MARK B. BROWN
Associate Professor
Department of
Government
California State
University, Sacramento
6000 J Street, Sacramento,
CA 95819-6089 USA
916-278-6430
Fax: 916-278-6488
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. |
Rutgers
University, Political Science, 2001. Dissertation: Civilizing
Science: The Joint Construction of Science and Citizenship in Modern
Democracy. Committee: Benjamin R. Barber (chair), Wilson Carey
McWilliams, Frank Fischer, David H. Guston. Recipient of
Virginia Walsh Award for best dissertation in science, technology, and
environmental politics, American Political Science Association, 2004. University of
California, Santa Cruz, Politics, with Honors, 1990. Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany. Studies in political science and
philosophy, 1988-89. |
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
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2008- 2008-09 2003-08 2001-03 2001 2000 1992-96 |
Associate Professor, Department of
Government, California State University, Sacramento. Co-leader, Junior Research Group
"Science, Values, and Democracy," Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
(BGHS), Bielefeld
University. Assistant Professor, Department of
Government, California State University, Sacramento. Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute
for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University. Lecturer, Department of Philosophy,
University of San Francisco. Lecturer, Department of Political Science,
University of California, Davis. Teaching Assistant, Department of Political
Science, Rutgers University. |
RESEARCH AND
TEACHING INTERESTS
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University,
June-July 2011.
National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies program,
standard grant ($129,935, Nr. 0451289), “Toward a Political Theory of Bioethics: Participation,
Representation, and Deliberation on Federal Bioethics Advisory Committees,” Jan. 2005-Sept. 2007.
Institute for Science and Technology Studies
(IWT), Bielefeld University, Research Contract, Summer 2005.
Dartmouth College Ethics Institute, Summer Faculty Institute,
Fellowship Participant, “Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
of the Human Genome Project,” Howard University, June 12-17, 2005.
National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies program,
Dissertation Research Grant (No. SBR 9810316), 1998-99.
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
(WZB), Research Unit: Innovation and Organization, Research
Contracts, Summer 1998 and Summer 1994.
Rutgers University Graduate School, Graduate
Fellowship, 1998-99.
Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics
of Democracy, Rutgers University, Research Fellowship, 1996-97.
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary
Culture, Rutgers University, Associate Fellowship, 1994-95.
PUBLICATIONS
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INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
"Realism in the Philosophy of Science," presented at workshop on "The Social Relevance of the Philosophy of Science," Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, June 11-13, 2012.
"What Could it Mean to Democratize Science?" Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), June 4, 2012.
"The Civic Purpose and Production of Science Literacy," presented at workshop on "Science and the Public," Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, May 30 – June 1, 2012.
"The Role of Faculty Governance in Ensuring Institutional Integrity," workshop on "Industry Sponsorship and Health-Related Food Research: Institutional Integrity, Ethical Challenges, and Policy Implications," a symposium sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, March 29-30, 2012.
"Populism and Cosmopolitanism in the Politics of Climate Science” workshop on "Engineers, Exact Scientists (Technocrats) and Political Processes: Global Perspectives," Harvey Mudd College, Mach 2-3, 2012.
"Climate Change Denial and Counter-Democracy," UCLA Political Theory Workshop, December 2, 2011.
Workshop on "Advocacy in Science," American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, October 17-18, 2011
"Is Climate Change Good for
Democracy?" Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, September
21, 2011.
"Rethinking the Democratization of Expertise," workshop on "Science
versus Democracy?" Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent
University, Belgium, June 10, 2011.
“John Dewey, Science Policy, and the Limits
of Epistemic Democracy,” Melbern G. Glasscock Center
for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas,
March 21, 2011.
“The Politics of Ethics Education in Science
and Engineering,” Fall Ethics Symposium, Cosumnes River
College, Sacramento, California, November 16-17, 2010.
Workshop on "Lay Public Knowledge of Science," National
Science Foundation, Washington, DC, October 21-22, 2010.
Workshop on new approaches to political representation, "Political
Representation Institute," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1-2,
2010.
"How Scientists Represent Citizens in
Public Debate," European Summer School, "Which place for science in the public debate?" Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IHEST),
Saline royale d’Arc et Senans, France, August 25-29, 2010.
