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September 25, 2008 |
CNS Postdoctoral Researchers
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| Matthew Eisler (2009 - )
Ph.D., History, University of Alberta (Canada) Dr. Eisler's general research interests lie in the history of science-based innovation, especially post-1945, and include the economy, culture, and lexicology of research and development, the symbolic, rhetorical, and dramaturgical applications of science and technology, and the relationship between technoscience, consumerism, and the environment, particularly in the energy and transportation sectors. Dr. Eisler's research at CNS-UCSB explores these themes in an analysis of the ways nanotechnology has been constructed as theory, discourse, and technoscientific practice as this relates to the energy sector. He focuses on the Department of Energy's role in the National Nanotechnology Initiative and the mutual shaping in programmatic, organizational, and epistemic terms that occurred between this enterprise and other high-profile federally-funded power/energy R&D projects that preceded and followed it including electrochemical energy conversion, photovoltaic power, and assorted hydrogen technologies.
Mikael Johansson (2009 - ) Ph.D., Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) | 
| Dr. Johannson's dissertation on the cosmology of nanoscientists utilizes lab ethnography as well as historical context to examine the “scientist's view” of nanotechnology. His work notes the stark contrast between this lab perspective and the view of nanoscience as described in the public sphere. He is drawing on his lab research expertise to develop a new nanotech project at UCSB, working in Interdisciplinary Research Group 1 (Origins, Institutions, and Communities) with W. Patrick McCray. |
| | Yasuyuki Motoyama (2008 - ) Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley | 
| Dr. Motoyama's dissertation and subsequent research has revealed the importance of geographic proximity and personal transnational connections in generating innovation. He is working in Interdisciplinary Research Group 4 (Globalization of Nanotechnology) with Rich Appelbaum, expanding the group's focus on nanotech innovation in East Asia to include Japan and bringing his spatial analytic approach to this work. |
| | Jennifer Rogers (2008 - ) Ph.D., Sociology with an emphasis in Women's Studies, UC Santa Barbara |  | Dr. Rogers' dissertation examines the social and economic impacts of free trade agreements and the genetic modification of corn. She plans to combine her scientific interests in emerging technologies with sociological interests in resistance, risk perception, globalization, and the gendered and racial impacts of new technologies. She is working with Barbara Herr Harthorn in Interdisciplinary Research Group 3 (Risk Perception and Media) on Harthorn's recently awarded NSF grant, 'Deliberating Nanotechnologies in the US: Gendered Beliefs about Benefits and Risks as Factors in Emerging Public Perception and Participation.' | | |
| Former CNS-UCSB Postdoctoral Scholars
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| | Philip McCarty (2007 - 2008) Ph.D., Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara | 
| Dr. McCarty is interested in the way institutions use ideology to influence the formation of public opinion and public policy. His dissertation was an analysis of the impact that Republican and Democratic ideologies had on the way issues were framed in the speeches and debates leading up to the 2004 presidential election. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Nanotechnology, he used a hybrid quantitative/qualitative methodology to analyze the how public and private institutions are framing the issue of nanotechnology, how those frame get picked up by the media, and the effect these framing processes have on the formation of public policy. | | | | | | |
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