Director and Staff

Director

  • Barbara Herr Harthorn
    Barbara Herr Harthorn
    Director, NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society; Research Executive Committee & IRG Leader, NSF/EPA Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology; Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Anthropology, & Sociology
    Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the CNS, is also Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology at...

Administrative Staff

  • Bonnie Molitor
    Assistant Director
    Bonnie Molitor comes to CNS-UCSB with nine years’ experience in grants administration and project management in public higher education. As...
  • Shawn Barcelona
    Center Administrator
  • Cathy Boggs
    Cathy Boggs
    Director of Education Programs and Communication
    Cathy Boggs (Ph.D. Communication, UCSB) comes to CNS after 4½ years as Associate Director of UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center. Prior to that, she...
  • Valerie Kuan
    Travel and Purchasing Coordinator

Technical Staff

  • Brendy Lim
    Technical Systems Manager
  • Kristen Nation
    Staff Research Associate
  • David Weaver
    David Weaver
    Ph.D., Political Science
    David obtained his PhD in Political Science from UCSB, focusing on American political communication, political activism, and political psychology.  A...

Student Staff