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Fall/Winter 2005 ASA-SKAT

Table of Contents:

From the Section Chair 1

From the Past Chair 2

New Books 3

ASA Sessions 2006 5

Treasurer’s Report 6

SKAT Awards 2005 7

Research: Mexico 8

Book Review 9

Spotlight on Teaching 10

Jobs 12

PublishingOpportunities 20

Conferences 21

Fellowships 27

Other 30

SKAT Council andCommittee Information 32

Science, Knowledge, and Technology

From the Section ChairEJennifer CroissantWomen's StudiesUniversity of Arizona

Hello SKAT Membership.Welcome to the new all-electronic version ofour newsletter, and the first newsletter of myterm in office as section chair. Andrea andTodd have yet again assembled aninformative collection of job announcements,calls for papers, news, reviews, and otherinformation. Immediate past-chair MichaelLynch has also provided a recap of the 2005meetings and information from our annualreporting requirements. You will see that wehave a very exciting 2006 program alreadylined up. The meetings have been finalizedas August 11-14, in Montreal. The bad newsis that we are on the last day of the meetings,so please do your best to plan your travel sothat you can participate in the section’s entireslate of activities. It’s not as though thereshould be a lot of arm-twisting needed tospend an evening and an extra day inMontreal.

Notes on DoverI grew up in central Pennsylvania, in

a town not unlike Dover site of the case ofKitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, thehub of the “intelligent design” (ID) debate.Actually, Huntingdon is a bit bigger, with6,918 people and serves as the county seat,while Dover has about 1815 or so people, notincluding the influx of journalists and othersin to watch the show. Huntingdon is alsofurther west, not that that means anything.

In high school, waiting for the ‘top40’ radio show to come on, I rememberlistening to a preacher on the Sundaymorning radio broadcast from a localprotestant congregation rant about womengetting educated being the downfall ofAmerican society. It’s an offshoot of thetraditional “Bible Belt,” a region where, ifyou take responsibility for your sexuality anduse contraceptives outside of marriage,

you’re a slut, but if you just happen to getpregnant because you got ‘swept away,’ well,that’s not so bad. You will not find mewaxing romantic about the joys of small-town life, about a state economy gonestagnant, a region depopulating in bothrelative and absolute terms, and of rampantignorance. I “go back” to visit my parents,who still reside in rural Pennsylvania, andavoid my high school reunions.

Steve Fuller, Professor Sociology atWarwick University, and sometimes memberof the section, has provided a deposition asan expert witness on behalf of the defense,that is, on the behalf of the school districtthat is requiring the infamous four-paragraphstatement about evolution being “just atheory.” I knew something was wrong whenhis 50-odd page deposition kept crashing mycomputer.

How can we discuss this withoutreverting to ever-deconstructible boundarydisputes and demarcation exercises? To theextent that the argument was made that ID isno less “scientific” than evolution is,knowing that most science isn’t “scientific”either (for a given value of “science”), whatare the responsibilities for various groupsmaking knowledge claims about science tospeak up or to take sides? (Some wouldargue that ID “gives up” quite a bit of sciencein relation to strict Biblical creationism,including recognition of ‘microevolution’and an ‘old earth’ hypothesis.)

To tell you the truth, I’m not thatenamored of evolution, either, especiallywhen it appears in sociobiological argumentsabout the ‘natural’ inferiority of this or thatgroup, or the ‘inevitability’ of behaviors likerape. But the arguments appearing before thecourt aren’t exactly about ‘equal time.’ Asmany are pointing out, it’s not about getting abroader array of human origin stories into thecurriculum, from the thousands of indigenoustales to the “Flying Spaghetti Monster”(currently my favorite). It’s about ‘the

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science studies, or other perspectives, aregoing to have to a lot better job ofexplaining what we are doing andteasing out implications. Those whohave explicitly studied controversies(Bart Simon, Brian Martin, EvelleenRichards, David Hess to name a few)have found themselves enrolled in oneside, or the other, or even both. Takingsides, and sometimes even not takingsides, means accepting responsibility forthe consequences.

Notes from the past-chairMychael LynchCornell University

My two-year term as chair ended at theclose the 100th Anniversary ASAMeeting in Philadelphia. Much of myterm was occupied with putting togethercommit tees , sending l i s t se rvannouncements to members, keeping aneye on membership numbers, and othersuch necessary jobs. Fortunately, I hadmore than a little help from those of youwho served on council and volunteeredfor committees and other section jobs.The ASA staff also are quite good atkeeping things on schedule, and seeingto it that chairing a section is a fairlysimple operation. Aside from a fewhiccups the section has held up well interms of membership numbers,attendance at sessions, competitions forawards, and so forth. Although it is oneof the newer sections, SKAT is classifiedas a “medium sized” section by the ASA.

There have been a few items onour agenda besides maintaining a healthysection. The major item this year turnedout to be quite easy to accomplish: byunanimous vote at the business meeting,we decided that our newsletter (thisnewsletter) now will be availableexclusively in electronic form. Ourmotive for initiating this change wassomewhat less altruistic than savingtrees. It had to do with saving money:more than $500 per issue. The bulk ofour yearly budget has gone to thenewsletter. Thanks to the diligent workof our editors, it has been money wellspent, but it has left very little for otherthings. We had to skimp on receptioncosts at this year’s meeting, so as not togo way over budget. So now we canhave a proper reception, and we can also

cul ture wars ,’ American ant i-intellectualism, rural poverty andreconfigured forms of social stratificationand economic advancement, local controlin relation to national educational agendas,and about a half-dozen other things. Oneof those ‘other things’ is the continuedsearch for something that will arbitratehuman conflict. As novelist TerryPratchett says, ‘there’s no justice, there’sjust us.” Even otherwise smart academicsget confused, as Elizabeth Grosz does inher recent book Time Travels: Feminism,Nature, Power (Duke 2005), appealing tofeminists to take Darwin’s theory at facevalue, as if, somehow, anything we can sayabout evolution or nature more generally isoutside of culture and assumptions andarguments about power and knowledge.

I knew something was up whenseveral years ago I had to deal with a veryunhappy graduate student whom I hadforbidden from conducting a term paper toprove that the reason the public didn’tknow that the “face-on-mars-is-proof-that-human-destiny-is-to-be-found-in-genetic-engineering-and-ancient-space-aliens-built-the pyramids” (sometimes identified as theRaelians) was because of a big governmentconspiracy. The ‘fact’ that there was no‘evidence’ of the conspiracy was taken as‘proof’ of the existence of the conspiracy.This was not a proposal to study thissymmetrically, as contested explanationsfor complex phenomena. Suddenly Ibecame “the establishment.” (Me? Howdid this happen?) And it was unfortunatelybefore Helen Longino’s book The Fate ofKnowledge (Princeton 2002) came alongto help me think about ways to discardknowledge claims that are unsustainable,self-serving, and otherwise unworkable.

There is also a tension between aperceived elitism and anti-intellectualismthat needs to be articulated. A couple ofweekends ago I was careful to get mystepgrandson to acknowledge that hecannot, in fact, fly “like Superman” afterwatching the movie. I did not want a five-year-old trying to fly off the roof. But theside of ‘the defense of ID’ are adults withlegal rights and responsibilities, and quite anumber of very intelligent people arechiming in. Paternalism and patronizationare not going to get us very far.

I don’t have an answer, certainlynot an answer for a newsletter piece. Itdoes seem obvious to me that this doesmean that people who are interested in thesociology of knowledge most generally,whether from anthropology, sociology,

start thinking of some other worthwhileand creative ways to use our budget. Therealso is an additional bonus, which AndreaHoplight-Tapia mentioned at our businessmeeting in August: the length and formatof the newsletter is less constrained than itwas with the printed version. So, whydidn’t we make this change years ago?The main reason was that, until this year,whenever the change was proposed, asufficient number of members expressed apreference for paper copies. It turns outthat all but a few sections continue to printtheir newsletters and mail them tomembers, so we’re not far from the leadingedge of a trend, if as seems likely itcontinues as a trend. It is possible (indeed,likely) that we may discover that therewere some advantages to receiving papercopies in the mail, but I would be surprisedif we turned back.

Another thing that I proposed todo during my term was to collectinformation about the history of thesection, and place it on our website. Thiswould include brief biographies of thepeople our awards are named after: RobertK. Merton, Nicholas Mullins, and SallyHacker. This task is unfinished, and so inmy new role as “Past Chair” I intend tocomplete it. Maren Klawiter has beenhelping me with this, and I have somehelpful leads from a few section members.

When I started my term, I fanciedthat my major task as Chair of SKATwould be to come up with a more felicitousacronym. It turns out, that quite a fewmembers are rather attached to SKAT, andnone of the alternatives devised duringvarious brainstorming sessions musteredsufficient collective enthusiasm to motivatean initiative with the ASA to change it. Ialso learned that each letter in SKAT(except, perhaps, the “A”) has a specifichistory with the ASA, as well as a politicalconstituency ready to defend its inclusion.Moreover, other letters that have beenproposed for annexation (particularly “M”for Medicine) might create boundaryconflicts with other sections. So, weremain SKAT for the foreseeable future.

Again, I am very grateful for allthe help, advice, and cooperation I havebeen given by section members. There is acore group of members (including, but byno means limited to council members andother officers) who take an active interestin this section, and they have beenindispensable for its success. Thanks.

--Michael Lynch

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Internet Society: The Internet inEveryday Life.Maria Bakardjieva. 2005. Sage.Based on an original ethnographic study,Internet Society examines how ordinaryusers interpret, domesticate and integratethe internet into the projects and activitiesof their daily lives. Its theoreticalframework combines concepts fromsocial constructivism, critical theory andphenomenological sociology to elaboratea conception of the user as an agent in thefield of new media development.

Double Click: Romance andCommitment among Online Couples.Andrea Baker. 2005.The first scholarly book using primarydata written exclusively about closeonline relationships, drawing from thefields of sociology, psychology, andcommunications. The book analyzes theissues of honesty and deception andfactors of success and failure among thecouples.

Global E-litism: Digital Technology,Social Inequality, andTransnationality. Gili Drori. 2005.Worth Publishers.The discussions in this book focus on thetechnological and global dimensions ofsocial inequality, regarding these as newdimensions of an old social problem.High-technology, praised these days forits impact on social development, isconsidered within the context of itssocial, and particularly cultural, roots.The book reviews such issues as themapping of the global digital divide andits various "scales", the role ofinternational players (such asnongovernmental organizations,corporations and governments) indiffusing technology and its promise, theconstructed nature of the newly-fashionedglobal social problem of the digitaldivide, the policy initiatives to confrontthis problem, globalization pressures inthe high-tech field, as well as manyadditional related issues - from neo-Luddites to intellectual property rights togender and ethnicity and more. This bookoffers a comparative and sociologicalperspective on the much celebrated high-tech boom, exploring the cultural and

NEW BOOKS political processes contributing togrowing technological disparity betweendeveloped and developing countries.

The Politics of Working Life.Paul Edwards and Judy Wajcman.2005. http://www.oup.co.uk/ OxfordUniversity Press.This book integrates the analysis ofindividual work experience, politicalprocesses in organizations, and the widercontext of the social structuring ofmarkets. It has a strong analyticalfoundation in political economy, givingparticular weight to the contradictorycharacter of organizations and the impactof globalization. The book draws on STSin its treatment of economic sociology.

Inside the Politics of Technology:Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society.Hans Harbers (ed.). 2005. AmsterdamUniversity Press NBN InternationalLtd, and University of Chicago Press.This volume discusses the implications ofthe so-called ‘co-production’ of science,technology and society for our analytical,as well as normative ideas abouthumanity, technology and theirrelationship with each other.

Virtual Methods: Issues in SocialResearch on the Internet.Christine Hine. 2005. Oxford: BergPublishers.http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=Virtual%20MethodsVirtual Methods offers a detailedexploration of the problems andopportunities surrounding Internet basedresearch. Can offline and onlineobservations be combined? Are onlineinterviews able to produce high qualitydata? How does a researcher sort throughthe vast mass of material available? Fromhyperlink analysis to the sex industryonline, case studies sensitively highlightthe difficulties researchers face, point outthe opportunities to be seized, and offerpractical solutions. Virtual Methodsprovides concrete advice for all stages ofthe research process. Anyone planning aresearch project involving the Internet willfind this book an essential guide.

Defending the Nation: Policymaking to

Create Scientists and Engineers fromSputnik to the War AgainstTerrorism.Juan Lucena. 2005.http://www.univpress.com/ UniversityPress of America.This is a cultural history of policymakingfor education and human resources inscience and engineering (S&E) in theUS. It shows how national narratives,mostly made up by images of nation, itsproblems and solutions, as defined bypowerful social actors and groups, havesignificantly shaped policies andprograms for education and training ofscientists and engineers since Word WarII to the ongoing "war on terrorism."

Globalization, Technological Change,and Public Education.Torin Monohan. 2005. ISBN:0415951038. Routledge Press.This book documents the dramaticchanges taking place in public educationthrough the incorporation of newinformation technologies. Throughdetailed ethnographic research andinterviews in a large urban public schoolsystem, Torin Monahan reveals how,with few exceptions, informationtechnologies are used to demand greaterflexibility of students and workers toadapt to systems that are ever more rigidand controlling.

Unruly Complexity: Ecology,Interpretation, Egagement.Peter J. Taylor. 2005. The Universityof Chicago Press.How does science deal with situationsthat lack definite boundaries, where whatgoes on "outside" continuallyrestructures what is "inside," and wherediverse processes come together toproduce change? In a model ofinterdisciplinary exploration, Peter J.Taylor makes issues about the unrulinessof complexity accessible to a diverserange of readers through case studies thatmove from theoretical ecology andsocio-environmental studies to historyand sociology of science toenvironmental education.

Technology and the Future, 10thEdition.Albert H. Teich. 2006.http://www.wadsworth.com/

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project and that, to continue with itspolitical commitment, Cultural Studiesmust address its relationship to ethics.The book explores the interlocking ofethics, politics and culture focusing on anumber of key issues: national, racial,and sexual identity; violence and themedia; justice and retribution; and thescience-culture 'wars' and the relationshipbetween body and technology. TheEthics of Cultural Studies engages withthe writings of the key theorists of ethicsand culture: Giorgio Agamben, JudithButler, Jacques Derrida, Stuart Hall,Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles,Ernesto Laclau, Emmanuel Levinas,Jean-François Lyotard and SamuelWeber.

There was a conference at Cornell inthe Spring of 2005 concerning masscommunication and science, broadlydefined. The abstracts and papers arenow all available on the web. The urlishttp://www.sts.cornell.edu/conferences/stscomm/index.php

View Santa Clara University's Centerfor Science, Technology, and Society'sInternational Conference Onlinehttp://scu.vportal.net/Streaming video of our 2005 bi-annualinternational conference, "Digital Divideor Digital Commons: Toward GlobalKnowledge Sharing," is now just a clickaway.

This book helps students understand howtechnology shapes society while itselfbeing shaped by social trends. It presentsa balanced view, including articleswritten by critics of technology as wellas by technological enthusiasts. Byincluding both philosophical approaches,as well as discussions of such specifictechnologies as information technologyand biotechnology, this text offers aunique and unparalleled overview oftechnology today.

"Where the Counterculture Met theNew Economy: The WELL and theOrigins of Virtual Community."Article by Fred Turner in Technologyand Culture Vol 46 No 3.Over the last ten years, scholars havelargely ascribed the rise of “virtualcommunity” to the widespread adoptionof computer networking technologies.This paper examines the history of thesystem from which the term “virtualcommunity” first entered publicdiscourse, the Whole Earth ‘LectronicLink (or WELL), and shows that as bothan idea and a social formation, virtualcommunity in fact emerged at theintersection of three forces: theappearance of public computer networks,the persistence of countercultural socialideals from the 1960s, and a shift towardnetworked forms of economic activity.In the process, the paper brings togetheranalytical frameworks fromorganizational sociology, Americancultural history, and science andtechnology studies in order to illuminatethe complex ways in whichtechnological, social and cultural formsco-evolve.

