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 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
Dominica Phetteplace, MFA student, Department of Creative Writing
Zhuwei Qin, Assistant Professor, Engineering
Michael Schönwolff, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Technical University of Munich
Qun Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Lee Worden, Francis I. Proctor Foundation
Halle Young, PhD student, UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Anthropology Program
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).
STS Scholar Publications
Andrews, K., Comstock, G., G.K.D., C., Donaldson, S., Fenton, A., John, T., Johnson, L.S.M., Jones, R., Kymlicka, W., Meynell, L., Nobis, N., Pena-Guzman, D., & Sebo, J. (2018). Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429461071
Blumberg, F., Flynn, R. M., Homer, B., Bailey, J. O., Eng, C. M., Green, C. S., Giannkos, M., Papadakis, S., & Gentile, D. (2024). Current state of play: Children’s learning in the context of digital games. Journal of Children and Media, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2335725
Claussen, S. A. (2024, October). WIP: A systematic scoping review of the application of asset-based theoretical frameworks in engineering and science education. In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1–5). IEEE Computer Society.
Coraline: A closer look at Studio LAIKA’s stop-motion witchcraft. (2021). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Dubey, P., Hoover, C. M., Lu, P., Blumberg, S., Porco, T. C., Parsons, T. L., & Worden, L. (2023). Rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between and into California state prisons. medRxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.24.23294583v1
Fillingim, Á. E. (2025). Healing is a human right: Lessons from Levanto. In M. Abad & G. Q. Conchas (Eds.), Youth resistance for educational justice: Pedagogical dreaming from the classroom to the streets. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Youth-Resistance-for-Educational-Justice-Pedagogical-Dreaming-from-the-Classroom-to-the-Streets/Abad-Conchas/p/book/9781032741376
Holliday, C., Sergeant, A., Mihailova, M., & Maier, K. (2023). Towards an Anti-Racist Syllabus: Inclusive Pedagogy in Animation Studies and Beyond. Film Education Journal.
Hua, J., & Ray, K. B. (2021). Spent behind the wheel: Drivers’ labor in the Uber economy. University of Minnesota Press.
Kleinknecht, E., Blumberg, F. C., & Flynn, R. M. (2024). Making a case for artificial intelligence literacy skills for elementary school-age children. In S. Papadakis & M. Kalogiannakis (Eds.), Education, development and intervention(Vol. 23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60713-4_13
Kornehl, K., Laumer, A., Schönwolff, M., & Schug, M. (2022). Whose truths? Whose facts? Cultures of evidence beyond and across academic disciplines. H-Soz-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-131097
Kostimpas, D., & Schönwolff, M. (2022). Between social work, lifeworld closeness, and self-determination. In H. von Unger, H. Baykara-Krumme, S. Karakayali, & K. Schönwälder (Eds.), Organizational change through migration? Diversity of civil society (pp. 193–211). transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459850-007
Lincoln, M. (2021). Epidemic politics in contemporary Vietnam: Public health and the State. Bloomsbury Academic.
Lincoln, M., & Kramer, S. (2025). Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 39(1), e12874. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12874
Mihailova, M. (2020, June 19). An anti-racist animation syllabus. Fantasy/Animation. https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/antiracist-animation-syllabus
Mihailova, M. (2021). Armatures in the closet: Coraline and the history of stop motion. In M. Mihailova (Ed.), Coraline: A closer look at Studio LAIKA’s stop-motion witchcraft (pp. 59–75). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Mihailova, M. (2021). Studio Melnitsa's Bogatyr Cycle: Notes on a global approach to contemporary studio animation. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 61(1), 166–172.
Mihailova, M. (2021). To dally with Dalí: Deepfake (inter)faces in the art museum. Convergence, 27(4), 882–898.
Mihailova, M. (2023). "An extraordinary piece of engineering": The artificial woman as digital effect. The Velvet Light Trap, 91(1), 27–38.
Mihailova, M. (2023). A journey through the ‘Hosoda sphere’: Digital worlds in Mamoru Hosoda’s animation. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 15(2), 85–102.
Mihailova, M. (2023, April 5). Automated animation: Where craft goes to AI. Film Quarterly. https://filmquarterly.org/2023/04/05/automated-animation-where-craft-goes-to-ai/
Mihailova, M. (2024). A good omen for Portuguese animation. In P. Serrazina (Ed.), Perspectives on Portuguese animation: David Doutel and Vasco Sá (pp. 88–92). Edition CINANIMA.
Mihailova, M. (2024). In Focus introduction: AI and the moving image. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 64(1), 170–174.
Mihailova, M. (2024). To err is generative: The flaw as flow in prompt-based animation. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 64(1), 189–195.
Mihailova, M. (2025). Negotiable diversity: How the Frozen franchise Disneyfied Sámi music and culture. In C. Montgomery & D. McHugh (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the Disney musical. Oxford University Press.
Mihailova, M. (2025). Stick figure sci-fi: The World of Tomorrow’s minimalist posthumanism. In C. Holliday & D. McGowan (Eds.), The encyclopedia of animation studies: Vol. 4. Characters and aesthetics. Bloomsbury Reference.
Mihailova, M. (2025). Studio animation in post-Soviet Russia: Domestic policy meets market imperatives. In M. Cook et al. (Eds.), The encyclopedia of animation studies: Vol. 1. Histories and geographies. Bloomsbury Reference.
Mihailova, M. (2026). Acting algorithms: Animated deepfake performances in contemporary media. In A. Honess Roe & C. Holliday (Eds.), The multimedia performance of animation: Bodies, voices and spaces from screen to stage. Oxford University Press.
Misra, S., Weerasinghe, I., Yang, L. H., Gelaye, B., & Alegría, M. (2025). “No data, no problem”? Potential inequities in psychosis among immigrants in the United States. SSM-Mental Health, 7, 100392. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325000040
Peña-Guzmán, D. M. (2022). When animals dream: The hidden world of animal consciousness. In When Animals Dream. Princeton University Press.
Qureshi, F., Misra, S., & Poshni, A. (2023). The partition of India through the lens of historical trauma: Intergenerational effects on immigrant health in the South Asian diaspora. SSM-Mental Health, 4, 100246. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560323000610
Schönwolff, M., & Müller, R. Dealing with uncertainties: How biomedical researchers evaluated scientific knowledge on COVID-19 during the pandemic?
Shaw, R. (2024). The short: Writing tools to free the imagination. Michael Wiese Productions.
Skonieczny, A., & Boggio, G. (2023). Saying the unspeakable: Populism, performance and the politics of COVID-19. In C. Lacatus, G. Lofflmann, & G. Meibauer (Eds.), Populism, political communication and performative leadership in international politics. Palgrave.
Spera, R., & Peña-Guzmán, D. M. (2025). Professional Philosophy and its myths. Lexington Books.
Wilopo, C., & Dijkema, C. (2024). Unpacking silencing to make Black lives matter: Ethnographies of racism in public space. Social Inclusion, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.7841
Wilopo, C., & Plümecke, T. (2024). Intersectionality of racial profiling: A call for a broader understanding. In B. Akkan, J. Hahmann, C. Hunner-Kreisel, & M. Kuhn (Eds.), Overlapping inequalities in the welfare state. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52227-7_22
Worden, L., Wannier, R., Archer, H., Blumberg, S., Kwan, A., Sears, D., & Porco, T. C. (2024). COVID-19 reproduction numbers and long COVID prevalences in California state prisons. medRxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.14.24319022v1