Science Studies
Scholars in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) examine knowledge production, scientific practices, and therapeutics in social and cultural context.
At UCSC, STS scholars analyze the symbolic dimensions and representational practices of global and community health; articulate the role of science, technology, and medicine in processes of racialization and colonization; map new geographies of scientific and global health governance and their implications for health access; infuse questions of bioethics with questions of social justice; and identify how models, metrics, and instruments bring new social phenomena into being and with what implications for the valuation of human life.
To contextualize contemporary developments, we draw from work in the history of science, medicine, and empire to consider how ideas about human and environmental health have circulated in prior historical epochs and what their legacies are in the present. And in studying the making and doing of global health, we seek to engage in re-worlding for a more just and equitable world for all living beings.
James Battle
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- Associate Professor
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- Sociology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Sociology
Christopher Benner
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- he, him, his, his, himself
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- Professor
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- Environmental Studies Department
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- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Urban studies
David L Bernick
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- he, him, his, his, himself
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- Associate Teaching Professor
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- Biomolecular Engineering
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Benjamin P Breen
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- he, him, his, his, himself
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- Associate Professor
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- History Department
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- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Science Studies
Nancy N Chen
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- Professor
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- Anthropology Department
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Jennifer L Derr
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- she/they
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- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
- Department
- History Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Disease and Immunity
Lindsey L Dillon
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- Associate Professor
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Activism
Madeleine P Fairbairn
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- Associate Professor
- Department
- Environmental Studies Department
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- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Agroecology and Agriculture
Marcella M Gomez
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- Associate Professor
- Department
- Applied Mathematics
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Julie H Guthman
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- Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Department
- Community Studies Program
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- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Agroecology and Agriculture
Christie G Mccullen
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
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- Lecturer
- Department
- Sociology Department
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Jaimie Morse
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
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- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Sociology
Sara J Niedzwiecki
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- Associate Professor
- Department
- Politics Department
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Raquel Prado
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- Professor
- Department
- Statistics
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Statistics
Magy Seif El-Nasr
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
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- Professor and Department Chair
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- Computational Media
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- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Human Computer Interaction
Matthew B Sparke
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- he, him
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- Distinguished Professor of Politics
- Department
- Politics Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Capitalism
Anna L Tsing
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Anthropology Department
- Campus Email

Ahmet A Yanik
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- Associate Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Electrical Engineering