Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS): Faculty Affiliates
Mark Ackerman
School of Information
Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, social computing.
School of Information
Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, social computing.
cbadgley@umich.edu
734.763.6448
Kate Barald
Medical School
Developmental neurobiology, molecular neurobiology studies of developing neuronal cell and synapses and neuronal regeneration in the inner ear; studies of Neurofibromatosis 1; stem cell studies of neuronal, Schwann cell and heart development.
Medical School
Developmental neurobiology, molecular neurobiology studies of developing neuronal cell and synapses and neuronal regeneration in the inner ear; studies of Neurofibromatosis 1; stem cell studies of neuronal, Schwann cell and heart development.
Rachel K. Best
Department of Sociology
How advocacy and culture create inequalities in policy and law, and consequences new forms of advocacy, eg. interest groups targeting specific diseases.
Department of Sociology
How advocacy and culture create inequalities in policy and law, and consequences new forms of advocacy, eg. interest groups targeting specific diseases.
Leah Bricker
School of Education
Youth STEM-related learning pathways both in and out of school; social disparities related to youth interest and opportunities associated with STEM learning and practice; youth and scientist science-related communication in various contexts; scientific practices in the sciences and in science education.
School of Education
Youth STEM-related learning pathways both in and out of school; social disparities related to youth interest and opportunities associated with STEM learning and practice; youth and scientist science-related communication in various contexts; scientific practices in the sciences and in science education.
Miranda Brown
Asian Languages & Cultures
History of medicine and science in China; Chinese conceptions of time across the imperial era; food culture, in particular premodern uses of dairy.
Asian Languages & Cultures
History of medicine and science in China; Chinese conceptions of time across the imperial era; food culture, in particular premodern uses of dairy.
John Carson
Department of History
History of science, history of the human sciences, US intellectual/cultural history,19th-century U.S. history, European intellectual history.
Department of History
History of science, history of the human sciences, US intellectual/cultural history,19th-century U.S. history, European intellectual history.
jscarson@umich.edu
734.647.7378
Erin Cech
Department of Sociology
Inequalities in recruitment and retention of women, LGBTQ, and racial/ethnic minority persons in STEM degree programs and STEM jobs.
Department of Sociology
Inequalities in recruitment and retention of women, LGBTQ, and racial/ethnic minority persons in STEM degree programs and STEM jobs.
Melissa Creary
School of Public Health
Social movements, health policy, genetics, citizen science, race, culture, and citizenship (Brazil).
School of Public Health
Social movements, health policy, genetics, citizen science, race, culture, and citizenship (Brazil).
Jay Crisostomo
Middle East Studies
Intellectual history and the history of science and medicine in the ancient world.
Middle East Studies
Intellectual history and the history of science and medicine in the ancient world.
Aileen Das
Department of Classical Studies
STS Director of Graduate Studies, 2022-2023
Greco-Roman and Islamicate medicine and philosophy, Galen and Galenism, the Second Sophistic, Greco/Syriac-Arabic translation movement, epitomization, scientific discourse and brevity.
Department of Classical Studies
STS Director of Graduate Studies, 2022-2023
Greco-Roman and Islamicate medicine and philosophy, Galen and Galenism, the Second Sophistic, Greco/Syriac-Arabic translation movement, epitomization, scientific discourse and brevity.
Susan Douglas
Department of Communication and Media
Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology.
Department of Communication and Media
Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology.
sdoug@umich.edu
734.615.9850
Jatin Dua
Department of Anthropology
Law and economy; Piracy; Oceanic studies; Globalization, Empire, Governance and regulation, conflict/post-conflict, mobility; Indian Ocean, Horn of Africa, East Africa.
Department of Anthropology
Law and economy; Piracy; Oceanic studies; Globalization, Empire, Governance and regulation, conflict/post-conflict, mobility; Indian Ocean, Horn of Africa, East Africa.
