Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Hub

 

The STS Hub is a community space for research on science, technology, and society. The STS Hub was co-developed by Martha Kenney in Women & Gender Studies, Laura Mamo in Public Health, and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Health Equity Institute Ugo Edu (UCLA). Current leadership includes Martha Kenney, Laura Mamo, and Martha Lincoln. The STS Hub us a formal porgam iof the Health Equity Institute.

The STS Hub launched a Fellowship program in 2019 on the heels of four successful years of building an STS research community. The STS hub Fellowship program provides a dedicated space for faculty working at the intersection of science and social justice to join a community of engaged scholars for a year-long program. Over the course of the year, STS Hub Fellows: 

  • Share scholarships
  • Develop research projects
  • Engage in new collaborations
  • Mentor advanced graduate students
  • Host events and speakers
  • Participate in shaping the future of the STS Hub

STS Hub Leadership

  • Laura Mamo, Professor of Public Health
  • Martha Kenney, Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies
  • Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Professor of Anthropology
  • Martha Lincoln, Associate Professor of Anthropology

STS Hub Fellows

2025-26 Fellows

  • Leslie Quintanilla, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies (HUB LEAD)
  • Gopal Dayaneni, Lecturer, Race and Resistance Studies
  • Blanca Missé, Associate Professor, School of Cinema
  • Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor, Race and Resistance Studies
  • Constance Gordon, Associate Professor, Communication Studies
  • Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Assistant Professor, School of Cinema
  • William Clark, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature
  • Carolina Prado, Assistant Professor, Latina/o Studies
  • Janin Guzman-Morales, Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice
  • Elsa Wefes-Potter, UC Davis

2024-25 Fellows

  • Charlotte Abel, Lecturer, Public Health, UCLA
  • Fatima Chrifi Alaoui, Associate Professor, Communication Studies
  • Kayla Nicole Carlson, MA Student, International Relations
  • Takudzwa Chirenje, MA Student in the Code Lab in the Biological Sciences Department
  • Tonya Foster, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing; George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Creative Writing
  • Allison Gilchrist, Assistant Professor, Nursing
  • Michael Hoye, MA student, Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts
  • Julie Hua, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
  • Shahrukh Humayoun, Assistant Professor, Computer Science 
  • Dan Kabella, Dual Appointment: Postdoctoral Fellow & Faculty Associate; UCSF Department of Humanities and Social Sciences & School of Medicine
  • Sonja Mackenzie, Associate Professor and Chair, Public Health, Santa Clara University (SCU)
  • Mihaela Mihailova, Assistant Professor, Cinema
  • David M. Peña-Guzman, Associate Professor, HUMCRW
  • Dominica Phetteplace, MFA student, Department of Creative Writing
  • Zhuwei Qin, Assistant Professor, Engineering
  • Michael Schönwolff, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Technical University of Munich
  • Qun Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • Lee Worden, Francis I. Proctor Foundation
  • Halle Young, PhD student, UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Anthropology Program

2023-2024

  • Amy M. Skonieczny,  Professor of International Relations
  • Arezoo Islami, Assistant Professor and B.A. and Minor Advisor of Philosophy
  • Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Professor of Anthropology 
  • Archana Anand, Assistant Professor of Biology
  • Supriya Misra, Assistant Professor of Public Health 
  • Sepideh Modrek, Associate Professor of Economics
  • N. Rae Shaw, Assistant Professor of Cinema
  • Anusha Sundarrajan, Assistant Professor of Education
  • Sheldon Gen, Professor of Public Administration
  • Angela Elena Fillingim, Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Rachel Flynn, Assistant Professor of Child & Adolescent Development 
  • Martha Louise Lincoln, Professor of Anthropology
  • Sonja MacKenzie, Associate Professor, Public Health, Santa Clara University
  • Claudia Wilopo, Visiting Scholar, Anthropology 
  • Taku Chirenje, MSc Student, Biology 
  • Liz Nevolo, MSc Student, SLHS 
  • Filipp Matveev, MA Student, Philosophy 
  • Theresa Willem, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
  • Salah Hamdoun, PhD Student, Arizona State University 
  • Lee Worden, Specialist, Proctor Foundation, UCSF 

2021-2022

  • Soumyaa Behrens (Lecturer Faculty of School of Cinema)
  • Stephanie Claussen (Assistant Professor of Engineering)
  • Christoph Hanssmann (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis)
  • Maryam Khan (Adjunct Faculty of Engineering, Skyline College)
  • Supriya Misra (Assistant Professor of Public Health)
  • Blanca Missé (Associate Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature)
  • Meredith Reifschneider (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
  • Aiko Yoshino (Associate Professor of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism)
  • Tara Gonsalves (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)
  • Nina Fárová (Fulbright Visiting Scholar - Anthropology & Sociology)
  • Dana Ahern  (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Queer & Transgender Studies, University of Nevada, Reno)
  • Michelle Tran (Lecturer in the Department of African American Studies, San Jose State University)
  • Julia Cover (M.A. Student Women & Gender Studies)
  • Michael Brown (M.A. Student Anthropology)
  • Iris Phillips (Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Industrial/Organizational Psychology)

2020-2021

  • Dawn-Elissa Fischer (Professor of Anthropology)
  • Julie Hua (Professor of Women & Gender Studies)
  • Angela Jones (Associate Professor of English Language and Literature)
  • David Peña-Guzman (Associate Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies)
  • David Quintero (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Meredith Reifschneider (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
  • Iris Phillips (Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Industrial/Organizational Psychology)

2019-2020

  • Christoph Hanssmann (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis)
  • Carrie Holschuh (Associate Professor of Nursing)
  • Julietta Hua (Professor of Women & Gender Studies)
  • Arezoo Islami (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and B.A. Minor Advisor)
  • Martha Lincoln (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
  • Blanca Missé (Associate Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature)
  • Leslie Quintanilla (Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Women & Gender Studies)

The STS Hub has received financial support from the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE), the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP), the College of Liberal and Creative Arts (LCA), and especially the Health Equity Institute. It was seeded and remains administratively run out of the Health Equity Institute (HEI). 

