Science, Policy & Social Inequity Workshop

Participants

Science, Policy & Social Inequities Workshop

Ira Bennett is a post-doctoral researcher at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.  He is studying policies and politics of emerging technologies, specifically nanotechnologies.

Barry Bozeman is a Regents' Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and an Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University. His research focuses on science policy and public management.

Jenny Brian is a PhD student in the Bioethics, Policy & Law program at the Center for Biology & Society at ASU. Her research interests include public trust, innovation, and the commercialization of academic science.

Kenny Broad is an ecological anthropologist at the University of Miami’s Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.  Broad studies human-environment interaction related to natural resource management, including climate impacts and societal equity, in the U.S., Latin America, Caribbean, and Indonesia.

Nancy Campbell is faculty in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at RPI.  Her work examines how drug addiction researchers and treatment professionals navigate ethical dilemmas surrounding the rapid ‘scientization’ of addiction treatment technologies.

Netra Chhetri is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Consortium for Science Policy, and Outcomes at ASU.  His work focus on understanding the sensitivity of ecosystems to multiple stressors such as population growth, land-use change, pollutant loading, persistence of water-intensive agricultural systems, and climate variability and change.

Simon Cole is an STS scholar at the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine.  Cole specializes in the historical and sociological study of the interaction between science, technology, law, and criminal justice and is currently studying forensic science, the development of criminal identification databases, and biometric technologies.

Susan Cozzens is a sociologist in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech.  Cozzens examines issues in the area of science, technology, and inequalities, and develops methods for research assessment and science and technology indicators.

Virginia Eubanks is an STS scholar in Women’s Studies at the University of Albany.  Eubanks studies information technology and urban poverty in the United States.

Mary Feeney is in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech.  Feeney has examined issues in corporate-led urban renewal and ways of institutionalizing responsible innovation at universities. Currently her work focuses on mentoring and public management.

Jill Fisher is an STS scholar in Women & Gender Studies and CSPO at Arizona State.  Fisher studies the neoliberal trends in U.S. medicine by examining the privatization of clinical trials.

Peter Healey is a sociologist at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization.  Healey’s work examines criminology, issues in scientific governance and democratization, and international distribution. 

Nicole Heppner is a research intern at the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.  She graduated from Arizona State University and will attend the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health in the fall.

Lori Hidinger is the Program Manager for the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. In addition to managing the operations of CSPO, she participates in the development of new projects and on the research team for the Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate Project.

Paul Hirsch is in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech.  Hirsch examines the tensions between promoting sustainability and equality in housing and other issues.   

Rachelle Hollander is the former Senior Advisor for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

Maria Carmen Lemos is a political scientist in the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment.  Lemos studies the human dimensions of global environmental change in Latin and South America.

Merlyna Lim is a postdoctoral research associate at the Annenberg Center for Communication at University of Southern California and will join Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University beginning fall 2006. Her work revolves around the political construction/shaping of technology, in relations to issues of globalization, identity politics and democratization.

Carl Mitcham is in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines.  In general, Mitcham (in his words) “aspires to advance philosophical, ethical, and policy understanding within the relevant and overlapping professional communities in ways that may deepen democratic public intelligence."

Michael Montoya is an anthropologist in UC Irvine’s Dept. of Anthropology and Chicano/Latino Studies. Montoya explores the new conceptions of racial and ethnic groups formulated through genomic sciences.

Mark Neff is a PhD student in the School of Life Sciences at ASU and works with the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes.  He studies ecology and climate research policy. 

Shobita Parthasarathy is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research on the comparative and international politics of genetics and biotechnology focuses on how national context shapes scientific practice and technological development, even in an era of globalization.

Zach Pirtle is an undergraduate senior at Arizona State University.  Pirtle is majoring in mechanical engineering and philosophy and is wriitng his honors thesis within CSPO.

Steve Rayner is an anthropologist at Oxford University’s Said Business School and Director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization.  Rayner’s work examines climate change and the governance of technological change under globalization.

Jason Scott Robert is a philosopher of biology and bioethicist in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. He is interested in controversial science in its societal context.

Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University.  Roberts work encompasses issues related to families, welfare, race, and social justice. 

Daniel Sarewitz is a professor of science and society, and the director of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University.  He is interested in the ways that science policy rhetoric and decision making are related to real-world outcomes.

Ramesh Singh is the executive director of ActionAid, International, a development agency that helps poor and vulnerable people fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, education, healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.

Rachel Smith is a research intern at the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.  Smith graduated from Arizona State University and will attend the Indiana University School of Medicine in the fall.

Alice Warner-Mehlhorn is a Program Director at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

Jamey Wetmore is an STS scholar at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University.  His work explores the ways in which ideas of responsibility are (and should be) built into socio-technical systems.

Gregor Wolbring is a biochemist, a bioethicist, a disability/vari-ability studies scholar and a health policy, and sociology of Nano, Bio, Info, Cogno (Neuro-engineering) researcher at the University of Calgary. He is a member of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA.

Ned Woodhouse is a political scientist in RPI’s Dept. of Science, Technology, and Society.  Woodhouse works in a variety of areas in science and technology policy and has recently examined the question of overconsumption.

Brian Young is a research intern for the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and he is pursuing a post-baccalaureate in Biology and Society at Arizona State University.  His studies focus on environmental ethics and policy.

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist and writer based in Berkeley, researches many topics on African affairs, including the relationship between technological change and social and economic development. He is the author of "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century."