Current Graduate Students
Akyurtlu, Aydin (aa488@cornell.edu)
Technology and development; sustainable technologies; emerging technologies; sustainable and alternative design.
Anderman, Judd (jha52@cornell.edu)
The relations between biomedicine and law; politics and technologies of risk; neurotechnology and surveillance; political economy of health.
Boyce, Angie M. (amb462@cornell.edu)
U.S. and global food safety in historical and contemporary perspective, foodborne disease outbreaks, product recalls, regulatory sciences and public health (in particular, microbiology, genetics, epidemiology, environmental health sciences); risk, standards, and standardization.
Cheung, Shoan Yin (sc479@cornell.edu)
History of public health, race, and eugenics in Japan and East Asia; nationalism and the construction of scientific knowledge; gender and the scientific management of bodies.
de Ridder-Vignone, Kathryn (kdv5@cornell.edu)
Societal and ethical implications of nano; informal science education in nanoscale science; and nanoimages and imagework in public-science education networks. Other projects include: Accessing the “Open Road” in Jim Crow America: African-American guides to travel, motoring, and tourism
Glabau, Danya (dag66@cornell.edu)
Hsu, Hansen (hh334@cornell.edu)
History and sociology of personal computing, object oriented software; ways in which cultural values are embedded in technologies.
Kliems, Harald (hk346@cornell.edu)
Medical anthropology, especially of the neurosciences and of mental disorders; subjectivity and its history, formations, and technologies; surveillance technologies.
Krol, Carmen V. (cvk8@cornell.edu)
Communication technologies, including radio, television and print media, in Cold War Polish dissident movements; S&TS and social movements; colonial, post-colonial, and post-socialist theoretical approaches to studying East-Central European contexts
Lin, Ling-Fei (ll289@cornell.edu)
History and sociology of knowledge; History of computers, semiconductors, and the Internet; History of East Asian Industry; History of Contract Manufacturing
Lumumba-Kasongo, Enongo (eal42@cornell.edu)
Gender disparities in digital music networks, and the pedagogy of digital music.
Marquez, Victor (vom2@cornell.edu)
History and social shaping of technology, particularly airports, and the culture of mobility. Other topics of interest include design and STS in practice, ethics of environment and urban planning, new materials and acoustics, futures and hemispheric transfer of technology.
Marshall, Owen (wom6@cornell.edu)
I'm interested in the social aspect of sound production and analysis, particularly the development of expert listening cultures and technology in both musical and scientific contexts. This includes Auto-Tune/Melodyne, bioacoustic research, transduction/visualization approaches, and technopolitical soundscapes. I'm also interested in global disease surveillance networks as a negotiating ground for multiple global imaginaries of health and governance. Cases of interest include the WHO's Global Influenza Surveillance Network, INGO information sharing networks such as PRO-MED Mail, and the viropiracy/viral sovereignty controversy.
Mohsin, Yulianto (Anto) (ysm5@cornell.edu)
Relationship between science and technology and politics and international relations; ideology of development; risk, disasters, and accidents. History of technology, environmental history, and Southeast Asian studies.
Naveh-Benjamin, Ilil (in34@cornell.edu)
My research focuses on humanitarian psychosocial interventions in Israel. I seek to understand what roles mental health workers play in contexts of material scarcity and systematic oppression, and how they become embedded in broader humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts. Broader interests include the history, sociology, and philosophy of the human sciences, development, science and the state, and the political economy of humanitarian aid.
Schombs, Robert (rws33@cornell.edu)
Intellectual and cultural history of 19th century organic chemistry in Germany; history of spontaneous human combustion; history of the modern physical sciences; industrial research laboratories; fringe science.
Thompson, Darla (djt36@cornell.edu)
Social and cultural history of technologies of slavery in the 19 century United States; the political economy of punishment; iron collars as reproductive technologies in the Americas; science, race, and colonialism; gender and technology.
Tolwinski, Kasia (ket49@cornell.edu)
Relationships between gender, race, sexuality, science and technology; historical and social studies of the life sciences; theories of embodiment; biomedicine, health and risk; nutrition, obesity and public health; fetal programming; genetics and epigenetics.
Vaughan, Tyson (tev4@cornell.edu)
Disasters and accidents, especially in Japan. Post-disaster recovery planning. Katrina's aftermath. Public engagement in sociotechnical change. "Citizen science." Science and democracy. Environmental history and sociology.
Walker, Alexis (akw45@cornell.edu)
Comparative politics of biomedicine; social movements; science and identity (regional, racial…)
Wang, Benjamin (benjamin.wang@cornell.edu)
Landscapes in Sudan contaminated by landmines and explosive remnants of war
Zuroski, Emma (ejz24@cornell.edu)
History of science and colonialism; geographical conceptions of space and movement related to construction of scientific knowledge; 19th c British maritime history; gender and domestic technologies.