k):

Govind Gopakumar (committee member) Ken Fleischmann (committee chair and PI) Virginia Eubanks (committee member) Patrick Feng (committee member) Natasha Lettis (committee chair and PI) Nicole Farkas (committee member) Anna Lamprou (committee co-chair) In all cases I worked closely with the students to help with the drafting of the proposals.

1993-1994 Co-Principal Investigator, Cross-Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education $264,487 (Project Number P6116B10737). Co-investigator during first year, then Co-PI and lead implementer of the grant during the second and third years.

PUBLICATIONS H Index of selected journals, 2016 (SC Imago, where ASR=141, Social Forces=92, and Social Problems=65): American Journal of Public Health (196); Research Policy (160); Water Resources Research (144); Energy Policy (123); Global Environmental Change (103); Journal of the American Water Resources Association (76); Current Anthropology (75); Sociology of Health and Illness (73); Antipode (69); Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (64); American Anthropologist (61); Social Studies of Science (61); Theory and Society (55); Public Understanding of Science (52); Science, Technology, and Human Values (51). Highly cited articles: 37, 44, 46, 50, 53, and 67. I. Books and Edited Volumes 2016 Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial

Transitions. MIT Press. 2014 Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics, and Publics in the Neoliberal Age

(Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 27), edited by Scott Frickel and David Hess.

2012 Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy. MIT Press. Analysis of the intersection of green transition politics and the relative decline of the U.S. in the global

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economy, factors behind the unevenness of green transition policies in the U.S.

2010 Building Clean-Energy Industries and Green Jobs: Policy Innovations at the State and Local Government Level. (330-page research report.) By David Hess, David Banks, Bob Darrow, Joe Datko, Jaime D. Ewalt, Rebecca Gresh, Matthew Hoffmann, Anthony Sarkis, and Logan Williams. Troy, NY: Science and Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.davidjhess.net.

2009 Localist Movements in a Global Economy. MIT Press. Analysis of environmental and equity dimensions of the economic development, buy local movements, urban agriculture, local energy, and community media with historical contextualization and policy analysis. Supplemental case studies at www.davidjhess.org. Excerpted in:

Localization: A Transition Reader, ed. by Raymond DeYoung and Thomas Princen (MIT Press).

“Special Issue on Urban Agriculture,” ed. by Kim Jin-Oh. Environment and Landscape Architecture.

2007 Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry. MIT Press. Analysis of the generative dimensions of social movements in industrial innovation with emphasis on environmental and equity issues.

Excerpted in: “Science in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization.” In Sandra Harding (ed.),

The Postcolonial Studies Reader. Routledge. 2004 Science as Culture, editor of special issue on “Health, the Environment, and

Social Movements,” 13(4). Edited collection with an introduction. 2001 Studying Those Who Study Us, by Diana Forsythe. Posthumous collection on

artificial intelligence and gender. Edited by and with an introduction by David Hess. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1999 Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies. Edited collection of interviews of leaders of the CAM cancer therapy movement. Rutgers University Press.

1998 Women Confront Cancer. Edited collection of interviews with patient advocacy leaders. Coedited with my student Margaret Wooddell (first author). New York University Press.

1997 Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? History and politics of an alternative pathway in cancer research. New York University Press.

1997 Science Studies. An advanced introduction to STS theory. New York University Press. Supplemental web lectures at www.davidjhess.org.

1995 Science and Technology in a Multicultural World. An exploration of various approaches to the culture concept in science and technology studies. Columbia University Press.

1995 The Brazilian Puzzle. A comparative perspective in Brazilian studies. Coedited with Roberto DaMatta. Columbia University Press.

1994 Samba in the Night. Fieldwork account of the religious movement in Brazil known as “Spiritism.” Columbia University Press.

1993 Science in the New Age. Monograph on cultural aspects of the New Age movement and science in the U.S. University of Wisconsin Press.

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Chinese translation: Jiangxi Education Press, 1998. 1992 Knowledge and Society Volume 9. Coedited with Linda Layne, introduction by

Hess, series editor Arie Rip. JAI Press. A founding volume in anthropological and cultural approaches to science and technology studies.

1991 Spirits and Scientists. Monograph on scientific and medical controversies associated with the Spiritist religious movement in Brazil. Pennsylvania State University Press.

II. Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Essay Reviews 91. Forthcoming. David J. Hess and Kate Pride Brown. Water and the Politics of

Sustainability Transitions: From Regime Actor Conflicts to System Governance Organizations. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 10.1080/1523908X.2017.1341304.

90. Forthcoming. Benjamin Sovacool and David J. Hess. Ordering Theories: Taxonomies, Typologies, and Conceptual Frameworks for Technology and Society. Social Studies of Science

89. Forthcoming. David J. Hess, Quan D. Mai, Rachel Skaggs, and Magdalena Sudibjo. Local Matters: Political Opportunities, Spatial Scale, and Support for Green Jobs Policies. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

88. Forthcoming. Holly J. McCammon, Allison McGrath, David J. Hess, and Minyoung Moon. 2017. “Women, Leadership, and the U.S. Environmental Movement.” In Holly J. McCammon and Lee Ann Banaszak (eds.), 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism. Oxford University Press.

87. 2017. David J. Hess, Christopher A. Wold, Scott C. Worland, and George M. Hornberger. “Measuring Urban Water Conservation Policies: Toward a Comprehensive Index.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 53(2): 442-455. 10.1111/1752-1688.12506.

86. 2017. David J. Hess and Kate Pride Brown. “Green Tea: Clean-Energy Conservatism as a Countermovement.” Environmental Sociology 3(1): 64-75. DOI 10.1080/23251042.2016.1227417.

85. 2017. David J. Hess and Rachel G. McKane. “Renewable Energy Research and Development: A Political Economy Perspective.” In David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, and Charles Thorpe, eds. Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science. Pp. 275-288.

