RPI+STS+research

The current RPI STS website is missing any information on research in the department. Here is an attempt to accommodate this gap -- to produce a space holder until time might be dedicated at an "official" level to address that omission.

This list (Feb 24, 2013) was created by grabbing key words and phrases from each faculty bio on the website and grouping them together under larger, more general, categories.

Please add, edit, re-arrange as you see fit.

1. sociology, history and political philosophy of design and engineering
 * -potential new headings Feb 25 2013-**
 * STEM education and reform
 * users, culture and information and communications technologies
 * governance of technological civilization
 * politics of design
 * engineering and social justice

2. anthropology, history and sociology of biology and medicine
 * the life sciences
 * biotechnology and economics
 * biology and culture
 * feminism and healthcare
 * healthcare and drug research

3. anthropology, history, political philosophy, and sociology of environment
 * health and the environment
 * agriculture and society
 * globalization and international development
 * energy and society

4. qualitative field methods
 * archival work
 * digital humanities experiments in open-access and collaboration
 * participatory ethnography
 * digital humanities experiments in ethnography
 * multi-sited studies
 * power and empowerment in ethnography

1. science and technology policy:
 * -original from Feb 24 2013-**
 * engineering education and reform.
 * culturally-situated design tools,
 * Feminism and Healthcare
 * governance of technological civilization

2. history of science, technology and society
 * the life sciences
 * biotechnology and economics
 * biology and culture
 * healthcare and drug research

3. Politics of engineering,
 * Politics of Design
 * engineering and social justice

4. Environmental Politics:
 * Disease identification and cultural work (how does one describe the asthma files?)
 * Sociology of agriculture