“What is the difference between being an anthropologist of science and technology, and doing STS? I still after all these years do not have an answer,” admits Valerie Olson. Considering herself, Olson says, “I enjoyed STS but I thought of myself and still do as an anthropologist of science and technology. I started out as a medical anthropologist, I am an anthropologist of science and technology, but I’m also an environmental anthropologist, so maybe what I would say overall is that... I would consider myself an anthropologist of environmental science and technology.”
Olson, Valerie. Interview by Maggie Woodruff. Personal interview. Irvine, CA, June 12, 2018.
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 larger essay on Valerie Olson, which is in turn part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.
Maggie Woodruff. 25 July 2018, "Interview with Valerie Olson, June 2018", STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 10 August 2018, accessed 23 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/interview-valerie-olson-june-2018