84. 2017. David J. Hess, Sulfikar Amir, Scott Frickel, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Kelly Moore, and Logan Williams. “Structural Inequality and the Politics of Science and Technology.” In Rayvon Fouché, Clarke Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr, and Ulrike Felte (eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. MIT Press. Pp. 319-347.

83. 2017. Kate Pride Brown and David J. Hess. “The Politics of Water Conservation: Identifying and Overcoming Political Barriers to Successful Policies.” Water Policy 19(2): 304-321. 10.2166/wp.2016.089.

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82. 2016. Kate Pride Brown and David J. Hess. “Pathways to Policy: Partisanship and Bipartisanship in Renewable Energy Policy.” Environmental Politics 26: 971-990. 10.1080/09644016.2016.1203523

81. 2016. David J. Hess, Christopher A. Wold, Elise Hunter, John Nay, Scott Worland, Jonathan Gilligan, and George M. Hornberger. “Drought, Risk, and Institutional Politics in the American Southwest.” Sociological Forum 31(S1): 807-827. 10.1111/socf.12274. Open access.

80. 2016. Anna Lamprou and David J. Hess. 2016. “Finding Political Opportunities: Civil Society, Industrial Power, and the Governance of Nanotechnology in the European Union.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2: 35-54.

79. 2016. Hess, David J. “The Politics of Niche-Regime Conflicts: Distributed Solar Energy in the United States.” Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 19: 42-50. 10.1016/j.eist.2015.09.002.

78. 2016. Hess, David J. 2016. “Social Movements, Civil Society, and Sustainability Politics.” In Steven Moore (ed.), Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and Practical Tools. Second edition. MIT Press. Revised and updated version of article originally published in 2010.

77. 2016 Hess, David J., Quan D. Mai, and Kate Pride Brown. “Red States, Green Laws: Ideology and Renewable Energy Legislation in the United States.” Energy Research and Social Science 11: 19-28.

76. 2015 Hornberger, George M., David J. Hess, and Jonathan Gilligan. “Water Conservation and Hydrological Transitions in American Cities.” Water Resources Research 51(6): 4635-3649.

75. 2015 Hess, David J. “Undone Science and Social Movements: A Review and Typology.” In Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge. Pp. 141-154.

74. 2015 Hess, David J. “Public as Threats? Integrating Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Social Movement Studies (SMS).” Science as Culture 24(1): 69-82.

73. 2015 Hess, David J., Jonathan S. Coley, Quan D. Mai, and Lucas Hilliard. “Party Differences and Energy Reform: Fiscal Conservatism in the California Legislature.” Environmental Politics 24(2): 228-248.

72. 2015 Hess, David J., and Quan Mai. “The Convergence of Economic Development and Energy Transition Policies in State-government Plans in the United States.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 11(1): 5-20. http://sspp.proquest.com/static_content/vol11iss1/1404-006.hess.pdf

71. 2014 Hess, David J. and Quan D. Mai. “Renewable Electricity Policy in Asia: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Factors Affecting Sustainability Transitions.” Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 12:31-46.

70. 2014 Hess, David J. “Smart Meters and Public Acceptance: Comparative Analysis and Governance Implications.” Health, Risk, and Society 16(3): 243-258.

69. 2014 Hess, David J. “Beyond Scientific Consensus: Scientific Counterpublics, Countervailing Industries, and Competing Research Agendas.” In Peter Wehling, Willy Viehöver, and Sophia Koenen, eds. The Public Shaping of Medical Research: Patient Associations, Health Movements, and Biomedicine. Routledge. Pp. 151-171.

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68. 2014 Hess, David J. “Political Ideology and the Green-Energy Transition in the United States.” In Daniel Kleinman and Kelly Moore, eds. Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society. New York: Routledge. Pp. 277-291.

67. 2014 David J. Hess and Jonathan Coley. “Wireless Smart Meters and Public Acceptance: The Environment, Limited Choices, and Precautionary Politics.” Public Understanding of Science 23(6): 688-702. Eighth most highly cited article in this journal for this year (as of May, 2016).

66. 2014 Hess, David J. “When Green Became Blue: Epistemic Rift and the Corralling of Climate Science.” Political Power and Social Theory 27: 123-153.

65. 2014 Hess and Frickel. “Introduction: Fields of Knowledge and Theory Traditions in the Sociology of Science.” Political Power and Social Theory, 27: 1-30.

64. 2014 “Sustainability Transitions: A Political Coalition Perspective.” Research Policy 43(2): 278-283.

63. 2013 “Industrial Fields and Countervailing Power: The Transformation of Distributed Solar Energy in the United States.” Global Environmental Change 23(5): 847-855.

62. 2013 “Transitions in Energy Systems: The Mitigation-Adaptation Relationship.” Science as Culture, special issue on energy futures. 22(2): 197-203.

61. 2013 “Neoliberalism and the History of STS Theory: Toward a Reflexive Sociology.” Social Epistemology 27(2): 177-193.

60. 2013 “Local and Not-So-Local Exchanges: Alternative Economies, Ethnography, and Social Science.” In Jeff Juris and Alex Khasnabish (eds.), Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political. Duke University Press.

59. 2013 “Sustainable Consumption, Energy, and Failed Transitions: The Problem of Adaptation.” In Maurie Cohen, Halina Brown, and Philip Vergragt (eds.), Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-Technical Transitions, and Social Practices. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Pp. 159-178.

58. 2012 “Cultures of Science.” In Sabine Massen, Mario Kaiser, Martin Reinhart, Barbara Sutter, eds. Handbuch Wissenschaftersoziologie. VS Verlag. Pp. 177-190.

57. 2012 “The Green Transition, Neoliberalism, and the Technosciences.” In Luigi Pellozzoni and Marja Ylönen (eds.), Neoliberalism and Technosciences: Criticial Assessments. Edward Elgar. Pp. 209-230.

56. 2012 Jonathan Coley and David Hess. “Green Energy Laws and Republican Legislators in the United States.” Energy Policy 48(1): 576-583.

55. 2012 “Nanotechnology and the Environment.” By David Hess and Anna Lamprou. In Donald Mclaurcan, ed., Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability. CRC Press.

