I have had the privilege of chairing or sitting on the committee of many wonderful graduate students, and also of supervising many great undergrauate theses. Several former doctoral students are now in academic or NGO positions. The following list, although incomplete, gives prospective graduate students a sense of the range of topics studied in the Ph.D. program and the career pathways following graduation:

Sulfikar Amir, who studied nationalism and the aerospace industry in Indonesia, is an assistant professor of design and STS at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia.

Barbara Allen, who did research on Louisiana's cancer alley and published it as the book Uneasy Alchemy, is now associate professor and the director of the Northern Virginia program in Science, Technology, and Society of Virginia Tech.

Dikoh Chen, who studied labor, gender, and religion among Taiwanese machinists, is an assistant professor in the Graduate School for Transformation Studies, Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan.

Rachel Dowty, who studied social aspects of neurosciences and cognition, is an assistant professor of Disaster Science and Management at Louisisana State University.

Seval Dulgeroglu, who wrote her dissertation on gender, nationality, and other cultural dimensions of advertising representations, is an assistant professor in the School of Fine Arts in Mustafa Kemal University in Hatay, Turkey.

Virginia Eubanks, who wrote on "popular technology" and the myth of the digital divide in the U.S., is an assistant professor of Women's Studies, SUNY Albany.

Patrick Feng, who studied privacy software standards for the World Wide Web, is an assistant professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program of the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.

Maral Erol, who studied menopause in Turkey, has a postdoc at Duke University.

James Fenimore, who studied the use of information technology and multimedia in Protestant churches, is the Albany District Superintendent of the United Methodist Church.

Jill Fisher, who studied the ethics of informed consent and the privatization of clinical trials, is an assistant professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University.

Jenrose Fitzgerald, who studied globalization and Kentucky's agrarian economy, is currently affiliated working with Dwight Billings at the University of Kentucky on an NSF-supported study of clean coal in Appalachia.

Ken Fleischmann, who studied simulation technologies in biology and medical education in the U.S., is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Florida State University.

Govind Gopakumar, who studied the politics of water infrastructure and sanitation in India, is an assistant professor of General Studies at Concordia University.

David Levinger, who wrote his disseration on pedestrian technologies, is president of the Mobility Education Foundation.

Lisa McLoughlin, who studied women in the undergraduate engineering education, is an adjunct professor at Greenfield Community College.

Torin Monahan, who studied globalization and information technology in the Los Angeles Unified School district, is an associate professor of medicine and an associate professor of human development and organization at Vanderbilt University.

Steve Pierce, who studied alternative radio and community access television, is the director of Media Alliance in Troy.

Hector Postigo, who studied the digital rights movements, is Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Theater, Temple University.

Roli Varma, who studied changing R&D policies and their impacts on scientists, is professor of public administration, University of New Mexico.

Margaret Wooddell, who studied breast cancer activism and clinical trials controversies in the U.S., is a senior clinical research scientist at Glaxo-Smith-Kline

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