Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Current Fellows
The Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard sponsors a small number of stipendary and non-stipendary fellowships each year at the Kennedy School of Government who conduct research and receive advanced training in Science and Technology Studies. For more information on the Fellows Program, click here. For information on past fellows, see the links on the left. Below are a list of the current fellows with the program and a brief description of their backgrounds and interests, with links to more detailed pages containing more detailed information as well as a list of their most recent publications.
Vice-coordinator and researcher at the Center for Sustainability Studies at the Business Administration School of Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil (FGV). Professor at FGV MBA on the Management of Sustainability. Ph.D. Student at the Public Administration Department of the Business Administration School of FGV. She holds two masters degrees: one in Environmental Sciences (MSc), from Universidade de São Paulo (1999), and the other in International Legal Studies, from the American University Washington College of Law, D.C.(1992). She holds a Law Degree from Universidade de São Paulo (1990).
Margaret Curnutte is a PhD candidate at the European School for Molecular Medicine (SEMM) at the University of Milan. She is interested in the social, political, and ethical implications of biomedical gene technologies. Her doctoral research focuses on the practices of two US-based companies offering individual genetic testing over the Internet. While a visiting fellow at the STS Program, under the supervision of her co-advisor, Professor Sheila Jasanoff, she hopes to analyze how these private companies utilize social and scientific technologies to reshape the role of the citizen in a liberal democratic society.
Samuel Evans holds a joint appointment with the Program on Science, Technology, & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is preparing journal articles and a book draft based on his doctoral research at Oxford University, which looked at how governments decide where to draw the line between what is and is not a militarily significant technology. He is also helping to design and teach an undergraduate course with Venky Narayanamurti on "Technology & Society".
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Christopher Jones is a historian interested in the intersections between energy, technology, and the environment. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in History and Sociology of Science. His dissertation studies the development of America's first fossil-fuel intensive region, the mid-Atlantic. As a Ziff Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, working with Sheila Jasanoff, Chris will be revising his dissertation into a book and developing the policy implications of his research.
Maya Mitre is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Her current research focuses on the factors that contributed to shaping human embryonic stem-cell research policy in Brazil, taking the United States as a basis for comparison. A broader purpose of her work is to reflect upon problems such as the challenges that human biotechnology poses to the role of institutions and to the decision-making process in democratic countries. Maya's doctoral research is currently being funded by Capes, an agency of the Brazilian Ministry of Education.
Tolu Odumosu is a visiting fellow from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis examining the Telecommunications Industry in Nigeria focusing on the co-construction of the industry, the State, and conceptions of Democracy and Technological governance, paying particular attention to user agency, appropriation and use/consumption. He holds a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca NY and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Electronics from the University Of Lagos, Nigeria. Tolu is the recipient of the HASS Fellowship at RPI, which currently funds his research.
Krishanu Saha is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, supported by the Society in Science: Branco-Weiss Fellowship. Kris is a practicing scientist in the laboratory of Rudolf Jaenisch working on embryonic stem cells and on an emerging class of human engineered materials, termed "reprogrammed or iPS" cell lines. These cell lines are currently used to model diseases afflicting a wide variety of patients. As these "diseases in a dish" are constructed through stem cell biology and engineering, he is extending his laboratory work to examine the moral, economic, and political status of these objects. He holds a M.Phil. in Biotechnology from University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
Melike Şahinol joined the Harvard STS program as a Ph.D. candidate of sociology and a stipendiary fellow of the Postgraduate Program for Bioethics with the Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tuebingen. In 2008, a Ph.D. fellowship was awarded to her in the project "TRANSDISS - disciplinary research in transdisciplinarity," which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Her current research focuses on the action strategies and dynamics of the neuro-scientific and neuro-technological innovation process, in particular the development of brain-computer-interfaces and implants.
Samuel is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Program at the Australian National University. His research takes as a case study the politics and governance of plastic surgery practice in Mexico in order to tease out contemporary transformations in citizenship, medical science, and ethics. His dissertation is based on one year of ethnographic research conducted mostly in Mexico City. While a fellow at the STS program, Samuel is writing about the ongoing effort to carry out face transplant surgery in Mexico, the regulation of clinical research and the problems encountered when trying to turn clinical knowledge into scientific knowledge, and the relationship between standardisation and rationalisation and changing modes of citizenship in Mexico as it relates to reconstructive surgery.
Frederic Vandermoere is a visiting fellow at the STS program in Harvard, post-doc fellow at Ghent University in Belgium (Department of Sociology, Center for Social Theory) and associate researcher at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris. He received his Ph D in political and social sciences from Ghent University in 2008. In his doctoral thesis he examined the social and ecological correlates of risk perception among people living on polluted soil. His current research focuses on the public perception of nanotechnology, with specific attention for the moral and social contextual covariates of risk perception.
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