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2012 Program Fellows

Emily Fertig

Emily Fertig is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The focus of her research is the economics of wind power integration, using both large-scale energy storage and interconnect…

Nicholas Genes

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Genes graduated from Brown University, received his MD and PhD from the Un…

Melinda Gormley

Melinda Gormley, Ph.D. specializes in the history of life sciences in twentieth-century America and interactions of science with society and politics. She is writing a biography of geneticist L.C Dunn (1893-1974) that expl…

Karen Hilyard

Karen Hilyard is assistant professor of health promotion and behavior at the University of Georgia College of Public Health, where she studies health and risk communication related to infectious disease prevention and disa…

Allison Marsh

Allison Marsh is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina where she supervises the museums and material culture track of the public history program. Trained as a historian of technology, her re…

Dr. Vikrom Mathur

Dr. Vikrom Mathur has over a decade of professional experience, straddling research and policy advice, at the interface of societal change and adaptation to environmental risks. His diverse research interests include: deci…

Grischa Metlay

Grischa received undergraduate degrees in molecular biology and science and technology studies from Cornell University, a master’s degree in sociology/science studies from the University of California – San Diego, and a do…

Ramya Rajagopalan

Ramya Rajagopalan is a sociologist of science, technology and medicine with interdisciplinary training in both the social and biological sciences. Her work examines social, cultural, ethical and policy issues emerging out …

David Schleifer

David Schleifer studies technological change. He earned his BA in sociology from Wesleyan University and his PhD in sociology from New York University. Dr. Schleifer’s dissertation explained how and why food corporation…

Niki Vermeulen

Niki Vermeulen specializes in science and innovation policy and the organization of research, with an emphasis on scientific collaboration in the life sciences. She is currently a Wellcome Research Fellow in the Centre for…

Joon-Ho Yu

Joon-Ho Yu received a B.A. in English at Carleton College and B.S. in Biology at San Francisco State University. After 10 years working in the field of minority health, Joon completed an MPH and PhD in public health geneti…

Angela Records, PhD

Angela Records, PhD, is a Policy Fellow with the American Phytopathological Society, and she works as a science consultant for Eversole Associates, a small science and technology consulting firm. Angela earned her B.S. in …

Adam Briggle

Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas

Samuel Evans

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Un…

Lekelia Jenkins

Postdoctoral Scholar and Research Associate, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington

Florian Kern

Research Fellow, SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex

Jeremy Littell

Research Scientist, JISAO/CSES Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington

Jennifer Liu

Freeman Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois

Dean Nieusma

Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Gwen Ottinger

Program Researcher, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Elizabeth Popp Berman

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Public Policy, University of Albany, SUNY

Sonja Schmid

Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech

Mark Shafer

Director of Climate Services, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, The University of Oklahoma

Jeannette Sutton

Disaster Sociologist, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder and Assistant Research Professor,…

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