Current Fellows

Elizabeth Barron

Elizabeth Barron holds a joint appointment as a postdoctoral fellow with the Program on Science, Technology & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where she is working with Dr. Anne Pringle. Her research, broadly, examines the formation and uses of environmental knowledge for environmental governance and conservation. Elizabeth has a B.S. in Anthropology and Biological Aspects of Conservation and a M.S. in Forest Resources. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at Rutgers University in 2010 for her dissertation work documenting the emerging field of fungal conservation in the United States and Europe, and its impacts on federal land management and policy in the USA.

Henri Boullier

Henri Boullier is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at LATTS/Universite Paris-Est and IFRIS. He is interested in public health policy, the social construction of risks and the democratic challenges of their governance. His doctoral thesis consists in a comparative study of chemical control in the US and Europe based on the implementations of REACH and the TSCA. Before coming to Harvard, Henri worked in a Brussels-based management consultancy specialized in such fields as chemicals, biocides and electronic products.

Henry Cowles

Henry Cowles is a Ph.D. candidate in History and History of Science at Princeton University. His research centers on how developments in the life and human sciences (specifically psychology and evolutionary biology) overlap with larger trends in philosophical and social thought. In his dissertation, he explores this interaction in the form of methodological debates between philosophers, psychologists, and other scientists in the decades around 1900. At Harvard, he will focus on the impact of evolutionary accounts of mind on contemporaneous ideas about “public reason” in the early-twentieth-century United States.

Margaret Curnutte

Margaret Curnutte is a PhD candidate at the European School for Molecular Medicine (SEMM) at the University of Milan. She is following a course of study on the Foundations and Ethics of the Life Sciences under the supervision of thesis advisor, Professor Giuseppe Testa. She is interested in the social, political, and ethical implications of biomedical gene technologies. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the practices of two US-based private companies offering genetic testing over the Internet. In the context of increasingly autonomous healthcare management, she seeks to understand how these private companies utilize social and scientific technologies to reshape the role of the citizen in a liberal democratic society.

Emma Frow

Emma Frow is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology, & Society (STS) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her current research focuses on standards development and community-building efforts in the emerging field of synthetic biology. While at Harvard, Emma is working on a National Science Foundation project with Sheila Jasanoff and colleagues called “Life in the Gray Zone: Governance of New Biology in Europe and the United States.” Emma originally trained as a bioscientist.

Mads Dahl Gjefsen

Mads Dahl Gjefsen is a PhD student at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. His doctoral project examines framing and expertise in policy debates on carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in Norway and the United States. He focuses in particular on the role of environmental organizations as mediators of knowledge, and on their attempts to address tensions between different local, national and global concerns in relation to CCS and related environmental issues.

Dustin Holloway

Dustin Holloway is a Non-Stipendiary Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dustin is also a scientist at the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  He holds an appointment on the Ethics Advisory Committee at Dana Farber and is a Visiting Researcher at the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Boston University. Dustin is interested in genome ethics, medical ethics, and synthetic biology. 

Gouk Tae Kim

Gouk Tae Kim is a STS (Science, Technology and Society) program research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He has been working on his Ph.D. (ABD) in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech since 2005. He earned his MSPP and MSIA degrees from Georgia Tech in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and MA in Public Administration fromYonseiUniversity,Seoul,South Korea, in 1999. His current research interests include STI (Science, Technology & Innovation) Policy and Management, R&D Evaluation, Engineering Education, Global Policy Studies, and Science & Technology in Society.

Tolu Odumosu

Tolu Odumosu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a joint appointment with the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program. Topically, his research is focused on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with particular emphasis on mobile devices and their appropriation, the design and implementation of national telecommunications infrastructure, and the governance of transnational ICT technical standards organizations. Theoretically, most of Dr. Odumosu's work focuses on developing and expanding the notion of "constitutive appropriation" as an analytical framework, geared towards a more robust theory of democratic participation that includes both human and non-human elements.

Gerard Porter

Gerard Porter is a Non-Stipendiary Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also a Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. His current research focuses on the regulation of transnational clinical trials. Using the United States and India as case studies, he is mapping the ways in which law and policy are evolving in both countries and seeking to understand how science and ethics travel between these quite different economic and socio-cultural contexts.

Krishanu Saha

Krishanu Saha studied Chemical Engineering at Cornell University and University of California, Berkeley. In his dissertation he worked on experimental and computational analyses of neural stem cell development, as well as the design of new materials for adult stem cell culture. In 2007 he moved to the laboratory of Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2006 he has worked with human embryonic stem cells and the institutional policies surrounding them. As a STS and Society in Science: Branco-Weiss Fellow, Kris will expand his background in working with nascent human engineered materials to investigate the modeling of diseases at the cellular level with human "reprogrammed" stem cell lines.

Michelle Olsgard Stewart

Michelle Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado - Boulder. She is interested in combined STS and political ecology analytical perspectives on the politics of environmental conservation, economic development and sustainable management. Her dissertation research focuses on the social and natural dimensions of the Tibetan 'Himalayan gold', or Ophiocordyceps sinensis, resource economy of the Tibetan Plateau. While a visiting fellow at the STS Program, under the supervision of Professor Sheila Jasanoff, she hopes to examine how 'expertise' and 'sustainability' take form in the local context of harvesters' daily interactions and livelihoods in Northwest Yunnan, China.

Lee Vinsel

Lee Vinsel holds a joint appointment as a post-doctoral fellow with the Program on Science, Technology, & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. His dissertation - completed at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 - examined federal regulation of the automobile in the United States from the mid-1960s to the present. His work focuses on how federal bureaucrats used organizational capabilities - including scientific and technical experts - to achieve strategic goals in regulating firms.