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Woodruff, Maggie, James Adams, and Nandita Badami. 2018. “UCI Anthro Faculty.” In STS in UCI Anthro STS, edited by James Adams and Maggie Woodruff. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August. http://stsinfrastructures.org/content/uci-anthro-faculty/essay.
This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”
This essay is part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.
STS Across Borders is a special exhibit organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to showcase how the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has developed in different times, places...Read more
Dr. Sherine Hamdy is an associate professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine, with research focuses in medical anthropology, bioethics, Islam, STS, Contemporary Egypt, the Middle East, Gender Studies, Arab Comics, and Graphic Medicine.
This PECE essay helps to answer the ...Read more
Angela Jenks is an Assistant Teaching Professor (LPSOE) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the M.A. in Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies (MA in MSTS) program. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of...Read more
Kris Peterson is an Associate Professor in the University of California - Irvine's Department of Anthropology. Her research and writing are concerned with theories of capital and property; “popular” economies, trade, and markets; health, science, and medicine studies; and postcolonial theory....Read more
Mei Zhan is an Associate Professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology. Her work is concerned with what traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area can tell us about globalization, transnationalism, and the formation of knowledges,...Read more
Professor Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar. His most recent research looks at how professional communities (payments industry professionals, computer programmers and developers, legal consultants) conceptualize and build financial technology or “fintech,” and how...Read more
George Marcus is the Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at UCI. Though Professor Marcus is not generally recognized for engaging the field of STS, he is deeply invested in understanding processes of scientific (social and otherwise) knowledge production and the relations between diverse...Read more
Kim Fortun is a Professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology. Her research and teaching are concerned with environmental disaster and risk; experimental research and design; and the ethnographic genre. Although her monograph focused on India, she is interested...Read more
Mike Fortun, associate professor of Anthropology at UCI, studies the contemporary sciences and scientists of genomics and, most recently, air pollution science. He’s interested in how air pollution affects people’s health and bodies, and how scientists, engineers, practitioners and community...Read more
Eleana Kim is an Associate Professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology. Her research and writing are concerned with theories of the nation, personhood, kinship, and human/non-human relations with a specialty in Korea. She is especially interested in cases that...Read more
Valerie Olson is an Associate Professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology. With fieldwork conducted in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico, her research and writing are focused on the concepts of "environments" and "systems." She is especially interested in how, on...Read more
Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist whose scholarship in political anthropology contributes to media and IT studies, gender studies, and African studies. Her work addresses questions relating to politics, gender, migration and diaspora, war, globalization, transnationalism, civil...Read more
Tom Boellstorff is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research and writing is concerned with ideas of selfhood, embodiment, belonging, and emergent socialities in such field sites as Indonesia and the online world Second...Read more
