Winickoff Group

Research Interests

Science studies, environmental politics, public policy

Research Description

I examine how ideas and expertise shape political processes in emerging democracies.

My dissertation, Contesting Democracy, Buying Experts: Environmental Conflicts and Assessments in Chile, examines how scientific and technical rationality are used in collective decision-making. Chile…[read more]

Research Interests

Science and Technology Studies (STS), Political Ecology, Public Policy || Agriculture and food systems, Diversified farming systems, Food justice, Politics of technological change and development, Collective knowledge production, Science and democracy, Sustainability, efficiency, and other normative frameworks for socio-environmental governance

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My primary research examines the intersection of sustainable agriculture and food safety, specifically taking a hard look at legislation, regulation, and industry response to concerns over infectious pathogens in fresh produce and how that articulates…[read more]

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I am a historian of energy, technology, and environment.

I research the ways that we have come to use and depend on fossil fuel energy sources and how these decisions have transformed the relationships between humans, technology, and nature.

I…[read more]

Research Interests

Food systems, farm to hospital, commodity networks, alternative agrifood movements, ecological nutrition, corporeality

Research Description

My interests lie at the nexus of public health and alternative agrifood movements.  I’m conducting participatory action research within the farm to hospital movement, exploring how an ecological nutrition approach to food and health is…[read more]

Research Interests

Global Metropolitan Studies, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies

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My research focuses on international environmental governance of electronic waste recycling. My work crosses both environmental and social sciences through a political ecology and science studies approach. I am interested in questions around…[read more]

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At the broadest level, I am interested in how state-society relations influence the development of more “sustainable” industries. I examine the overlapping efforts of public institutions, the private sector and civil society to shape new…[read more]

Research Interests

Engineering Studies, Environmental Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sustainability Engineering, Green Engineering, Solar and Wind Energy Systems, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Engineering-specific metrics of sustainability, Philosophy of Engineering, Engineering Education for Sustainable Development.

Research Description

Dissertation Project Summary:

Much of the world’s socio-cultural, environmental, health and industrial prosperity depends on the design and governance of engineering projects, in particular energy infrastructure (Nader, 1980; UNIDO, 2010). In recent years, technological expertise,…[read more]

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I am interested in the ways in which science is used to inform the management of water resources.  My work has focused on the Klamath Basin of Northern California and Southern Oregon, and has examined…[read more]

Research Interests

Political ecology, science studies, global environmental politics, ecosystem services, conservation

Research Description

Currently, my research explores what it means to assign monetary values to nature, and examines the implications for environmental policy, environmental sciences, and environmentalism. I use mixed ethnographic methods to pursue this idea in its…[read more]

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I analyze the role of science and expertise in environmental law and politics, and explore biotechnology and medicine from an ethical, legal and social perspective. I write about questions of biological resources, property rights, and…[read more]