Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Expected July 2012
MS in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Expected July 2012
Certificate in Culture, Health, and Science Studies Awarded by Five College Inc., Amherst, Mass, 2001
BA in Social-cultural Studies of Science & Medicine, Hampshire College, Amherst MA, 2000
Employment History
2006-2010 North American Kantian Society Newsletter, Editorial Assistant, assemble content,
layout, and mailing of academic society Newsletter.(Prof. Anderson-Gold).
2005 - 2006 Fordham University - NY State HIV/AIDS Service Administration (HASA) Training Program
Coordinator, conducted daily trainings and scheduled educational program for a multimillion dollar Grant. (Prof. David Koch).
2000 – 2005 Medipix Prod. Inc & DPP. Inc., Office manager, multimedia production and advertising for the
Medical and Information Sectors, developed and oversaw media production on behalf of Pfizer,
Bayer, Rutgers University and Berkeley College. Processed accounts receivable and payable.
Developed budgets and proposals for perspective clients. Planned travel and equipment supply for
film, video, audio, and television crews. Acted as bridge between departments and as mediator
between clients, subcontractors and employees. (Dennis Powers, DPPI Inc; Larry Testa MPP Inc).
1999- 2000 Amherst Alehouse Amherst, MA Bar Back & Bus Boy (Part Time)
1999 (Summer) RVM Inc. NY, NY Data Coder
1997- 1998 Null Set Labs NY, NY Catering & Party Bartender for Customer Services
1995-1998 Hampshire College Amherst, MA Laboratory and Office Assistant (Prof. Lynn Miller)
1995 & 96(Summer) Weston Playhouse Weston, VT Assistant Stage Manager
1997-2000 Hampshire College, Amherst MA Science Building Manager
1994-1995 Friends Seminary NYC, NY After School Aide (activity leader: Aikido, Origami,
Sports, Reading)
Committee Service & Professional Memberships
Student Committee of the Administrative Search Committee, Hiring of new Dean of School of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011)
Elected International Student Representative, Society for Social Studies of Science (2008-2010)
Colloquium Committee member, Dept of STS, RPI (2007-08; 2010-Present)
Society for Social Studies of Science, Student Member, (2006- Present)
American Anthropological Association, Student Member, (1999-2000, 2006-Present)
Section for Medical Anthropology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Section for Global, Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology
International Communications Associations, Student member 2008-2011
Professional Publications
“Challenging Potentials of Technological mediated Knowledge Production” White paper,
Co-author Nathan Fisk, NSF SBE: Future Research in SBE
“Organ Transplantation;” and “Traffic Light;” Articles for The Encyclopedia of Discovery and
Invention, Edited by James Ciment. M.E. Sharpe Inc., In press – Expected 2012
“Eugenics” Article for The Encyclopedia of Scientific Controversies, Edited by Sal Restivo,
Greenwood Press, 2008
"Eugenics" Article for The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues, Edited by Michael Shally-Jensen, ABC CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, 2011
Grants and Fellowships
HASS Fellowship, awarded 2009, Competitive Internal Institutional Grant, School of Humanities
Arts and Social Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Society for the Social Study of Science, Student Travel Award, 2009
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Event Enrichment Funding to the Student Section of the society
for social studies of science 2009, 2010
Research Experience
Ethnographic Case Study –Dissertation, RPI - approximately 4 months divided between Manila,
Philippines and Chennai, India – 2010
Ethnographic Case Study: Gastronomy Workers in Germany and The United States, in colaboration with Alexander Stingle, Adjunct Lecturer, Leuphana University, Luneburg Germany. Examination of international and intercultural contact, focused on regulatory and technological assemblages in work practices of good and beverage services.(in progress, initiated Summer 2011)
Ethnographic Fieldwork - Methods Course, RPI – Five three day periods of observation of small
group Interaction divided between Manhattan, NY and Troy, NY. – 2006
Archival Research- Methods Course, RPI- Archive visits at the SUNY Albany Campus, and NY
City Public Library. – 2006
Ethnographic Interviewing- Undergraduate Methods Course, Mt. Holyoke College/Hampshire
College- 10 interviews and follow up interviews with students and faculty of the Five College campuses - 1999
Structured Interviewer- NY City Life Histories Project- conducted extended oral history
interviews with elderly New Yorkers. - 1994-5; 1998
Teaching Experience
PDI Studio 1: Introduction to Design Innovation and Society, RPI
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Science and Technology Studies, RPI
“Information Technology (IT) and Society”, Prof. Atsushi Akera.
