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Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Digital Media, New Media, Science Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Democracy


Biography, Education and Training

  Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion.  His artwork and research has been support by grants and fellowships from the NSF, the ACLS, Sunlight Foundation, and the IAS of Paris.  His artwork has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the ZKM.  He has a BA from Yale College and a PhD from the MIT Media ... more »

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Ravi Rajan

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srrajan@ucsc.edu

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Areas of expertise: Environmental Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Environmental History, World History, South Asian Studies, History of Science, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

Ravi Rajan is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served since his appointment in 1997.   He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Delhi, and his doctorate at the Univ... more »

Jenny Reardon

Jenny Reardon

Professor, Director, Science & Justice Research Center

Sociology Department, Science & Justice Research Center

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, History of Science, New Media, Genomics


Biography, Education and Training

2002 - Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University 1993 - B.A., Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training... more »

Benjamin Breen

Benjamin Breen

Associate Professor

History Department

Areas of expertise: History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, May 2015.


Areas of expertise: The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I am interested broadly in the politics of botanical life and plant world-making in modern histories of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. My first book, titled Sovereign Vernaculars: [Un]making Botany in the Colonial Philippines (Duke University Press, March 2025), expands the "vernacular" in the history of colonial botany and examines practical and epistemological tensions in the Philippines during the science's internationalist acceleration. My next project, one dra... more »

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