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
American Culture, Women and Gender Studies
Gender, transnationalism, health, reproduction, poverty, and population and development, local and global political economies (Africa, the Middle East).
American Culture, Women and Gender Studies
Gender, transnationalism, health, reproduction, poverty, and population and development, local and global political economies (Africa, the Middle East).
afadlall@umich.edu
734.764.5513
Anna Bonnell Freidin
Department of History
Risk and uncertainty in the histories of gender, imperialism, science, medicine, and magic in classical Rome.
Department of History
Risk and uncertainty in the histories of gender, imperialism, science, medicine, and magic in classical Rome.
William Glover
Department of History
Colonial and post-colonial South Asia, urban and architectural history, material culture, aesthetics of modernization
Department of History
Colonial and post-colonial South Asia, urban and architectural history, material culture, aesthetics of modernization
wglover@umich.edu
734.936.0203
Natalie Hofmeister
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stories of invasive speciies, changes in attitudes to invasive species over time and across national boundaries.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stories of invasive speciies, changes in attitudes to invasive species over time and across national boundaries.
jhowell@umich.edu
734.615.8341
Jennifer Hsieh
Department of Anthropology
Formation of political subjectivity through sensory practices in institutional and urban settings.
Department of Anthropology
Formation of political subjectivity through sensory practices in institutional and urban settings.
Matthew Hull
Department of Anthropology
Bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, communication technology, South Asia.
Department of Anthropology
Bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, communication technology, South Asia.
Brian Klein
Department of African and Afroamerican Studies
Environmental governance and global development, especially in frontier settings across the Global South
Department of African and Afroamerican Studies
Environmental governance and global development, especially in frontier settings across the Global South
Joy Knoblauch
School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Co-coordinator STeMS Speaker Series, 2019-2020
Architecture, government, and population informed by psychology, medicine, and other human sciences. American hospitals, prisons, mental health centers, and urbanism.
School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Co-coordinator STeMS Speaker Series, 2019-2020
Architecture, government, and population informed by psychology, medicine, and other human sciences. American hospitals, prisons, mental health centers, and urbanism.
Silvia Lindtner
School of Information
Innovation discourse, industrial production and technology development in China; digital media studies; human-computer interaction; computer-supported cooperative work.
School of Information
Innovation discourse, industrial production and technology development in China; digital media studies; human-computer interaction; computer-supported cooperative work.
Lisa Nakamura
American Culture, Film, Television and Media
Digital media theory, digital game studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, science and technology studies, race and gender in new media.
American Culture, Film, Television and Media
Digital media theory, digital game studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, science and technology studies, race and gender in new media.
lnakamur@umich.edu
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
734.615.6472
Rafael Neis
Department of History, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Histories of knowledge, science, and medicine in antiquity. Science and religion. Gender, sexuality, disability, and animality in Judaism.
Department of History, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Histories of knowledge, science, and medicine in antiquity. Science and religion. Gender, sexuality, disability, and animality in Judaism.
Davon Norris
Organizational Studies
How algorithms (re)produce inequality and mediate how we understand inequality
Organizational Studies
How algorithms (re)produce inequality and mediate how we understand inequality
Douglas Northrop
Department of History
Central Asia, Soviet, and world/global history; environmental, ecological history; history of geology, seismology, earth sciences; space and mapping.
Department of History
Central Asia, Soviet, and world/global history; environmental, ecological history; history of geology, seismology, earth sciences; space and mapping.
Jason Owen-Smith
Department of Sociology, Organizational Studies
Economic sociology, organizational theory, networks, science and technology.
Department of Sociology, Organizational Studies
Economic sociology, organizational theory, networks, science and technology.
Alyssa Paredes
Department of Anthropology
Human, environmental, and metabolic infrastructures of transnational trade
Department of Anthropology
Human, environmental, and metabolic infrastructures of transnational trade
Shobita Parthasarathy
Ford School of Public Policy
Comparative politics of science and technology; science, expertise, and democracy; politics of intellectual property; risk governance (particularly related to health, food, and the environment); genetics/biotechnology/biomedicine.