“Politics and Economics of Information Technologies”, Prof. Atsushi Akera.
“Professional Development II: Leadership” , Adjunct Prof. Lauren Montgomery Rhinehart.
“Introduction to Science and Technology Studies” ,Prof. Edward Woodhouse.
Unpaid Teaching Assistant, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY
“Women and the City”, “Poverty and Affluence”, Adjunct Prof. C. Kim Edel.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College
“Ever Since Darwin”, “The Natural History of Infectious Disease”, Prof. Lynn Miller.
“Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropology”, “Anthropology of Reproduction”, “Bioarchaeology of
Women”, Prof. Pamela Stone.
Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2011
Title: "Asking what is Medical Tourism, and how to think about Global Medicine/Healthcare?"
Maastricht University, Department of Health, Ethics and Society
Course: Module entitled "Governing Health in a Global Context"
Nora Engel, Assistant Professor - Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Spring 2012
Title: "Durkheim and religion"
RPI, STS, Course: Introduction to Sociology, Adj. Prof. Fisk
Fall 2011
Title: " Introducing the Sociology of Religion and the Durkheimian 'real' "
RPI, STS, Course: Introduction to Sociology, Adj. Prof Fisk
Spring 2011
Title/Topic: "Marginality, Gender and Medicine"
RPI, STS, Course: Medicine and Society, Adj Prof. Valdiya
Fall 2010
Title/Topic: "Medical tourism and Global Medicine"
RPI, STS, Course:Medicine and Society, Adj Prof. Khandekar
Fall 2009
Title/Topic: "Health, Poverty and Systems of Marginality"
RPI, STS, Course: Intro to Sociology, Adj Prof. Selma
Selected Panel and Conference Presentations
“Choice vs. Care: Reflexivity in theoretical framing of a dissertation” Hybrid Contexts:
STS Graduate Student Conference 2012, March 9-10, MIT, Cambridge, MA
“Medical Tourism and Free Market Reform” , AAA Annual Meeting (Montreal, Quebec) 2011
Included in the panel entitled: "Redefining Insurance, Redefining Governance: the US Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act in Global Perspective."
“The Good Medicine: Technology, Medical tourism, and Transnational Exchange,” Meetings of
the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Cleveland
Ohio) 2011
“Global Transformation in Science, Technology and Medicine” Panel Co-Organized w/ Maral
Erol (Duke University), Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Cleveland OH) 2011
“Making Themselves Healthy: Classification and patient roles in medical tourist travel
narratives”, AAA Annual Meeting, (Philadelphia, PA) Dec 2009
“Making the healthy self and the unhealthy self: Neoliberal Identity, category, and self-hood”
Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting
(Washington, DC) - September 2009
“Science-fiction, Promises and Threats in Popular Communication”, International
Communication Association. Meetings (Chicago, IL) May 2009
“Reinventing Risks: Conceiving Environmental Hazard and Human Initiated bio-threat”,
Meetings of the International Association of Science and Technology Studies, (RIT,
Rochester, NY) April 2009
“From Health Travel To Health Tourism: A Discursive Analysis”, Meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Rotterdam, Holland) August 2008
“Lost (and found) in Transnationalism”, Panel Organizer (with Aalok Khandekar RPI, STS)
Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Rotterdam, Holland) August 2008
“Intertextual Intersexual: The coding and coconstruction of sexual identity.”CCC, STS Graduate
Conference-MIT (Cambridge, MA) 2009
“Twix Candy Bars in Cyber Space: The Emergence of Meaning and Persuasiveness of Situation
on Youtube.com.” Critical theory and contemporary rhetoric. EXChange – STS Graduate Conference – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) 2008
“From Scopes To Dover: Is there a conflict between Science and Religion in contemporary
American Life?” Metamorphosis - STS Graduate Conference -RPI (Troy, NY) 2007
“The Future of Feminism”, Panelist, Hampshire College Alumni Conference (Amherst, MA) 2000
PhD in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Expected July 2012
MS in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Expected July 2012
Certificate in Culture, Health, and Science Studies Awarded by Five College Inc., Amherst, Mass, 2001
BA in Social-cultural Studies of Science & Medicine, Hampshire College, Amherst MA, 2000
Employment History
2006-2010 North American Kantian Society Newsletter, Editorial Assistant, assemble content,
layout, and mailing of academic society Newsletter.(Prof. Anderson-Gold).
