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* Researched emerging topics in science, technology, and social entrepreneurship * planned and executed STS speaker series events (large conferences and colloquia) * cultivated relationships with subject matter experts to shape knowledge-sharing initiatives and cultivate long-term partnerships * collaborated with leadership and University stakeholders to define strategy and brand/market the organization * trained and managed student employees and interns * managed public engagement program budget * taught undergraduate Sociology courses in "Business/Technology/Society" and "Internet/Society."

Ethnographic research on integrated water resources management (IWRM), focused on how international policy and accountability to implement IWRM were managed by the The Global Water Partnership. Fieldwork conducted in Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the Indian states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashstra. Research funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

* Contracted ethnographic research on the coordination of collaborative design practices at Nissan Design International (with Peter Coughlan). * Contracted ethnographic research on (1) MRP/ERP system deployment within manufacturing shop floors and (2) programmable logic control systems design engineering at Solar Turbines International, a Caterpillar Subsidiary (with Lia DiBello). * NSF-funded ethnographic research on interdisciplinary science collaboration and computational systems development at The US National Computational Science Alliance (with Geoffrey C. Bowker).

Managing Editor for Engaging Science, Technology, & Society (Daniel Lee Kleinman, Editor) – The Open Access Journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science http://estsjournal.org/

Managing Editor for Science, Technology, and Human Values (Edward C. Hackett, Editor) — The Flagship Journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science http://sth.sagepub.com/

Managing Editor for Engaging Science, Technology, & Society (Daniel Lee Kleinman, Editor) – The Open Access Journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science http://estsjournal.org/

Thesis Committee: Susan Leigh Star (Chair), Geoffrey C. Bowker, Michael Cole, Gerald Doppelt, Robert Horwitz, and Martha Lampland Activities and Societies: —Studied organizational coordination/conflict in high-intelligence labor forces, focusing on the politics/processes of design/engineering. [For details scroll down to activities at the Laboratory of Human Cognition, UCSD (1995-2003).] —Graduate TA: Communication & Culture (for Val Hartouni, Chandra Mukerji) —Graduate TA: Communication & Cognition (for Phil Agre, Yrjo Engestrom) —Graduate Reader: Free Speech Case Law (for Robert Horwitz) —University Instructor: Communication in Organizations

Thesis Advisors: Stanley Bailis and Raymond C. Miller Activities and Societies: —Graduate coursework in epistemology and philosophy of language (with Kent Bach). —Graduate coursework in art practice, theory, and criticism from Dada to Nam Jun Paik (with Christine Tamblyn). ––Yearlong graduate seminar on the work of Jacques Derrida (with Sandra Luft) —Graduate Teaching Assistant, Methodology in Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology (with Stanley Bailis). —Graduate Teaching Assistant, Methodology in Economics, Political Science, and History (with Raymond Miller)

Activities and Societies: Advanced graduate coursework in Symbolic Logic; Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Symbolic Logic.