"Experts as Representatives," Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology
Policy, Waterville Valley,
New Hampshire, August 8-13, 2010.
International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California,
March 22-26, 2010.
"How Science Becomes Political, and What
to Do about It," Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University, January 21, 2010.
Workshop on "Linking Science to Societal Benefits: Why, How and
When?" Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping
University, Sweden, September 14-17, 2009.
"How Environmental Science Becomes
Political," Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, March 19, 2009.
"What Does It Mean to Have a Right to
Research?" World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research, Brussels, March 5-7, 2009.
“Commodified
Science, Political Theory, and Public Representation,” workshop on The
Commodification of Academic Research: Analyses, Assessments, Alternatives,
Faculty of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, June 21-23, 2007.
“From Participation to Representation in the
Politics of Technology,” Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of
Technology, June 18, 2007.
“Democratic Politics and Scientific Representation,” workshop on "The
Stuff of Politics: Technoscience, Democracy, and
Public Life," University of Oxford, December 7-10, 2006.
"The Co-Production of Scientific and Political
Representation," workshop on "Rethinking Democratic Representation,"
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British
Columbia, May 18-19, 2006.
"The Politics of Representation on
Federal Advisory Committees," Consortium for Science, Policy, and
Outcomes, Arizona State University, March 30, 2006.
Workshop on "Quality Control & Assurance in Scientific Advice
to Policy," Interdisciplinary Research Group on Scientific Advice to
Policy in Democracy, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
Berlin, January 12-14, 2006.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
AND COMMENTARY (selected)
"Climate Change Denial and Counter-Democracy: What Al Gore Could Learn from the Tea Party about the Politics of Science." International Conference on Culture, Politics, and Climate Change, University of Colorado, Boulder, Sept 13-15, 2012.
"Who Speaks for the Global Climate? Institutional Pluralism and Democratic Representation," Western Political Science Association Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 22-25, 2012.
"Climate Change and Counter-Democracy," Association for Political Theory, University of Notre Dame, October 13-15, 2011.
“John Dewey, Science Policy, and the Limits of Epistemic Democracy,” Three Rivers Philosophy Conference: Science, Knowledge and Democracy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, April 1-3, 2011.
“Deception in the Science and Politics of Climate Change," Spring
Colloquium, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies,
California State University, Sacramento, March 16, 2011.
Discussant for panel on "Science, Ethics, and Progress,"
Association for Political Theory, Portland, Oregon, October 21-23, 2010.
"From Politicized Science to Politicized Democracy: Implicit
Conceptions of Democracy in Recent Debates Over Climate Science and
Policy," with Silke Beck, Science and Democracy
Network annual meeting, Kavli Royal Society
International Centre, Chicheley Hall, UK, June 28-30,
2010.
Invited commentator at "The Rightful Place of Science?"
Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University, May
16-19, 2010.
"What Geoengineering Could Do to (and for) Democracy,"
Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 1-3, 2010.
“Free Speech and Democratic Politics," presentation at "After
Proposition 8: A Symposium," California State University, Sacramento,
October 26, 2009.
"Bruno Latour and the Symmetries of
Science and Politics," American Political Science Association, Tortonto, September 3-6, 2009.
"How Science Becomes Political," conference on "Science
and Values: The Politicisation of Science,"
sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and Center for
Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
University, May 25-30, 2009.
"When Is Science Political?" Society for Social Studies of
Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
(EASST), Rotterdam, August 20-23, 2008.
"Norms and Practices of Representation on the US President’s
Council on Bioethics," Third International Conference in Interpretive
Policy Analysis, University of Essex, June 19-21, 2008.
"Participatory Eden: The Deliberative Power of Lay
Knowledge," American Political Science Association, Chicago, Aug. 30-Sept.
2, 2007.
“Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics,” Science and Democracy Network
annual meeting, University of Cambridge, June 27-29, 2007.
"The Politics of Representation on Federal Advisory
Committees," Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada,
March 8-10; also presented as a poster at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 15-19, 2007.
“Scientific and Political Representation: Symmetries and Asymmetries,”
Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2-5, 2006.
