Visiting Scholars

The Science & Justice Research Center offers opportunities for visiting scholars at all levels of their career to join us and participate in our community. In addition to camaraderie, we offer office space and typical office resources, opportunities to present research to an intellectually diverse audience, and a beautiful campus that is ideal for thinking and writing.

Find out more about becoming a Science & Justice Visiting Scholar.

2023-2024

Kate Chandler | Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University. (Summer 2023)

Doogab Yi | Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University and Director of The SNU in the World Program on Innovation, Science and Justice (Winter 2024, 2025). For more information refer to the project page.

2022-2023

Lindsay KelleySenior Lecturer in the College of Arts & Social Sciences School of Art & Design at Australian National University and a UC Santa Cruz Alum (MFA Digital Arts & New Media, Ph.D History of Consciousness). (Spring 2023)

Doogab Yi | Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University and Director of The SNU in the World Program on Innovation, Science and Justice (Winter 2023, 2024, 2025). For more information refer to the project page.

2021-2022

Melissa Eitzel Solera | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology (through Fall 2021)

Kim Hendrickx | Research Associate, Spiral, University of Liège (Belgium). Kim was also a 2017-2018 visiting scholar. Refer to Kim's September article in Frontiers in Pharmacology on Orphan Drugs, Compounded Medication and Pharmaceutical Commons, and this September 2022 article from EMBO’s Science & Society section, “Keep biology weird: On disobedient worms and scientific freedom” that includes an illustration by UCSC undergraduate art student d-lynch created during a 2018 meeting in Professor Susan Strome's lab (PDF) (more).

Rebecca Herzig | Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bates College.

Abril Saldaña-Tejeda | Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, and focuses on the social determinants of health, genomics and postgenomics. She is currently exploring bioethical principles, practices and regulations on human genome editing and stem cell research in Latin America.

2019-2020

Melissa Eitzel Solera | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Iben Gjødsbøl | Fulbright Fellow, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Winter 2020)

Cris Hughes | Assistant Clinical Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2019)

Joseph Klett | Research Fellow, Science History Institute (through Spring 2020)

Karina Rider | PhD Candidate, Sociology, Queen's University (Ontario, Canada) (through Fall 2019)

Iris Yellum | PhD Candidate, South Asian Studies, Harvard University (Fall 2019 through Winter 2020)

2018-2019

Melissa Eitzel Solera | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Joseph Klett | Research Fellow, Science History Institute

Karina Rider | PhD Candidate, Sociology, Queen's University (Ontario, Canada)

2017-2018

Distinguished Professor Emerita Donna Haraway, Science & Justice Director and Professor of Sociology Jenny Reardon with Science & Justice Visiting Scholar Kim Hendrickx admiring a C. elegans, the elegant see-through worm.

Distinguished Professor Emerita Donna Haraway and SJRC Director Jenny Reardon with Visiting Scholar Kim Hendrickx who convened a meeting in the lab of Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology Susan Strome to discuss C. elegans, the elegant see-through worm that has long served as a model in developmental biology research.

Melissa Eitzel Solera | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Lesley Green | Fulbright Fellow, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town; Director of Environmental Humanities South, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town

Joan Haran | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Cardiff University; European Commission funded researcher, University of Oregon

Kim Hendrickx | PostDoctoral Researcher, Life Science & Society Lab within the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven (Belgium). Awarded by the Flemish Research Foundation. See also: Credibility of Evidence and Affiliation in the Quest for Proper Science (2013. Center for Ethics) and C’elegans: a Sculpted Reflection on Abstraction and the Notion of Progress in Science.

Joseph Klett | Research Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)

2016-2017

Diana Bocarejo | Fulbright Fellow, Professor in the School of Human Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Regan Brashear | Independent Documentary Filmmaker

Melissa Eitzel Solera | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Joseph Klett | Research Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)

Alexis Shotwell | Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada

Steve Sturdy | Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge, University of Edinburgh

Cleo A Woelfle-Erskine |University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Feminist Studies

2015-2016

James Battle | University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology

Katherine Darling | PhD Candidate, Dept of Sociology, University of California – San Francisco, USA

Melissa Eitzel | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Sara Tocchetti | Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre Alenxandre Koyré, Paris, France

2014-2015

James Battle | University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology

Melissa Eitzel | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellow, Sociology

Tala Khanmalek | PhD Student, Dept of Ethnic Studies, University of California – Berkeley, USA

Simo Laakkonen | Adjunct Professor, Dept of Social and Economic History, University of Helsinki, Finland

Kristina Lyons | University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology

Robin Rae | PhD Student, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

2013-2014

Javier Aguirre | Associate Professor, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bogotá, Colombia

James Battle | University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology

Aristea Fotopoulou | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Material Digital Culture University of Sussex, UK

Kristina Lyons | University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology

Ruth Müller | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden

Rachel Tillman | Ph.D. Student, Dept of Philosophy, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bogotá, Colombia

Emily York | PhD Student, Dept of Communication and Science Studies, University of California – San Diego, USA

2012-2013

Josef Barla | Ph.D. Student, Dept of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria

2011-2012

Henri Jautrou | Ph.D. Student, Dept of Sociology/Ethnology, Université de Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Vibeke Pihl | Medical Centre for Science & Technology Studies, Dept of Public Health, U of Copenhagen, Denmark

2009-2010

Ruth Müller | Ph.D. Student, Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna, Austria