The Ethics of Cultural Studies.Joanna Zylinska. 2005. London andNew York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-7524-8 (pbk); ISBN: 0-8264-7523-X(hbk)The events of 9/11, the crisis overimmigration, the cloning of 'Dolly thesheep', and the proliferation of GM foodshave all placed ethical questions firmlyon the cultural agenda. Yet traditionally,Cultural Studies has been moreconcerned with politics, leaving ethics tophilosophy and literature. The Ethics ofCultural Studies argues that ethics isfoundational to the Cultural Studies

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interactions and provide tools of marketintervention. This session brings togetherscholars who investigate the links betweenscience and markets from a doubleperspective: that of the sociology of scienceand technology, and of economic sociology.

Organizers:Alex PredaDepartment of SociologyUniversity of EdinburghAdam Ferguson BuildingGeorge SquareEdinburgh EH8 9LL, UKTel.: +44_(0)131_650_4052apreda@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Daniel Lee KleinmanDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison8128 Social Science Building1180 Observatory DriveMadison, WI 53706_1393dlkleinman@facstaff.wisc.edu(t) 608-265-3289(f) (608) 265_5389

5. RoundtablesOrganizer: Kelly MooreDepartment of SociologyBox 210378University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH 45221-0378(t) 513-556-4706(f) 513-556-0057kelly.moore@uc.edu

6. From Scopes to Dover: Methodology andPolitics in the Study of Disputes about"Science" in Public Life

This session invites papers that explore themethodological complications of studyingscientific controversies and their politicalimplications, including debates about whatscience "is" and its role in public discourse,education, health, and policy-making. Workon contemporary or historical issues iswelcome.Organizer:Jennifer L. CroissantAssociate ProfessorWomen's Studies107 CommunicationsUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85721-0025

Department of Sociology andAnthropologyColgate University13 Oak DriveHamilton, NY 12246(t) 315-228-7-76(f) 315-228_7726chenke@colgate.edu

3. Gender and Science (jointly sponsoredwith the Section on Gender)Open Submission.

This session will explore the role ofscientific epistemologies in theconstitution of ideas about humandifference. Papers are invited thatexamine how these facts shape and reflectsocial understandings of race and gender,in particular. Those dealing with theintersection of these categories areespecially encouraged. Topics mightinclude biosociality and geneticcitizenship; reproductive genomics andprenatal technologies; “personalized”medicine; social stratification and risk;genetic discrimination; and genealogytracing.Organizer:Alondra NelsonDepartment of SociologyYale UniversityP.O. Box 208265New Haven, CT 06520_8265(t) 203-432-1176(f) 203- 432-6976alondra.nelson@yale.edu

Presider:Kelly MooreDepartment of SociologyBox 210378University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH 45221-0378(t) 513-556-4706(f) 513-556-kelly.moore@uc.edu

4. Economy and Science (jointlysponsored with the Section on EconomicSociology)Open SubmissionDuring the last decades, the role ofscience and technology in economicprocesses and in the constitution ofmarkets as social institutions has becomeprominent. Scientific theories, formalmodels, and technologies frame economic

ASA ANNUAL MEETINGS2006 MontrealSKAT Sessions

Submitted by Kelly Moore,SKAT Chair-Elect(kelly.moore@uc.edu)

1. Author-Meets-Critics. Invited SessionThe Gold Standard: The Challenge ofEvidence-Based Medicine andStandardization in Health Care, by MarcBerg and Stefan Timmermans (TempleUniversity Press, 2003). Winner of the2005 Robert K. Merton Award for theBest Publication in the Sociology ofScience, Knowledge, and Technology. Organizer and Presider:Kelly MooreDepartment of SociologyBox 210378University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH 45202(t) 513-556-4706(f) 513-556-0057kelly.moore@uc.edu

2. Law and Science (jointly sponsoredwith the Section on Sociology of Law).Open SubmissionThis session will explore the intersectionof science, technology and law. Possibletopics include science in court, theregulation of scientific practices,laboratories, and instruments, as well asthe regulation of scientific products,intellectual property and related areas.Organizers:Susan SilbeyDepartment of Anthropology16-233, MIT77 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA 02139(t) 617-253_6952(f) 617-253-5363ssilbey@mit.edu

Christopher Henke (and Presider)

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520-626-0079jlc@u.arizona.edu

Treasurer’s ReportDaniel KleinmanUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

The largest expenses every year are: annual meeting reception; newsletterproduction and postage; awards; food forthe annual council meeting. Our budgetreport from ASA is not up-to-date; as ofMay 31, 2005, the only expenses listedwere for the newsletter ($695). SKATincome was listed as $206 from dues and$1,826 from ASA. Dues income for 2004was $468, so our dues income is almostcertainly more than our May reportindicated. Finally, Lynch allocated $400for a reception with the section onComputers and Information Technology.

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each standard is shown to do different work.In doing so, the authors avoid over-generalizations, instead demonstrating thecomplexity and diversity of the arenasthrough which standardization moves.Second, Timmermans and Berg juxtaposeand compile their case studies to generatebroad theoretical conclusions. Their workbrings us back to important sociologicaltraditions of thinking abut social trends andpractices.

Third, The Gold Standard isexceptionally well-written. A quality werecognize is the mark of hard work and skill.We wish all books in our field could achievewhat? While Timmermans and Berg’s bookThe Gold Standard clearly contributes to thesociology of science, technology, andknowledge and to sociological theory morebroadly, the committee also recognizes thattheir work extends beyond academia. It willbe useful to physicians and healthcareproviders and is a great example of publicsociology.

Hacker-Mullins Award2005Christopher HenkeRenee Anspach

This summer my fellow SKAT Councilmember Renee Anspach and I had thepleasure of reading papers submitted for theSection’s Hacker-Mullins Student PaperPrize. Though it is an extreme cliché inacademe these days, we truly did have anoutstanding group of papers to choose from,and it was not easy to select our prizewinners. In the end, however, two authors’papers stood out for their blend of theoryand empirical material, clarity and depth ofargument, and their contributions to areas ofSTS that are relatively understudied.

The first of our co-winners is AbbyKinchy, a student at the University ofWisconsin. Kinchy’s paper, “AfricanAmericans in the Atomic Age,” is anhistorical analysis of the divergent viewsthat segments of the African Americancommunity held toward the bomb in thedecades just after World War Two.Utilizing Benedict Anderson’s notion of“imagined communities,” Kinchy identifiestwo perspectives: one largely supportive ofthe new technology as a way for AfricanAmericans to prove their status

M e r t o n A w a r d 2 0 0 5L a u r a M a m oJ e n n i f e r F i s h m a nPatrick Carroll

This year’s Merton awardcommittee included myself and Drs. JenniferFishman and Patrick Carroll. Over thecourse of two months, we evaluated over 20books for this year’s award. It was a toughcompetition with many books making strongcontributions to the field of science,knowledge and technology. One book stoodout among the others: We are pleased toannounce the winner of this year’s MertonBook award is The Gold Standard: TheChallenge of Evidence-Based Medicine andStandardization in Health Care (TempleUniversity Press), by Stefan Timmermansand Marc Berg.

The two authors draw on a range ofmethodologically diverse case studies toanalyze the debate surrounding evidence-based medicine (EBM), and its effects onmedical and health-care practice. In framingtheir argument they examine standardization(and rationalization) as political toolsthemselves and do so by drawing onsociology, STS, and a politics of power.In all, the authors show that standardizationvia the randomized clinical trial havebecome a means for the medical professionto legitimate its expertise and maintainexclusive claim over health care as theyweave a tale of the ways diverse socialforces, organizations, and people (fromgovernment, insurance providers, andpatients) have come to align themselves withthe legitimacy of EBM.

There are three qualities aboutTimmermans and Berg that we especiallywant to highlight. First, they present thestandardization debate with care andbalance. They examine standardization as adynamic process which generates action andnew forms of meaning. Drawing on cases ofCPR, the Thalidomide crisis, insuranceguidelines, medical education, and others

as “loyal Americans” committed toprogress, the other more radical, criticallylinking the development and deploymentof atomic weapons with racial oppressionin the US and the global context ofcolonialism. The paper is very well-researched and argued, providing a richview of how culture and technologyproduce each other; Kinchy’s focus on thecomplexity of African Americans’ ideasand discourses with respect to atomicweapons also points to the power of raceas an analytic category for STS.

Our other co-winner is AnnalisaSalonius, a student at McGill University.Salonius’s paper, “Social Organization ofWork in Biomedical Research Labs:Socio-historical Dynamics and theInfluence of Research Funding,” exploresa historical change in how biomedicalresearch has been funded in the UnitedStates and Canada since the 1960s. Morespecifically, the paper traces the shifttoward a more truly competitive system offunding based on publications, and, inturn, the continuing search for additionalgrants. This is the model that we think ofwhen we think about the fundingrequirements of Big Science, but Saloniusargues that this model of research is not asold as we commonly presume. The shifthas led to widespread impacts in how thework of research itself is organized, aslabs have become bigger, more reliance isplaced on technicians, graduate students,and postdoctoral fellows for conductingthe actual research, and the PI becomesmore of an entrepreneur, constantlysearching for the next funding source.Salonius draws on a very rich dataset ofmore than 70 interviews in the paper,conducted at two major researchuniversities in Canada. The prizecommittee was very impressed with theblend of theoretical argument andempirical detail in the paper.

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ALTERNATIVE WAYS OFDOING RESEARCH:IS MODE 2 MAKING ACOME BACK?

Jaime JiménezNational Autonomous University ofMexico, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx

At the end of the 20th century,some authors observed that in previousyears, the way of “producingknowledge” had changed, and proposeda new model (Gibbons et al., 1994).Mode 2, according to its proponents,presents the following attributes:• It is highly contextualized.• “Marketable knowledge”.• Porosity of disciplinary and

institutional boundaries.• Interchangeable scientific careers.• Trans-disciplinarity in other than

“hot” topics.• Growing importance of hybrid fora

in the configuration of knowledge.• More socially accountable.• Fora constituted by experts and

non-experts as social actors.

New “social contract”Toward the end of the decade

of the 90s, the role that science playsconcerning society and developmentcomes under serious scrutiny, again. Inthe past, science policy was basedmainly on acts of faith. It was believedwith certain naïveté that “what is goodfor science, is good for humanity”,leaving science policy decisions in thehands of scientists.

The above challengesmotivated UNESCO to organize, in1999, the World Conference onScience: “Science for the 21st Century”(1999, a & b), in Budapest. Theobjective of the conference was theformulation of a new relationshipbetween science and society, that is, anew social contract with science

(Mayor, 1999) based on the assumptionthat science is to be subjected to publicscrutiny. The debate on the need for ademocratic discussion of scientificpriorities, was recuperated.

New ways of generating knowledgeIn the past few years, new forms

of producing knowledge have beenobserved. These forms are an attempt toincorporate beneficiaries of scientific andtechnological research in the plethora ofdecisions involved in scientific work,from what to research to how to applyresults for the benefit of society as awhole.

Venezuela’s “research agendas”(Ávalos y Rengifo, 2003).

The “Consejo Nacional deInvestigaciones Científicas yTecnológicas(CONICIT)”, began in 1996 the program“Research Agendas”, as a newapproximation to the formulation oftechno-scientific policy in Venezuela.The program was designed as a processfor building bridges between research,knowledge and technology, with the needsand opportunities of society.

Scientific research should befinanced not as a response to a proposalfor sponsorship from some specializedscientific group, but as a response to alarger agenda of interests. The processimplies the delimitation of a social spacein which the different actors identify anddemand responses/solutions/support ofsocially produced knowledge by inter- andtrans-disciplinary networks of institutionsand individuals, beginning with theconfluence of resources and capacitiesfrom inter-institutional sources, andincorporating the context of applicationsof the final users/beneficiaries/clients.

Regional scientific communities inMéxico (López-Pérez, 2003)

In Mexico, a group of establishedresearchers, each with more than 20-yearexperience, aware of the need to breakwith traditional models of higher andgraduate education, and of the creation ofnew regional research centers that trulyrespond to regional needs, have takenupon themselves to innovate in these areasof human livelihood. They organizedthemselves as the “Centro para laInnovación y el Desarrollo Educativo

(CIDE)”.CIDE’s members are committed to

permanently keeping the areas ofcomputing, science, pedagogy, andcommunications current in the foreignlanguages that are dominant in thedissemination of advances, and go beyondthe thinking of Bronowski (1976), whenasserting that science seeks consciously toadapt to the future, by considering that themost effective way of predicting the futuredoes not consist in imagining it, but inproducing it.

The objective of the CIDE is toform regional scientific communities. Thecommunity is formed based on a group of“brains” who have in common an interest inscientific development, and put everythingthey have at hand to reach that objective.

These communities have originatedresearch centers. Such is the case of the firstcommunity established, working out ofColima’s city, where there is abiotechnology laboratory, producingscientific results that are published ininternational prestigious journals. So far,CIDE has established regional centers in thefollowing locations: Colima (1982), Torreón(1999), Sinaloa (2001), Puebla (2001),Nayarit (in the process of creation).

Are we entering Mode 2 of doing science?Both the Venezuelan Research

Agendas and Mexico’s Regional ScientificCommunities are innovating ways ofcreating knowledge. They do not respondrigorously to Gibbons’ Mode 2characteristics, however they do have someof its properties. Paradoxically, the propertyof “social accountability” which appears inMode 2 as a debatable aspect, is present inthese new forms of doing science.

In conclusion, at the dawn of theXXIst century we are before new forms ofdoing science as observed by Mode 2proponents, however, they militate indifferent fronts: some (Mode 2) look tosatisfy the demands of a globalizedeconomy, serving the interests of a few. Incontrast, the new forms discussed, arecongruent with the “spirit of Budapest”, andseek that science be at the service of thosethat sustain it, serving the interests of many,and leading to a better quality of collectivelife.Contact the author for full references.

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BOOK REVIEWBoczkowski, Pablo J. 2004.Digitizing the News: Innovationin Online Newspapers.Cambridge, MA: The MITPress. 243 pages. ISBN 0-262-02559-0.

By Mary C. Ingram, SKAT BookReview EditorDept. of SociologyUniversity of California, Santa Barbaramci0@umail.ucsb.edu

With Digitizing the News:Innovation in Online Newspapers,Boczkowski’s primary goal is to uncoverhow traditional news organizationsappropriate new media technologies.Rather than attributing the digitalizationof newspapers to the availability oftechnologies, he looks at how the socialinteractions and material environments ofnews organizations shape the processes bywhich newspapers incorporate onlinecapabilities. His analysis of threeethnographic case studies, The New YorkTimes on the Web’s Technology Section,HoustonChronicle.com’s Virtual Voyager,and New Jersey Online’s CommunityConnection, yields that the extent towhich a news organization utilizes onlinetechnologies is contingent on threefactors: the relationship between the printand online offices, the ways in whichusers were inscribed into the process, and“the character of newsroom practices”(pp. 174-176).

In the case of the Times’Technology Section, Boczkowskidescribes the process by which the onlineand print editions became more alike thandifferent. Returning to his main analyticframe, Boczkowski attributes thissimilarity partly to the relationship thatdeveloped between the online and printpersonnel. For instance, he looks at howthe online editors often “repurposed”material from the print edition, adding inhyperlinks and other HTML commands toprepare it for the online edition. Later, heshows how the mobility of one of theonline editors to a position in the printedition offices facilitated the repurposingof online stories into print stories.

Boczkowski next discusses how users werefigured into the process. The Times’Technology Section editors used a “lowestcommon denominator” approach whenchoosing how to present news in the onlineedition. They assumed that their readerswere not savvy-enough technologically tofully appreciate complex media options,such as 360 degree photography, and videoand audio features. Thus, news was oftenpresented in textual format like that of theprint paper. Lastly, he demonstrates howthe character of newsroom practicesperpetuated the similarity between theonline and print papers. Boczkowskidescribes how both the editors and thejournalists employed standard mechanisms,such as average word length (p. 83), forwriting and editing news stories. WhenBoczkowski asked about utilizingalternative methods for gathering anddisseminating news, options such as videoand audio recordings that could later beincorporated into the online edition, thereporters responded that they either didn’tknow how to use these tools or found themto be a “distraction” (pp. 82-88). He alsonotes that editors and journalists even keptsimilar hours as the print personnel, whichin turn effected when online updateshappened.