54. 2011 “To Tell the Truth: On Scientific Counterpublics.” Public Understanding of Science 20(5): 627-641. Fifth most highly cited article in this journal for this year (as of May, 2016).

53. 2011 “Bourdieu and Science and Technology Studies: Toward a Reflexive Sociology.” Minerva 49(3): 333-348.

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52. 2011 “Electricity Transformed: Neoliberalism and Local Energy in the United States.” Antipode 43(3): 1056-1057.

51. 2011 “Science and Neoliberal Globalization: A Political Sociological Approach.” Coauthored with Kelly Moore, Scott Frickel, and Daniel Kleinman. Theory and Society 40(5): 505-532. Most highly cited article in this journal for this year (as of May, 2016).

50. 2010 “Sustainable Consumption and the Problem of Resilience.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 6(2): 1-30.

49. 2010 “Declarations of Independents: On Local Knowledge and Localist Knowledge.” Anthropological Quarterly 83(1): 147-170.

48. 2010 “A Political Economy of Sustainability: Alternative Pathways and Industrial Innovation.” In Steven Moore (ed.), Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and Practical Tools. MIT Press.

47. 2010 “Undone Science: Social Movement Challenges to Dominant Scientific Practice.” By Scott Frickel, Sahra Gibbon, Jeff Howard, Joana Kempner, Gwen Ottinger, and David Hess. Science, Technology, and Human Values 35(4): 444-473. Second most highly cited article in this journal (for 2009, as of May, 2016).

46. 2010 “Environmental Reform Organizations and Undone Science in the United States: Exploring the Environmental, Health, and Safety Implications of Nanotechnology.” Science as Culture 19(2): 181-214.

45. 2009 “The Potentials and Limitations of Civil Society Research: Getting Undone Science Done.” Sociological Inquiry 79(3): 306-327. Third most highly cited article in this journal for this year (as of May, 2016).

44. 2008 “Localism and the Environment.” Sociology Compass 2(2): 625-638. 43. 2008 “Science, Technology, and Social Movements.” By David Hess, Steve

Breyman, Nancy Campbell, and Brian Martin. Handbook of Science and Technology, edited by Ed Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman.

42. 2007 “Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments.” By David Hess and Langdon Winner. Local Environment. 12(4): 1-17.

41. 2007 “Crosscurrents: Social Movements and the Anthropology of Science and Technology.” American Anthropologist 109(3): 463-472.

40. 2007 “What is a Clean Bus? Object Conflicts in the Greening of Urban Transit.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 3(1): 1-14.

39. 2006 “The University and Sustainable Regional Industries.” In The River Farm Conversations, ed. by Arthur Nelson, Barbara Allen, and David Trauger. Alexandria, VA: Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech.

38. 2006 “Backfire, Repression, and the Theory of Transformative Events.” By David Hess and Brian Martin. Mobilization 11(2): 249-267. Most highly cited article in this journal for this year (as of May, 2016).

37. 2006 “Antiangiogensis Research and the Dynamics of Scientific Research Fields: Historical and Institutional Perspectives in the Sociology of Science.” In Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore (eds.), The New Political Sociology of

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Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power. University of Wisconsin Press.

36. 2005 “Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating Social Movement Studies and STS.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 30(4): 515-535.

35. 2005 “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” In Sal Restivo, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Pp. 67-72. Oxford University Press.

34. 2005 “Cancer.” In Carl Mitcham, ed., Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Vol. 1: 285-288. Updated in 2014.

33. 2005 “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” In Carl Mitcham, ed., Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Vol. 1: 384-387. Updated in 2014.

32. 2004 “Organic Agriculture and Food in the U.S.: Object Conflicts in a Health-Environmental Social Movement” Science as Culture 13(4): 493-514.

31. 2004 “Medical Modernization, Scientific Research Fields, and the Movement for Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies.” Sociology of Health and Illness 26(6): 695-709.

30. 2004 “CAM Cancer Therapies in Twentieth-Century North America: Examining Continuities and Change.” In Robert Johnston (ed.), The Politics of Healing. Routledge.

29. 2003 “Technology, Medicine, and Modernity.” In Arie Rip, Philip Brey, and Tom Misa, Technology and Modernity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

28. 2003 “Product Design and Innovation: Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Design Curriculum.” By Frances Bronet, Ron Eglash, Gary Gabriele, David Hess, and Larry Kagan. International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) 19(1): 183-191.

27. 2002 “The Raw and the Organic: Politics of Therapeutic Cancer Diets in the U.S.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 583(September): 76-97.

26. 2002 “Stronger Versus Weaker Integration Policies.” American Journal of Public Health 92(10): 12-14.

25. 2002 “Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas,” by E.J. Woodhouse, David Hess, Steve Breyman, and Brian Martin. Social Studies of Science 32(2): 297-319.

24. 2001 “Scientific Culture.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, Pergamon.

23. 2001 “Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies.” Sage Handbook of Ethnography. Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, Lyn Lofland, and John Lofland, eds. Translated into Russian (Etnografischeskoe Obozrenie).

22. 2000 “Patients, Science, and Alternative Cancer Therapies.” In Preventing Cancer in North America, edited by Diane Wiener. Greenwood Press.

21. 2000 “Medical Integration and Questions of Universalism.” [Portuguese] In Laura Graziela Gomes, ed. Twentieth Anniversary Commemoration of

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Carnavais, Malandros, e Heróis. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

20. 1999 “Suppression, Bias, and Selection in Science: The Case of Cancer Research.” Accountability in Research 6: 245-257.

19. 1999 “The Autonomy Question and the Changing Conditions of Social Scientific Work.” Anthropology of Work Review 20(1): 27-34.

18. 1998 “If You're Thinking of Living in STS....A Guide for the Perplexed.” In Gary Downey and Joe Dumit (eds.), Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies. Santa Fe: SAR Press.

17. 1998 “PUS and PAS: The ‘Democracy Question’ in Science Studies.” Essay review of Steve Fuller, Science, with reply. Metascience 7(2): 312-16.

