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Clark Miller Associate Director, CSPO and CNS-ASU Associate Professor of Science Policy and Political Science
Clark Miller's
research is centrally concerned with the problem of public reasoning-how
political systems reason collectively about policy challenges-created by
a rapidly globalizing world. His newest project is a comparative analysis
of the epistemic constitution of global security in three powerful expert
agencies-the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization,
and the International Monetary Fund-from their inception in the years following
World War II through the end of the Cold War, the rise of globalization,
and the politics of global dissent at the turn of the new millennium. Miller
is the faculty coordinator for an exciting new CSPO initiative, the Project
on Global and Comparative Knowledges, an effort to establish at ASU the critical
capacity to systematically evaluate the knowledge bases underpinning decisions
of planetary significance. The project seeks to refine our understanding
of epistemic power, conflict, and confrontation in international governance,
grounded in empirical and theoretical evaluations of the organization of
systems of practice and discourse for deliberating, warranting, and critiquing
knowledge and expertise in international governance. The project's ultimate
ideal is to avert, in the future, the kind of major failures in how policy
problems are identified and framed, evidence evaluated, and expertise mobilized
at the global scale that have, in recent decades, cost tens of thousands
of lives and created a crisis of trust and credibility in international governance
that continues today to feed smoldering resistance amongst global publics. Miller is the editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
(MIT Press, 2001, with Paul Edwards) and the author of nearly fifty
articles and reports on the politics of science and decisionmaking in
democratic governance and the physics of the Earth's upper atmosphere.
In 2003, he served as a consultant to the United Nations Environment
Programme and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and he currently is
participating in follow-up discussions of the institutionalization of
biodiversity expertise in global politics on a more permanent basis. He
also is a founding co-organizer of the Science and Democracy Network, a
professional organization for scholars and practitioners working at the
intersections of knowledge, expertise and democratic governance. In
addition to his leadership at CSPO, Miller serves as the associate
director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society and chair of the
PhD Program in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology.
He also serves on the advisory committee for the Nanotechnology
Informal Science Education Network and the Bovay Center for
Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the National Academy of Engineering. Before
joining ASU, Miller was a professor of science studies and public affairs
at the University of Wisconsin and of political science at Iowa State University.
He received his doctorate from Cornell in electrical engineering in 1995
and has held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Science & Technology
Studies at Cornell and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. |
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