The other two case studies differedgreatly from the Times’ TechnologySection. With the case of Virtual Voyager,online editors and reporters worked closelywith the designers and programmers fromthe print edition, creating a complex multi-media experience for users. Users wereassumed to be savvy enough to own up-to-date computer equipment and to be able tomanage links to video and audio options.To some extent, users also had the space toparticipate with the Voyages, whetherthrough solicited email or forums and chatrooms. Editors and journalists depended ona variety of new skill sets to report news onVirtual Voyager. One respondent, aneditor, had to become extremelytechnologically skilled so that he couldsolve complex computer- and Internet-related problems and teach two noviceshow to be online journalists while theysailed around the world. His work as aneditor thus involved far more diverseactivities than his counterparts in the printedition. The result was that the VirtualVoyager quite dissimilar from a printnewspaper. Reporters were as likely to

present news in video or audio form as theywere in text, a process Boczkowski refersto as the “dereification” of media tools (p.138).

The third case, the New JerseyOnline Community Connection, a site thatoffered non-profit organizations a freespace to post personalized web pages,looked and functioned entirely differentlyfrom a print newspaper. Though the onlinepersonnel did work with the personnel ofthe print paper, the Connection was stillquite different from the print paper. Theeditors attended meetings with print editorsto bring relevant user sites hosted by theConnection in line with current events.Like the Times’ Technology Section, theCommunity Connection site was designedwith the “lowest common denominator”approach. However, unlike the TechnologySection and the Virtual Voyager, users,rather than reporters and editors, were theprimary producers of knowledge. Becauseeditors saw themselves as “facilitators” ofthis user-directed process of knowledgeproduction, their jobs were vastly differentfrom those of the editors of the print paper.Boczkowski describes the efforts ofConnections’ editors as “outreach” (p. 151).He quotes the editors describing their workin convincing non-profits to use theConnection as “evangelizing” (p. 151).

By comparing these three diversecases of online newspapers, Boczkowskimakes a compelling case againsttechnological determinism. It’s not that thetechnologies of electronic publishing andInternet access alone defined theappearance and functions of onlinenewspapers. Rather, it’s how thenewsroom works, how the users areimagined, and how online editors andjournalists work with the print editionpersonnel. In each of the cases,Boczkowski finds different scenarios for allof his analytic criteria. Thus, each of thepapers has its own distinct look and servesits readership differently.

Digitizing the News: Innovation inOnline Newspapers would be an excellenttext for a number of different courses,including Organizations, Science,Technology, and Society, Communications,and Epistemologies. This book offers richand wonderfully detailed ethnographicaccounts, situating three “local histories”into a larger historical understanding ofinnovation in newspapers. It would thus bean appropraite text for a QualitativeMethods course, as well.

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SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHINGA Report from Subsidiary Spaces

Traditionally, SKAT newsletters feature apiece from one of our colleagues at aprominent institution where an STSprogram and/or research agenda are worthyof note. But what happens at the other endof the academic spectrum? What are folkslike me doing down here?

When I resigned from my first tenure-trackposition at an elite liberal arts college, oneof my colleagues remarked that many of theapplicants for my position were,unfortunately, “community college types”better suited for those lesser institutions.What a shame, it seemed, to lose a truescholar/educator like myself. I didn’t knowit at the time, but I would soon be one ofthose “community college types” trying tomake sense of a new, ‘lesser’ identity at a‘lesser’ institution with ‘lesser’ students(and lesser pay).

I would no longer have the luxury ofteaching Sociology of Science orEnvironmental Sociology where I couldexplore the ideas that so excited me as agraduate student. At the elite institution, Iwould assign Bruno Latour, Emily Martin,Wiebe Bijker, Donna Haraway, BrianWynne, etc. and reproduce in my studentsthe excitement for these ideas and theirpotential consequences for the world. Mystudents were well prepared and couldafford to play with these abstractions andenjoy thinking in such grand and dangerousways. These students wanted to emulatethe particular ways of being an intellectualthat traditionally occur in academe andviewed their professors as role models.They were privileged kids who knew thatsuch ways of thinking about and expressingideas would further assure their privilege inthe worlds outside of the classroom. Myinstitution and I were selling an served.While I, and many of my colleagues, havethe Ph.D., we are all “instructors” with noacademic rank or distinctions beyond pre-and post tenure status. Many of mycolleagues pursue academic research andwriting alongside applied work forcommunity and local government agenciesin addition to a nine to twelve course yearlyteaching load. We recognize our reducedstanding in the larger academic communityand most of us have come to accept thingslike the “conference glance” – thatawkward experience when, during annualconferences, our higher status colleagues

read our name tag affiliations and theninteract with us in ways fitting the“Community College” attached to ourchest.

At my community college, students varygreatly in their abilities with most beingpoorly prepared. I teach Introduction toSociology and Social Problems, and I teacha lot of it. In addition, the structure of thisinstitution exposes me to my fellow socialand behavioral scientists without theprotection of a Sociology department tobuffer me from interdisciplinary squabbles.The politics of this new space has changedmy perspective on what I do as an academicand sociologist and, unexpectedly, madethe teaching of the SSK perspective animportant, if treacherous, component of myintroductory courses.

My students are socio-economically,racially, and religiously diverse. Most ofthem relate to education as a necessary evilthat must be suffered through to achieve a“better life.” While most respect educators,few see us as models for their life and mostare a bit suspicious of what we are doing.Many of my students have been hurt by theeducational system and some are stillhealing those wounds. These injuries,compounded by lower class status andunfortunate life experiences, create a senseof powerlessness in many of my students. Ifind my job here as an educator to be morethan ‘teaching Sociology’ but to empowerstudents to have a voice and recognize thevalue of their experience and understand itas a basis to create useful accounts of theexclusive good that these select fewstudents could obtain and use to maintaintheir advantage in the world.

In my current institution, a communitycollege, we sell something very different.We are open to nearly everyone and offer arange of educational options far greaterthan my former employer. In addition, wehave responsibilities to serve thecommunity in ways that allowsconsiderable influence from actors externalto the college in defining just what“education” is and “who” needs to beworld. I must prove my intentions to thesestudents, not my intellectual ability, inorder to gain their trust. I must also orientmy approach to intellectual pursuits to fitthat of my students’ lives. My students donot have the privilege to simply enjoy

abstraction and grand thinking; they wantto see what it does in the world and theirlives in concrete ways. Many hold full-time jobs, have kids (some are singleparents), struggle financially, and haveexperienced a myriad of painful lifeexperiences including abuse as children,drug/alcohol addiction, incarceration, anddomestic violence. Certainly, such studentsand experiences are not dissimilar to whatmany of you see in your classrooms, yetthese things are far more common in thecommunity college.

As I mentioned earlier, there are nodepartments here to offer refuge from thetypical attacks on sociology as ‘fuzzy,’‘unscientific,’ and, for some of mycolleagues, ‘fashionably political.’ Someenjoy poking fun at the ‘postmodernist’down the hall who teaches ‘feel good,fluffy, touchy-feely stuff’ while the ‘realscience’ gets taught elsewhere. Again,most of us have experienced this in someform or another, yet its manifestation at thisparticular institution is a bit morecomplicated. My college is located inEastern Washington in what is referred toas the Northwest’s Bible Belt. Twentypercent of my students are Mormon, withanother twenty percent evangelicalChristian. Intelligent Design (ID) is quitepopular amongst my students and, itappears, quite a problem for some of mycolleagues. These colleagues fear that I, asa “postmodernist,” will contribute to therise of ID as I try to even the playing fieldof accounts of nature.

Not having the luxury of an STS programor a course devoted to the Sociology ofScience, I include SSK and studies ofexpertise in my introductory courses. I useSSK & E as a means for presentingimportant sociological perspectives as wellas offering my students a new sense ofownership and responsibility for the storiesthey accept and tell about the world. Ibegin by presenting some of my ownresearch on the use of science and expertisein environmental conflicts. It is usually asafe subject as few of my students havemuch invested in environmental concerns.We talk about how some views of natureare valued and others are not. We talkabout the difficulty of remaining symmetricin analyzing conflicts involving science and“nature.” We initially avoid theabstractions that usually accompany such

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discussions and, instead, focus on theparticular experiences of the actors in socialconflict and the difficulties involved whenone approach to understanding, howeveruseful, is privileged. Recently, after a classperiod devoted to watching and discussinga video I made of a conflict between “lay”people and “scientists,” one of mycommitted Baptist students came up to meand thanked me for what I was doing. Iwasn’t sure what she meant and feared thatmy colleagues might be right and that I hadspurned on another “ID zealot” to dismissScience. Instead, she paused after I askedher why and said, “Because you listen andhear. You may not understand my religiousbeliefs, but you allow me to have them.”She went on to say that she had a lot ofthinking to do about evolution and creationand, it appeared to me, things had becomemore complicated for her, not less. Shewas nearing the point of taking sharedresponsibility for answering the question ofevolution. I suppose this is not what manyof us think about as the value of SSK,especially when we employ it in ourresearch and writing, but, for me, it is thejoy and great reward of teaching it in mylowly, community college, 101 classes.

SSK & E, when I teach it well, encouragesa sense of adequacy in my communitycollege students whose experience-bound,subordinate accounts of the world usuallycarry little authority. Once students beginto understand the constructedness ofaccounts of the world, even the mostauthoritative scientific theory or religiousedict, they begin to speak of the views fromtheir social locations: critiques of the prisonsystem from my ex-inmate students,critiques of the welfare system from mysingle parents, critical analyses of theeducational system from my “vocationallytracked” students, and challenges to the restof the students in class from marginalizedgay, lesbian, or students of color. Theybegin to talk of these personal accounts asvaluable constructions of “how things are,”and lament the fact that few others,particularly those with power over them,see it this way.

The SSK & E perspective gives them thetools to recognize the ways in which theirown stories are constructed andcontemplate why other stories seem tocarry more weight. Students who havelong struggled under the weight of

authoritative categorizations or officialpronouncements on their experience findmomentary voice in deconstructing thisbaggage and redefining their ownexperience. For that moment, at least, theworld can be another way and they canhave a say in it. But it rarely ends there. Inmy experience, most of these students thenbegin to evaluate their commitments toparticular views of the world. They alsoreevaluate their understanding of views,like scientific views of evolution, whichhold more power in the world then theirown. I spent several weeks meeting with ayoung, Mormon student who wouldrepeatedly cry in my office. She wasstruggling to deal with her increasinglycomplex understanding of the socio-politicsof knowledge production. She had begunto question not only scientific views, as shesaw them, but the very Mormon teachingsshe so wanted to defend. The weight ofthat responsibility was great, but she grewas a person and student during those weeks.

When I left my position at the elite college,I recognized that I was giving up certainprivileges as an academic. While I missmany of those privileges, I am thankful formy new relationship to sociologicalthinking and to the students whose lives arechanged with me. While this use of SSK &E thinking remains largely invisible at ourconferences and in the more recognizedforms of scholarship, it is an important partof being a sociologist for many of us.Perhaps the next time you see one of us at aconference with “Community College” onour chest, consider how your good workinforms what we do and how our work isrealized in the lives of others and let’s bethankful that we can do this work together.

Reid Helford, Ph.D.Columbia Basin CollegePasco, WArhelford@columbiabasin.edu

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JOBSSociology of ScienceUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaDeadline: Open until filledThe Department of Sociology invitesapplications for a tenure track assistantprofessor or a tenured associateprofessor position in the sociology ofscience beginning August 2006. We areespecially interested in applicantswhose research relates to the lifesciences. Graduate studies in sociologyat Missouri center on four broadsubstantive areas: culture and identity;political and economic institutions, socialmovements, and public policy; socialinequalities; and social control anddeviance. Cutting across these areas isa heritage of interest in theory,knowledge, and critical inquiry. Submit astatement of research and teachinginterests, a curriculum vitae, and writingsamples to: Science Search,Department of Sociology, 312Middlebush Hall, University of Missouri ,Columbia, MO 65211-6100. Review ofapplications will begin in October 2005and continue until the position is filled.

Cornell UniversityDeadline: Open until filledThe Department of Science &Technology Studies at CornellUniversity is seeking to fill a professorialposition at either the tenure-track orassociate level. Although the area ofspecialization within Science &Technology Studies is open, candidateswith an interest in any of the followingareas are especially encouraged toapply: Non-Western science, technologyand medicine, environment, medicine,the human sciences. Applicants musthold a Ph.D. or equivalent and have astrong record of research andpublication in Science & TechnologyStudies. Application materials shouldbe submitted to Trevor Pinch, Chair,Department of Science & TechnologyStudies, 306 Rockefeller Hall, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY 14853.Applications will be reviewed beginningOctober 1, 2005 until the position isfilled. For further information, pleasecontact the Department at 607-255-3810 or visit http://www.sts.cornell.edu.

Program Manager, University ofArizona’s Center for NanotechnologyDeadline: Open until filledThe Center for Nanotechnology in Societyat Arizona State University (CNS-ASU)seeks a Program Manager to organizeand coordinate activities, programs, andprojects for the Center for Nanotechnologyin Society (CNS) at Arizona StateUniversity and provide staff support to theCenter's Director. Will work independentlyto achieve objectives outlined by theDirector. Duties include: Serving as aliaison between the Center and theuniversity and external community tofacilitate program objectives and toprovide information; coordinating andconducting fundraising activities;conducting research and analysis; writingreports, proposals, letters and othercommunications; managing the dailyoperations of the office, including but notlimited to; scheduling people, facilities,and services for CNS activities,purchasing, project management, orderingand maintaining office equipment, andhiring and supervising staff and students;managing CNS budget; developing andorganizing events of varying size andcomplexity; managing information flowwithin the office; developing andmaintaining CNS web site; developing andmanaging CNS media outreach strategy;managing selected CNS projects. Includessome travel.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor'sdegree in a related field and five yearsadministrative/coordinative programexperience; OR, Master's degree in fieldappropriate to area of assignment ANDthree years administrative/coordinativeprogram experience; OR, any equivalentcombination of experience and/oreducation from which comparableknowledge, skills and abilities have beenachieved.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Evidence ofeffective communication skills.Demonstrated research experience.Experience: writing proposals and reports;coordinating events of various size andcomplexity; managing complex projects;coordinating fundraising activities;supervising office operations; developingand managing budgets; scheduling

facilities and services; working withmedia; developing and maintaining websites. Supervisory experience.Demonstrated knowledge of: issues inscience and technology policy; computerapplications (e.g., spreadsheets, databases,word processing, presentations, html).

GENERAL INFORMATION: The Centerfor Nanotechnology in Society at ArizonaState University is a new project of theConsortium for Science, Policy andOutcomes (CSPO). The CNS-ASU hasbeen funded for five years with theopportunity for a five-year extension. Itwill be a national and international focalpoint for studying societal aspects ofemerging nanotechnologies. Moreinformation about CSPO is available atwww.cspo.org. The work environmentwill be dynamic, demanding, and fast-paced; it presents a challengingopportunity for involvement in projectsthat could impact the community. Someevening and weekend work, and sometravel, may be involved. A criminal andemployment history background checkwill be performed prior to employmentoffer. Salary dependent upon experience.AA/EOE

TO APPLY: Submit cover letter,chronological resume, writing sample andthe names, addresses, and phone numbersof three professional references. Specifyjob title and the Staff Request Number O-121633. Any application that lacks anyrequested item must be rejected; ordepartments may provide the opportunityto all applicants to provide missing itemsprior to screening. Submit material listedabove specifying job title and SR# O -121633 by 5 pm to: Lori Hidinger, ASUConsortium for Science, Policy andOutcomes, P.O Box 874401, Tempe, AZ85287-4401; Tel: 480-727-8787; FAX:480-727-8791cspo@asu.edu.

Policy, University of Arizona's Centerfor the Study of Higher EducationDeadline: Open until filledThe University of Arizona's Center for theStudy of Higher Education is nowrecruiting, preferably for a tenuredAssociate Professor (Assistant Professorswill also be considered) to start in the Fallsemester of 2006. We are looking for

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someone with strength in policy, verybroadly conceived, which characterizes thework of all our faculty. In addition, ours is astimulating, supportive intellectualcommunity of faculty and students, so weare also looking for someone who willintegrate with the strengths and initiatives ofthe current faculty and bring distinctivestrengths and expertise to our Center.Ultimately, our search will be guided moreby quality of the candidate than by particulararea of specialization. Please send a coverletter ofinterest (describing your research agendaand teaching interests), a curriculum vita,and names of three references to ProfessorGary Rhoades, Center for the Study ofHigher Education, College of Education,University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona,857210069. Please feel free to contact Garyabout the position by phone (520) 621-0947)or email (grhoades@email.arizona.edu).Review of materials will begin immediatelyand will continue until the position is filled.The University of Arizona is an equalopportunity, affirmative action employer.Moreover, given the diversity of our studentbody, and the social justice orientation ofour faculty, we particular encourageapplication by those who will contribute toenhancing the demographic diversity of ourfaculty.

