Welcome

Welcome to the Project on Global and Comparative Knowledges.

GCK is an interdisciplinary research community at Arizona State University -- and a network of scholars around the planet -- whose goal is to critically analyze the dynamic movement of knowledge, ideas, and science in global society. We are especially interested in improving understanding of the knowledge base underpinning policy decisions of global significance.

GCK researchers are engaged around the world in high profile studies of some of the most important policy problems, from the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the search for global sustainability to the global marketing of health and the spread of infectious diseases. Robust knowledge is essential to all of these problems. Yet, we know surprisingly little, as academics or in society more broadly, about how global knowledges are created or validated, about the standards of evidence and styles of reasoning that dominate global policy forums, or about the circulation, uptake, and transformation of ideas across diverse cultures and their impacts for people’s lives and livelihoods.

These are the questions we are grappling with at GCK. We invite you to browse our website. We are very excited about the array of research and activities underway. If you don't find something that you would like to know, please feel free to drop us an email.

Sincerely,

Clark A. Miller, Director
Associate Professor of Science Policy and Political Science

John Parker, Co-Director
Honors Faculty Fellow

Daniel Barben, Co-Director
Associate Research Professor