STS Scholar Publications

  • Andrews, K., Comstock, G., G.K.D., C., Donaldson, S., Fenton, A., John, T., Johnson, L.S.M., Jones, R., Kymlicka, W., Meynell, L., Nobis, N., Pena-Guzman, D., & Sebo, J. (2018). Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief (1st ed.). Routledge. 

  • Blumberg, F., Flynn, R. M., Homer, B., Bailey, J. O., Eng, C. M., Green, C. S., Giannkos, M., Papadakis, S., & Gentile, D. (2024). Current state of play: Children’s learning in the context of digital games. Journal of Children and Media, 1–7.  

  • Claussen, S. A. (2024, October). WIP: A systematic scoping review of the application of asset-based theoretical frameworks in engineering and science education. In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1–5). IEEE Computer Society.

  • Dubey, P., Hoover, C. M., Lu, P., Blumberg, S., Porco, T. C., Parsons, T. L., & Worden, L. (2023). Rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between and into California state prisons. medRxiv. 

  • Fillingim, Á. E. (2025). Healing is a human right: Lessons from Levanto. In M. Abad & G. Q. Conchas (Eds.), Youth resistance for educational justice: Pedagogical dreaming from the classroom to the streets. Routledge. 

  • Hua, J., & Ray, K. B. (2021). Spent behind the wheel: Drivers’ labor in the Uber economy. University of Minnesota Press. 

  • Kakar, V., Kulkarni, A., Holschuh, C., Smirnova, A., & Modrek, S. (2022). Contraception information on the websites of student health centers in the United States. Contraception, 112, 68-73.

  • Kenney M, Mamo L. The imaginary of precision public health. Med Humanit. 2020 Sep; 46(3):192-203. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011597. Epub 2019 Aug 16. PMID: 31420373.

  • Kleinknecht, E., Blumberg, F. C., & Flynn, R. M. (2024). Making a case for artificial intelligence literacy skills for elementary school-age children. In S. Papadakis & M. Kalogiannakis (Eds.), Education, development and intervention(Vol. 23). Springer. 

  • Lincoln, M. (2021). Epidemic politics in contemporary Vietnam: Public health and the State. Bloomsbury Academic.

  • Lincoln, M., & Kramer, S. (2025). Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 39(1), e12874.  

  • Mihailova, M. (2026). Acting algorithms: Animated deepfake performances in contemporary media. In A. Honess Roe & C. Holliday (Eds.), The multimedia performance of animation: Bodies, voices and spaces from screen to stage. Oxford University Press.

  • Misra, S., Weerasinghe, I., Yang, L. H., Gelaye, B., & Alegría, M. (2025). “No data, no problem”? Potential inequities in psychosis among immigrants in the United States. SSM-Mental Health, 7, 100392. 

  • Modrek, S., Wong, M., Kulkarni, A., Holschuh, C., & Kakar, V. (2024). Medication abortion: State of information on Student Health Center websites. Journal of American College Health, 72(9), 3131-3135.

  • Peña-Guzmán, D. M. (2022). When animals dream: The hidden world of animal consciousness. In When Animals Dream. Princeton University Press.

  • Qureshi, F., Misra, S., & Poshni, A. (2023). The partition of India through the lens of historical trauma: Intergenerational effects on immigrant health in the South Asian diaspora. SSM-Mental Health, 4, 100246.  

  • Schönwolff, M., & Müller, R. Dealing with uncertainties: How biomedical researchers evaluated scientific knowledge on COVID-19 during the pandemic?

  • Shaw, R. (2024). The short: Writing tools to free the imagination. Michael Wiese Productions.

  • Skonieczny, A., & Boggio, G. (2023). Saying the unspeakable: Populism, performance and the politics of COVID-19. In C. Lacatus, G. Lofflmann, & G. Meibauer (Eds.), Populism, political communication and performative leadership in international politics. Palgrave.

  • Spera, R., & Peña-Guzmán, D. M. (2025). Professional Philosophy and its myths. Lexington Books. 

  • Wilopo, C., & Dijkema, C. (2024). Unpacking silencing to make Black lives matter: Ethnographies of racism in public space. Social Inclusion, 12.  

  • Wilopo, C., & Plümecke, T. (2024). Intersectionality of racial profiling: A call for a broader understanding. In B. Akkan, J. Hahmann, C. Hunner-Kreisel, & M. Kuhn (Eds.), Overlapping inequalities in the welfare state. Springer.  

  • Worden, L., Wannier, R., Archer, H., Blumberg, S., Kwan, A., Sears, D., & Porco, T. C. (2024). COVID-19 reproduction numbers and long COVID prevalences in California state prisons. medRxiv.