UCI Anthro MSTS Programs and Specializations

"To put together a training program, a masters program in STS, is collaborative … those of us who are interested in science and technology often find ourselves working together, even beyond the STS frame, like Kris [Peterson] and I in how we approach our methods course. We pull from the methodological knowledge and processes of anthropologists interested in STS like Kim [Fortun] and Joe Dumit … because of the ways in which STS approaches problems of trying to think about scale, for example, and thinking about the way things move and shift locally and globally. We do this in anthropology at large, but science and technology studies has had to think about the emplacement of science, the movements of technology, and think carefully about how to develop methods to engage that particularly because we’re oftentimes dealing with elite communities who have access kinds of equipment and kinds of communication and power and scales of economy that distinguish them from other groups."

Olson, Valerie. Interview by Maggie Woodruff. Personal interview. Irvine, CA, June 12, 2018.

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