16. 1996 “Technology and Alternative Cancer Therapies.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(4): 657-74.

15. 1995 “Hierarchy, Hegemony, and the Construction of Brazilian Religious Therapies.” In The Brazilian Puzzle: Culture on the Borderlands of the Western World, edited by David Hess and Roberto DaMatta. New York: Columbia University Press.

14. 1995 “On Low-Tech Cyborgs.” In Chris Gray (ed.), The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge.

13. 1994 “Parallel Universes: Anthropology in the World of Technoscience.” Anthropology Today 10(2): 16-18.

12. 1994 “Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture.” Arturo Escobar with David J. Hess, Isabel Licha, Will Sibley, Marilyn Strathern, and Judith Sutz. Current Anthropology. 35(3): 223-24.

11. 1992 “New Sciences, New Gods: Spiritism and Questions of Religious Pluralism in Latin America.” Occasional Papers of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies, "Conference on Competing Gods: Religious Pluralism in Latin America." Brown University.

10. 1992 “Umbanda and Quimbanda Magic in Brazil: Rethinking Aspects of Bastide's Work.” Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions 79: 139-53.

9. 1992 "Disciplining Heterodoxy, Circumventing Discipline.” Knowledge and Society Volume 9: The Anthropology of Science and Technology. JAI Press.

8. 1992 “The New Ethnography and the Anthropology of Science and Technology.” Introductory essay, Knowledge and Society Volume 9: The Anthropology of Science and Technology. JAI Press.

7. 1991 “On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Reading Spiritist Otherworldly ‘Ethnographies.’” In Roberto Reis (ed.), Toward Socio-Criticism: Selected Proceedings of the Conference "Luso-Brazilian Literatures, A Socio-Critical Approach." Arizona State University at Tempe, Center for Latin American Studies.

6. 1990 “Hiring Across the Curriculum,” by Rebecca Howard, David Hess, and Margaret Darby. Writing Program Administration 13.3: 27-36.

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5. 1990 “Ghosts and Domestic Politics in Brazil: Some Parallels between Spirit Infestation and Spirit Possession.” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 18(4): 407-38.

4. 1989 “Disobsessing Disobsession: Religion, Ritual, and Social Science in Brazil.” Cultural Anthropology 4(2): 182-193. Early version of chapter in Spirits and Scientists.

3. 1987 “O Espiritismo e as Ciências [Spiritism and the Sciences].” Religião e Sociedade 14(3): 40-54. Early version of chapter in Spirits and Scientists.

2. 1987 “The Many Rooms of Brazilian Spiritism.” Luso-Brazilian Review 24.2: 15-34.

1. 1987 “Religion, Heterodox Science, and Brazilian Culture.” Social Studies of Science 17: 465-477. Portions later appeared in Spirits and Scientists.

III. Book Reviews and Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications 2017 David J. Hess and Harald Rohracher. “Civil Society, Culture, and Social

Movements in Transitions.” Sustainability Transitions Research Network. www.transitionnetwork.org.

2015 “Power, Ideology, and Technological Determinism.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 1: 121-125.

2013 “Epistemic Modernization and Social Movements.” Mobilizing Ideas. May. http://mobilizingideas.workpress.com

2012 “Election Tuesday Blog.” MIT Press. “Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy.” Page99 Blog. “The New Developmentalism: How the Long-Term Shifts to an Asia-Centered,

Low-Carbon Global Economy Are Connected.” Invited commentary, World Financial Review, Nov.-Dec.

“A Theory of Fields: A Review.” Mobilizing Ideas. June 13, http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/a-theory-of-fields-a-review/.

“Notes on the Relationship Between CAM and the Social Sciences.” (Invited commentary on Hans Baer and colleagues.) Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26(2): 283-286.

“Opening Political Opportunities for a Green Transition.” Invited commentary, blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. Blog.castac.org.

2011 “Various Roles of Community Garden.” e/a: Environment and Landscape Architecture of Korea 279 (July): 154-159.

2010 “Bridging Climate Action Policies and Green Job Development,” invited white paper for the New York Climate Action Council

2007 “Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: A Discussion with David Hess.” World’s Fair Science Blog, http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2007/08/13/alternative-pathways-in-scienc/.

2006 “Behind the Back of the Bus.” Anthropology Newsletter, February.

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2004 Review of Edward Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Society and Natural Resources. In Society and Natural Resources.

2003 Review of Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy: Concepts, Spaces, and Tools, edited by Knut Sørensen and Robin Williams. Science, Technology, and Human Values 28(4): 543-546.

2002 Review of Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Bernice Pescosolido, and Mike Saks (eds.), Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenge and Change. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 8(3): 391-392.

1998 Review of Joan Fujimura, Crafting Science, and Emily Martin, Flexible Bodies, in Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(2): 254-56.

1998 Memorial statement, Diana Forsythe. Social Studies of Science 28(1): 175-78. 1997 Review of Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone, in American Anthropologist

99(4): 846. 1995 “Preface.” Magico-Religious Healers of Brazil, by Nagato Azuma and Patric

Giesler. Tokyo: Arechi-Syuppansha Inc. 1994 Invited author's response, review symposium on Science in the New Age. In

Metascience 5: 43-47. 1994 Review of Lowell Lewis, Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian

Capoeira. In Luso-Brazilian Review 31(1): 130-32. 1995 “Misleading Boundaries.” Anthropology Newsletter December, p. 44. Invited

commentary for thematic discussion of science and anthropology. 1994 “Comments on Emily Martin's ‘The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the

1990s.’” Cultural Anthropology 9: 398-401. 1994 Review of David Hakken, Computing Myths, Class Realities. In Science,

Technology, and Human Values 19: 528-30. 1993 “When We’re All Cyborgs.” Invited guest commentary, Omni Magazine,

October. 1992 Review of Dennis Mahar, Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's

Amazon Region. In Latin American Anthropology Review 2(2): 67. 1990 Review of Joseph Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan

Slave Trade. In Latin American Anthropology Review 2(1): 31-32. 1989 Review of David Price, Before the Bulldozer: The Nambirquara and the World

Bank. In Latin American Anthropology Review 1(2): 68-69. 1987 Review of Michael Kenny, The Passion of Ansel Bourne: Multiple Personality

in American Culture. In Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 24: 210-213.

