RPI+STS+alumni

=** Rensselaer’s STS Department Alumni Profiles **=

Barbara Allen (//Uneasy Alchemy: Dissonance, Resistance, Justice, and Change in Louisiana’s Industrial Corridor//, 1999) went on to become Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia Center. Her book, //Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes, was published by// MIT Press in 2003.

Sulfikar Amir (//Power, Culture, and the Airplane: Technological Nationalism in New Order Indonesia//, 2005) went on to work at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Richard Arias-Hernandez (//Engineering the Network Society: A Social Worlds/Arenas Analysis of Governmental and Non-governmental Organizations in Colombia//, 2008) went on to work at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Wenda Bauchspies (//Togolese Female Science Educators: Innovators, Bridges, or Instruments?//, 1998) went on to work at Pennsylvania State University, and then as Associate Professor of Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Colin Beech (//The Grail and the Golem: The Sociology of Aleatory Artifacts//, 2008) went on to become an IT professional who heads Beech & Associates, a procurement and grant consulting firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Jean-Francois Blanchette (//Dematerializing” Written Proof: French Evidence Law, Cryptography, and the Global Politics of Authenticity//, 2002) went on to work in the Information Studies Department, University of California Los Angeles. His book, //Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents//, was published by MIT Press in 2012.

Deborah Blizzard (//The Socio-Cultural Construction of Fetoscopy//, 2000) went on to become Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society/Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology. Blizzard’s book, //Looking Within: A Social Examination of Fetoscopy//, was published by MIT Press in 2007.

Dikoh Chen (1999) skill and labor, Taiwan,

Todd Cherkasky (//Design Style: A Method for Critical Analysis of Design Applied to Workplace Technologies//, 1999) went on to become Global Lead for SapientNitro’s Research & Insights Practice, based in Chicago, Illinois.

Jennifer Croissant (//Bodies, Movements, Representations: Elements Toward a// // Feminst Theory of Knowledge //, 1994) went on to become Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Sociology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona.

Shib Dasgupta is styding e-governance and politics in India.

Lane DeNicola (//Techniques of the Environmental Observer: India’s Earth Remote Sensing Program in the Age of Global Information//, 2007) went on to work in the Department of Anthropology, University College, London.

Camar Diaz-Torres (Small Arms: Technologies of Sustained Militarization in Postwar Guatemala, 2007)

Rachel Dowty (//The Boundaries between Your Brain and Me: Mental Categories in the Cognitive Neurosciences//, 2008) went on to work in the Departments of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University.

Seval Dülgeroğlu Yavuz (//Technological Representation in Advertisements: Restructuring Meaning and Culture//, 2003) went on to become Assistant Professor, Chair of the Department of Graphic Design, and Associate Dean of the Fine Arts Faculty at Mustafa Kemal University in Antakya, Turkey,

Lawrence Eng (//Otaku Engagements: Subcultural Appropriation of Science and Technology//, 2006) went on to work as a product analyst for Opera Software.

Virginia Eubanks (//Popular Technology: Citizenship and Inequality in the Information Economy//, 2004) went on to work in the Department of Women’s Studies at the SUNY University at Albany. Eubank’s book, //Digital Dead End//, was published by MIT Press in 2010.

Maral Erol (//Postmenopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy in Turkey: Situational Analysis of a Reproductive Technology at the Intersection of Gender Identity, Modernity, and Modernization//, 2008) went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University.

Nicole Farkas (2002) science and democratic process, the Netherlands

Patrick Feng (//Designing a “Global” Privacy Standard: Politics and Expertise in Technical Standards-Setting//, 2002) went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and then to the Department of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary.

James Fenimore, (//High-Tech Worship: Digital Display Technologies and Protestant Liturgical Practice in the U.S.//, 2009) returned to work as a pastor and administrator for the United Methodist Church in New York State.

Jill Fisher (//Pharmaceutical Paternalism and the Privatization of Clinical Trials//, 2005) went on to the Women’s Studies Department at Arizona State University, Center for Bioethics and Society, and then on to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Fisher’s book, //Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials//, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2009.

Jenrose Fitzgerald (//Citizens, Experts, and the Economy: The Grassroots Takeover of Kentucky’s Agricultural Future//, 2004) went on to postdoctoral research at the Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky

Kenneth Fleischman (//Exploring the Design-Use Interface: The Agency of Boundary Objects in Educational Technology//, 2004) went on to become a tenured associate professor in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. Previously, Fleischman held positions at the University of Maryland, and at Florida State University.

Nicole Foster-Feliciano, 2008, Contingent Mechanization: The Case of American Dairying

Matthew Francisco (//Agents on the Loose: Embodied Reflexive Practice in Emerging Computational Social Science//, 2010) went on to a research associate position in the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University.