2005 - 2006 Fordham University - NY State HIV/AIDS Service Administration (HASA) Training Program
Coordinator, conducted daily trainings and scheduled educational program for a multimillion dollar Grant. (Prof. David Koch).
2000 – 2005 Medipix Prod. Inc & DPP. Inc., Office manager, multimedia production and advertising for the
Medical and Information Sectors, developed and oversaw media production on behalf of Pfizer,
Bayer, Rutgers University and Berkeley College. Processed accounts receivable and payable.
Developed budgets and proposals for perspective clients. Planned travel and equipment supply for
film, video, audio, and television crews. Acted as bridge between departments and as mediator
between clients, subcontractors and employees. (Dennis Powers, DPPI Inc; Larry Testa MPP Inc).
1999- 2000 Amherst Alehouse Amherst, MA Bar Back & Bus Boy (Part Time)
1999 (Summer) RVM Inc. NY, NY Data Coder
1997- 1998 Null Set Labs NY, NY Catering & Party Bartender for Customer Services
1995-1998 Hampshire College Amherst, MA Laboratory and Office Assistant (Prof. Lynn Miller)
1995 & 96(Summer) Weston Playhouse Weston, VT Assistant Stage Manager
1997-2000 Hampshire College, Amherst MA Science Building Manager
1994-1995 Friends Seminary NYC, NY After School Aide (activity leader: Aikido, Origami,
Sports, Reading)
Committee Service & Professional Memberships
Student Committee of the Administrative Search Committee, Hiring of new Dean of School of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011)
Elected International Student Representative, Society for Social Studies of Science (2008-2010)
Colloquium Committee member, Dept of STS, RPI (2007-08; 2010-Present)
Society for Social Studies of Science, Student Member, (2006- Present)
American Anthropological Association, Student Member, (1999-2000, 2006-Present)
Section for Medical Anthropology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Section for Global, Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology
International Communications Associations, Student member 2008-2011
Professional Publications
“Challenging Potentials of Technological mediated Knowledge Production” White paper,
Co-author Nathan Fisk, NSF SBE: Future Research in SBE
“Organ Transplantation;” and “Traffic Light;” Articles for The Encyclopedia of Discovery and
Invention, Edited by James Ciment. M.E. Sharpe Inc., In press – Expected 2012
“Eugenics” Article for The Encyclopedia of Scientific Controversies, Edited by Sal Restivo,
Greenwood Press, 2008
"Eugenics" Article for The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues, Edited by Michael Shally-Jensen, ABC CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, 2011
Grants and Fellowships
HASS Fellowship, awarded 2009, Competitive Internal Institutional Grant, School of Humanities
Arts and Social Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Society for the Social Study of Science, Student Travel Award, 2009
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Event Enrichment Funding to the Student Section of the society
for social studies of science 2009, 2010
Research Experience
Ethnographic Case Study –Dissertation, RPI - approximately 4 months divided between Manila,
Philippines and Chennai, India – 2010
Ethnographic Case Study: Gastronomy Workers in Germany and The United States, in colaboration with Alexander Stingle, Adjunct Lecturer, Leuphana University, Luneburg Germany. Examination of international and intercultural contact, focused on regulatory and technological assemblages in work practices of good and beverage services.(in progress, initiated Summer 2011)
Ethnographic Fieldwork - Methods Course, RPI – Five three day periods of observation of small
group Interaction divided between Manhattan, NY and Troy, NY. – 2006
Archival Research- Methods Course, RPI- Archive visits at the SUNY Albany Campus, and NY
City Public Library. – 2006
Ethnographic Interviewing- Undergraduate Methods Course, Mt. Holyoke College/Hampshire
College- 10 interviews and follow up interviews with students and faculty of the Five College campuses - 1999
Structured Interviewer- NY City Life Histories Project- conducted extended oral history
interviews with elderly New Yorkers. - 1994-5; 1998
Teaching Experience
PDI Studio 1: Introduction to Design Innovation and Society, RPI
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Science and Technology Studies, RPI
“Information Technology (IT) and Society”, Prof. Atsushi Akera.