1987 Review of Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man. In Religião e Sociedade 14(2): 137-140.

IV. Press Coverage Radio WAMC Academic Minute (Northeast Public Radio), KPUC (San Jose),

WBAI (New York), WGUN (Atlanta, syndicated), NPR Science Friday (syndicated), KFON Austin, Wireless/Flash Radio (San Deigo), WCBN

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(Baltimore, syndicated), WILL AM FM TV (Urbana-Champaign), KOA Radio (Denver), NPR (Madison), WKVT (Brattleboro), Vermont Public Radio, KWMR (Marin County), Voice of America Radio

Television Gary Null Video, Channel 13 (Albany) Press Houston Chronicle, Albany Times-Union, BusinessWeek, Journal of the

National Cancer Institute (on bacteria and cancer), The Scientist, East Bay Express

Symposia Riverside Church (New York, aired); National Arts Club Internet World’s Fair (invited interview) LECTURES AND CONFERENCES I. Invited Lectures and Seminars University of Utah, Indiana University, STS Global, University of

Tennessee, University of Stuttgart, University of Wisconsin, University of Sussex, University of Maryland SESYNC, Virginia Tech, University of Augsburg, Lipscomb, NYSERDA, plenary for Japanese Society for Social Studies of Science, Tellus Institute, Boston University, Marlboro College, Cornell University, University of Illinois, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa Lisbon, Duke University and University of North Carolina, University of Texas, University of Wollongong, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Clemson University, University of Albany, UNICAMP, University of Michigan, Smith, Unviersity of Twente, Rice University, Syracuse University, Colgate University, Ramapo College, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, Brown University, Notre Dame University,

II. Panels Organized 2017 “Structural Inequality and STS, “Society for Social Studies of Science 2015 “Politics of Sustainability Transitions,” Society for Social Studies of Science,

double session. 2013 “Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions,” Society for Social Studies of Science,

triple session. “Climate Change, Anti-Environmentalism, and American Politics,” organizer of

workshop with guest speakers Bill Ruddiman (University of Virginia), Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale), Aaron McCright (Michigan State), and Timmons Roberts (Brown)

2011 Organizer, panel on “Neoliberalism and Science,” Society for Social Studies of Science

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2009 Organizer, panels on “Neoliberalism and Science and Technology Studies.” Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

2006 Co-organizer, panel on “What’s to be Done with Undone Science?” and organizer, panel on “STS Perspectives on Justice and Sustainability,” the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Co-organizer, panel on “Knowledge, the Environment, and Social Movements: Critical Intersections, “American Anthropological Association.

2005 Organizer, panels on “Science, Technology, and the Environment: Equity, Justice, and Funding Issues,” annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena

2003 Organizer, “Health and Environmental Social Movements,” stream of four panels, Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta

2002 Organizer, joint Rensselaer-SUNY Albany workshop on “Technologies for Communities” (includes information technologies, health and environmental work, and urban design). April 5-6, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Co-Organizer with Daniel Kleinman, session on “Commercialization and the University,” Society for Social Studies of Science, annual meeting, Milwaukee

Organizer, “Science, Technology, and Globalization,” double session for the Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Milwaukee

2001 Co-organizer, panel on “Regulating Drugs in a Globally Harmonized World.” American Ethnological Society annual meeting

Organizer, panel on “Anthropological Perspectives on Information Technologies,” American Ethnological Society annual meeting

Organizer, panel on “Sciences, Technologies, Publics,” American Ethnological Society annual meeting

Organizer, roundtable on “STS Programs: Prospects and Problems,” annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston.

1998 Organizer, panel on “The Anthropology of Biomedicine,” Society for Social Studies of Science

1997 Co-organizer, panel on “Science Outside the Citadel,” Society for Social Studies of Science

1996 Co-organizer for invited session on “Alternative Medicine and Health Care Policy,” annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association

Organizer, session on “Theorizing Intervention and Activism in Science and Technology,” annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science

Co-organizer of workshop on “Getting into the Anthropology of Science and Technology,” for new students and faculty, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association

1992 Co-organizer for panel “Ethnic and Non-Western Perspectives on Science and Technology,” Society for Social Studies of Science

1991 Co-organizer for triple session on “Culture, Power, Science, and Technology,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston

1990 Co-organizer for double session on “Culture, Science, and Technology: Anthropological Perspectives,” Society for Social Studies of Science

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ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (NOT INCLUDING CURRENT POSITIONS) 2012- Director, Undergraduate Studies --oversaw reform of undergraduate major --developed new major in environmental sociology Director, Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies --founding director of the minor Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment 2006-2011 Director, Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy 2006-2007 Member, Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee 2006-2007 Chair, Faculty Council and Curriculum Committee, School of Humanities

and Social Sciences 2005-2009 Member, institutional review board 2004-2005 Member, subcommittee on leadership and governance, accreditation Committee for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education 2004 Chair, Faculty Senate Handbook Revision committee Member, accreditation review committee, School of Architecture 2000- Member (chair in some years), Steering Committee of the Interdisciplinary

Programs in Design and Innovation (PDI) --author of the curriculum and state government application for the new

B.S. in Design, Innovation, and Society 2000-2004 Department Chair, STS Department (interim chair during spring 2000) --Negotiated and led regrowth of department from 12 to 17 tenure lines --Led growth of undergraduate major program in design and STS from 8

students to 80; hired program director; led external review of the program

--Developed and/or oversaw the development of several dual degree collaborations, including with mechanical engineering, arts, information technology, biology, management, and environmental engineering.

