People

Scholars studying science and technology take up a broad spectrum of questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Topics currently pursued by University of California researchers include:

• Humanistic: Conceptions of agency, value, identity, bodies, and selfhood; the rhetoric and performativity of science; literature and science fiction; science and violence.
• Societal: Expert-lay interactions; functioning of large technological systems; unintended consequences of technological change; sustainability; political economy of science.
• Critical: Gender, sexuality, race, nation, and science; scientific dissent and science activism.
  
• Global: New patterns of technology transfer and circulation of knowledge; North-South equity; post-colonial studies of science; transnational scientific-technical-medical traffic; division of scientific labor; regional roots of innovation; science and technology in California, and California in the world; stratification.
  
• Historical: Histories of scientific practices and ideas; science in cultural, social, and political context; local, national, and transnational frameworks.
  
• Political: Governance and accountability; R&D policy and funding; science and democracy; technology and the post-Cold-War international order; biological citizenship; social justice; globalization.
  
• Ethical: Distributive justice issues; deployment of new technologies; stem cell research; nanotechnologies; health care disparities; digital divides; technologies of racialization and racial profiling.
  
• Legal and Economic: Regulatory regimes; intellectual property; patents and innovation; science and jurisprudence.
  
• Philosophical: Philosophy of biology, physics, and social science; realism and antirealism; models and modeling; probabilistic reasoning; risk.
  
• Aesthetic: science, technology, and art.

The UC STS Network keeps updated information about people across the UC campuses who have STS interests. Lists can be viewed by category: faculty, researchers, and visiting scholars, and graduate students. Learn about research being done in the field and make connections with other scholars.

The UC STS Network welcomes the participation of faculty, staff, and students. Interested in having your information added to our site? Please contact Network Coordinator.