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Wenda K. Bauchspies

History, Technology, and Society
Associate Professor
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Professor Wenda K. Bauchspies is a sociologist specializing in science, technology, and gender in West Africa from a cultural perspective. She earned her MEd from Towson State University and her PhD in science and technology studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include science education, women and schooling, everyday technologies in a mid-sized West African city, and the adoption of new varieties of rice in West Africa. (continues)

Laura E. Bier

History, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Laura Bier is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. She is a social and cultural historian with a specialty in post-colonial Egyptian history. She received her PhD from New York University in History and Middle East Studies. She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. (continues)

Jennifer Clark

Public Policy
Associate Professor
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Jennifer Clark's research focuses on regional economic development policy and specifically the actors and processes that shape agglomeration economies (industrial districts) and territorial innovation systems. Since the mid-1990s Dr. Clark has studied the spatial and organizational dynamics of the optics, imaging, and photonics industry both in the US and internationally. She writes, consults, and speaks on the subject of national and regional science, technology, and economic development policies related to the optics and photonics and cognate technologies. Her first book, Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (2007) included a case study of the evolution of the optics, imaging, and photonics industry in Rochester, New York. Remaking Regional Economies won the Best Book Award from the Regional Studies Association (UK) in 2009. Dr. Clark has also published several articles on policies related to the development and diffusion of optics and photonics technologies. (continues)

Molly Cochran

International Affairs
Associate Professor
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Dr. Molly Cochran earned her PhD from the London School of Economics and joined the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1999 after holding academic appointments at the University of Bristol (U.K.) and The University of Natal (South Africa). Her research and teaching interests include ethics and international affairs, international relations theory, democratic theory and justice debates, gender and international relations, and interstate and non-governmental organizations. (continues)

Carol A. Colatrella

LCC
Professor
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Dr. Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, which since 2002 has been sponsored by the Office of the Provost. She has been a member of the ADVANCE Team (www.advance.gatech.edu) since 2001; (continues)

Mary Frank Fox

Public Policy
Professor
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Mary Frank Fox is an ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. Fox's research focuses upon gender, science, and academia. Her research has introduced and established ways in which the participation and performance of women and men reflect and are affected by social and organizational features of science and academia. (continues)

Carla Gerona

History, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Carla Gerona is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, and her areas of interest include Early American, Atlantic, and Borderlands history. She received a BA from Columbia University, an MA from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. (continues)

Narin F. Hassan

LCC
Associate Professor
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Narin Hassan received her PhD in English from the University of Rochester in 2003. Before joining the Literature, Communication and Culture faculty at Georgia Tech, she taught at James Madison University for two years. Her research and teaching is in Victorian, postcolonial and gender studies; much of her work examines representations of the body and of medicine in nineteenth-century literature and culture. (continues)

Margaret E. Kosal

International Affairs
Assistant Professor
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Margaret E. Kosal received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on biomimetic nanostructured materials. In 2000 Kosal co-founded a sensor company, leading research on biological, chemical, and explosive detection and developing real-world applications for the technology. (continues)

Cheryl Leggon

Public Policy
Associate Professor
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Dr. Cheryl Leggon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her research on the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and career pathways in science and engineering. She was elected to Sigma Xi in 2006, and named a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. (continues)

Julia Ellen Melkers

Public Policy
Associate Professor
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Dr. Julia Ellen Melkers is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of public management, organizational theory, and science and technology policy. Her current funded work addresses collaboration patterns and social networks in science, outcomes of science, and issues around career development and mentoring in STEM fields. (continues)

Usha C. Nair-Reichert

Economics
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
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Dr. Usha C. Nair-Reichert holds a PhD in Economics from Purdue University. She teaches courses in international economics and operations of multinational enterprises in the School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of trade policy, intellectual property rights, multinational investments, monetary policy and economic development. (continues)

Celia Pearce

LCC
Associate Professor
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Dr. Celia Pearce is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture specializing in games research and media arts. After a 20+ year career in interactive media, she received her PhD in Media Arts in 2006 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. (continues)

Willie Pearson

History, Technology, and Society
Professor
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Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr. (Professor; PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1981) is a professor of sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society. In 1993, he received Southern Illinois University's College of Liberal Arts' Alumni Achievement Award. He specializes in the sociology of science and sociology of the family. (continues)

Anne Pollock

LCC
Assistant Professor
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Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology & Society at MIT, her research focuses on biomedicine and culture. She is particularly interested in how medical categories and technologies are enrolled in telling stories about identity and difference, especially with regard to race, gender, and citizenship. (continues)

Philip P. Shapira

Public Policy
Professor
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Philip Shapira is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation. (continues)

Jenny Leigh Smith

History, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor
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Jenny Leigh Smith received her BA in biology and French from Macalester College and her PhD from MIT in the history and anthropology of science, technology, and society. Most recently, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Yale University in the history of science and the history of medicine. (continues)

Ruth O. Uwaifo

Economics
Assistant Professor
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Dr Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere joined the School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She is also a research fellow at the Institute for the study of Labor (IZA) Bonn Germany. Dr Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests fall into four main areas: development economics, labor economics education economics and population economics (continues)

Lisa Yaszek

LCC
Professor
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Lisa Yaszek is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include science fiction, gender studies, technoscience studies and cultural history. She was the 2005 recipient of the Pioneer Award for Outstanding Science Fiction Scholarship and is current President of the Science Fiction Research Association. (continues)

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