Ford School of Public Policy
Comparative politics of science and technology; science, expertise, and democracy; politics of intellectual property; risk governance (particularly related to health, food, and the environment); genetics/biotechnology/biomedicine.
shobita@umich.edu
734.764.8075
Casey Pierce
School of Information
Knowledge management, organizational change, technology use in healthcare organizations.
School of Information
Knowledge management, organizational change, technology use in healthcare organizations.
Vyta Pivo
Taubman School of Architecture
Materials science and engineering, architectural design, construction, laboratory testing, zoning and standards, industrial manufacturing and global politics, environmental justice.
Taubman School of Architecture
Materials science and engineering, architectural design, construction, laboratory testing, zoning and standards, industrial manufacturing and global politics, environmental justice.
Elizabeth Popp Berman
Sociology of science and knowledge (especially economics), expertise, policy, quantification
Sociology of science and knowledge (especially economics), expertise, policy, quantification
Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
Department of Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2019-2020
Critical study of medicine, science and biotechnology.
Department of Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2019-2020
Critical study of medicine, science and biotechnology.
Joy Rohde
Ford School of Public Policy
Director, Science, Technology & Society, 2022-2023
History of science and technology; history of the human sciences; science and technology policy; expertise and democracy.
Ford School of Public Policy
Director, Science, Technology & Society, 2022-2023
History of science and technology; history of the human sciences; science and technology policy; expertise and democracy.
Arpita Roy
Department of Physics
Installation and commissioning of experiments, contexts of discovery, expertise and organizational dysfunction, and study of material culture with special focus on contemporary particle physics.
Department of Physics
Installation and commissioning of experiments, contexts of discovery, expertise and organizational dysfunction, and study of material culture with special focus on contemporary particle physics.
Christian Sandvig
Department of Communication and Media
New media technologies; infrastructure studies; technology law and policy; human-computer interaction.
Department of Communication and Media
New media technologies; infrastructure studies; technology law and policy; human-computer interaction.
csandvig@umich.edu
734.763.0861
Francesca Schironi
Department of Classical Studies
Ancient Greek Astronomy, Greek Science, Ancient Medicine, Scientific Language, Papyrology, Greek Language and Literature
Department of Classical Studies
Ancient Greek Astronomy, Greek Science, Ancient Medicine, Scientific Language, Papyrology, Greek Language and Literature
Perrin Selcer
Department of History
Global environmental history; history and sociology of science, focusing on 20th century environmental and human sciences; international organizations and international development; U.S. and the World
Department of History
Global environmental history; history and sociology of science, focusing on 20th century environmental and human sciences; international organizations and international development; U.S. and the World
Scott Stonington
Department of Anthropology; Medical School
Globalization of biomedical ethics and expertise.
Department of Anthropology; Medical School
Globalization of biomedical ethics and expertise.
Kentaro Toyama
School of Information
Information and communication technologies and development (ICTD), technology and social change, human-computer interaction.
School of Information
Information and communication technologies and development (ICTD), technology and social change, human-computer interaction.
toyama@umich.edu
3444 North Quad
School of Information
105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 734.763.8427
School of Information
105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 734.763.8427
Derek Vaillant
Department of Communication and Media
Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology, international and comparative media.
Department of Communication and Media
Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology, international and comparative media.
dvail@umich.edu
734.615.0449
John Vandermeer
School for Environment & Sustainability
Ecology, theoretical ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology.
School for Environment & Sustainability
Ecology, theoretical ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology.
jvander@umich.edu
734.764.1446
Alexandra Vinson
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Medical training, quantification, infrastructure, multi-stakeholder healthcare improvement work, interaction and language use.
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Medical training, quantification, infrastructure, multi-stakeholder healthcare improvement work, interaction and language use.
