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Areas of expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Game Studies, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

 Ira Pohl is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the ACM (2000) and a member of AAAI.

Jennifer E Reardon

Jennifer E Reardon

Professor and Sociology Undergraduate Education Chair, Science & Justice Research Center Founding Director

Sociology Department, Science & Justice Research Center

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, History of Science, New Media, Genomics


Biography, Education and Training

2002 - Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University 1993 - B.A., Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training... more »


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Science and Technology, Statistics


Biography, Education and Training

EducationPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1976.M.S. Statistics, Stanford University, 1976.M.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1972.B.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1968.Honors and Professional ActivitiesIEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).Technical Achievement Award, Signal Processing Society (1989).Fellow of the IEEE (1987).Best Paper of the Year Award, EURASIP (1985).ASSP Senior Award, IEEE ASSP Society (1983).Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Soc... more »

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Emeritus Professor of Politics, President & Co-director, Sustainable Systems Research Foundation

Politics Department

Areas of expertise: Energy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Globalization, International and Global Affairs, Politics, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

Ronnie D. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He was a faculty member in the Politics Department from 1990-2020. He is now President and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz. From 2012-18, Lipschutz was Provost of Rachel Carson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During Fall term 2011, he was a Velux Visiting Professor in the Department of Business and Polit... more »

Christopher Benner

Christopher Benner

Professor, Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, Director, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, Director, Institute for Social Transformation

Environmental Studies Department, Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Urban studies, Labor and Social Movements, Sociology, Environmental Justice, Globalization, Community-based Research, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Political Economy of Development, Activism


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation.  His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the... more »

James Battle

James Battle

Associate Professor

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, Anthropology, African Diaspora, Sociology of Development, Diversity


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco, 2012


Areas of expertise: Activism, Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, American Studies, Sustainability, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley B.A., Politics with Honors, Oberlin College

Tiffany L Wong

Tiffany L Wong

Writing Program Continuing Lecturer

Writing Program

Areas of expertise: Writing, Technical Writing, Science Writing, Art, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Contemplative Studies, Creativity, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

M.F.A., Digital Arts and New Media, University of Califorina Santa Cruz B.A., Writing and Visual Arts, Sarah Lawerence Collge Cert., TESOL/TESL/TEFL Cert., Stanford Univerity Cultivatving Compassion Training (CCT) Teacher


Areas of expertise: Art, Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Digital Arts, Contemporary Art, Digital Media, History of Art and Visual Culture, Science and Technology, New Media


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. Recent publications and presentations address art and shamanism, environmental art, sound art and ecology, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art.  His book Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2009) has been expanded with an extensive, multimedia, multilingual Online Companion. Inventing the ... more »

Linda Macdonald Glenn

Linda Macdonald Glenn

Founding Director, Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies (CAVEAT), Continuing Lecturer

Crown College

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Linda MacDonald Glenn

lmglenn@ucsc.edu

802-999-8678


Areas of expertise: Ethics, Law and Policy, Science and Technology, Health and Wellness, Philosophy of Mind, Animal-Human Relationships, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, is an ethicist, futurist, educator and attorney-at-law with over 30 years of experience in private and public sectors across multiple industries including exponential technology, healthcare, government, education, business ethics and futures forecasting. She is an internationally renowned thought leader, keynote speaker, writer, seminar developer/presenter, with a large body of published work in peer reviewed journals. She is frequently quoted in the media fo... more »

Jaimie Morse

Jaimie Morse

Assistant Professor

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Legal Studies, Science and Technology, Health and Wellness, Human Rights


Biography, Education and Training

2018-19. Postdoctoral Associate in Global Health, Yale University   2018. Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University   2006. M.P.H. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles   1998. B.A. Departments of Political Science and Economics, University of California, Berkeley  

Roberto de Roock

Roberto de Roock

Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology

Education Department

Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Language and Linguistics, Discrimination and Inequality, Science and Technology, Teacher Education, Activism, Marxism


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2015 Advisor: Norma González M.A. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2007 Advisor: Luis Moll B.A. History & Latin American Studies (dual degree) University of Arizona, 2003


Areas of expertise: Asian American Pacific Islander History, Visual Arts, Indigenous Arts, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Science and Technology, New Media, Literature, Performance


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science |   M.A. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Awarded with Distinction |   B.A. English, University of Hawaii at Manoa    A.A. Liberal Arts, Leeward Community College  Dr. Nicole Ku'uleinapuananioliko'awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and has lived in California over the last six years.... more »


Areas of expertise: Science and Technology, Social Theory, Social Movements, Science Studies, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Activism, Environmental Justice, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Visual Culture


Biography, Education and Training

Before joining the History of Consciousness Department I was Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Director of the Institute for Science and Society, and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Priority Cluster EcoSocieties at the University of Nottingham, UK, following appointments at the University of Leicester, Cardiff Universty, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where I also earned his PhD.   I have been a Leverhulme Fellow in the UK and an Alexander-von-... more »

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