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 Kelley | Senior 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
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