--Completed external review of the graduate program and negotiations over reform of the program

--Negotiated alignments of departmental research areas with university’s new strategic plan --Increased sponsored research proposals and funding levels by about 300%, supervised $1-2 million per year in sponsored research, resolved disputes and problems --Clarified tenure expectations and annual review criteria, mentored junior faculty and associate professors for promotion preparation 1999-2001 Vice President, Rensselaer AAUP chapter 1999-2000 Ombudsperson and faculty council secretary, School of Humanities

and Social Sciences 1998-1999 Chair, Faculty Council for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences 1998-2000 University-wide tenure and promotion committee

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1996-2001 Chair, doctoral exam committee for science studies 1997-2001 Director of Undergraduate Program, STS (major administrative role with over 50 undergraduate major advisees and 75 minors) 1993-94 Acting Director of Graduate Program, STS 1993- Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, STS 1989-92 University-wide committee on multiculturalism and campus culture PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE I. Memberships American Anthropological Association: American Ethnological Society Society for Medical Anthropology General Anthropology Division Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing American Sociological Association Collective Behavior and Social Movements Environment and Technology Community and Urban Sociology Science, Knowledge, and Technology Society for Social Studies of Science II. Other Professional Service 2013 Program committee member, Sustainable Consumption Research and

Action Network 2103 Program committee member, Society for Social Studies of Science 2012 Program committee member, Workshop on the Political Sociology of

Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin 2011 Organizer, conference on the Political Sociology of Science and

Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2008-2011 Review panel member, National Science Foundation 2008 Program Committee Member, Society for Social Studies of Science 2007 Program Chair, Society for Social Studies of Science (1000 presenters) --oversaw abstract and panel review and selection --developed and edited the program --worked closely with arrangements director and webmaster on logistical issues 2005-2011 List manager, Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology,

and Computing, American Anthropological Association 2006-2007 Chair, Public Policy Committee (elected national board position),

American Anthropological Association. Committee chair in 2006 and 2007 and member in 2004 and 2005.

--oversaw public policy institute proposal --developed public policy fora for the national meeting

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--led development of public policy briefs --reviewed and changed the mission of the committee 2005 Forsythe Prize Committee, American Anthropological Association 2004 Organizer, conference on “Science, Technology, and the Environment,”

Rensselaer 2002-2003 Program committee, Society for Social Studies of Science 1998-2002 Treasurer, American Ethnological Society 1997 Review panel member, Fulbright Commission 1997 Review panel member, National Science Foundation 1997 Organizer, summer conference of the Committee on the Anthropology of

Science, Technology, and Computing of the American Anthropological Association

1995-98 Chair, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the Council for General Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association

1994-95 President, Northeast Association of Brazilianists 1994 Organizer/program chair, annual meeting of the Northeast Association of

Brazilianists 1993 Organizer/program chair of the Third Annual Conference on Comparative

Science and Technology: Non-Western Perspectives on the Environment

Co-organizer of two-day workshop of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association

1992-94 Editor, The Anthropology of Science and Technology (Newsletter/Directory of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, predated electronic list)

1992 Student Affairs Committee Member, Society for Social Studies of Science 1990-93 Book Review Editor, Science, Technology, and Human Values III. Reviews 1995-present Tenure and promotion case reviews (external to Vanderbilt): about 3-4 per

year 1989-present Article submissions for journals (some examples):

Anthropology: American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Cultural Anthropology; Journal of Anthropological Research; Human Organization; Luso-Brazilian Review; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Qualitative Research Methods; Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review Environmental Studies: Energy Research and Social Science; Environmental Politics; Global Environmental Change; Geoforum; Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning; Sustainability: Science, Practice, Policy

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Sociology and General Social Science: Agriculture, Food, and Human Values; American Sociological Review; Business and Politics; Current Perspectives in Social Theory; Economy and Society; Mobilization; Political Power and Social Theory; Social Currents; Social Forces; Social Science and Medicine; Social Science Journal; Social Problems; Sociological Spectrum; Sociology of Health and Illness; Sociological Forum STS and Innovation Studies:; Engaging Science, Technology, and Society; International Journal of Technology and Globalization; Journal of Design Research; Prometheus Review; Public Understanding of Science; Research Policy; Science, Technology, and Human Values; Science as Culture; Science and Engineering Ethics; Science and Public Policy; Science Communication; Social Epistemology; Social Studies of Science; Technological Forecasting and Social Change

1990-present Book manuscripts for university presses: 2-3 per year for many different presses (others declined due to lack of time)

1989-present Grant proposals (several per year, not including panels): National Science

Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, MacArthur Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation

TEACHING 1997-present Health, Environment, and Social Change (graduate)

Sociology of Green Jobs (undergraduate) Energy Transitions and Society (undergraduate) Climate Change and Society (undergraduate) Social Issues: The Environment and Society (undergraduate)

Sociology of Local Sustainability (undergraduate) Sociology of Health and Environmental Science (undergraduate) Seminar in Environmental and Sustainability Studies (undergraduate) Sociology of Science, Technology, and the Environment (graduate)

Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy (graduate) Concepts in Science and Technology Studies (graduate) Social Entrepreneurs and Sustainable Communities (undergraduate upper-level course) Design, Innovation, and Society (undergraduate introductory course) Science, Technology, and Society (undergraduate introductory course) Sustainability and the Politics of Design (graduate/undergraduate) Social Movement Theory (Ph.D. graduate readings/seminar)

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Law, Values, and Public Policy (undergraduate course) Design Studio 1 (interdisciplinary undergraduate dual major studio)

Advanced Political Thought: Globalization Theory (Ph.D. graduate) Science and Social Theory (Ph.D. graduate seminar) Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (Ph.D. graduate seminar) Values and Policy (M.S. graduate seminar) Research Methods (M.S. graduate seminar) Medicine and Society (undergraduate) STUDENTS I. Ph.D. Committee Chair and Postdoctoral Adviser 2015- Primary adviser or dissertation committee chair for 5 students 2015 Kate Pride Brown (Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment),

postdoctoral advisee, funded under the NSF state governments grant in the fall and the NSF water conservation grant in the spring (see above)

2013 Anna Lamprou (STS, RPI), “Toxic Chemicals, Environmental Organizations, and the Governance of Science and Technology in the EU and the US: The Case of Nanotechnology,” (co-chair; shifted to outside committee member when I left Rensselaer, worked closely with her to revise final draft)

2013 Logan Williams (STS, RPI), “Contesting Avoidable Blindness: Socially Responsible Innovation Systems and Multilateral Circulation” (committee chair, shifted to outside committee member when I left Rensselaer), Assistant Professor, Sociology and Lyman Briggs, Michigan State University

2010 Shailaja Valdiya, “Neoliberal Reform and Biomedical Research in India: Globalization, Industrial Change, and Science.” Program Officer, Health Science and Technology, Symbiosis International University (Pune, India).

