Faculty

  • Mark Ackerman STS

    Mark Ackerman

    Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, social computing.

    ackerm@umich.edu


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    Renee R. Anspach

    Medical sociology, sociology of gender, social psychology.

    ranspach@umich.edu


  • Catherine Badgley

    Catherine Badgley

    Director of Undergraduate Studies. Ecology and environmental biology. 108 Museums Annex

    734.763.6448 / cbadgley@umich.edu


  • K. Barald

    Kate Barald

    Developmental neurobiology, molecular neurobiology studies of developing neuronal cell and synapses and neuronal regeneration in the inner ear; studies of Neurofibromatosis 1; stem cell studies of neuronal, Schwann cell and heart development.

    kfbarald@umich.edu


  • Lydia Barnett

    Lydia Barnett

    Europe (1400-1800) with thematic interests in science, religion, and the environment and geographic interests in the transnational and transatlantic contexts of cultural, intellectual, and environmental developments in premodernity.

    734.647.5408 / lrbarn@umich.edu


  • Diana Bowman

    Diana Bowman

    Legal, regulatory and public health policy issues relating to new technologies, in particular nanotechnologies.

    dibowman@umich.edu


  • Leah Bricker

    Leah Bricker

    Researches phenomena of interest in science education, including social disparities related to youth interest and opportunities associated with STEM learning and practice.

    lbricker@umich.edu


  • Miranda Brown

    Miranda Brown

    History of medicine and science in China, Chinese conceptions of time across the imperial era. 5155 STB

    734.615.7034 / mdbrown@umich.edu


  • Finn Brunton

    Finn Brunton

    Chair, Speakers Series Committee, 2012-2013. Digital humanities, history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, network politics; privacy, anonymity, encryption; intellectual history, philosophy and critical theory.

    finnb@umich.edu


  • John Carson

    John Carson

    Program Director and Director of Graduate Studies, 2012-2013. History of science, history of the human sciences, 19th-century U.S. history, European intellectual history. 1765 Haven Hall

    734.647.7378 / jscarson@umich.edu


  • Douglas

    Susan Douglas

    Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology. 5376 North Quad

    734.764.0423 / sdoug@umich.edu


  • Paul Edwards

    Paul N. Edwards

    History of science and technology, espeically meteorology and information infrastructures. 3439 North Quad

    734.764.2617 / pne@umich.edu


  • A. Fadalla

    Amal Hassan Fadlalla

    Gender, transnationalism, health, reproduction, poverty, and population and development, local and global political economies (Africa, the Middle East).

    734.764.5513 / afadlall@umich.edu


  • Dario Gaggio

    Dario Gaggio

    History of technology and political economy. 2765 Haven Hall

    734.763.2297 / dariog@umich.edu


  • Gabrielle Hecht

    Gabrielle Hecht

    Technology, nuclear power and proliferation, globalization, labor, colonial and postcolonial Africa, modern France. 2666 Haven Hall

    734.647.7937 / hechtg@umich.edu


  • L. Hirshbein

    Laura Hirshbein

    History of psychiatry, health services.

    lauradh@umich.edu


  • Joel Howell

    Joel D. Howell M.D.

    Medicine, history and sociology of science. 2773 Haven Hall

    734.763.2289 / jhowell@umich.edu


  • Matthew Hull STS

    Matthew Hull

    Bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia. 224-A West Hall

    734.763.5382 / hullm@umich.edu


  • Nancy Hunt

    Nancy Rose Hunt

    Africa; gender history; medicine, health, and the body. 1735 Haven Hall

    734.647.4887 / nrhunt@umich.edu


  • Anna Kirkland

    Anna Kirkland

    Law and society, law and politics of health. 2203 Lane Hall
    734.945.8203

    akirklan@umich.edu


  • Joy Knoblauch

    Joy Knoblauch

    Design and the human sciences, and the interaction between architecture, government and population.

    jknoblau@umich.edu


  • Rudi Lindner

    Rudi Lindner

    History of astrophysics. 1672 Haven Hall

    rpl@umich.edu


  • Erik Linstrum

    Erik Linstrum

    History of the human sciences, colonial violence, and books, reading, and translation.

    linstrum@umich.edu


  • Elise Lipkowitz

    Elise Lipkowitz

    Early modern and modern European history, Atlantic world history, history of science. 2657 Haven Hall

    734.647.5412 / elipkow@umich.edu


  • Howard Markel

    Howard Markel M.D., Ph.D.

