Title
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Degree
BA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1992; MA, PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1995, 2000.
Teaching Experience
Director, Colgate San Francisco Study Group (2004).
(http://www.colgate.edu/desktopdefault1.aspx?tabid=1316)
Visiting assistant professor at Cornell University (2000-2001).
Specialties
Sociology of science and technology, sociology of work, sociology and social history of agriculture and the environment.
Selected Publications
 Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. The MIT Press (2008).
"Maintenance and Transformation in the U. S. Nuclear Weapons Complex." IEEE Technology and Society 27: 32-38 (with Benjamin Sims; 2008).
"Situation Normal? Repairing a Risky Environment." Social Studies of Science 37: 135-142 (2007).
"Sites of Scientific Practice: The Enduring Importance of Place," in New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. The MIT Press (with Thomas F. Gieryn; 2007).
"Making Change: Science and Environmental Politics in Agriculture," in The New Political Sociology of Science, Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore, editors. University of Wisconsin Press (2006), pages 215-243.
"The Mechanics of Workplace Order: Toward a Sociology of Repair." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 44: 55-81 (2000).
"Making a Place for Science: The Field Trial." Social Studies of Science 30: 483-512 (2000).
Distinctions
National Science Foundation, Scholar’s Award (2009). “Contested Fields: Place-Bound Conflicts over Transgenic Crops.”
Picker Fellowship, Research Council, Colgate University (2007).
Major Grant, Research Council, Colgate University (2004).
Sally Hacker Prize for best graduate student paper, American Sociological Association (2000).
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