History of Science and Medicine, VirginiaCommonwealth UniversityDeadline: Open until filledThe Department of History at VCU seeks tomake a tenure-track appointment in theHistory of Science and Medicine, beginningAugust 2006. Rank open. Must be able todevelop and teach advanced undergraduateand master's level courses in the History ofScience and Medicine, as well as generalhistory survey courses. The successfulcandidate will also have the expertise,scholarship, and a career orientation wellsuited for collaborative teaching and/orresearch related to the university's majorprograms and initiatives in Medicine as wellas the Health and Life Sciences.

Qualifications: Ph.D. at the time ofappointment required. Teaching experienceand publications preferred for junior rank;required for senior appointment. Secondaryfields that contribute to the department'scurricular needs desirable.

Application Process: Send letter ofapplication, curriculum vitae, transcript,and three letters of recommendation to:Joseph W. BenderskyChair, Department of HistoryBox 842001Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, VA 23284For Additional Information: Joseph W.BenderskyPhone: 804.828.9755Fax: 804.828.7085Web:http://ww.has.vcu.edu/his/

Director, Historical Research Library,Chemical Heritage FoundationDeadline: Open until filledChemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)invites applications and nominations forthe position of Director of the OthmerLibrary. This new position willspearhead major initiatives emergingfrom CHF's recent comprehensivestrategic planning process.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation is theleading global institution dedicated tothe history and heritage of the chemicaland molecular sciences. CHF developsand maintains world class collections ofmaterials that document chemicalachievement; carries out programs ofoutreach and interpretation; advancespublic understanding of the role of thechemical and molecular sciences,technologies, and industries in shapingsociety; and strengthens the ability of thechemical community to make continuedcontributions. CHF is located in the heartof Independence National Historic Parkin Philadelphia. The Othmer Libraryoffers one of the most completecollections of books and journals relatingto the chemical and molecular sciencesin the world. For further information, seeour website at chemheritage.org.

Reporting to the President, the Directorwill: -Oversee CHF's published collections:maintaining the Collections Plan,establishing collection goals, and gainingfunding for significant new additions tothe collection. -Keep abreast of technological changes

and implement new technologies thatsupport innovative research libraries. -Enhance and promote the prestige of thecollections internationally, making CHFknown as the “repository of choice” for thechemical and molecular sciences. -Supervise and develop the library staff,through subordinate managers. -Expand the usage and impact of thecollections in research, education andoutreachServe as a member of CHF'sleadership team which, working as a group,manages the daily operations of theorganization.

Qualifications include: Advanced degree inhistory of science, technology, ormedicine, in bibliographical studies or inrelated field; in-depth knowledge ofbibliography, library development andhistorical collections; experience inmanaging professional staff. Additionally,knowledge of current issues and trends inscholarly communication, experience inbuilding a major collection, and experiencein interpretation and public exhibitions aredesirable.

For consideration, email cover letter, C.V.,and contact information for threereferences to:OthmerLibSearch@chemheritage.org orsend to J. von Culin, Sr. Advisor for HR,Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315Chestnut Street , Philadelphia PA 19106-2702 . CHF is an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

History of Science and Technology,University of the PacificDeadline: Open until filledThe History Department of the Universityof the Pacific seeks qualified candidates fora tenure track position at the level ofassistant professor to teach the history ofscience and technology (excluding thehistory of medicine) with a secondary fieldin World History, geographical andtemporal focus open. The typical teachingload is 5 courses per year with expectationof teaching regularly in the university’sMentor program, a freshman seminar.Candidates should hold the PhD by time ofappointment, and should show significantscholarly promise. Teaching experience ispreferred. The University of the Pacific isan Equal Opportunity Employer with acommitment to superior undergraduateeducation including undergraduate

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are expected to teach courses at both thegraduate and undergraduate levels andconduct independent research.

The 2017 Generation Renewal Competitionis an initiative under coordinated by theGeneral Vice-rectory of the UniversidadNacional de Colombia. The First Callingrecruited 230 scholars in all areas ofknowledge. The goal of both Callings is toenhance graduate programs and research, aswell as to consolidate links with civilsociety.

For more information:CONCURSO DE MÉRITOS _RelevoGeneracional 2017Universidad Nacional de ColombiaTransversal 38A No. 40-04, Edificio UrielGutiérrezOficina 562Bogotá, Colombia

Or visit our webpage:www.concurso2017.unal.edu.co

History or Philosophy of the NaturalSciencesCalifornia State University FullertonDeadline: 14 November 2005The Liberal Studies Department atCalifornia State University Fullerton invitesapplications for a Tenure Track position tobegin fall semester 2005. Liberal Studies is aunique, long-established and growinginterdisciplinary program that providesfaculty and students with the opportunity tostudy, teach, and integrate academicinterests in the humanities and arts, thenatural sciences and the social sciences.More than 1500 students major in LiberalStudies.

The department is seeking applicants withspecializations in one of the natural sciencesor in the history or philosophy of the naturalsciences, to teach in the interdisciplinaryLiberal Studies core program. Teachingresponsibilities include (1) covering thescience component of a team-taught twosemester survey of cultural history fromantiquity to the 19th century, and (2)conducting a one semester interdisciplinarycourse on the character and aims of 20thcentury science, current theories andknowledge, and the role of science andtechnology in contemporary society.Department faculty also have opportunitiesto develop courses in their areas of

candidates with expertise in either of twoareas:

1. Social network analysis (scholars withstrong quantitative skills who employnetwork analytic techniques in the studyof communication phenomena). Searchnumber S-102-06.

2. Computer-mediated communication(including scholars with researchprograms in, e.g., social computing,video-conferencing, instant messaging,on-line communities). Search number S-103-06.

PhD or equivalent is required.Applicants should possess excellentpublication and teaching credentials,commensurate with years of experience.A record of externally funded research ishighly desirable.

In order to ensure full consideration,applications must be received byNovember 1, 2005. A letter ofapplication, vita and three letters ofrecommendation should be sent to:

Chair, Search CommitteeDepartment of Communication StudiesNorthwestern University2240 Campus DriveEvanston, Illinois 60208

Northwestern University is anaffirmative action, equal opportunityemployer. Women and minorities areencouraged to apply. Hiring iscontingent on eligibility to work in theUnited States.

Universidad Nacional de ColombiaDeadline: 4 November 2005Merit-Based Competition 2017Generation Renewal, Second PhaseAssistant and Associate professorsneeded at Universidad Nacional deColombia

The Universidad Nacional de Colombiais one the most important highereducation centre in Latin America, and isrecruiting 94 full-time lecturers-researchers in several areas ofknowledge. Candidates mustdemonstrate excellent qualifications inboth research and teaching; applicants

research.

Please send a CV, statement of teachingphilosophy and related course materialsas well as three letters ofrecommendation directly to Ken Albala,Chair, History Department, University ofthe Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211.

Contact Info:Ken Albala, ChairHistory DepartmentUniversity of the PacificStockton, CA 95211Website: http://www.pacific.eduBiomedical History

Gender, Science, and Knowledge,Stony Brook UniversityDeadline: 1 November 2005Stony Brook University's Women'sStudies Program invites applications fora senior position in the interdisciplinaryareas of Gender, Science, andKnowledge to begin 1 September 2006.The position will be at the AssociateProfessor or Full Professor level (salarycommensurate with experience). Theyare seeking a scholar with a strongcommitment to research, teaching, andservice. Research focus in any of thefollowing interdisciplinary areas isrequired: Feminist Science Studies;History of Science; Social Studies ofKnowledge, Gender, Race, and Science;Feminist Philosophy of Science; andWomen and Technoscience.To apply, please send curriculum vitae,statement of research and teachinginterests, samples of publications, andthree letters of reference to:Search CommitteeWomen's Studies Program105 Old ChemistryStony Brook UniversitySUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456

Communication Studies,Northwestern UniversityDeadline: 1 November 2005The Department of CommunicationStudies at Northwestern Universityinvites applications for up to two tenure-track positions, building on thedepartment’s strengths in the study ofhuman interaction and communicationtechnology. The positions are open rankand would begin in Fall, 2006.

We are particularly interested in

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specialization. Released time may beavailable for activities such as instructionalresearch, course development, anddepartmental responsibilities. Facultyadvise undergraduate students and serve onacademic committees. Positive tenure andpromotion decisions require excellentteaching as well as research, peer-reviewedpublication, and participation in thebroader disciplinary community.

The position is at the rank of AssistantProfessor, tenure-track. Salary iscompetitive and commensurate with rank,experience and qualifications. Periodicsalary adjustments are enacted by the statelegislature. Additional teaching in summerand intersession is often available.Excellent comprehensive benefits areavailable and include health/vision/dentalplans, spousal and/or dependent fee-waiveras well as access to campus child-care andnew affordable housing program.

Applications received by November 14,2004 are assured of full consideration.Send letter of application, vita, evidence ofteaching excellence or promise, and atleast three recent letters ofrecommendation to:

Chair, Search CommitteeLiberal Studies Department: EC-622California State University, FullertonP.O. Box 6868Fullerton, CA 92834-6868

For more information on the department,see the Liberal Studies Website athttp://hss.fullerton.edu/liberal/

Science, Technology, Ethics, andMedicine, Penn StateDeadline: 15 November 2005The College of the Liberal Arts at PennState invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment, rank open, in itsinnovative intercollege program in science,technology, ethics, and medicine incontemporary society. Applications arewelcome from candidates with degrees inScience, Technology, and Society or in apertinent discipline within the humanitiesor social sciences.

This position is part of Penn State's, andthe College of the Liberal Arts,commitment to research, teaching, and

outreach in the areas of science andtechnology policy, public health andenvironmental policy, and ethical inquiryin these fields. The successful candidatewill play a central role in the expansionand development of a robust intercollegeprogram designed to augment PennState's strengths in basic and appliedfields of science and technology. She orhe will also be involved in programs thatstrengthen the Rock Ethics Institute'sinitiatives in the area of ethics and policyin science, technology, and medicine.

The Program seeks candidates withexpertise in the study of the relationshipbetween contemporary society andscience, medicine, and/or technology.Areas of research may include the ethicaland social impact of biotechnology,engineering, environmental sciences,human sciences, and/or informationsciences. The successful candidate mustbe able to work knowledgeably andeffectively with researchers in basic andapplied fields of science, technology,and/or medicine relevant to her or hisarea of specialization.

Ph.D. required along with evidence ofresearch strength and ability to offer arange of courses at the undergraduateand graduate level in the program inscience, technology, medicine, andethics in society. Please send applicationletter, full curriculum vitae, samplepublications, and letters ofrecommendation to:

Chair, STEMS Search CommitteeThe Pennsylvania State UniversityBox SS111 Sparks BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802

Review of applications begins onNovember 15 and will continue until theposition is filled. Penn State iscommitted to affirmative action, equalopportunity, and the diversity of itsworkforce.

Susan SquierBrill Professor of Women's Studies andEnglishThe Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA 16802Office: 814-863-3604 Home 466-7626

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/

Biomedical Ethics, Penn StateDeadline: 15 November 2005Inviting applications for a senior hire tobe filled at the rank of tenured associateor full professor in the area ofBiomedical Ethics. This will be a jointappointment involving two Penn Statecampuses, the College of the LiberalArts (http://www.la.psu.edu/) and theCollege of Medicine(http://www.hmc.psu.edu/college/), aswell as the Huck Institutes of the LifeSciences (http://www.lsc.psu.edu/) Thesuccessful candidate would have adepartmental home in the Humanities orSocial Sciences in the College of theLiberal Arts and in the Department ofHumanities in the College of Medicine.

Applicants will be expected to teachcourses at both the graduate andundergraduate levels, with a strong rangeof teaching abilities in the area ofBioethics and Medical Humanities. Weare particularly interested in candidateswith expertise in research ethics. Thesuccessful candidate must be able towork knowledgeably and effectivelywith scientists and physicians. Highlydesirable for the appointee is an activegrants record.A portion of the position will be situatedin the Rock Ethics Institute(http://rockethics.psu.edu/) withconcomitant released time to ensure andenhance interactions with colleaguesfrom the Huck Institutes of the LifeSciences, participation in collaborativeresearch projects, and development ofresearch and outreach activities thatcreate rich links between the Rock EthicsInstitute and the College of Medicine.Please send application letter, fullcurriculum vitae, sample publications,and letters of reference to:Chair, Biomedical Ethics SearchCommitteeThe Pennsylvania State UniversityBox GE111 Sparks BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802

Biomedical History, University ofSouth CarolinaDeadline: 15 November 2005The University of South CarolinaDepartment of History seeks to appointan assistant professor in the history of

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20th century biological sciences,medicine, or biotechnology. Candidateswith transnational research interests areof particular interest. The successfulcandidate will teach graduate andundergraduate courses in the history ofmedicine, history of science, andcontribute to the department's surveyteaching needs. Candidates must have aPhD in history, history of science or arelated area and the ability to satisfytenure and promotion criteria in theDepartment of History. USC has athriving interdisciplinary science,technology, and medicine studies groupincluding a large NSF-funded programon the social and ethical implications ofnanotechnology. In addition, USC offersa minor in medical humanities.Application deadline November 15,2005 . Send materials (letter, CV,transcript, 3 letters of recommendation)to Biomedical Search, Department ofHistory, University of South Carolina ,Columbia , SC 29208. For furtherinformation seehttp://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/historyjobs.html. Application can also be made onlineat http://USCJobs.sc.edu

Science Studies/History of Science,University of AberdeenDeadline: 15 November 2005The Centre for Modern Thought at theUniversity of Aberdeen has been createdas a site for cross-disciplinary theoreticalresearch and theoretical inquiry bearingon global socio-historical developmentsand political issues. It will serve degreeprogrammes throughout the College ofArt and Social Sciences in the context ofthe University_s new Graduate Schooland will offer a stimulating environmentto students seeking a high-profile Ph.D.programme staffed by internationallyrecognized scholars.

In the coming academic year, we aim tomake a number of academicappointments (at any rank), including inthe area of Science Studies/History ofScience. An important part of theCentre_s work will be addressed torelations between the sciences, the socialsciences and the humanities. Anindividual strongly versed in the areas ofhistory of science and theory ofknowledge will play a vital role.

Scholars from any field whose workintersects with these areas are welcome

to apply. Suitable candidates will have adistinguished publication record ordemonstrate exceptional promise. Wewill accept applications until thepositions are filled, but we will beginactive consideration of the applicationson 15 November 2005. Enquiries may bedirected to Professor Christopher Fynsk,enl290@abdn.ac.uk. For furtherinformation regarding the Centre forModern Thought and the University ofAberdeen, visit our website at:http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought

If possible please submit letters ofrecommendation and an example of youracademic writing with your application.

Please indicate clearly on yourapplication form at which level (Chair,Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer,Research Fellow) you wish yourapplication to be considered.

History of Science, Drew UniversityDeadline: 15 November 2005The Department of History at DrewUniversity invites applications for atenure-track assistant professorship inthe history of science, to begin in fall2006. Desirable sub-fields includemodern science and technology. Theapplicant should have a Ph.D., teachingexperience, and demonstrated potentialas a publishing scholar. The successfulcandidate will be expected to teach inour undergraduate program as well as ina graduate program that emphasizesintellectual and cultural history. Pleasesend a letter of application, c.v., and atleast three reference letters to Prof.Jonathan Rose, Chair, History of ScienceSearch, Department of History, DrewUniversity, Madison, NJ 07940.Complete applications should bereceived by November 15, 2005.Preliminary interviews will be held at theHistory of Science Society and AHAannual meetings. Drew University is anAA/EOE.

