MARK
B. BROWN
Associate Professor
Department
of Government
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6089
Tel: 916-278-6430
Fax: 916-278-6488
Email: mark.brown@csus.edu
Website: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/brownm
EDUCATION
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Ph.D.
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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.
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B.A.
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University
of California, Santa Cruz, Politics, with Honors, 1990.
Georg-August Universität, Göttingen,
Germany. Studies in political science
and philosophy, 1988-89.
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ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
Sept. 2008- Associate Professor, Department of Government, California State University, Sacramento. 2008-09 Co-leader, Junior Research Group "Science, Values, and Democracy," Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University. 2003-08 Assistant Professor, Department of Government, California State University, Sacramento. 2001-03 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University. 2001 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco. 2000 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. 1992-96 Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University.
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History of Political Thought
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Democratic Theory
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Theories of representation, participation, and deliberation
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Science and Technology Studies
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Bioethics
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Politics of expertise
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Politics and policy of science, technology, and the
environment
RECENT
COURSES TAUGHT
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Democratic Theory
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Modern Political
Theory
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Contemporary
Political Theory
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American
Political Thought
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Politics of
Biotechnology
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Science and Religion
GRANTS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies
program, standard grant ($129,935 over two years, Nr. 0451289), “Toward a
Political Theory of Bioethics: Participation, Representation, and Deliberation
on Federal Bioethics Advisory Committees,” Jan. 2005 - Sept. 2007.
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, Abteilung Organisation und Technikgenese, Research Contracts,
Summer 1998 and Summer 1994.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart, Politikberatung
und Parlament [Political Advice and Parliament]. Opladen: Verlag Barbara
Budrich, 2006.
Peer Reviewed Articles
with David H. Guston, “Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research,” 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.
“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
“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.
“The Civic Shaping of Technology: California’s
Electric Vehicle Program,” Science, Technology, & Human Values 26:1
(2001): 56-81.
Chapters in Edited Books
"Coercion, Corruption, and Politics in the Commodification of Academic Science," in The Commodification of Academic Research: Analyses, Assessments, Alternatives, edited by Hans Radder. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming.
"Interdisciplinarity and Liberalism's Epistemic Division of Labor: The Integration of Lay and Expert Deliberation," in Inter- und Transdisziplinarität im Wandel? Neue Perspektiven auf problemorientierte Forschung und Politikberatung, edited by Alexander Bogner, Karen Kastenhofer, and Helge Torgersen, 189-204. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010.
"Federal Advisory Committees in the United States: A Survey of the Political and Administrative Landscape," in Scientific Advice to Policymaking: International Comparison, edited by Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart, 17-39. Opladen, Germany, and Farmington Hills, MI: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2009.
“Ethics, Politics, and the Public: Shaping the
Research Agenda,” in Shaping Science & Technology Policy: The Next
Generation of Research, edited by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart, “Representation,
Expertise, and the German Parliament: A Comparison of Three Advisory
Institutions,” in Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of
Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, edited by Sabine Maasen and
Peter Weingart, 81-100. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.
“Conceptions of Science in Political Theory: A Tale of
Cloaks and Daggers,” in Vocations of Political Theory, edited by Jason
A. Frank and John Tambornino. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Reviews and Other
Publications
Review of Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective, edited by Nico Stehr, in Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 452-453.
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.
with Ramshin Daneshi, "Advancing Both Science, Democracy,"
commentary on California stem cell politics, Sacramento Bee, May 1,
2005.
"Democratizing science," comment on David H.
Guston, "Forget Politicizing Science. Let's Democratize Science," Issues
in Science and Technology (Winter 2005): 15-16.
“Wie kommt
Gesellschaft in die Wissenschaft?
Über Repräsentation, Partizipation und Beratung,” [How
does society get into science? On Representation, Participation, and Advice], Gegenworte
(Spring 2003): 55-57.
with Matthias Groß, “Eine neue Gesellschaft? Von Kollektiven, Assoziationen und der Repräsentation des Nicht-Menschlichen,“ [A New Society? On Collectives, Associations, and Representation of the Non-Human], Review Essay, Soziologische Revue 25:4 (2002): 380-94.
Review of Democracy and Technology by Richard E. Sclove, in Organization and Environment 10 (1997): 341-4.
Review of The Environmental Promise of Democratic Deliberation by Adolf G. Gundersen, in Organization & Environment 10 (1997): 93-95.
Review of Civic Environmentalism: Alternatives to Regulation in States and Communities bvy DeWitt John, in Industrial & Environmental Crisis Quarterly 9 (1996): 408-10.
Working Papers
with Justus
Lentsch, and Peter Weingart, Der Deutsche Bundestag im Spannungsfeld von politischer Repräsentation, Partizipation und wissenschaftlicher Expertise [The German
Parliament and the Tensions among Political Representation, Participation, and
Scientific Expertise], commissioned report for the German Parliament’s Office
of Technology Assessment (TAB), May 2003, 99 pages.
“Policy
Design, Expertise, and Citizenship. Revising the California Electric Vehicle
Program,” WZB Discussion Paper, FS II 99-102. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung,
1999 (49 pages).
INVITED
TALKS
"How Science Becomes Political, and What to Do about It," Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University, January 21, 2010.
"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.
RECENT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2009:
“Free Speech and Democratic Politics," presentation at After Proposition 8: A Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, October 26, 2009.Invited participant at workshop on "Linking Science to Societal Benefits: Why, How and When?" Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University, September 14-17, 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.
2008:
"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.
2007:
"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, sixth 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.
2006:
“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," Bioethics & Politics: The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany, New York, July 13-14, 2006.
"Citizen Panels and the Elements of Democratic Representation," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.
"The Politics of Representation on Federal Bioethics Commissions," Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Manuscript reviews: American Journal of Political
Science; Journal of Politics; Political Studies; Political Research
Quarterly; PS: Political Science and Politics; Philosophy of Science; Social Studies of Science; Social
Epistemology; Journal of Philosophy, Science and Law; Science and Public
Policy; Science, Technology and Human Values; Science Communication;
Perspectives on Science; Public Understanding of Science; Minerva; American Journal of Bioethics; Science and Engineering Ethics; Routledge; National Science Foundation program on Science, Technology, and Society.
Session organizer for set of panels on "STS and the Study of Politics," Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Rotterdam, August 20-23, 2008.
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.
MEMBERSHIPS
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American
Political Science Association
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Western Political
Science Association
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Society for
Social Studies of Science
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European
Association for the Study of Science and Technology
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Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft