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Timothy Jennings
Ph.D., expected May 2015, STS Blacksburg
“Responsibility in STS and Biotechnology.”
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Merc Fox
Ph.D., expected May 2015, STS Blacksburg
“History of Seismology in Iran.”
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William Mullis
Ph.D., expected May 2014, STS Greater Capital Region
“High-Water Mark: Gender, Diversity, and the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunity Act of 1980.”
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Margaret Layne
Ph.D., expected May 2014, STS Blacksburg
“High-Water Mark: Gender, Diversity, and the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunity Act of 1980.”
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Sharon Elber
Ph.D., expected May 2014, STS Blacksburg
“Epistemology and Education at the Intersection of Science and Performance”
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Thomas Bigley
Ph.D., expected December 2014, STS Blacksburg
“Patent Law and Chinese Nationalism”
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Sumitra Nair
Ph.D., expected May 2013, STS Blacksburg
“Mustering India: Rural Poverty and the Promises of the Information Economy.”
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John Tucker
Ph.D. August 2013, STS Greater Capital Region
“Technologies of Intelligence and their Relation to National Security Policy: A Case Study of the U.S. and the V-2 Rocket”
(co-chair with Shannon Brown)
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Thomas Faigle
Ph.D. expected December 2012, STS Blacksburg
“The Career Community College.”
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Kacey Beddoes
Ph.D., December 2011, STS Blacksburg
“Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research.”
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Kuo-Hui Chang
Ph.D., December 2010, STS Blacksburg
“Engineering Construction as Community Formation: the High-speed Railway, Localized-democracy and Hybrid Culture in Taiwan”
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Brent Jesiek
Ph.D., May 2007, STS Blacksburg
Between Discipline and Profession: A History of Persistent Instability in Computer Engineering.
(Recipient, 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Graduate School, Virginia Tech; Assistant Professor, Engineering Education, Purdue University)
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Wairimu Njambi
Ph.D., May 2001, Program STS Blacksburg
Science and the Debate over Female Circumcision
(Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic Honors College)
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Amy Crumpton
Ph.D., December 1998, STS Blacksburg
Epidemiology and Environmental Justice
(Associate Curator, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
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Juan Lucena
Ph.D., December 1996, STS Blacksburg
Making Policy for Making People: Manpower Policy at the National Science Foundation
(Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines)
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Juan Rogers
Ph.D., May 1996, STS Blacksburg
Multiple Discourses on Information Infrastructure.
(Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Rafael Balderrama
Ph.D., May 1996, STS Blacksburg
Standardization in Agricultural Machinery.
(Visiting Professor, University of Texas)
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Dey W. Watts
Ph.D., May 1995
Department of Landscape Architecture, An Ethnomethodological Study of Architectural Design.
(Associate Professor of Geography, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
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Chung-Hsi Lin Ph.D.
May 1994, STS Blacksburg
The Politics of Development of Scientific Development in Taiwan: The Hepatitis B Control Program.
(Associate Professor, Cultural Conservation, Yun Lin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
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Maarten Heyboer, Ph.D.
May 1992, STS Blacksburg
The Grass Counters: Range Management as Applied Science.
(Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, State University of New York, Utica)
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John Gibney
M.S., expected May 2012, STS Greater Capital Region
Exam option
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Grace Hood
M.S. expected December 2012, STS Blacksburg
exam option
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Margaret Layne
M.S., May 2012, STS Blacksburg
Exam option
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Timothy Jennings
M.S., May 2012, STS Blacksburg
Exam option
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Sumitra Nair
M.S., May 2012, STS Blacksburg
Exam option
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Nicholas Sakellariou
M.S., May 2008, STS Blacksburg
non-thesis
(Ph.D. student, Environment and Society, University of California, Berkeley)
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Masanori Wada
M.S., December 2007, STS Blacksburg
“Engineering Education and the Spirit of Samurai at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1871-1886”
(Ph.D. student, History, University of Tokyo)
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Sharon Elber
M.S., December 2007, STS Blacksburg
non-thesis option
(Ph.D. student, STS, Virginia Tech)
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Cora Olson
M.S., May 2007, STS Blacksburg
non-thesis option
(Ph.D. student, STS, Virginia Tech)
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John Fiore
M.S., December 2004, STS Greater Capital Region
non-thesis option
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Amy Nichols
M.S., May 2003, STS Blacksburg
“Globalization on the Ground: An Ethnography of Volunteerism, Health, and Development in Rural Tanzania”
(Ph.D. student, cultural anthropology, University of Virginia)
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Brent Jesiek
M.S., May 2003, STS Blacksburg
“Of Meme and Metaphor: Following the Evolution of a Controversial Discipline”
(Ph.D. student, STS Blacksburg, Virginia Tech)
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Stephen Garber
M.S., January 2002, STS Greater Capital Region
“Birds of a Feather?: How Politics and Culture Affected the Designs of the U.S. Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran”
(Staff Historian, NASA)
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Krista Gile
M.S., May 2000, STS Blacksburg
non-thesis option
(Ph.D. student, Statistics, University of Washington)
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Angela Ragusa
M.S., May 2000, STS Blacksburg
non-thesis option
(Ph.D. student, Sociology, Virginia Tech)
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Bingbing Yu
M.S. May 1999, STS Blacksburg,
non-thesis
(Ph.D. student, Instructional Technology, Case Western Reserve University)
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Ming-hui Hu
M.S., May 1997, STS Blacksburg
“Maintaining NASTRAN: The Politics and Technics of Aerospace Computing”
(Ph.D. student, Department of History, UCLA)
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Carmen Sears
M.S., December 1996, STS Blacksburg,
“(Re)Visions of the Village.”
(Senior Manager, Teloquent [software firm], Cambridge, Massachusetts.)
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Tobin White
M.S., May 1996, STS Blacksburg,
“How to Do a Physics Problem: Negotiation of Student Identities in Undergraduate Physics Courses.”
(Ph.D. Student, Education, Standford University.)
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Sharon Hegg
M.S., May 1995, STS Blacksburg,
“A Guide to the Experiances of Undergaduate Women Engineers.”
(Engineer/planner for Microsoft, Inc.)
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Chris Furlow
M.S., May 1993, STS Blacksburg,
“The Islamization of Scientific Knowledge.”
(Ph.D. candidiate, History, University of Quebec at Montreal.)
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Virginia Salmon
M.S., May 1991, STS Blacksburg,
“Technical Theatre and the Computer.”
(Librarian, state college, Tennessee)
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Maarten Heybower
M.S., September 1989, STS Blacksburg,
“Knowledge Development in Applied Science: The Case of Range Management.”
(see above)
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Hong L. Oei
M.S., June 1989 , STS Blacksburg,
“A Study of Multi-Disciplinary Research Centers at Virginia Tech.”
(Ph.D. 1994, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech. Senior staff person, National Science Foundation, The Netherlands.)
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Brent Voelker
M.S., expected May 2010, STS Alexandria
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Jennifer Henderson
Ph.D., expected May 2015, STS Blacksburg
“The Emergence of Weather Prediction.”
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Yong-Seok Park
Ph.D. expected May 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering
“Collaborative Design.”
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Amy Kaminski
Ph.D., expected May 2014, STS Greater Capital Region
TBD
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Frankie Bausch
Ph.D., STS Blacksburg,
“Design and Software Engineering”
[leave of absence].
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Chris Hays
M.S., May 2009, STS Blacksburg
exam option
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Lorraine Woellert
Ph.D., expected May 2010, STS Greater Capital Region,
“Identity, Internet, and Inuit.”
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Victoria Friedensen
Ph.D., expected May 2012, STS Greater Capital Region,
“Risk Communication and Space Science.”
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Chris Hays
Ph.D., expected December 2011, STS Blacksburg
“Knowledge and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”
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John Tucker
Ph.D., expected May 2011, STS Greater Capital Region
“American Intelligence, Unwilling Technology Transfer, and the V-2 Missile: A Case Study in the Epistemology of Technical Knowledge.”
