Christian Hunold, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and affiliated with Drexel University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society. His research on deliberative policymaking, participatory environmental policy, and urban sustainability has been published in...Read more
Flavia Padovani is an associate professor of Philosophy. She is also on the faculty of Drexel’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Geneva in 2008. Before and after joining Drexel, she held postdoctoral positions and visiting...Read more
Michael Brown is an affiliated scholar in Drexel’s Center for Science, Technology and Society and currently dissertating in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His research explores different philosophical theories about the nature of technology, technological change...Read more
Kevin M. Moseby, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Sociology. His research specialties and teaching interests are in the areas of the social and cultural studies of biomedicine/health, particularly as those domains intersect with and through the institutions of race/...Read more
Chloe Silverman is an Associate Professor in the Department Politics and a member of the STS Program. She works in three related areas, which inform her choice of research topics and the courses she teaches. Most centrally, she studies the role of affect in scientific knowledge, how public...Read more
Amy E. Slaton is a professor in the Department of History. She holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught courses in the history of American science, technology and architecture, as well as in U.S. labor history and race relations....Read more
My research focuses on the historical intersections among science, medicine, and religion, especially in the early modern era (roughly the 1400s through the 1700s). This was a time of great change in Europe and around the globe: new ways of thinking about God, nature, and humanity emerged...Read more
My primary areas of research include digital spaces/technologies, global health, development, and relations between India and Africa.
My current book project, "Bandwidth for Life: Anthropological Incursions into the Pan-African e-Network", explores a transnational network through which...Read more
I am currently writing "The 'Cycle of Life': A History of Experimental Holism," in which I trace how a series of scientists developed laboratory-based methods to investigate a holistic vision of nature known as the "cycle of life." Here I survey late-18th to mid-20th century sciences as...Read more
Brent Luvaas is a visual and cultural anthropologist interested in the production and global circulation of fashion, music, and photography. He is the author of "Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging" (Bloomsbury 2016) and "DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture...Read more
Mimi Sheller, AB Harvard University (1988), MA (1993) and PhD (1997) New School for Social Research, is a professor of sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the past President of the International Association for the History...Read more
I am an anthropologist trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). I specialize in the study of contemporary health practices, and how biomedical science and emerging technologies shape the way we understand and care for...Read more
Asta Zelenkauskaite earned her PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington with two minor specializations in Information Science and Linguistics. Her research focuses on the ways in which communication occurs through computer network environments as well as mobile...Read more
Kelly Joyce, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Science, Technology, and Society program. Professor Joyce is the author of the book "Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency" (Cornell University Press, 2008) and is co-editor of "Technogenarians: Studying...Read more
My work focuses on risk and disaster, with particular interests in modern cities, technology, and public policy. My most recent book is "The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America" (UPenn Press, 2011), and I am series co-editor of "Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster" (UPenn Press...Read more
Mary Ebeling is associate professor of sociology and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Drexel University. Mary is an ethnographic sociologist and researches the intersections of marketing, health, biomedical science and digital life. Her new book, ...Read more
My research takes place at the physical borders where oil refineries abut residential communities. My interlocutors worry about the toxic chemicals that flow across those borders, and how to measure them. Other things flow less easily: refinery fencelines often mark a sharp divide between...Read more
Kelly Underman received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine prior to joining the faculty at Drexel. She is a...Read more
