STS Graduate Certificate Students

Charles Fairbanks, charfair at umich.edu
School of Art & Design
Current research: the social aspects of photography, didactic spectacles, visual rhetoric in the formation of nationalisms, whiteness studies.
Charles Fairbanks

James Hernandez, jmhernan at umich.edu (starting Summer 08)

Jenna Hirschman, jhirschm at umich.edu

Cory Knobel, cknobel at umich.edu
School of Information, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Department of Statistics
Current research: service science and the transformation of the research university; sociotechnical issues in cyberinfrastructure; the evolution of interdisciplinarity.
Scholar-Warrior

Clapperton Mavhunga, mavhungc at umich.edu
Deparment of History
Current research: the intersection of STS, African history, environment, and anthropology. My interests are in the designers and users of guns, wildlife, knowledge, and resources. I work in Southern Africa, especially transfrontier conservancies, water basins, and resident communities. I am writing a doctoral thesis entitled "Writing 'African Wildlife' from the Barrel of the Gun: Firearms and Wildlife Uses in Gonarezhou National Park."

Wendy L. Michael, wlmich at umich.edu
American Culture
Current research: The Ford Rouge Tour.

Ricardo Punzalan, ricpunz at umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: archives and visual representation of leprosy, including their relationship with stigma and the social memory of the disease.

Marianne Ryan, meryan at umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: legal, ethical and policy implications of emerging information ecologies, including the complex transformations of information flows, cultural values, and sociotechnical systems within a global information network.
Marianne Ryan

Stephen Sparks, sparkss at umich.edu
Anthropology and History
Current research: apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, capitalism, state owned corporations, nationalism, company towns, town planning, expertise, discourses of technological prowess

Emily Wentzell, wentzell at umich.edu
Cultural Anthropology; Women's Studies Certificate Program
Current research: medicalization of sexuality, masculinity, Mexico