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Jongmin Lee
Ph.D., August 2013, STS Blacksburg
“Engineering the Environment: Regulatory Engineering in the EPA’s Office of Research & Development: 1970-1980”
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Cora Olson
Ph.D. expected December 2010, STS Blacksburg,
“Doping Regulation in the United States”
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Jonson Miller
Ph.D., December 2008, STS Blacksburg
“Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute.”
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Absalom Phiri
Ph.D., May 2008,Teaching and Learning Virginia Tech
“Science Education and Indigenous Knowledge in Malawi.”
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Jane Lehr
Ph.D., December 2006, STS Blacksburg
“Science Education & Non-Scientists: Social Justice, Scientific Literacy, and the Remaking of Democratic Citizenship”
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Laura DeNardis
Ph.D., May 2006,STS Alexandria
“Politics of the Next Generation Internet.”
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John McGlaughlin
Ph.D., May 2006, Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech
“Social Shaping of Biotechnology in the Classroom”
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Gabriella Coleman
Ph.D. June 2005, Anthropology, University of Chicago
“The Free Software Movement”.
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Dean Nieusma
Ph.D., December 2004, STS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Appropriate Expertise: Alternative Energy Technology Design in Sri Lanka.”
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Maria Rentetzi
Ph.D., May 2003, STS Blacksburg
“Crossing Boundaries: The Gendered Production of Knowledge at the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna, 1920-1938.”
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Stephen Poulson
Ph.D., December 2002, Sociology, Virginia Tech
“Islamic Soverignty as a Social Movement Frame in 20th Century Iran.”
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Annette Huston
Ph.D., December 2001, STS Blacksburg
“Carillion: A Corporate System of Managed Health Care.”
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Brenda Brand
Ph.D., May 1998, Teaching and Learning Virginia Tech
“Multiculturalism in Science Teaching and Learning.”
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Seungho Jung
Ph.D., December 1997, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering
“Total Quality Management between Organizations.”
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Charlotte Webb
Ph.D., December 1997, STS Blacksburg,
“A History of the Virginia Academy of Science.”
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Stuart Laughton
Ph.D., May 1996, Department of Computer Science
“An Ethnography of Internet-based Applications in Education.”
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Govindan Parayil
Ph.D., May 1990, STS Blacksburg
“Conceptualizing Technological Change: A Trans-Systemic Approach.”
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Steve Downes
Ph.D., May 1990, STS Blacksburg
“Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Science.”
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Michael Riordan
Ph.D., June 1989, Department of Accounting
“A Profile of the Accounting Profession.”
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Mike Conners
M.S., expected May 2011, STS Greater Capital Region
“Surveillance and Society.”
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Allison Martin
M.S., expected May 2007, STS Blacksburg
“Breaking News or Business Novelty: Technology Coverage in Modern American Print Media.”
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Frankie Bausch
M.S., May 2002, STS Blacksburg
“Examining One’s Own: Reflexivity and Critique in STS.”
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Victoria Friedensen
M.S., December 1999, STS Falls Church
“Nuclear Policy in Space.”
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Joseph Kestel
M.S., May 1999, STS Blacksburg
“Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away: Eastman Kodak and the Digital Age.”
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Sherry Dawson
M.S., May 1988, Sociology
“The Meanings of Literacy.”
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Maureen McArthur
M.S., May 1997, STS Blacksburg
“Entrepreneurial Activity in the University.”
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Michael Seltzer
M.S., August 1993, STS Blacksburg
“Post-World War II Controversies over Radiation Testing.”
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Tracy Glenn
M.S., May 1991, STS Blacksburg
“Language Change in Chaos Theory.”
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William Lynch
M.S., August 1989, STS Blacksburg
“Politics in Hobbes\’ Mechanics: A Case Study in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.”
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Adam Serchuk
M.S., May 1989, STS Blacksburg
“Connectionism, Disciplinary Identity, and Continuity.”
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David M. Bott
M.S., December 1988, STS Blacksburg
“Program Officers at the National Science Foundation: A Case Study of the Biological Instrumentation Program.”
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Robert Griffiths
M.S., June 1988, STS Blacksburg
“Drug Lag in the Chemical Industry.”