2006 Natasha Lettis, “The Political Internet in Northern Ireland,” Oakland Montessori School

2005 Jill Fisher, “Privatization of Human Subject Recruitment and its Effects on Informed Consent in Medical Research.” Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2004 Ken Fleischmann, “Exploring the Design-Use Interface: The Agency of Boundary Objects in Educational Technology.” Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Texas

Margaret Wooddell, “Codes, Identities, and Pathologies in the Construction of Tamoxifen as a Chemoprophylactic for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction in Healthy Women at High

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Risk.” Senior Clinical Research Scientist, Glaxo-Smith-Kline. 2003 Lisa McLoughlin, “Spotlighting: Emergent Gender Bias in Undergraduate

Engineering Education.” Co-chair, Engineering Program, Greenfield Community College.

Torin Monahan, “Designing Flexible Futures: Globalization, Technological Change, and Institutional Conflict in the Los Angeles Public School System.” Associate Professor, Communications Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1999 Barbara Allen, “Uneasy Alchemy: Dissonance, Resistance, Justice, and Change in Louisiana’s Industrial Corridor.” Associate Professor of STS and Director of the Northern Virginia STS program, Virginia Tech.

II. Ph.D. Committee Member In progress Bhumika Piya (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Environment, Health, and

Migration in Bangladesh” In progress Quan Mai (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Urban Inequality, Race, and Labor:

Market Consequences of Freelancing” 2017 Kanetha Wilson (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Lopsided Suzy with the Baby

Fine Hair: Black Women and Transformed Bodies after Breast Cancer”

2016 Jonathan Coley (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Varieties of Activism: Pathways of Participation among LGBT Activists in Christian Universities”

2015 Kate Pride Brown (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Saving the Sacred Sea: Lake Baikal and Environmental Activism from the Soviet Union to Globalized Modernity”

2012 Dan Morrison (Sociology, Vanderbilt) “Body, Self, Device: Nonhuman Objects and Human Identity,” Pepperdine College

Sharon Batt (Interdisciplinary Studies, Dalhousie) “From Grassroots to Pharma Partnerships: Breast Cancer Advocacy in Canada”

2010 Shib Dasgupta (STS, RPI), “Integrating the Poor Through Information Technology: The National E-Governance Plan in India”

2010 Jeff Morris (Mechanical Engineering, RPI) “A Theoretical and Modeling Framework for Product Architectural Design”

2009 James Fenimore (STS, RPI), “High-Tech Worship: Digital Display Technologies and Protestant Christian Liturgical Practice in the United States”

2008 Colin Beech (STS, RPI), “The Grail and the Golem: The Sociology of Aleatory Artifacts,” Louisiana State University

Rachel Dowty (STS, RPI), “The Boundaries Between Your Brain and Me: Mental Categories in the Cognitive Neurosciences,” assistant professor, Louisiana State University

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Marol Erol (STS, RPI), “Rites of the Second Spring: Situational Analysis of Postmenopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy in Turkey,” post-doc, Duke University

Noelle Foster (STS, RPI), “Contingent Mechanization: The Case of American Dairying”

Govind Gopakumar (STS, RPI) “Neoliberal Policy Thrusts and Fluid Transitions: Analyzing the Dynamics of Water Supply and Sanitation Partnerships in Urban India,” assistant professor, Concordia University

Richard Arias Hernandez (STS, RPI), “Engineering the Information Society: Professional Identity, Development Politics, and Social Justice in Colombia”

2007 Ayala Cnaan (STS, RPI), “Holy Land of Aliens: Formal Governance Mechanisms in Israeli Alternative Communities,” University of New England

Chunbo Ma (Ecological Economics, RPI) “Fueling the Dragon: A Study of China’s Energy Consumption, Economic Activity, Environmental Impacts, and Energy Security”

Lining He (Ecological Economics, RPI), “Essays on China’s Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions, and Economic Growth”

2006 Hector Postigo (STS, RPI), “The Hacker Ethic, the DMCA, and Technological Resistance: The Ideologies and Technologies of Consuming Digital Media,” assistant professor, Temple University

Jaime Radesi Galayda (Ecological Economics, RPI), “Community-Supported Agriculture: Social Preferences and Well-Being”

Lorna Ronald (STS, RPI), “Health-Care Commodification and the Shift to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising”

2005 Sulficar Amir (STS, RPI), “Power, Culture, and the Airplane: Technological Nationalism in the New Order Indonesia,” Assistant Professor, Singapore Technological University

Jenrose Fitzgerald (STS, RPI), “Citizens, Experts, and the Economy: Struggles Over Globalization and the ‘New Economy’ in Kentucky,” Visiting Professor, Appalachian Studies Program, University of Kentucky

2004 Ray Calingo Tiqua (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne), “Traditional Chinese Medicine as an Australian Tradition of Health Care” (external examiner)

Debra Reif (School of Management, RPI), “The New Expatriate: Managing Short-Term Overseas Work Assignments”

Roxana Júlia (Ecologial Economcis, RPI), “Adapting to Climate Change: Global Agriculture, Comparative Advantage, and Trade”

Virginia Eubanks (STS, RPI), “Popular Technology: An Emancipatory Approach to Computer Education in the Service of Social Justice.” Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, SUNY Albany.

