An STS Scholar’s Travels in Academic Administration

Although my PhD is in Sociology, my training, research and collaborations in STS have given me substantive and nuanced understandings of the cultures and norms of fields ranging from molecular biology and computer science to English and History. This background has served me well during my time as an academic administrator. In this talk, I describe the ways in which my scholarly background has facilitated my interventions as an academic leader into discussions around building and sustaining inte