The STS Hub is a community space for research on science, technology, and society. The STS Hub was co-developed by Martha Kenney in Women & Gender Studies, Laura Mamo in Public Health, and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Health Equity Institute Ugo Edu (UCLA). Current leadership includes Martha Kenney, Laura Mamo, Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Martha Lincoln, and Julie Hua (UC Davis).
The STS Hub launched a Fellowship program in 2019 on the heels of four successful years of building an STS Hub community. The STS hub Fellowship program provides a dedicated space for faculty working at the intersection of science and social justice to join a community of engaged scholars for a year-long program. Over the course of the year, STS Hub Fellows:
- Share scholarships
- Develop research projects
- Engage in new collaborations
- Mentor advanced graduate students
- Host events and speakers
- Participate in shaping the future of the STS Hub
STS Hub Leadership
Laura Mamo
Professor of Public Health
Martha Kenney
Assc. Professor of Women & Gender Studies
Dawn-Elissa Fischer
Professor of Anthropology
Martha Lincoln
Associate Professor of Anthropology
2024-2025 STS Hub Faculty Fellows
Charlotte Abel, Lecturer, Public Health, UCLA
Fatima Chrifi Alaoui, Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Kayla Nicole Carlson, MA Student, International Relations
Takudzwa Chirenje, MA Student in the Code Lab in the Biological Sciences Department
Tonya Foster, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing; George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Creative Writing
Allison Gilchrist, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Michael Hoye, MA student, Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts
Julie Hua, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Shahrukh Humayoun, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dan Kabella, Dual Appointment: Postdoctoral Fellow & Faculty Associate; UCSF Department of Humanities and Social Sciences & School of Medicine
Sonja Mackenzie, Associate Professor and Chair, Public Health, Santa Clara University (SCU)
Mihaela Mihailova, Assistant Professor, Cinema
David M. Peña-Guzman, Associate Professor, HUMCRW
Michael Schönwolff, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Technical University of Munich
Qun Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Zhuwei Qin, Assistant Professor, Engineering
Halle Young, PhD student, UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Anthropology Program.
Dominica Phetteplace, MFA student, Department of Creative Writing.
STS Hub Fellow Cohorts
2023-2024
Amy M. Skonieczny, Professor of International Relations
Arezoo Islami, Assistant Professor and B.A. and Minor Advisor of Philosophy
Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Professor of Anthropology
Archana Anand, Assistant Professor of Biology
Supriya Misra, Assistant Professor of Public Health
Sepideh Modrek, Associate Professor of Economics
N. Rae Shaw, Assistant Professor of Cinema
Anusha Sundarrajan, Assistant Professor of Education
Sheldon Gen, Professor of Public Administration
Angela Elena Fillingim, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Rachel Flynn, Assistant Professor of Child & Adolescent Development
Martha Louise Lincoln, Professor of Anthropology
Sonja MacKenzie, Associate Professor, Public Health, Santa Clara University
Claudia Wilopo, Visiting Scholar, Anthropology
Taku Chirenje, MSc Student, Biology
Liz Nevolo, MSc Student, SLHS
Filipp Matveev, MA Student, Philosophy
Theresa Willem, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
Salah Hamdoun, PhD Student, Arizona State University
Lee Worden, Specialist, Proctor Foundation, UCSF
2021-2022
Soumyaa Behrens (Lecturer Faculty of School of Cinema)
Stephanie Claussen (Assistant Professor of Engineering)
Christoph Hanssmann (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis)
Maryam Khan (Adjunct Faculty of Engineering, Skyline College)
Supriya Misra (Assistant Professor of Public Health)
Blanca Missé (Associate Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature)
Meredith Reifschneider (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Aiko Yoshino (Associate Professor of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism)
Tara Gonsalves (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)
Nina Fárová (Fulbright Visiting Scholar - Anthropology & Sociology)
Dana Ahern (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Queer & Transgender Studies, University of Nevada, Reno)
Michelle Tran (Lecturer in the Department of African American Studies, San Jose State University)
Julia Cover (M.A. Student Women & Gender Studies)
Michael Brown (M.A. Student Anthropology)
Iris Phillips (Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
2020-2021
Dawn-Elissa Fischer (Professor of Anthropology)
Julie Hua (Professor of Women & Gender Studies)
Angela Jones (Associate Professor of English Language and Literature)
David Peña-Guzman (Associate Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies)
David Quintero (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
Meredith Reifschneider (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Iris Phillips (Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
2019-2020
Christoph Hanssmann (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis)
Carrie Holschuh (Associate Professor of Nursing)
Julietta Hua (Professor of Women & Gender Studies)
Arezoo Islami (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and B.A. Minor Advisor)
Martha Lincoln (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
Blanca Missé (Associate Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature)
Leslie Quintanilla (Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Women & Gender Studies)
The STS Hub has received financial support from the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE), the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP), the College of Liberal and Creative Arts (LCA), and especially the Health Equity Institute. It was seeded and remains administratively run out of the Health Equity Institute (HEI).