2003 Seval Dulgeroglu, “Technological Representation in Advertisements: Restructuring Meaning and Culture.” Acting Dean,

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School of Fine Arts, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey. 2002 Nicole Farkas (STS, RPI), “Bread, Cheese, and Expertise: Science Shops

in the Netherlands.” Patrick Feng (STS, RPI), “Global Standards, Local Cultures: The Politics

of Implementing ‘Technical’ Standards in Asia and the U.S.” Assistant Professor, University of Alberta.

David Levinger (STS, RPI), “Pedestrian Technologies: Redesigning Citizens, Organizers, and Technical Professionals.”

Director of Research, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Steve Pierce (STS, RPI), “The Community Teleport: Participatory Media as a Path to Participatory Democracy” Director, Media Alliance. 2001 Jeremy Northcote (Sociology Dept., Murdoch University),

“The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Discursive Perspective,” external reader

2000 Rosana Monteiro (UNICAMP), outside examiner for dissertation proposal defense, on radiology and interpretation of medical imaging. Assistant professor, Federal University of Goías, Brazil.

Richard Gosden (STS Dept., U. of Wollongong), “Schismatic Mind: Controversies over the Cause of the Symptoms of Schizophrenia,” external reader

1999 Dikoh Chen (STS, RPI), “Man, Machines, and the Gods: Skill, Hegemony, and Culture in the Making of Taiwanese Machines.”

Associate professor, Graduate School for Transformation Studies, Taiwan

Gail Fey (Languages, Literatures, and Communications Dept.), “Senior Executive Image Construction in the Corporation”

1998 Patric Geisler (Anthropology Dept., Brandeis), “Conceptualizing Religion in Highly Syncretized Fields: An Analog Ethnography of the Candomblés of Bahia, Brazil,” Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Gustavus Adolphus College.

Alfred Mauet (STS, RPI), on medical imaging technologies in New York hospitals, Ph.D. awarded posthumously

1997 David Gilbert (Languages, Literatures, and Communication Dept., RPI) “A Social View of the Production of Knowledge in the Discourse Community of Engineering”

1995 Jennifer Porter, (Religious Studies Dept., McMaster University), “‘Science’ and Spiritual Vibrations: Contemporary Spiritualism and the Discourse of Science”

1993 Roli Varma (STS, RPI), "Managing Industrial Science Effectively." Professor, School of Public Administration, University of New Mexico

III. M.S. Theses and Internships

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2017 Magdalena Sudibjo (chair), M.S. thesis, “The Proliferation of Open-Source Licenses: The Effect of an Industrial Transition Movement on Multiple Institutions,” Vanderbilt

2016 Rachel McKane (chair), M.S. thesis, “Toxic Waste & Race: The Changing Demographics Surrounding Superfund Sites in Tennessee,” Vanderbilt

2015 Chris Wold, M.S. thesis (chair), “Energy Efficiency Advocacy and Political Opportunity Structures in the U.S.,” Vanderbilt

2014 Ryan Johnson, M.S. thesis (chair), “New American Idols? The Impact of Neoliberalism on Commencement Speaker Selection” Vanderbilt

2013 Kanetha Wilson, M.S. thesis (chair), “Race and Health Disparities in Dental Care,” Vanderbilt

2010 Jennifer Barton, M.S. thesis (chair), “Place and Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia,” Rensselaer

2009 Jessica Kyle, M.S. project (chair), “Household Predictors of Elasticity of Demand for Gasoline,” Rensselaer

2008 Jennifer Maniere, M.S. Internship, NYSERDA (chair) Rensselaer Douglas Clark, M.S. Internship (chair),Sustainable Hudson Valley

Rensselaer 2007 Aneel Salman, M.S. Internship (chair), Citizen’s Environmental Coalition

Rensselaer Sarah Parks, M.S. Internship, Citizens Environmental Coalition (chair)

Rensselaer 2005 Emily Valerio, M.S. Internship, New York State Attorney General’s

Office (chair) Rensselaer 2003 Natasha Lettis, M.S. Thesis, “The Commodification of Christ” (Christian

toys and videogames; committee chair) Rensselaer Mircea Draghici, “The Information and Communications Technology

Sector in Romania” (committee member) Rensselaer 2002 Jonathan Landry, M.S. Thesis, “The Design of Bioinformatics in the

Human Genome Project: Implications of an Informatics Artifact” (chair) Rensselaer

Jill Fisher, “Sociopathologizing Patients: The Social Construction of Munchausen Syndrome” (committee member) Rensselaer

1999 Rachel Pearlman, “Greening the Capital District: Dilemmas in Sustainable Politics” (committee member) Rensselaer

1998 Susan Delay, “The Cultural Politics of Incineration in the New York State Capital District” (committee member) Rensselaer

1997 Nicole Farkus, “Toilets, Theory, and Tantrums: On Water Conservation, STS, and Activism” (committee member) Rensselaer

1996 Dug North, “Organizing for Democracy at the Loka Institute” (committee member) Rensselaer

1995 Dan Goldstein, internship, Kaufman Foundation (committee member) Rensselaer

Abbey Smith, “Science, Technology, and Public Radio” (committee member) Rensselaer

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1994 Kenneth Croes, M. S. Thesis, “Fighting Science with Science: The Cultural Reconstruction of Science and Scientists in the James Bay Hydroelectric Development Controversy” (chair) Rensselaer

Stephen Lenser, “When a Snappy Title Isn’t Enough: The Woeful Times of an Ethnoveterinarian Project at IDRC” (committee member) Rensselaer

1993 Maria Figueiredo, M.S. Thesis, “Brazilian Environmental Politics after Rio 1992” (chair) Rensselaer

1992 Kate Lytton, M.S. Internship Project, “Perspectives from the Elevator: Caught between Women's Health and Health Policy Initiatives” (chair) Rensselaer

Linda Langford, “The Cultural Politics of Technology: Meaning and Power in the Quest for ‘A Child of One’s Own’” (committee member) Rensselaer