Contact Info:Prof. Jonathan RoseChair, History of Science Search,Department of History, Drew University,Madison, NJ 07940.Website: http://www.drew.edu/hist

History of Science, Technology,Environment, or MedicineCase Western Reserve UniversityDeadline: 15 November 2005As part of its general search(www.case.edu/artsci/dean/searches/history06.html), the Department of Historyat Case Western Reserve Universityinvites applications for a tenure-trackposition in history of science,technology, environment, or medicine, tobegin August 2006. Rank is open,although beginning assistant professor ispreferred. Teaching load is two coursesper semester. Ph.D. in hand by August2006. Those applications (with allsupporting documents) received by 15November 2005 will receive fullconsideration. An application consists ofa CV, four letters of reference, and acover letter addressed to Professor AlanRocke, Chair of the Department ofHistory, CWRU, Cleveland, OH 44106.Invited preliminary interviews will beconducted at the AHA annual meeting,although videoconference interviews forsemifinalists can be arranged if required.Electronic applications stronglypreferred; send to alan.rocke@case.edu.In employment, as in education, CaseWestern Reserve University iscommitted to Equal Opportunity andworld-class diversity.

Contact Info:Professor Alan RockeChair of the Department of HistoryCase Western Reserve UniversityCleveland, Ohio 44106

History of 20th Century BiologicalSciences, Medicine, or BiotechnologyUniversity of South CarolinaDeadline: 15 November 2005The University of South CarolinaDepartment of History seeks to appointan assistant professor in the history of20th century biological sciences,medicine, or biotechnology. Candidateswith transnational research interests areof particular interest. The successfulcandidate will teach graduate andundergraduate courses in the history ofmedicine, history of science, andcontribute to the department’s surveyteaching needs. Candidates must have a

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PhD in history, history of science or arelated area and the ability to satisfytenure and promotion criteria in theDepartment of History. USC has athriving interdisciplinary science,technology, and medicine studies groupincluding a large NSF-funded programon the social and ethical implications ofnanotechnology. In addition, USC offersa minor in medical humanities.Application deadline November 15,2005. Send materials (letter, CV,transcript, 3 letters of recommendation)to Biomedical Search, Department ofHistory, University of South Carolina,Columbia, SC 29208. The University ofSouth Carolina is an affirmative action,equal opportunity employer. Minoritiesand women are encouraged to apply. Forfurther information seehttp://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/historyjobs.html. Application can also be made onlineat http://USCJobs.sc.edu

Contact Info:Professor Lacy Ford, ChairBiomedical Search CommitteeDepartment of History245 Gambrell HallUniversity of South CarolinaColumbia, SC 29208Phone: 803-777-5195Fax: 803-777-4494E-mail: ford@gwm.sc.eduWebsite: http://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/Website:http://www.case.edu/artsci/dean/searches/history06.html

History of Science and Technology,Brock University, Ontario, CanadaDeadline: 25 November 2005Brock University Department of Historyinvites applications for a tenure-trackappointment in the History of Scienceand Technology. The position is subjectto final budgetary approval. Applicantsshould have a completed Ph.D. by thetime of the appointment. The successfulcandidate will be expected to teach atevery level of the undergraduateprogramme and to participate in theDepartment’s new M.A. program. Theappointment will commence 1 July 2006,at the rank of Assistant Professor.

The Department is advertising in five

fields concurrently, and it hopes to hireat least one historian from these fieldswho also has a strong research interest ingender history and could contribute acourse on comparative gender history tothe Department’s new M.A. program.

Applicants should send a curriculumvitae and a short research plan andarrange for three letters of reference tobe mailed to:Chair, Science and Technology SearchCommitteeDepartment of HistoryBrock UniversitySt. Catharines, ONCanada L2S 3A1

All qualified candidates are encouragedto apply; however, Canadians andpermanent residents will be givenpriority. Brock University is committedto a positive action policy aimed atreducing gender imbalance in faculty;qualified men and women candidates areequally encouraged to apply. Moreinformation on Brock University can befound on the University’s Web site:http://www.BrockU.ca.

History of Science, HarvardUniversityDeadline: 28 November 2005The History of Science Department atHarvard University seeks to make atenure-track appointment, beginning fall2006. The substantive areas of researchand teaching are open. We will considerapproaches to the material that may beprincipally historical or that may join thehistory of science with anthropological,sociological, philosophical, or literaryapproaches. Applicants will be expectedto teach courses at both the graduate andundergraduate levels. Candidates areexpected to demonstrate a promise ofexcellence in both research and teachingand completion of the Ph.D. prior toappointment should be expected.Candidates are also asked to submit acurriculum vitae and three letters ofreference, and include with the dossier awriting sample. Materials should be sentto Chair, Search Committee, Department

of the History of Science, Science Center371, 1 Oxford Street, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Contact Info:Chair, Search CommitteeDepartment of the History of ScienceScience Center 3711 Oxford StreetHarvard UniversityCambridge, MA 02138Phone: (617) 495-3741Fax: 617-495-3344Website:http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/

History of Medicine, University ofTorontoDeadline: 30 November 2005The Institute for the History andPhilosophy of Science and Technology,University of Toronto, invitesapplications for a tenure-streamappointment in the field of History ofMedicine. The appointment will be at therank of Assistant Professor and willbegin on July 1, 2006. We seekcandidates with expertise in the broadscope of History of Medicine.Familiarity with epistemological, socialand political aspects of medicine will beconsidered an asset.

The successful candidate will beexpected to develop an externally fundedresearch program and undertakegraduate supervision and teaching. Thesuccessful candidate must have a Ph.D.in History of Medicine, an establishedrecord of high quality scholarly researchand publication, a demonstratedcommitment to teaching and evidence ofhigh quality teaching. Additionalinformation on the Institute can beobtained through the World Wide Webat http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/

Please send applications to ProfessorPaul Thompson, Director, Institute forthe History and Philosophy of Scienceand Technology, University of Toronto,Victoria College, 91 Charles StreetWest, Room 317, Toronto, Ontario,Canada M5S 1K7. Applications shouldinclude a curriculum vitae, a statementoutlining current and future researchinterests, examples of publications, andmaterials relevant to teachingexperience. Applicants must also askthree referees to write letters directly toProfessor Paul Thompson. Materials

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must be received by November 30, 2005(no e-mail applications will be accepted).

The University of Toronto is stronglycommitted to diversity within itscommunity and especially welcomesapplications from visible minority groupmembers, women, Aboriginal persons,persons with disabilities, members ofsexual minority groups, and others whomay contribute to the furtherdiversification of ideas. We offeropportunities to work in manycollaborative programs, includingAboriginal, Canadian, environmental,ethno-cultural, sexual diversity, genderand women's studies. The University ofToronto offers the opportunity to teach,conduct research and live in one of themost diverse cities in the world.

All qualified candidates are encouragedto apply; however, Canadians and landedimmigrants (permanent residents) will begiven priority.

Contact Info:Prof. Paul Thompson, DirectorInstitute for the History and Philosophyof Science and Technology91 Charles St. West, Room 316, VictoriaCollegeUniversity of TorontoToronto, OntarioCanada M5S 1K7Website:http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/

History of Biology, University ofTorontoDeadline: 30 November 2005The Institute for the History andPhilosophy of Science and Technology,University of Toronto, invitesapplications for a tenure-streamappointment in the field of History ofBiology. The appointment will be at therank of Assistant Professor and willbegin on July 1, 2006. We are especiallyinterested in candidates with expertise inthe history of 20th-century biology.Familiarity with philosophicalapproaches to science will be consideredan asset.

The successful candidate will beexpected to develop an externally fundedresearch program and undertake graduatesupervision and teaching. The successfulcandidate must have a Ph.D. in Historyof Biology or in History and Philosophy

of Biology, an established record of highquality scholarly research andpublication, a demonstrated commitmentto teaching and evidence of high qualityteaching. Additional information on theInstitute can be obtained through theWorld Wide Web athttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/

Please send applications to ProfessorPaul Thompson, Director, Institute forthe History and Philosophy of Scienceand Technology, University of Toronto,Victoria College, 91 Charles StreetWest, Room 317, Toronto, Ontario,Canada M5S 1K7. Applications shouldinclude a curriculum vitae, a statementoutlining current and future researchinterests, examples of publications, andmaterials relevant to teachingexperience. Applicants must also askthree referees to write letters directly toProfessor Paul Thompson. Materialsmust be received by November 30, 2005(no e-mail applications will be accepted).

The University of Toronto is stronglycommitted to diversity within itscommunity and especially welcomesapplications from visible minority groupmembers, women, Aboriginal persons,persons with disabilities, members ofsexual minority groups, and others whomay contribute to the furtherdiversification of ideas. We offeropportunities to work in manycollaborative programs, includingAboriginal, Canadian, environmental,ethno-cultural, sexual diversity, genderand women's studies. The University ofToronto offers the opportunity to teach,conduct research and live in one of themost diverse cities in the world.

All qualified candidates are encouragedto apply; however, Canadians and landedimmigrants (permanent residents) will begiven priority.

Contact Info:Prof. Paul Thompson, DirectorInstitute for the History and Philosophyof Science and Technology91 Charles St. West, Room 316University of TorontoToronto, OntarioCanada M5S 1K7

Website:http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/ Tenure-Track Professor, History ofScience and Technology, U.S. NavalAcademyDeadline: December 1, 2005

History of Science and Technology,U.S.Naval AcademyDeadline: 1 December 2005Subject to funding, the United StatesNaval Academy seeks a tenure-trackassistant professor specializing ininformation technologies and their socialimpact. Duties include teaching thehistory of information technologyrevolutions, the history of science andtechnology, and participation in a corehistory curriculum to include Western(or perhaps global) civilization, or navalhistory. Ph.D. in history required,teaching experience and publicationspreferred. Duties commence fall 2006,compensation competitive.

Send application letter, curriculum vita,and three letters of recommendation to:Professor William McBrideHistory DepartmentUnited States Naval Academy107 Maryland AvenueAnnapolis, MD 21402-5044Review of applications will begin 15November 2005, with an applicationdeadline of 1 December.

Economics or Metrics of Research andInnovation PolicyGeorgia Tech's School of PublicPolicy,Deadline: 1 December 2005Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy -an internationally recognized center ofexcellence in science and technologypolicy - seeks applicants for a facultyposition in the economics or metrics ofresearch and innovation policy,including interests in information,biomedical, nanoscience, and otheremerging research and technologicaldomains. Competency in the analysis ofresearch and innovation data setsdesired. Full-time, tenure track, startAugust 2006, rank open, Assistant orAssociate applicants especiallyencouraged.

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The successful candidate will teachscience and technology policy (includinginnovation economics and/ormeasurement issues in R&D policy) andcore public policy courses, and developan innovative research portfolio. Ph.D.required. Women and minorityapplicants encouraged. AssistantProfessor applicants: include threerecommendation letters. Seniorapplicants: provide names and addressesof at least three references.

Send application materials to CarmenWilliams, Search Secretary, School ofPublic Policy, Georgia Institute ofTechnology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345,USA; or apply by email tocwjobsearch@pubpolicy.gatech.edu,with hard copy following by regularmail. Availability of position contingenton funding.

PhD discipline is open. We anticipateapplicants from economics, publicpolicy, management, science andtechnology policy, as well as otherfields. Applicants who currently hold aPhD or who will complete their PhDbefore August 2006 will be considered.

Georgia Tech is an internationallyrecognized technological university.Georgia Tech's staff include more than800 academic faculty, nearly 1,300 full-time researchers, and more than 400technicians. Georgia Tech conductsexternally-sponsored research for publicand private organizations valued at morethan $425 million annually, making theuniversity one of the leading U.S.research institutions in engineering,science, and technology.

The Georgia Tech School of PublicPolicy offers degree programs at thebachelors, masters, and doctoral levels.The School s research centers andprograms include the Georgia TechTechnology Policy and AssessmentCenter, the Research Value MappingProgram, and a new Science,Technology and Innovation Program.Georgia Tech brings together one of thelargest and most prominent clusters offaculty engaged in science, technology,

and innovation research, policy, andevaluation in the United States. Inaddition to the School of Public Policy,there are complementary research groupsin science, technology, and innovationpolicy domains in Management;Economics; History, Technology andSociety; Industrial and SystemsEngineering; and other units at theInstitute. For more information about theGeorgia Tech School of Public Policy,see http://www.spp.gatech.edu

An equal education/employmentopportunity institution.

History of Medicine, Michigan StateUniversityDeadline: 1 December 2005Michigan State University invitesapplications for a full-time, tenure-trackposition as an Assistant Professorbeginning fall 2006 in the Lyman BriggsSchool of Science (LBS)(75%)(http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu) andthe Department of History (25%). LBS isa vibrant undergraduate, residentialscience and liberal arts program in theCollege of Natural Science. Candidatesshould have a PhD in the history ofmedicine; specialization open, butpreference given to areas thatcomplement existing faculty. The idealcandidate will be enthusiastic aboutteaching and will be expected tomaintain an active research program.The successful candidate will workclosely with undergraduates, teachingfour small sized-courses a year (from 12-30 students) from the introductoryFreshman course to a Senior Seminar toa graduate course. The joint appointmentwith the Department of History will addto MSU's growing cross-collegecollaboration and access to graduatestudents. The salary will be competitiveand commensurate with experience.Letters of application, accompanied by acurriculum vitae, writing sample,teaching philosophy and researchprogram, syllabi, and three references,should be sent to: History of MedicineSearch Committee, Lyman BriggsSchool, 28 East Holmes Hall, MichiganState University, East Lansing, MI48825-1107. Application deadline isDecember 1, 2005. Questions should be

directed to Prof. Kristie Macrakis, Chairof the Committee, at the above address.

MSU is an affirmative action, equalopportunity institution. Applicants whoare not U. S. citizens or permanentresidents must provide a document ofemployment authorization for the U.S.Persons with disabilities have the right torequest and receive reasonableaccommodation. Women and minoritiesare strongly encouraged to apply.

Contact Info:Dr. Kristie MacrakisHistory of Medicine Search CommitteeLyman Briggs School28 East Holmes HallMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48825-1107.Website:http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.eduProfessor of French History, STSInterests, Mississippi State UniversityDeadline: December 2, 2005

History of Medicine, Johns HopkinsUniversityDeadline: 1 December 2005The Institute of the History of Medicineat the Johns Hopkins University invitesapplications for a position in the historyof medicine from classical antiquity upto 1650. The Institute of the History ofMedicine is a center for advanced studiesdedicated to promoting scholarship onthe history of medicine, disease, and thehealth sciences and their relationship tosociety. We are based in the School ofMedicine and our teachingresponsibilities include courses forundergraduates, graduate students, andmedical students. Rank is open; thesuccessful candidate will have a strongcommitment to scholarly research andpublication. Women and minorities arestrongly urged to apply. AA/EOE. Pleasesend a letter of application, CV, writingsample, and the names and addresses ofthree references to Mary E. Fissell,Department of the History of Medicine,1900 E. Monument St. Baltimore,Maryland, 21205 by Dec. 1st, 2005.

Contact Info:Prof. Mary E. Fissell,Chair, Search CommitteeDepartment of the History of Medicine,1900 E. Monument St.Baltimore, MD, 21205Website: http://histmed.jhmi.edu

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French History, Emphasis in Scienceor Technology.Mississippi State UniversityDeadline: 2 December 2005The History Department of MississippiState University invites applications fora tenured or tenure-track appointment inFrench History, beginning August 2006.An interest in the history of science ortechnology is desirable. Teachingresponsibilities are two courses persemester. Offerings includeundergraduate and graduate courses inthe areas of expertise, a turn in theintroductory sequence of westerncivilization, and graduate seminars.Demonstrated ability to contribute to thedepartment's longstanding Ph.D.program and intellectual life is especiallyfavored.

A Ph.D. by time of appointment isrequired as are the appropriate languageskills. Evidence of successful teachingand publications in the subject area arepreferred at the assistant level andrequired for those seeking the position atthe associate level. Salary iscommensurate with qualifications. Toguarantee consideration, applicationmust be received by 2 December 2005.

Please include e-mail address tofacilitate contact.Send letter of application, curriculumvitae, and three letters ofrecommendation to:Professor Alan I MarcusHead, Department of HistoryMississippi State UniversityMailbox HMississippi State, MS 39762Please complete the Personal DataInformation Form online found under the'Create Application' option found in theEmployment Opportunities portion ofthe MSU Web site.