    Pediatrics and communicable diseases, health mangement and policy. 100 Simpson

    734.647.6914 / howard@umich.edu


  • Malcolm McCullough

    Malcolm McCullough

    Architecture and media arts.

    mmmc@umich.edu


  • Nakamura

    Lisa Nakamura

    Digital media theory, digital game studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, science and technology studies, race and gender in new media.

    734.764.0741 / lnakamur@umich.edu


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    W. Russell Neuman

    New and emerging media, media industries, media policy and regulation, political communication. 5384 North Quad

    734.615.9850 / rneuman@umich.edu


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    Jason Owen-Smith

    Economic sociology, organizational theory, networks, science and technology.

    jdos@umich.edu


  • Susan Parrish

    Susan Scott Parrish

    History of science, nature writing, gender, ecocriticism.

    sparrish@umich.edu


  • Shobita Parthasarathy

    Shobita Parthasarathy

    Comparative politics of science and technology; science, expertise, and democracy; politics of intellectual property; risk governance (particularly related to health, food, and the environment); genetics/biotechnology/biomedicine. 4202 Weill Hall

    734.764.8075 / shobita@umich.edu


  • Marty Pernick

    Martin S. Pernick

    History of disease, disability, health, and the body; history of ethics and value issues in medicine.

    734.647.4876 / mpernick@umich.edu


  • Holly Peters-Golden

    Holly Peters-Golden

    Medical anthropology including illness narrative, the construction of self and personhood in illness; the production of medical knowledge; risk; explanatory models of illness, and social construction of disease. 228 West Hall

    734.764.9941 / hollypet@umich.edu


  • Eric Plemons

    Eric Plemons

    Surgical practice and the production, circulation and application of expert knowledge on gender variant bodies. 222-B West Hall

    734.615.3293 / eplemons@umich.edu


  • Eric Rabkin STS

    Eric Rabkin

    Science and literature, science fiction and fantasy, technology and the humanities.

    734.764.2553 / esrabkin@umich.edu


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    Elisha P. Renne

    Medical/demographic anthropology, gender relations, Nigeria. 207-C West Hall

    734.647.9622 / erenne@umich.edu


  • Elizabeth F.S. Roberts

    Elizabeth F.S. Roberts

    Critical study of medicine, science and biotechnology. 108 West Hall

    734.936.0642 / lfsrob@umich.edu


  • Robinson, Jennifer

    Jennifer Robertson

    Ethnography, robotics and cyborg technologies, eugenics, ideologies of blood, bioart, sex/gender/sexualities, Japan, Israel. 204-C West Hall, 170C Tappan Hall

    734.763.4682 / jennyrob@umich.edu


  • Christian Sandvig

    Christian Sandvig

    New and emerging media; ethnography of new media use; media law and policy. 5385 North Quad

    734.763.0861 / csandvig@umich.edu


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    Alexandra Stern

    History of medicine, reproductive politics, and race and racial classification. 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, L4000 Women's 0276

    734-232-4976 / amstern@umich.edu


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    Derek Vaillant

    Analyzing media texts, historical approaches to media and technology, international and comparative media. 5443 North Quad

    734.615.0449 / dvail@umich.edu


  • Sari van Anders

    Sari M. van Anders

    Gender/sex and sexual diversity, sexuality, evolution, queer science, feminist science practice.

    smva@umich.edu


  • J. Vandermeer

    John Vandermeer

    Ecology, theoretical ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology.

    jvander@umich.edu