Govind Gopakumar (// Neoliberal Policy Thrusts and Fluid Transitions: Analyzing the Dynamics of Water Supply and Sanitation Partnerships in Urban India, // 2008) went on to serve as Assistant Professor in the Centre for Engineering in Society (at Concordia University, Canada. His book, //Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization,// was published by Routledge in 2011.

Eun-Sung Kim, 2006, Impure Bioethics: Social and Policy Studies of Bioethics Associated with Stem Cell Research in the United States and South Korea.

Aalok Khandekar (//Engineering the Global Indian: Skills, Cosmopolitanism, and Families in Circuits of High-tech Migrations between India and the United States//, 2010) went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Sean Lawson (//Info@War.Mil: Nonlinear Science and the Emergence of Information Age Warfare in the United States Military//, 2008) went on to work in the Department of Communication, University of Utah.

Natasha Lettis (2006) information technology and politics, Northern Ireland

David Levinger (//Pedestrian Technologies: Redesigning Citizens, Organizers, and Technical Professionals//, 2002) went on to work for Feet First, Seattle, and then for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, D.C.

Lisa A. McLoughlin (//Spotlighting: Emergent Gender Bias in Undergraduate Engineering Education//, 2003) went on to become Adjunct Professor at Greenfield Community College.

John Monberg (//Making the Public Count: A Comparative Case Study of Emergent Information Technology-based Publics//, 1997) went on to work in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University.

Torin Monihan (// Designing Flexible Futures : Globalization, Technological Change, and Institutional Conflict in the Los Angeles Public School System //, 2003) went on to become Associate Professor of Human & Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. His book, //Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity//, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2010. His book //Globalization, Technological Change and Public Education// was published by Routledge in 2005.

Dean Nieusma (//The Energy Forum of Sri Lanka: Working toward Appropriate Expertise//, 2004) went on to become a tenured associate professor in returned to Rensselaer’s STS Department as Assistant Professor, and then became Director, Programs in Design and Innovation. Previously, Nieusma held a position in the Science, Technology, and Society Department at the University of Virginia.

Tolu Odumosu (//Interrogating Mobiles: A Story of Nigerian Appropriation of the Mobile// // Phone //, 2009) went on to postdoctoral research fellowship in Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Casey O’Donnell (//The Work/Play of the Interactive New Economy: Video Game Development in the United States and India//, 2008) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University. He had previously held a position in the Department of Telecommunications, University of Georgia.

Jason Patton (//Transportation Worlds: Designing Infrastructures and Forms of Urban Life//, 2004) went on to work as a pedestrian and bicyclist planner in the City of Oakland, California.

Steve Pierce (//The Community Teleport: Participatory Media as a Path to Participatory Democracy//, 2002) went on to become co-founder of the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York.

Hector Postigo (//The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright//, 2006) went to work in the Department of Communications, University of Utah, and then to work as Associate Professor, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media at Temple University. His book, //The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright,// was published by MIT Press in 2012.

Marie Rarieya (//Environmental Degradation, Food Security, and Climate Change: An STS Perspective on Sustainable Development in Western Kenya//, 2007) went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the United Nations University in Yokohama Japan, and then to work as a program officer in the Soil Health Training Program, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (http://www.agra-alliance.org/).

Lorna Ronald (//Empowered to Consume: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, Free Speech, and Pharmaceutical Governance//, 2007) went on to lecture at Queens??

Selma Šabanović (//Imagine All the Robots: Developing a Critical Practice of Cultural and Disciplinary Traversals in Social Robotics//, 2007) went to a lectureship at Stanford University, and then to an assistant professorship in the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University.

Erich Schienke (//Greening the Dragon: Environmental Imaginaries in the Science, Technology, and Governance of Contemporary China//, 2006) went on to work at Pennsylvania State University’s Rock Ethics Institute.

Jeannette Simmonds, 2007, Promising Symbiosis: A History of the Biological Nitrogen Fixation Field, 1930-2000, went on to teach as a lecturer in STS at Cornell University and postdoctoral research at Delft (?)

Ann Sundberg

Shailaja Valdiya, 2010, Neoliberal Reform and Biomedical Research in India: Globalization, Industrial Change, and Science

Roli Varma, New Mexico

Margaret Woodell, 2004, Codes, Identities and Pathologies in the Construction of Tamoxifen as a Chemoprophylactic for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction in Healthy Women at High Risk, on to work for Glaxo Smith Kline (or Astra Zeneca first?)

Bo Xie, (//Growing Older in the Information Age: Civic Engagement, Social Relationships, and Well-being among Older Internet Users in China and the United States//, 2006) went on to a tenured associate professor position at the University of Texas at Austin, with joint appointments in the School of Nursing and the School of Information, where her research focuses on health informatics. Previously, Xie held a position in the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland. In 2011, Xie was awarded an NIH RO1 grant for a project titled "Improving Older Adults’ E-Health Literacy with Collaborative Versus Individualistic Computer Training."