Department of Social and BehavioralSciencesUniversity of California, SanFranciscoDeadline: 15 January 2005The Department of Social andBehavioral Sciences (SBS) announces aninternational search for a tenure trackfaculty position to be filled bySeptember 1, 2006. Appointment will beat the Assistant, Associate, or FullProfessor rank, depending upon the

finalist's level of experience. We areseeking a sociologist with a promisingand demonstrated research career who isacademically prepared to teach classicaland contemporary sociological theory,and who has a research program that willbe synergistic with departmentalteaching and research directions andfuture plans. For full consideration,applications should be received byJanuary 15, 2006.Submit Applications to: DepartmentChair Patricia Benner Department ofSocial and Behavioral Sciences,University of California, San Francisco,3333 California Street Suite 455, SanFrancisco, CA 94118.

PUBLICATIONOPPORTUNITIESEthnicity, health and health care:Understanding diversity, tacklingdisadvantage.Deadline: 30 November 2005Proposals are invited for contributions tothe thirteenth monograph in the series tobe published by Sociology of Health andIllness in conjunction with BlackwellPublishers. The monograph will explorethe sociology of ethnicity, race andreligion in relation to health, health careand illness.

Potential contributors should send anoutline proposal of up to 800 words toWaqar Ahmad, Middlesex University,Trent Park, Bramley Rd, London, N144YZ, United Kingdom, e-mail:w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk fax (+44 (0)208449 0798. The outline should provide arealistic indication of the content of theproposed article in a structured form and,if reporting an empirical study, include(1) major hypothesis or researchquestion (2) methods (3) data source (4)findings and (5) conclusions.

Public Understanding of Science(http://pus.sagepub.com) is invitingpapers on "Publics and Science: NewUnderstandings".Deadline: 15 January 2005In the last decade, there has been

considerable attention paid to publicsand their views on and understandings ofscience. A major starting point was thechallenge to traditional views of "thepublic," how they came about theirunderstandings, and the socialconstructions of "science." This debatehas been labeled as the deficit modelversus a more interactive view of publicsand science. We have made importantstrides since these early discussions andit is timely that we attempt to synthesizewhere this field has gone since thoseearly years.

The journal is inviting essays andresearch studies that demonstrate newtheoretical directions, policyconsiderations or practical perspectivesthat will illustrate how our thinking hasevolved in these three domains. Aspecial issue will be devoted to the topic.Questions about potential submissionswill be entertained.

Please send your manuscripts (6,000words for research notes, 10,000 wordsfor theoretical essays and empiricalstudies) to pscience@ucalgary.ca

Journal of Biological Discovery andCollaborationIntroducing the forthcoming, Journal ofBiological Discovery and Collaboration.The journal will be an Open Access,peer-reviewed, online journal publishedby BioMed Central(www.biomedcentral.com) that willencompass all aspects of scientificinformation management and studies ofscientific practice, with a particularemphasis on biomedical laboratoryinvestigations. Preliminary informationabout the journal and its editorial boardis available at www.j-biomed-discovery.com.

Currently, many scattered disciplinesstudy aspects of scientific practice,including informatics, computer science,sociology, cognitive psychology,scientometrics, rhetoric, and history andphilosophy of science. The journal willconnect these disparate perspectives witheach other, and with contemporaryscientific practice.

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Journal of Biomedical Discovery andCollaboration will emphasize originalresearch, but will also consider thefollowing article types: software articles,case studies, discovery notes, discoverydiaries, reviews, commentaries, anddebate articles. It will publish scholarlystudies of scientific practice, informationneeds, tool development, bibliometrics,and data representation methods,amongst others.

Journal of Biological Discovery andCollaboration looks forward to receivingyour submissions. Researchers interestedin submitting a manuscript shouldcontact me at discovery@psych.uic.edu.

STSBlog.orghttp://www.stsblog.orgA space for members of the field to writevery short articles for an audience thatmight include students and non-STSers:the form is a multi-authored, edited blog.The editor, Sergio Sismondo(sismondo@post.queensu.ca), wouldwelcome submissions, includingcomments on topics of current interest,commentary on news stories or culturalphenomena, or nicely packagedsummaries of articles you've written thatmight be of wide interest. If you find thesite useful, please link to it.

openDemocracy (Science &Technology Section)http://www.opendemocracy.net/science_and_technologyopenDemocracy.net is an online globalmagazine of politics and culture. Wepublish clarifying debates which helppeople make up their own minds. Weseek the finest writing, the strongestarguments, the most compelling viewsand truthful voices on key issues, greatand small. We use the web’s potential tobuild and map intelligent discussionswhich we accumulate and index in ourback pages which now include over1,500 articles. Written by and for peopleacross the world, from South and North,from the powerless to the influential, weseek to bring together those who are notwell-known with writers and thinkers ofinternational repute.

CONFERENCES

International Association for Science,Technology, and Society 21st annualconferenceBaltimore, Feb. 2-5, 2005.Deadline: 1 November 1 2005You are cordially invited toelectronically submit an abstract forpresentation (250 to 500 words) and /or apanel proposal to the Conference Chair,Roli Varma varma@unm.edu no laterthan November 1, 2005. You will beadvised of our decision within 4 weeks.Papers presented will be considered forpublication in the Bulletin of Science,Technology & Society. The conferencefeatures Graduate Student Paper Contestas well. For a list of topical areas, pleasevisit our website (http://www.nasts.org)which is continually being updated.

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British Society for the History ofScience Postgraduate Conference4-6 January, 2006Deadline: 4 November, 2005We welcome papers from allpostgraduates from both the UK andabroad working in History of Science,Technology and Medicine, and alsothose working in other disciplines whoseresearch touches on any area of HSTMstudies.http://www.bshs.org.uk/

Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age8-11, February 2006Deadline: 15 November, 2006The Southwest/Texas Popular CultureAssociation/American CultureAssociation invites panels and individualpapers examining atomic culture for itsannual conference to be held at the HyattRegency hotel in Albuquerque, NewMexico. http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

American Association for the Rhetoricof Science and TechnologyPre-conference Seminar16 November, 2005AARST invites communication scholarsand rhetoricians interested in thepoliticization of science to attend itspreconference seminar at the NationalCommunication Association meeting inBoston, MA, this year. Sessions includescholarly presentations on the rhetoricalconstitution and contestation of sciencein political discourse as well as a talk byscience journalist Chris Mooney and apanel discussion about disciplinaryperspectives on rhetoric by Campbell,Condit, Fahnestock, Lyne, Miller, andSimons.

"Roads and Walls: ConcreteHistories," A Graduate ResearchConference3 March, 2006Deadline: 18 November, 2005Roads structure both licit and illicittraffic. Roads are thearteries ofempire—and flat, open places for ballgames. Roads destroy forests, and theyguide personal quests. Roads bring ustothe crossroads of science and desire;they offer us vantage points tosee therise and fall of kingdoms, colonies,nations, and empires. Roads run into

walls. Walls mark the borders ofterritories; they guard the privacy ofproperty and women's purity; theymake safe and secure spaces. Wallscordon off disciplines and diseases;their barriers are essential to humanbiology and academic analysis.Roads and walls both offer thecharisma of powerful objects—but,more than other objects, they takeus into the heart of questions thatmatter insocial and cultural theorytoday. They are both concrete andabstract designs for power, and foreveryday life. They show us wheregeopolitics and family values aremutually formed. They confront uswith the intertwined intimacies ofindustrial and vernacular design.roadsandwalls@gmail.com

British Society for Literature andScience24-26 March, 2006Deadline: 30 November, 2005Proposals are on any topics arewelcome, but we would especiallyencourage proposals reflecting onmethodological questions(particularly questions of historyand historicisms) or on how thisinterdisciplinary field can benefit bybroadening or redefining itsdisciplinary base, for example byconsidering what the sociology ofscience can bring to science andliterature studies.bsls@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk

Cyberworld Unlimited? DigitalInequality and New Spaces ofInformal Education for YoungPeopleBielefeld, Germany, 9-11February, 2006Deadline: 30 November 2005.Today, the internet is regarded asthe central resource for knowledgeand information. Associated withthis is the idea that everyone is ableand even expected to serve himselfor herself according to his or herown needs via this medium. Sincemore and more services (banks,universities, schools, publicadministration etc.) are deliveredonline the internet seems to allow itsusers to enjoy specific advantages in

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dealing with their everyday life.http://www.kib-bielefeld.de/tagung/engl/

------------------------------------------------------------Ethical Aspects of Risk14-16 June, 2006Deadline: 1 December 2005Technology has advanced humanwell being in a myriad of respects,such as energy, communication andabilities to travel. Still, everytechnology also has negative side-effects, such as risks from accidentsand pollution. A standard way tojudge the acceptability of a specifictechnology is cost-benefit analysis.However, next to the balancebetween the benefits and risks of atechnology the followingconsiderations seem to beimportant: the distribution of costsand benefits, whether a risk isvoluntarily taken, whether there areavailable alternatives etc. How tojudge whether a risk is acceptable isa pressing ethical question thatdeserves thorough investigation.There is a vast amount ofsociological and psychologicalresearch on acceptable risks, butsurprisingly, there is only very littleresearch from moral philosophy onrisks.thicsrisk@tbm.tudelft.nl

Locating Engineers: Education,Knowledge, Desire10-13 September 2006Deadline: 1 December, 2005Reform in engineering educationhas become an object of intenseinterest and desire in countriesthroughout the world. What is atstake in the contents of educationfor engineers, and for whom? Thisfirst workshop of the InternationalNetwork for Engineering Studies(INES), sponsored by the U.S.National Science Foundation andVirginia Tech, will bring togetherresearchers on the history, socialand cultural studies, and philosophyof engineering education to addressthese questions by placing them inwider historical and culturalcontexts.

How have the social, political, andepistemological issues involved inlocating engineers varied acrossspace and time? What have beenkey struggles in different countries?What have been the implications ofoutcomes in engineering educationfor emerging national identities aswellas transnational projects rangingfrom industrial capitalism toglobalization? What have been theimplications of engineeringeducation for emerging sciences andtechnologies? What relations haveemerged between what counts asengineering and who counts asengineers?

This workshop will employ aunique format of focused discussionaround 16-18 previously-draftedpapers in order both to bringtogether researchers working onthese topics in different countriesand to identify critical issues andopportunities for further research.The workshop will provide travelsubsidies and defray local expensesfor qualifying contributors.http://www.inesworkshop.sts.vt.edu/

Call for Symposium Proposalsand Workshop ProposalsPhilosophy of Science AssociationNineteenth Biennial Meeting:November 2-5, 2006Vancouver, British ColumbiaDeadline: 1 December 2005.Members of the Philosophy ofScience Association (PSA) areinvited to submit proposals forsymposia and workshops to bepresented at the PSA 2006 meetingin Vancouver, British Columbia,November 2-5. Proposals mustinclude sufficient supportingmaterial to permit the programcommittee to evaluate the qualityand interest of the symposium orworkshop.

Symposia will follow the traditionalformat, whereby the paperspresented will be submitted forconsideration for publication in asupplementary issue of Philosophy

of Science. The evaluation forpublication will be on entiresessions, that is, all papers in thesession will be published together.All contributions for symposia willbe electronically archived, whetheror not they are accepted forpublication.

Workshops follow the same formatas used for PSA 2004. There is noexpectation that the paperspresented will be submitted forreview for publication. This formatmay be more attractive to sessionsinvolving participants from outsidethe philosophical community,and/or for exploratory-stageresearch. Authors may choose tohave their papers archived inelectronic form. Some workshopsmay take the form of lunchroundtables or mentoring sessions.

Proposals for both symposia andworkshops should include:

1. The title of the proposedsymposium or workshop2. A description of the topic and ajustification of its currentimportance to the discipline (aboutone or two pages)3. A short descriptive summary ofthe proposal (100-200 words)4. Titles and abstracts of all papers5. A list of participants and eitheran abbreviated curriculum vitae orshort biographical description foreach6. Institutional affiliation and e-mail addresses for all participants7. Full contact information for theorganizer (who may or may not bea proposed speaker), to be used forcommunication with the ProgramCommittee

The PSA 2006 Program Committeewill strive for quality, variety,innovation and diversity on theprogram. We encourage proposalsin both traditional and novel areasof philosophy of science.

Proposals must be electronicallysubmitted athttp://philsci.org/PSA06/submit

All questions about submissionsshould be directed to:J. McKenzie Alexander, Co-Chair

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University of Technology(TUHH), GermanyDeadline: 15 December 2005Authors are invited to submitoriginal and unpublished researchresults/best practices forconsideration in HICL2006.

International Federation forInformation Processing IFIP-TC9"Relationship BetweenComputers and Society" SeventhInternational Conference"Human Choice and Computers"(HCC7)Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Gorizia(Italy) September 21-23, 2006Deadline: 15 December 2005Human choice and computers,Computers and Society, SocialInformatics, are terms referring to asimilar preoccupation: How is thehuman being and its societalenvironment kept in the centre -How to build up an "InformationSociety for All" [UNESCO, 2002],[eEurope, 2002] when developingour more and more complex ICT(Information and CommunicationTechnology) systems? Two mainstreams are proposed for discussion,the first one related to the conceptof "social informatics", itsmethodology, its borders; thesecond related to its practice indifferent fields, or linked to relevantissues.

EASST 2006: ReviewingHumanness: Bodies, Technologiesand SpacesLausanne. 23-26 August, 2006Deadline: 16 December 2005The conference organizers invitecontributions that address both ageneral conceptualization ofhumanness and the three particularprocesses of reconfiguration,reassignment/redistrobution, andrescaling. The further aim of thisconference is to address the political(in the broad sense of the term)dimension of a reviewedhumanness. The re-fabrication ofhumanness is not only an academicthought-experiment but a daily lifeexperience, and sometimes anobject of concern, for society as a

PSA 2006 Program CommitteeDepartment of Philosophy, Logicand Scientific MethodLondon School of EconomicsLondon WC2A 2AEUnited Kingdomjalex@lse.ac.uk

First Cambridge WellcomeLecture in the History ofMedicine1 December 2005The Department is delighted toannounce the First CambridgeWellcome Lecture in the History ofMedicine. Helen King (Universityof Reading) will speak on"Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using theclassical tradition." The lecture willstart at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room2. Tea will be available from 4.15in Seminar Room 1, and a drinksreception will be held there at 6.00.

Close Encounters: 4th EuropeanBiannual Conference of theSociety for Science, Literature,and the Arts13-16 June, 2006Deadline: 5 December 2005Plenaries:Gillian Beer + Evelyn Fox KellerAndrew Carnie + Richard WingateVarious speakers on the topic of"Transdisciplinarity"

The International Society for theHistory of Philosophy of Science.June 14-18, 2006. École normalesupérieure, Paris ConferenceDeadline: 15 December 2005The Congress invites contributionsto the history of philosophy ofscience from all time periods andfrom all scholarly approaches.

Submission guidelines1. Symposia Symposia willcomprise 3-4 papers, each 30minutes (including 10 minutesdiscussion) on a given theme.2. Individual papers (20 minutesplus 10 minutes discussion).

Submissions should be sent viaemail (RTF or Word format), with“HOPOS Submission” in the“Subject” line, to Jean Gayon(gayon@noos.fr) or Doug Jesseph(doug_jesseph@ncsu.edu). Ifemail is not possible, please direct

submissions by regular post to:Société de philosophie des sciences(SPS), 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris,France. Notification of acceptancewill be provided by the ProgramCommittee by February 15, 2006.

Proposals for symposia shouldinclude:Title of symposium; Symposiumsummary statement (maximum 500words); Abstracts (maximum 500words for each paper); Address ofeach participant including email,phone and institution; Identificationof symposium organizer, who willserve as contact with the ProgramCommittee.

Proposals for individual papersshould include:Title and abstract of the paper(maximum 500 words); Address ofthe participant including email,phone and institution.

Registration and further informationDetails regarding registration,housing, etc. will be provided at alater date on the HOPOS 2006conference website, athttp://www.sps.ens.fr/activites/hopos2006/indexhopos.html.

