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Science Studies

Scholars in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) examine knowledge production, scientific practices, and therapeutics in social and cultural context.

At UCSC, STS scholars analyze the symbolic dimensions and representational practices of global and community health; articulate the role of science, technology, and medicine in processes of racialization and colonization; map new geographies of scientific and global health governance and their implications for health access; infuse questions of bioethics with questions of social justice; and identify how models, metrics, and instruments bring new social phenomena into being and with what implications for the valuation of human life.

To contextualize contemporary developments, we draw from work in the history of science, medicine, and empire to consider how ideas about human and environmental health have circulated in prior historical epochs and what their legacies are in the present. And in studying the making and doing of global health, we seek to engage in re-worlding for a more just and equitable world for all living beings.

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A. Ali Yanik

A. Ali Yanik

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Andrea Steiner

Andrea Steiner

Continuing Lecturer

Community Studies

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing

Professor

Anthropology

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Benjamin Breen

Assistant Professor

History

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Chris Benner

Chris Benner

Professor/Director, Inst. for Social Transformation & Everett Program

Env. Studies & Sociology

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David Bernick

David Bernick

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

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James Doucet-Battle

Associate Professor

Sociology

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Jamie Morse

Assistant Professor

Sociology

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Jennifer Derr

Associate Professor

History

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Julie Guthman

Julie Guthman

Professor

Community Studies, Environmental Studies

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Leila Takayama

Associate Professor

Computational Media

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Lindsey Dillon

Assistant Professor

Sociology

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Madeleine Fairbairn

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

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Magy Seif El-Nasr

Magy Seif El-Nasr

Professor, Vice Chair

Computational Media

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Marcella Gomez

Marcella Gomez

Assistant Professor

Applied Mathematics

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Matt Sparke

Professor

Politics, Executive Director of Global and Community Health

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Nancy Chen

Professor

Anthropology Department

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Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski

Professor

Feminist Studies

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Neel Ahuja

Neel Ahuja

Associate Professor

Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

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Raquel Prado

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Statistics

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Sara Niedzwiecki

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