Compiled by Nicole Foti for the Summer 2023 SKAT Newsletter Here are some of the student members of the SKAT section. Learn more about their research interests from their introductions below. Emma Brandt Emma Brandt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is currently writing a dissertation about media literacy and institutional distrust in Serbia drawing on ethnographic fieldwork … Continue reading Meet Our Student Members!
By Cristian Morales, for the Summer 2023 SKAT Newsletter The 50th anniversary edition of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions opens with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking, with the first line he writes reading “Great books are rare. This is one. Read it and you will see.” and his final line reading “… [this] book really did change ‘the image of science by … Continue reading In Memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023)
By Nicole Foti, for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter In this article, SKAT members Dr. Santiago Molina and Dr. Aaron Panofsky are interviewed about their experiences with the SKAT job market. Dr. Molina recently navigated the hiring process as an applicant. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Science in Human Culture Program, and he will be starting this Fall as … Continue reading Reflections on the Job Market: Recent Experiences from SKAT Members
Professor Vertesi specializes in the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology. Her primary research site is with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams as an ethnographer. Her books, Seeing like a Rover: Images and Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (Chicago, 2015) and Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (Chicago, 2020) draws on her ethnographic studies of missions to Mars, Saturn, and the … Continue reading Q&A with Janet Vertesi, Author of Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams
Kathleen C. Oberlin is a researcher based in Chicago. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Grinnell College. In Creating the Creation Museum, Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. She takes us behind the scenes, vividly bringing the museum to … Continue reading Q&A with Kathleen (Casey) Oberlin, Author of Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
Jeremiah Morelock is an instructor of sociology at Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and Woods College of Advancing Studies, and a Project Coordinator at Boston College’s Connell School of Nursing. He is the editor of Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism and How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School. With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the … Continue reading Q&A with Jeremiah Morelock, Author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction
Fernando Domínguez Rubio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego who situates his research around the outer rims of sociology, science and technology studies, anthropology, art, design and architecture. His book, Still Life, offers a comprehensive and intriguing ethnographic account of the conundrums that museum workers face when enduring artworks are posed with the possibility of disintegration, disappearance … Continue reading Q&A with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
At the August 2020 Business/Council meeting, the Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) section of American Sociological Association decided to form an ad-hoc committee to explore how our scholarly community might support anti-racist action. The committee has been meeting regularly and consulted both with current SKAT Council members and past SKAT chairs to develop a proposal for TWO new awards that together will recognize the work … Continue reading Call for Nominations for Two New Awards Established in the Spirit of Anti-racism
Owen Whooley is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. His research uses historical and qualitative research methods to explore questions related to medical knowledge and professional power. Interview by Timothy O’Brien Q. The subtitle of the book is the “politics of not knowing.” What do you mean by the “politics of not knowing” and how might sociologists benefit from closer attention to … Continue reading Q&A with Owen Whooley, 2020 Merton Book Award Winner
SKAT Open Panel Session Organizer: John Parker Discussant: Martine Lappe Panelists: Discourses and Practices of Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry, and Genomics in Hawaii Joan H. Fujimura and Ramya M. Rajagopalan Feminist, Generative Sociotechical Dissent: Seed Politics in Colombia Kelly Moore & Nathalia Hernandez Vidal Uncertainty and the Inconvenient Facts of Diagnosis Annemarie Jutel Discussant Remarks Martine Lappé Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology and Society Cal … Continue reading SKAT @ ASA 2020 – Recap
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