Console-ing Passions:International Conference onTelevision, Video, Audio, andNew Media25-27 May, 2006Deadline: 15 December 2005Since 1992, Console-ing Passionsconferences have featured newresearch on feminist perspectives,including race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, queer studies,globalization, national identity,fusion genres, the social and culturalinsertion of new media, thehistorical development of media,and an ongoing feminist concernwith gender dynamics in theproduction and consumption ofelectronic media (excludingcinema).

Hamburg InternationalConference of Logistics,15 - 16 September 2006 Hamburg

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whole. The organizers therefore alsoinvite contributions specificallyfocusing on the politicization ofcontemporary humanness.http://www.unil.ch/easst2006

"Entre-Sciences" Colloquium16-17 December, 2005The Centre Koyré (Centred’Histoire des Sciences et desTechniques, Muséum Nationald’Histoire Naturelle), and theassociation Entre-Sciences (Maisondes Sciences de l’Homme) organizean interdisciplinary colloquium on:As physics makes a contribution tothe studies of the living: witnessesat the present time.

Speakers: David Bensimon (ENS,Paris), Jean-Pierre Changeux(Collège de France, Paris), VincentCroquette (ENS, Paris), Rava A. daSilveira (ENS, Paris), Evelyn Fox-Keller (MIT, Boston), VincentHakim (ENS, Paris), Eric Karsenty(EMBL, Heidelberg), Karin Knorr-Cetina (Konstanz University),Michel Morange (ENS, Paris), Jean-Pierre Nadal (ENS, Paris), MarilynStrathern (Cambrige University),Cécile Sykes (Institut Curie, Paris),Andrew Thompson (SynchrotronSoleil, Gif s/Yvette).

Ecological Restoration as SocialReconstruction20 April, 2006Deadline: 31 December 2005This workshop is concerned withways to conceptualize, interpret,teach about, and engage in themany, and often contested, socialand scientific dynamics that areentailed by the enterprise ofrestoring ecological structure anddynamics to an earlier state(presumably less disturbed byhumans).http://www.stv.umb.edu/newssc06.html

22nd EGOS Colloquium Bergen6-8 July 2006Sub-theme 40: Markets forTechnologies, Technologies forMarketshttp://www.egosnet.org/conferenc

es/collo22/sub_40.shtmlDeadline: 6 January 2006This theme explores the multipleentanglements between markets andtechnologies, with an emphasis ontwo crucial problems that are heretackled together: how technologymarkets are framed and constructed,and how market technologies doshape and configure economicexchange.

Markets for technologies have beeninsistently scrutinized in the socialsciences. Studies on the emergence,diffusion and evolution oftechnologies have opened the blackbox of innovation and showed thelimits of standard notions of themarket. Recent approaches point tophenomena of co-production andco-evolution of technologies andinstitutions. However, most theoriesstick to notions such as users, earlyadopters, new adopters or networkexternalities that often take forgranted the capacities of marketactors or the processes thattransform a technology into acommodity. But these questionsneed more attention.

* What sort of tools, metrics, andinstruments contribute to qualify, tolegitimise and to price a particulartechnology?* How are usages and usersconfigured?* How are prices framed?* What is the role of publicpolicies?* How are the qualities oftechnologies stabilized andobjectified in a market?

Conversely, technologies formarkets have been taken intoaccount by many economic orsociological approaches. Thetechnological architecturesunderpinning exchanges havebecome a research topic ofacknowledged interest. Recentstudies have pointed to the impactof electronic media in marketmicrostructure or to the crucial roleof technological equipments inframing market actors’ rationalities

(or irrationalities) and theirvaluation capacities. But theanalysis often stops there and takesthese ‘market technologies’ forgranted.

* Can these studies go deeper intothe analysis of how suchtechnologies are formed?* How are technological pathscreated and followed in this jungleof market equipments?

Markets frame technologies andtechnologies frame markets.Markets are outcomes, buttechnologies are outcomes too. Farfrom being a mere stopgap or acumbersome double-bind, thisremark can constitute a call forpromising research andinterdisciplinary dialogue,particularly between economicsociology (which has becomeparticularly attentive to markettechnologies, in a wide sense) andinnovation studies (which canprovide deeper understanding ofthe functioning of markets fortechnologies). Path creation, pathdependence, irreversibilizationviews may be used, but we mainlyinvite papers that build uponempirical studies and address theseissues (separately or together).

Convenors:Peter Karnoe, CopenhagenBusiness School, Denmark<pka.ioa@cbs.dk>Petter Holm, Norwegian College ofFishery Science, University ofTromso, Norway<petterh@nfh.uit.no>Fabian Muniesa, Centre deSociologie de l'Innovation, Ecoledes Mines de Paris, France<fabian.muniesa@ensmp.fr>

Check updated information at theEGOS Colloquium website:http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo22/colloquium_2006.shtml

The sub-theme website:http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo22/sub_40.shtml

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Technology Policy13-18 August, 2006Scientists often complain that policymakers do not listen to them. Policymakers often complain thatscientists do not understand what itmeans to make policy. By focusingon empirical case studies thatcontrast situations in which similaror related science and technologyinputs have resulted in differentpolicy outcomes, this year’s GRCwill attempt to understand better thecomplex interactions betweenscience, technology and policy.http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/ethics/STP-GRC.htm

Environment and TechnologySectionAmerican Sociological AssociationDeadline: None specifiedThe Environment and TechnologySection of the AmericanSociological Association welcomessubmissions for paper sessions andfor one-hour roundtables. Thepaper sessions include: 1) an opensession, with the theme to beconstructed based on acceptedpapers; and 2) a thematic session on"Society and Nature: TheoreticalApproaches." This session willexplore the theoretical core ofenvironmental sociology, as well asits edges and intersections withother subdisciplines of sociology.Please send papers to Stella M._apek, Department ofSociology/Anthropology, HendrixCollege, 1600 Washington Ave.,Conway AR 72032,capek@hendrix.edu (phone: 501-450-1308). Roundtable submissionsmay be sent to Jan Meij, OklahomaState University Campus, SociologyDepartment, CLB # 015, Stillwater,OK 74078-4062,jmmeij1976@yahoo.com(phone:405-744-9455).

Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender,and Economic Environments

The biennial CATaC conferenceseries continues to provide aninternational forum for thepresentation and discussion ofcurrent research on how diversecultural attitudes shape theimplementation and use ofinformation and communicationtechnologies (ICTs). Theconference series brings togetherscholars from around the globe whoprovide diverse perspectives, bothin terms of the specific culture(s)they highlight in their presentationsand discussions, and in terms of thediscipline(s) through which theyapproach the conference theme.

SUBMISSIONSFull papers (10-20 formatted pages);Short papers (3-5 formatted pages)

For more information see:http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac

Philosophy of Science Association(PSA)25 November, 2006Deadline: 1 March 2006Contributed papers may be on anytopic in the philosophy of science.The PSA 2006 Program Committeewill strive for quality, variety,innovation and diversity on theprogram. We encourage papers inboth traditional and novel areas ofphilosophy of science.

29th annual conference of theNortheast PopularCulture/American CultureAssociation (NEPCA), a regionalaffiliate of the PCA and ACA.October 27-28, 2006. RivierCollege, Nashua, NH.Deadline: 1 June 2006Contact the NEPCA executivesecretary, Robert Weir,weir.r@comcast.net or see ourWebPages:www.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/NEPCA.html

2006 Gordon ResearchConference on Science and

and TechnologyDragvoll Campus, Trondheim,Norway, June 22-24, 2006Deadline: 27 January 2006http://www.eu-cap.org/Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess(Drury University / NTNU)cmess@drury.edu and MayThorseth (NTNU):may.thorseth@hf.ntnu.no

E-CAP is the European conferenceon Computing and Philosophy, theEuropean affiliate of theInternational Association forComputers and Philosophy(IACAP). See www.iacap.org forfurther information.

The Canadian Society forHistory and Philosophy ofScience (CFHSS)Toronto, Ontario29-31 May 2006.Deadline: 1 February 2006The program committee inviteshistorians and philosophers ofscience, as well as scholars fromany field whose work relates tohistory and philosophy of science,to submit abstracts for individualpapers or proposals for sessions.

Submissions may be in English orFrench. Individual papersubmissions should consist of atitle, a brief abstract of 150-250words, and complete contactinformation for the author. Sessionproposals should consist of asession title, titles and briefabstracts for each paper, andcomplete contact information forthe session organizer. Proposalswill be accepted by e-mail only.

E-mail address for submissions:program.cshps@utoronto.ca(MSWord or rtf attachmentpreferred).

International Conference OnCultural Attitudes TowardsTechnology And CommunicationJune 28-July 1, 2006University of Tartu, EstoniaDeadlines: Full papers, 2/13/06;Short papers and Workshopsubmissions, 2/20/06.Conference theme: Neither GlobalVillage nor HomogenizingCommodification:

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FELLOWSHIPSCenter for Nanotechnology inSocietyArizona State UniversityDeadline: Open until filled.Seeks to fill four graduate researchassistant/associate positions in thesocietal implications of nano-scalescience and engineering starting Fall2006 (or earlier).

The graduate assistants are expectedto perform significant researchunder the guidance of one or moreCNS-ASU faculty members, pursueregular coursework toward aprofessional or doctoral degree, andcontribute to the intellectual life ofCNS-ASU. The assistantships areavailable for one year andrenewable for up to a total of fouryears.

Required qualifications for thegraduate assistantships include:regularly admitted to a relevantgraduate program at ASU. Desiredqualifications: demonstrated interestat the intersection of scientific andtechnical advance and societalimpacts in general andnanotechnology in particular;research experience; effectivewriting skills; and excellentscholarly potential.

To apply, submit a cover letter andresume detailing your interest,education, and experiences, alongwith the names and contactinformation of three references, toDavid Guston, Chair, SearchCommittee, Consortium forScience, Policy and Outcomes, POBox 874401, Arizona StateUniversity, Tempe, AZ 85287-4401.For information on applying to ASUGraduate Programs, visithttp://www.asu.edu/graduate/.

CNS-ASU is a federally-fundedresearch, education, and outreachcenter dedicated to understandingthe legal, ethical, and other societalimplications of nanotechnology.CNS-ASU works intimately with

the Consortium for Science, Policy,and Outcomes, which offers aninnovative, interdisciplinaryenvironment for developing andtesting research and teaching ideasrelated to the governance andconduct of science and technologyin the public interest. For moreinformation about CSPO, go towww.cspo.org. CNS-ASU alsocollaborates closely with TheBiodesign Institute(www.biodesign.org) and the Centerfor Research on Education inScience, Mathematics, Engineering,and Technology (cresmet.asu.edu)on graduate education innanotechnology in society.

Center for Nanotechnology inSocietyArizona State UniversityDeadline: Open until filled.Seeks to fill two post-doctoralassociate positions in the societalimplications of nano-scale scienceand engineering starting Fall 2006(or earlier).

The post-doctoral fellows areexpected to perform significantindependent research, collaboratewith CNS-ASU faculty on on-goingresearch and outreach activities, andteach one class. The fellowship isavailable for one year, renewablefor a second year.

Required qualifications for the post-doctoral fellowship include: adoctorate in a related area;demonstrated interest at theintersection of scientific andtechnological advance and societalimplications in general andnanotechnology in particular; andevidence of achievement in bothresearch and teaching. Desiredqualifications: interest in policy,public engagement, or technologyassessment.

To apply, submit a detailed letter ofapplication stating qualifications,experience, research plans, andteaching interests; a complete,detailed curriculum vitae; and thenames and contact information of

three references, to David Guston,Chair, Search Committee,Consortium for Science, Policy andOutcomes, PO Box 874401,Arizona State University, Tempe,AZ 85287-4401.

CNS-ASU is a federally-fundedresearch, education, and outreachcenter dedicated to understandingthe legal, ethical, and other societalimplications of nanotechnology.CNS-ASU works intimately withthe Consortium for Science, Policy,and Outcomes, which offers aninnovative, interdisciplinaryenvironment for developing andtesting research and teaching ideasrelated to the governance andconduct of science and technologyin the public interest. For moreinformation about CSPO, go towww.cspo.org. CNS-ASU alsocollaborates closely with TheBiodesign Institute(www.biodesign.org) and theCenter for Research on Educationin Science, Mathematics,Engineering, and Technology(cresmet.asu.edu) on graduateeducation in nanotechnology insociety. A background check isrequired for employment. AA/EOE

Research Fellow/HonoraryLecturerHistory of MedicineUniversity of LeicesterDeadline: 1 November 2005The salary for this appointment islikely to be in the region of theequivalent of grade R&AII -£27,929 to £36,959 p.a. (finalsalary to be agreed by theWellcome Trust)Ref: R2335/JAUFor further particulars and moreinformation, please use thefollowing links. You will also beable to download an applicationform.http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/r2335p.html

An application form is available at:http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/formar.doc

The successful applicant will workon a five-year research project.This project will require approvalby the Wellcome Trust, and such

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individuals and especiallyencourages them to apply.Candidates are requested to send acurriculum vitae, publication list,research prospectus (maximum 1000words), a sample text, and twoletters of recommendation no laterthan December 1, 2005.

Contact Info:Max Planck Institute for the Historyof ScienceAdministration, PD-IIIWilhelmstr. 4410117 BerlinGermanyWebsite: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

History and Ethics of Medicine,Science, and/or Health PolicyJohns Hopkins and GeorgetownUniversitiesDeadline: 1 December 2005The History of MedicineDepartment at Johns HopkinsUniversity and the GreenwallFellowship Program in Bioethicsand Health Policy at Johns HopkinsUniversity and GeorgetownUniversity are jointly offering athree-year post-doctoral fellowshipposition beginning in September,2006. We are seeking a historianwith research interests that linkhistory with ethical issues inmedicine, science, and/or healthpolicy. The position includes anindividualized academic program,supervised research, teaching, and asummer internship in a health policysetting. Please send a CV, threeletters of reference, copies ofundergraduate/graduate transcripts,a writing sample, and a personalstatement describing your interest inthe fellowship to Dr. Ruth Faden,History of Medicine and GreenwallFellowship, c/o Bioethics Institute,Johns Hopkins University, 100North Charles St., Suite 740,Baltimore, MD 21201. The deadlinefor applications is December 1,2005. For more information, visithttp://histmed.jhmi.edu andhttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/bioethics/Academics/Greenwall/greenwall.html

The stipend is 2000 per month overa two years period. Women areencouraged to apply. The MaxPlanck Society is committed toemploying more handicappedindividuals and especiallyencourages them to apply. Thefellowship begins with January 1,2006 or according to individualarrangements. Applicants for thefellowship are invited to send acurriculum vitae, a brief researchproposal (maximum 1000 words), asample text (chapter of thedissertation or published article) andtwo letters of recommendation.

Candidates are requested to submit acurriculum vitae (including list ofpublications), a research proposal(750 words maximum), and threeletters of recommendation byNovember 1, 2005

Contact Info:Max Planck Institute for the Historyof Science Administration, Karl-SchadlerWilhelmstrasse 4410117 BerlinGermanyWebsite: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

History of Science, Max PlanckInstitute, BerlinDeadline: 1 December 2005The Max Planck Institute for theHistory of Science in Berlin, Dept.III (Hans-Jarg Rheinberger)announces postdoctoral fellowshipsfor up to two years, beginning 1October 2006.

Projects related to the history andepistemology of the life sciences areparticularly welcome.

Outstanding junior scholars (Ph.D.awarded no earlier than 2001) areinvited to apply. Fellowships areendowed with a monthly stipendbetween 1.900 and 2300 (fellowsfrom abroad). Women are especiallyencouraged to apply. The MaxPlanck Society is committed toemploying more handicapped

approval (to be sought after theUniversity of Leicester has selectedits candidate) will be a preconditionfor the appointment. If the researchproposal is approved, the Trust willprovide five years of full or partialfunding for the post. At the end ofthat period the post will become anopen-ended academic positionwithin the School of HistoricalStudies.

Downloadable application formsand further particulars are availableby following the links above orhttp://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs.If you require a hard copy, pleasecontact Personnel Services, tel: +44(0)116 252 2758, fax: +44 (0)116252 5140, email:recruitment3@le.ac.uk

Please note that CVs will only beaccepted in support of a fullycompleted application form.

