STS Faculty

Executive Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society

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Rob is from Philadelphia but has been a part of the UVA community since 1980 where he was introduced to Charlottesville as an undergraduate track and field athlete and mechanical engineering student. Rob completed his graduate studies in 1994 at the Darden Graduate School of Business. His...

Senior Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society

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Chair, Engineering and Society, Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, Director & Principal Investigator, Online Ethics Center (OEC)

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Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities, Professor of History, Director, Engineering Business Programs

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Bernie Carlson is a historian of technology who studies the careers of inventors and entrepreneurs in order to educate future engineering leaders. He grew up in New Jersey, studied history and physics as an undergraduate, earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science, and pursued a...

Executive Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society

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Jim Cheng has over 25 years experience as a technology entrepreneur, angel/private capital investor, business leader and a senior state government executive. His primary interests are in the support and development of technology entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University...

Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society

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William Davis received a BA in English from Virginia Tech (2000), an MA in Literature from Northern Arizona University (2005) before moving to Mexico to teach for three years. Upon returning to the US, William pursed pursued an MS in Science and Technology Studies (2011), and a PhD in Science...

Lecturer, Science, Technology, and Society

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Joshua Earle is a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Virginia Tech. His work focuses on the history of eugenics, and its connection to modern genetic medicine and to future imaginaries of human and more-than-human worlds. His work is situated in Feminist Philosophy of Technology...

Associate Professor Emeritus, Science, Technology, and Society, Director Rodman Scholars Program, Director Engineering International Programs

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After graduating with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and working on the R&D staffs of IBM and General Electric, Elzey accepted an offer to conduct research in the area of high temperature fatigue failure of Ni-base superalloys at the Max-Planck Institute for Materials Research in...

Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society

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Dr. Rider W. Foley is an associate professor in the science, technology & society program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ‘4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM...

Assistant Professor

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MC Forelle is an assistant professor in Engineering & Society at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Their work broadly examines the intersection of law, technology, and culture, with particular interests in materiality, sustainability, and practices...