Invited commentator at "Is There Progress in Ethics?"
inaugural conference of the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October
13-14, 2006.
"Politics and Legitimacy on Federal Bioethics Commissions," conference
on "Bioethics & Politics: The Future of Bioethics in a Divided
Democracy," Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany, New York, July 13-14,
2006.
Chair and co-organizer: panel on “California’s Eugenic History &
Biotech Future: Ethical and Political Dilemmas,” one-day symposium on From
Eugenics to Designer Babies: Engineering the California Dream, Sacramento,
October 21, 2005
“Democratizing Expertise,” Society for Social Studies of Science,
Paris, August 25-28, 2004
“Citizen Panels and the Concept of Representation,” Science and
Democracy Network, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
July 22-24, 2004
“Citizen Panels and the Concept of Representation,” Western Political
Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 2004.
“Representation, Participation, and the German Parliament: A Comparison
of Three Advisory Institutions,” with Peter Weingart
and Justus Lentsch, conference on "Scientific
Expertise and Political Decision-Making," Basel University, Switzerland,
December 2003.
“Ethics, Politics, and Agenda-Setting for Scientific Research,"
Research Symposium with the Next Generation of Leaders in Science &
Technology Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, DC, November 22-23, 2002.
Chair and Discussant: “Democratic and Participatory Theories of
Science,” Science and Democracy Network Workshop, Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin, June 2002.
Fellowship Participant: "Living with the Genie: Governing the
Scientific and Technological Transformation of Society in the 21st
Century," Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Columbia University,
New York, March, 2002.
“Science, Democracy, and the Concept of Representation,” Society for Social
Studies of Science, Boston, November, 2001
“Conceptions of Natural Science in Democratic Theory and Politics,”
American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1999.
“The Civic Shaping of Technology: California’s Electric Vehicle
Program,” Society for Social Studies of Science, San Diego, October 1999.
“A Parliament of Things: The Representation of Science and Citizens in
Environmental Politics,” Western Political Science Association, Seattle, March
1999.
“Environmental Policy, Political Theory, and the Sociology of
Scientific Knowledge,” Vocations of Political Theory, political theory graduate
student conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, February 1998.
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE
Faculty Council, College of Social Sciences
and Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, Sept. 2011 to present.
Curriculum Committee, College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 2007-2008.
Research and Creative Activities Committee,
CSUS, 2005-2008.
Proposal Review Panel, Research and Creative
Activity Award Program, CSUS, once annually, 2003-2008.
Program Assessment Committee Chair,
Department of Government, CSUS, 2006-2007.
Curriculum Committee, Department of
Government, CSUS, Fall 2003 to present.
THESIS ADVISING
Laszlo Kosolosky, Ghent University, Ph.D. thesis in process.
Jennifer Brian, Arizona State University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012.
Michael D. Valle, M.A. thesis, "Justice in Intellectual Property: The Narrative of Knowledge as a Commons," California State University, Sacramento, 2011.
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Radio interview: one-hour live interview on call-in talk show Think, broadcast by NPR affiliate KERA
in Dallas, Texas, September 21, 2011.
Grant proposal reviews: National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Welcome Trust
Manuscript reviews: Columbia University Press, American Political
Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Contemporary Political
Theory; Journal of Politics; Perspectives on Politics; Political Research
Quarterly; Political Studies; PS: Political Science and Politics; Policy
Sciences; Theory and Society; Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology
and Human Values; Philosophy of Science; Social Epistemology; Journal of
Philosophy, Science and Law; Minerva; Research Policy; Science Communication;
Science and Public Policy; Perspectives on Science; Public Understanding of
Science; Nature and Culture; Politics and the Life Sciences; American Journal
of Bioethics; Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal; Science and Engineering
Ethics
Award committee member, Virginia Walsh Award for best dissertation in
science, technology, and environmental politics, American Political Science
Association, section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics, 2005.
Workshop co-chair, Politics and Expertise, Institute for Science
& Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University, February 6-7, 2002.
Award committee chair, Donald K. Price Award for best book on science,
technology, and politics, American Political Science Association, section on
Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics, 2002.