I have had the privilege of chairing or sitting on the committee of many wonderful graduate students, and also of supervising many great undergraduate theses. Several former doctoral students are now in academic or NGO positions:

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 an associate professor of Science and Technology in Society and the director of the National Capital Region Campus graduate program in Science and Technology Studies at 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.

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.

Maral Erol, who wrote her dissertation on menopause in Turkey, has a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University.

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.

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

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

David Levinger, who wrote his disseration on pedestrian technologies, is president of the Mobility Education Foundation. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the first Executive Director of Feet First, a pedestrian rights organization in Seattle.

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 Human and Organizational Development and associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Hector Postigo, who studied the digital rights movements, is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Utah

Roli Varma, who studied changing R&D policies and their impacts on scientists, is associate 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

Here is a list of some current and recent dissertation projects for which I am a primary advisor or committee member:

Richard Arias Hernandez , “Engineering the Information Society: Professional Identity, Development Politics, and Social Justice in Colombia”

Colin Beech, “Intelligence, Interaction Ritual Chains, and the Social Construction of Poker: Method and Theory in Sociological Software Design”

Rachel Dowty, “Categorizing Boundary Objects: Brains, Bodies, and Standardization”

James Fenimore, "Religion and New Media Technologies in the U.S."

Noelle Foster, “Contingent Mechanization: The Case of American Dairying”

Govind Gopakumar, "Adjusted State, Fluid Territories, Durable Assemblies? Grasping the Multilevel Dynamics of Water Supply and Sanitation Partnerships."

Ayala Cnaan (STS) "Holy Land of Aliens: Formal Governance Mechanisms in Israeli Alternative Communities." Defended in 2007.

Chunbo Ma (Ecological Economies), "Fueling the Dragon: A Study of China's Energy Consumption, Economic Activity, Environmental Impacts, and Energy Security." Defended in 2007.

Lining He (Ecological Economics), "Essays on China's Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions, and Economic Growth." Defended in 2007.

Jenrose Fitzgerald, "Citizens, Experts, and the Economy: Struggles Over Globalization and the 'New Economy' in Kentucky." Defended in November, 2005.

Natasha Lettis, “The Political Internet in Northern Ireland.” Defended in 2006.

Jaime Radesi Gayalda, “Community-Supported Agriculture: Social Preferences and Well-Being," defended her dissertation in 2006.

Lorna Ronald, "Health-Care Commodification and the Shift to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising," defended her dissertation in 2006.

Many of my undergraduate and master's students went on for further education. Laurie Dubois, Jonathan Landry, Kerry Ricker, Sarah Strauss, and Patricia Wurster have gone to medical school (Sarah to earn an N.D. degree at Bastyr University). Others, such as Robyn Adair, have gone to law school. Others have gone into the educational field. Susan Delay is a teacher in New York City, and Doryen Bubeck is pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry at Harvard. Emily Valerio now works in regulatory affairs at Johnson and Johnson.