“Politics and Economics of Information Technologies”, Prof. Atsushi Akera.
“Professional Development II: Leadership” , Adjunct Prof. Lauren Montgomery Rhinehart.
“Introduction to Science and Technology Studies” ,Prof. Edward Woodhouse.
Unpaid Teaching Assistant, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY
“Women and the City”, “Poverty and Affluence”, Adjunct Prof. C. Kim Edel.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College
“Ever Since Darwin”, “The Natural History of Infectious Disease”, Prof. Lynn Miller.
“Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropology”, “Anthropology of Reproduction”, “Bioarchaeology of
Women”, Prof. Pamela Stone.
Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2011
Title: "Asking what is Medical Tourism, and how to think about Global Medicine/Healthcare?"
Maastricht University, Department of Health, Ethics and Society
Course: Module entitled "Governing Health in a Global Context"
Nora Engel, Assistant Professor - Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Spring 2012
Title: "Durkheim and religion"
RPI, STS, Course: Introduction to Sociology, Adj. Prof. Fisk
Fall 2011
Title: " Introducing the Sociology of Religion and the Durkheimian 'real' "
RPI, STS, Course: Introduction to Sociology, Adj. Prof Fisk
Spring 2011
Title/Topic: "Marginality, Gender and Medicine"
RPI, STS, Course: Medicine and Society, Adj Prof. Valdiya
Fall 2010
Title/Topic: "Medical tourism and Global Medicine"
RPI, STS, Course:Medicine and Society, Adj Prof. Khandekar
Fall 2009
Title/Topic: "Health, Poverty and Systems of Marginality"
RPI, STS, Course: Intro to Sociology, Adj Prof. Selma
Selected Panel and Conference Presentations
“Choice vs. Care: Reflexivity in theoretical framing of a dissertation” Hybrid Contexts:
STS Graduate Student Conference 2012, March 9-10, MIT, Cambridge, MA
“Medical Tourism and Free Market Reform” , AAA Annual Meeting (Montreal, Quebec) 2011
Included in the panel entitled: "Redefining Insurance, Redefining Governance: the US Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act in Global Perspective."
“The Good Medicine: Technology, Medical tourism, and Transnational Exchange,” Meetings of
the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Cleveland
Ohio) 2011
“Global Transformation in Science, Technology and Medicine” Panel Co-Organized w/ Maral
Erol (Duke University), Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Cleveland OH) 2011
“Making Themselves Healthy: Classification and patient roles in medical tourist travel
narratives”, AAA Annual Meeting, (Philadelphia, PA) Dec 2009
“Making the healthy self and the unhealthy self: Neoliberal Identity, category, and self-hood”
Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting
(Washington, DC) - September 2009
“Science-fiction, Promises and Threats in Popular Communication”, International
Communication Association. Meetings (Chicago, IL) May 2009
“Reinventing Risks: Conceiving Environmental Hazard and Human Initiated bio-threat”,
Meetings of the International Association of Science and Technology Studies, (RIT,
Rochester, NY) April 2009
“From Health Travel To Health Tourism: A Discursive Analysis”, Meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Rotterdam, Holland) August 2008
“Lost (and found) in Transnationalism”, Panel Organizer (with Aalok Khandekar RPI, STS)
Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science – International Society Meeting (Rotterdam, Holland) August 2008
“Intertextual Intersexual: The coding and coconstruction of sexual identity.”CCC, STS Graduate
Conference-MIT (Cambridge, MA) 2009
“Twix Candy Bars in Cyber Space: The Emergence of Meaning and Persuasiveness of Situation
on Youtube.com.” Critical theory and contemporary rhetoric. EXChange – STS Graduate Conference – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) 2008
“From Scopes To Dover: Is there a conflict between Science and Religion in contemporary
American Life?” Metamorphosis - STS Graduate Conference -RPI (Troy, NY) 2007
“The Future of Feminism”, Panelist, Hampshire College Alumni Conference (Amherst, MA) 2000
