I began teaching at Sacramento State in 2003. Before coming here I held a two-year postdoc fellowship at the Institute for Science & Technology Studies at Bielefeld University in Germany. I studied at UC Santa Cruz and Göttingen University, and completed a Ph.D. in political science at Rutgers University in 2001. My areas of interest include modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and science and technology studies.
Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Politikberatung und Parlament [Political Advice and Parliament], with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2006. Rezessionen: Soziologische Revue; Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
“Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research,” with David H. Guston, Science and Engineering Ethics 15, no. 3 (2009): 351-366.
"Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics 9, no. 2. (2009): 43-54; and "Response to Open Peer Commentaries on 'Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics,'" American Journal of Bioethics 9, no. 2 (2009): W6-W7.
Review of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger S. Pielke, Jr., in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 46, no. 4 (2008): 485-489.
“Fairly Balanced: The Politics of Representation on Government Advisory Committees,” Political Research Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2008): 547-560.
"Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?" Technology in Society 29, no. 3 (2007): 327–338.
"Citizen Panels and the Concept of Representation," Journal of Political Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2006): 203–225.
“Ethics, Politics, and the Public: Shaping the Research Agenda,” in Shaping Science & Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research, ed. David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
“Representation, Expertise, and the German Parliament: A Comparison of Three Advisory Institutions,” with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart, in Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, ed. Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.
“The Political Philosophy of Science Policy,” Essay Review of Science, Truth, and Democracy by Philip Kitcher, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 42, no. 1 (2004): 77-95.
California
State University, Sacramento