Contact Info:Personnel Services(R2335)Recruitment 3University of LeicesterUniversity RoadLeicesterLE1 7RHor by email to:recruitment3@le.ac.ukWebsite: http://www.le.ac.uk

History of Science, Max PlanckInstitute, BerlinDeadline: 1 November 2005The Max Planck Institute for theHistory of Science in Berlinannounces a Karl Schadlerpostdoctoral fellowship for anoutstanding junior scholar.

The fellowship is financed from the"Liechtenstein-Foundation forHistory of Science". Applicantsshould work on projects in thehistory and epistemology ofbiology that can contribute to theon-going project "A CulturalHistory of Heredity". A descriptionof this project can be found athttp://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/HEREDITY/. Thefellowships are open to scholars ofall nationalities, but applicationsfrom countries of the EuropeanCommunity and Switzerland areespecially encouraged.

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the issues listed below - to apply asGuest Lecturers.

The IAS-STS offers excellentresearch infrastructure. Close co-operation with researchers at the IFZ(Inter-University Research Centrefor Technology, Work and Culture;see: www.ifz.tugraz.at), guestlectures, workshops and conferencesprovide an atmosphere of creativityand scholarly discussion.

Furthermore we can offer five grants(EUR 1,000 per month) for longterm Fellows (nine months) at theIAS-STS.

The fellowship programme 2006-2007 is dedicated to projectsinvestigating the following issues:

1. Gender – Technology –EnvironmentWomen with their various interests,competencies and potentials play animportant part in the process ofshaping socially sound andenvironmentally friendly sustainabletechnologies – be it as users andconsumers, or as experts.Applications should focus onresearch in the field of women intraditionally male fields ofengineering, on ways of creatingcultures of success for womenengineers (students, graduates), andon masculinity and the culture ofengineering.

2. Ethical, Legal and Social Aspectsof Human Genetics andBiotechnologyA main focus of the fellowshipprogramme lies on research projectsproviding a better understanding ofhuman genetics or biotechnology inthe context of fabrication,application and regulation.Researchers investigating socio-cultural aspects of genetic testing orrisk issues in biotechnology areespecially encouraged to apply.

3. Technology Studies andSustainabilityFellowships will be awarded forresearch projects contributing to the

issue of sustainable developmentfrom the perspective of socialstudies or the history andphilosophy of science andtechnology. Projects should aim atsocio-economic aspects ofenvironmental technologies or atstrategies of environmentaltechnology policy, such as userparticipation, strategic nichemanagement or ecological productpolicy. We encourage boththeoretical analysis as well asempirical case studies andimplementation research.

4. Information and CommunicationTechnologiesA focus of the fellowshipprogramme will be put on noveldevelopments based on informationand communication technologies(ICT) from an STS point-of-view.Topics like embedded systems,ubiquitous computing or ICTapplications in traffic systems shallbe analysed with respect to theirwider social and politicalimplications. Further issues ofinterest are the social shaping ofnew ICT developments andparticipative approaches to thedesign of ICT systems andapplications.

Applications must be submitted tothe IAS-STS by 31 December2005.

For application forms and furtherinformation please visit ourwebsite: www.sts.tugraz.at

Institute for Advanced Studies onScience, Technology and Society(IAS-STS)Attn. Guenter GetzingerKopernikusgasse 98010 Graz – AustriaE-mail: info@sts.tugraz.at

University of California at SanDiegoDeadline: 1 January 2006The University of California at SanDiego Science Studies Programinvites applications for a one-yearpostdoctoral fellowship as part ofan NSF Research and TrainingGrant in “Proof, Persuasion andPolicy.” We welcome candidates inany historical period and any field

Contact Info:Dr. Ruth FadenHistory of Medicine & GreenwallFellowshipc/o Bioethics InstituteJohns Hopkins University100 North Charles St. Suite 740Baltimore, MD 21201Website: http://histmed.jhmi.edu

Social, Historical, or PhilosophicalStudies of Science and TechnologyAmherst CollegeDeadline: 9 December 2005Two-year appointment as a visitingassistant professor in the field of lawand science. The fellow will teachone course per semester, and the restof the time will be divided betweencurricular development and his/herown research. We welcomeinquiries from candidates who havedone graduate work in the social,historical, or philosophical studiesof science and technology, as wellas from scientists or legal scholarswith special expertise in the role ofscience in law or the role of law inscience. We are interested, amongother things, in how knowledgepractices in law are shaped byscience and in the ways knowledgepractices in the sciences are shapedby law.

Institute for Advanced Studies onScience, Technology, and SocietyGraz, AustriaDeadline: 31 December 2005The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria,promotes the interdisciplinaryinvestigation of the links andinteractions between science,technology and society, technologyassessment, as well as research onthe development andimplementation of socially andenvironmentally sound technologies.For this the IAS-STS invitesresearchers to apply for a staybetween 1 October 2006 and 30June 2007 as Research Fellows (upto nine months) or as VisitingScholars (up to one month).

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represented in our program(history, philosophy, sociology,communication) whose research isrelevant to the theme of the grant,particularly those whose work fallsin the area of disease and health.The fellow will participate in theProgram’s weekly colloquium,teach or co-teach one course, helporganize a workshop at the end ofthe year, and contribute to theintellectual life and activities of theprogram. Applicants must havecompleted Ph.D. before beginningtheir fellowship. The stipend is$41,400, plus health and otherfringe benefits. For information onthe UCSD Science StudiesProgram, and the “Proof,Persuasion, and Policy” initiative,visit: http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu

UCSD is an AA/EOE. Scholarswho are women, minorities,veterans, and/or people withdisabilities are especiallyencouraged to apply. Applicantswho are not United States citizensshould state their immigrationstatus at the time of theirapplication. Please send a detailedletter of application, c.v., andplacement file or three letters ofreference, to Dawn Murphy,Science Studies Program, MC0104, University of California-SanDiego, 9500 Gilman Drive, LaJolla, CA 92093-0104. Review ofapplications will begin January 1,2006 and continue until the positionis filled.

Postdoc, Biomedical Ethics,University of Virginia Center forBiomedical EthicsDeadline: 1 January 2006The Center for Biomedical Ethicsinvites applications andnominations for the BellPostdoctoral Fellowship inBiomedical Ethics for the 2006-07academic year. The Bell Fellowwill conduct advanced research inbioethics and participate in theintellectual life of one of thenation’s most active, collegial andprominent bioethics communities.There may be teachingopportunities depending on thefellow’s education and interests.

Postdoc, Information Society

Project, Yale Law SchoolDeadline: 1 February 2006The fellowship is designed forrecent law graduates or Ph.Ds whoare interested in careers in teachingand public service in any of thefollowing areas: Internet andtelecommunications law, firstamendment law, media studies,intellectual property law, access toknowledge, cybercrime, culturalevolution, bioethics andbiotechnology, and law andtechnology generally. This year wehave a particular interest in hiringfellows interested in computersecurity and privacy issues as wellas development and the informationsociety.

American Philosophical SocietyLibraryDeadline: 1 March 2006Contact: J.J. AhernPhone: (215) 440-3443E-mail: jjahern@amphilsoc.orgWeb: www.amphilsoc.org

OTHERNew Non-Profit Initiative: TheNew England Workshop onScience and Social Changehttp://www.stv.umb.edu/newssc.htmlThe New England Workshop onScience and Social Changeorganizes innovative, interaction-intensive workshops designed tofacilitate discussion, teachinginnovation, and longer-termcollaboration among faculty andgraduate students who teach andwrite about interactions betweenscientific developments and socialchange.

Graduate Certificate Program inScience, Technology, and Societyat the University of Michiganhttp://www.umich.edu/~umsts/The program in Science,Technology, and Society at theUniversity of Michigan solicitsapplications from students wishingto pursue a Ph.D. with specialization

in STS, the history or anthropologyof medicine, or related fields. UM's STS program offers a widerange of perspectives on thereciprocal role of science,technology, and medicine in shapingsocieties, cultures, and politics.Geographical strengths includeAfrica, the Middle East, NorthAmerica, and Western Europe.Topical strengths include:-Colonial, transnational, and globaldynamics in the practice oftechnology, science, and medicine-Historical and anthropologicalperspectives on bodies, health,genetics, and environment-Politics and culture of informationsystems-Life sciences and their socialimplications-Cultural meanings of science,technology, and medicine

The University of Michiganencourages scholars routinely tomove across traditional academicboundaries. In order to balancedisciplinary training andaccreditation with interdisciplinaryresearch, the STS certificate isoffered in conjunction withdisciplinary Ph.D. programs.Candidates should therefore apply todepartments for admission. Theprogram particularly encouragesapplications to the departments ofHistory, Anthropology, AmericanCulture, and Sociology, and to theschools of Information and PublicHealth.

National Science Foundation STSand DEST Programs NowCombinedThis announcement is to inform youthat the NSF Science andTechnology Studies (STS) Programand the NSF Societal Dimensions ofEngineering, Science, andTechnology (SDEST) Program nolonger exist under those titles. Thenew, consolidated program title isScience and Society (S&S), whichcan be found on the NSF Website athttp://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&org=SBE&from=home .

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The new program includes thefollowing components: Ethics andValues in Science, Engineering, andTechnology (EVS); History andPhilosophy of Science, Engineering,and Technology (HPS); SocialStudies of Science, Engineering, andTechnology (SSS); and Studies ofPolicy, Science, Engineering, andTechnology (SPS). The programhas twice-yearly target dates ofFebruary 1 and August 1.

For information on EVS and SPS,contact Priscilla Regan atpregan@nsf.gov.For information on HPS and SSS,contact Ron Rainger atrrainger@nsf.gov.For information on dissertationresearch support, contact JohnPerhonis at jperhoni@nsf.gov.

Submitted by:Rachelle D. HollanderSenior AdvisorDirectorate for Social, Behavioraland Economic SciencesNSF 4201 Wilson Blvd. Rm. 905Arlington, VA 22230703-292-7272, fax-9083;rholland@nsf.gov

New FREE Database ofDocuments Written in the FirstPersonIn the First Person is a landmarkindex to English language personalnarratives, including letters, diaries,memoirs, autobiographies, and oralhistories. Working with archives,repositories, publishers, andindividuals we've indexed firstperson narratives from hundreds ofpublished volumes those…Contact: cmcgee@astreetpress.comURL: www.inthefirstperson.comhttp://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=147029

4S Graduate Student DiscussionGrouphttp://4sonline.org/6s/listserv.htmListserv administered by CornellUniversity (Ithaca, USA).

Worldwide Guide to ScienceStudies Programmeshttp://www.umkc.edu/scistud/wwg/University of Missouri–Kansas City

Call for ReviewersThe Journal of Popular Culture, ascholarly quarterly published by thePopular Culture Association since1967, seeks new reviewers forbooks ona wide variety of topics. Contact theJPC book review editor, PeterHolloran, Worcester State College,486 Chandler St., Worcester, MA01602; pholloran@worcester.edu

Members Sought for Nano-Technology Research AdvisoryCommitteeMembers of the sociologicalresearch community may want toconsider whether they want to berepresented on an unusual newadvisory committee beingcontemplated to help guide nano-science and nano-technologyresearch. The purpose is to helpensure that research needs ofbehavioral and social scientists,whatever they might be, areincluded as this new scienceadvances.

This advisory group is intendedspecifically NOT to tout the meritsof nanotech (ie, being a mere hand-maiden of the nanotech industry toconvince Americans that all nanoproducts (analogous to GeneticallyModified Organisms) are safe and tobe embraced by the public). Rather,the advisors' role would be to informthe nanoscience community on whattypes of nano developments wouldaid behavioral and social scienceresearch and to explore possibleareas for research collaboration.

A handful of DC-based nationalscience organizations has beendiscussing this idea with WhiteHouse science staff. The thought isthat perhaps nanotechnology couldone day contribute to theadvancement of behavioral andsocial science. For example, (somefanciful ideas follow) perhaps nano

devices/materials/methods could bedeveloped eventually to:

1. Monitor neurotransmitter levelsin the brain and bloodstream forpsychological research,2. Measure physiological indicesduring learning and recall,3. Assay chemicals (such asnicotine) in the bloodstream forhealth behavior interventions, and4. Monitor real-time changes inblood levels of various transmitters,immunoglobulins, brain/neuralactivity, or gene-controlled proteinsynthesis during social interactions,exposure to social stimuli, orchanges in social contexts.

Nanotechnology isn't ready forbehavioral/social scientists, but ifthis community believes it's usefulto communicate interest in utilizingnano as a tool, it must connect withnanoscientists. Last year, a numberof scientists in the federalgovernment research agencies triedto determine the extent of theinvolvement of behavior/socialscience in nanoscience, but verylittle was uncovered. Thus, the DCgroup is in the process ofidentifying scientists interested inserving on an advisory committeewhose first effort likely would be asymposium to discuss these issuesor develop a research agenda. Thiscommittee would help identifypotential uses for nanotechnologyacross fields (eg, psychology,sociology, education,anthropology). If you areinterested, please contact me so thatI can put you in touch with thecoordinator.

Lee HerringDirector of Public Affairs & PublicInformationAmerican Sociological Assn.1307 New York Ave., NW, #700Washington, DC 20005-4701202-383-9005 x-320, 202-247-9882(fax)www.asanet.org

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Introductions:New SKAT WebmasterRicky Leung

Ricky is a PhD candidate in sociologyat University of Wisconsin-Madison.He is currently working on hisdissertation research, which examinesnanotechnology development inChina. Using the case ofnanotechnology, Ricky is hoping tounderstand how Chinese scientistsdevelop high technology in acentrally-planned, but rapidlychanging, Chinese political economy.Among other things, he looks at theproblems of formal institutions forhigh-tech research, how governmentand commercial funding enable andconstrain research activities and howcollaboration between local andethnicly Chinese scientists overseascontributes to the success of high-techdevelopment in China. Ricky conductsfieldwork research in Shanghai,Beijing and Hong Kong.

At this past summer’s ASA meeting,the SKAT newsletter committeedecided to publish all future SKATnewsletters in electronic formats.Ricky intends to use the .pdf formatwhen putting SKAT newsletters on theweb. He will also update usefulinformation on the SKAT websiteregularly. This includes jobannouncements, conference events,and links to STS websites. If you haveadditional suggestions, please feel freeto email him: rleung@ssc.wisc.edu

Ricky was born and raised in HongKong. He has an MS from the HongKong University of Science andTechnology and an MS fromUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.

SKAT Officers and Committees

Section officers

ChairJennifer CroissantAssociate ProfessorWomen's Studies107 CommunicationsUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85721-0025520-626-0079jlc@u.arizona.edu

Chair-ElectKelly Moore, SKAT Chair-Elect(kelly.moore@uc.edu)

Past ChairMichael E. LynchProfessor, Department of Science& Technology StudiesCornell University302 Rockefeller HallIthaca, NY 14853607-255-7294 telmel27@cornell.edu

Council MembersJason Owen-Smithjdos@umich.edu (08)Andrew Lakoffalakoff@weber.ucsd.edu (08)Susan Silbey ssilbey@MIT.EDU(07)Christopher Henkechenke@mail.colgate.edu (07)René Anspachranspach@umich.edu (06)Maren Klawitermaren.klawiter@hts.gatech.edu(06)Jennifer Fishman jrf17@cwru.edu(06)

Secretary/TreasurerKelly Joyce kajoyc@wm.edu

Student Representativeris Ganchoffcgancho@itsa.ucsf.edu

CommitteesNominations: Andrew Lakoff(Chair), Chris Ganchoff

Membership: Jason Owen-Smith(Chair), Kelly Joyce, ChrisGanchoff

Merton Award: Chris Henke(Chair), Susan Silbey, MarenKlawiter, JoeHermanowicz (section at largemember: jch1@uga.edu) (J.CroissantEx officio)

Hacker-Mullins Award: ReneeAnspach (Chair), Jason Owen-Smith, JenniferFishman, Benjamin Sims (sectionat large member:bsims@lanl.gov)

WebMaster: Ricky Leungrleung@ssc.wisc.edu

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Andrea H. TapiaAssistant Professor of InformationSciences and Technology(814) 865-1542329G IST BuildingThe Pennsylvania State UniversityState College, PA 18603atapia@ist.psu.edu

Todd PaddockAssistant ProfessorDept. of Sociology_P.O. Box 5838Winona State UniversityWinona, MN 55987-5838507-457-5426tpaddock@winona.edu