Science and Technology Studies
Science and Technology Studies offers graduate students firm grounding in the fundamental concepts, research methods, and discourses of STS, including disciplinary and theoretical perspectives on the question of scientific objectivity and methodology; sites of knowledge production; the development of scientific knowledge and technological practices; the uses of knowledge in policymaking and other social contexts; the political and social roles of scientists, engineers, and other experts; science, technology, and ethics; science, technology, and aesthetic representation; public perceptions of science and technology; the rhetoric of science; and critical analysis of interactions between science and technology and the broader literary and media cultures in which they are embedded.
Faculty Members in Science and Technology Studies
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Anger, Suzy | Victorian Literature, Literature and Philosophy, Victorian Literature and Psychology, Victorian Literature and Science, Hermeneutics |
| Arefin, Mohammed | Human geography; History of sciences and technology (except medicine and health care); urban geography; discard studies; urban political ecology; Environmental justice; waste; sanitation; geographical political economy |
| Barnes, Trevor | Vancouver |
| Bartha, Paul | Philosophy of sciences and technologies; Environmental philosophy; philosophy of science; Philosophy of Probability; Confirmation; Decision Theory |
| Beatty, John Henry | Socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology |
| Bergmann, Luke | Social and economic geography; Geomatics; Globalization |
| Berryman, Sylvia | Philosophy; Ancient Greek natural philosophy; Aristotle's ethics; ethics and global poverty; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies |
| Bowers, Katherine | Literature and literary studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Arts and Literary Policies; Dostoevsky; genre; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; Russian literature; the novel |
| Brain, Robert | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History |
| Callison, Candis | changes to media practices and platforms, journalism ethics, the role of social movements in public discourse, and understanding how issues related to science and technology become meaningful for diverse publics. |
| Christopoulos, John | Historical studies; Early modern Europe; History of pre-modern medicine; Social and cultural history of early modern Italy |
| Dick, Alexander | Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; British Romanticism; Scottish Enlightenment; Literature and Economics; Literature and the Environment; Literature and Science; Scottish Literature |
| Frank, Adam | American literatures; American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies |
| Gusterson, Hugh Phillimore | |
| Hill, Ian | rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements |
| Iurascu, Ilinca | Comparative literatures; Theories of cultural studies; Media, visual and digital culture; German literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; media theory; Media history; critical theory; film studies |
| Johnston, Kirsty | Dramatic literature and theatre history with particular interest in disability arts and intersections between health, disability and performance |
| Karimi, Aryan | Sociology; migration and refugee flows; role of ethnic and racial boundaries in assimilation practices; lived experiences of racialized refugee and diasporic communities |
| Kemple, Thomas | Social and cultural theory, history of social sciences, literary and interpretive methods, aesthetic sociology, visual representation of concepts and arguments |
| Kojevnikov, Alexei | Modern history of science, especially physics, science, society,and culture, Russia and Soviet History, Nuclear History and the Cold War |
| Macfarlane, Allison | Research, science and technology policy; science and technology policy; energy policy, regulation; nuclear energy, nuclear waste management |
| Mawani, Renisa | Sociology; Colonial Legal History; critical theory; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Race and Racism; Time and Temporality |
| Mole, Christopher | Philosophical issues that arise from the attempt to understand the mind scientifically, aesthetics of literature |
| Nardizzi, Vin | Renaissance literature , ecotheory, queer and disability studies |
| Oberg, Gunilla | History and philosophy of science (including non-historical philosophy of science); Other earth and related environmental sciences, n.e.c.; Indigenous peoples environmental knowledge; All other social sciences, n.e.c.; Science and knowledge production; Scientific controversies surrounding the evaluation of chemical risk (epistemic and ontological); Indigenous data justice as related to chemicals regulation & management; Social and cultural factors of chemicals regulation & management; Vocabulary, Knowledge, Significance and Thought Building; environmental health; The challenge of teaching science as a process and not a deliverer of irrefutable facts; The role of deliberation in science |
| Philip, Kavita | Humanities and the arts; Colonial and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies; STS; HCI; History of Science and Technology; Cold War Science |
| Ramana, M. V. | Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; arms control; Energy transitions; degrowth; nuclear disarmament; nuclear energy; nuclear policy; political economy of energy; risk of nuclear accidents |
| Richardson, Alan Walter | History of philosophy of science in early twentieth century |
| Schabas, Margaret | History and philosophy of economics; Economics and business administration; History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; science studies; History of Early Modern Philosophy; British Empiricists |
| Smith, Tai | History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles |
| Steel, Daniel | Addiction; Diversity; ethics; Opioid crisis; Clinical trials; Equity; Philosophy / Ethics; philosophy of science; Values and science risk; Precautionary principle |
| Stephens, Christopher | Philosophy; philosophy of biology; philosophy of science; rationality; scientific philosophy; Why be rational? |
| Thompson, Evan | Philosophy; Asian Philosophies; Cognitive Science; Phenomenology; Philosophical Foundations; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Theories and Philosophies |
| Tworek, Heidi | Historical studies; Europe; Germany; history of media and communications; international organizations; international relations; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies |
| Wang, Jessica | US history, 19th and 20th centuries, history of science and medicine, political and intellectual history, social and urban history, US international history |
| Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey | German theories of media and cultural techniques, Complexity, biological evolution and animal studies, Secret societies and conspiracy theories, Science Fiction (special focus on Alternate history) |
| Wylie, Alison | Philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy of archaeology; philosophy of science; philosophy of the social and historial sciences; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; research ethics (non-medical); science studies |
