Past Visiting Professor
Charis Thompson
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Science, Technology, Biomedicine, Inequality, Gender, Race, Social Theory
Website
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Charis Thompson’s project on science, technology, and the state develops the concept of the “migrapolitical” to explore the relation between technologies and a stratified world on the move through two signature technologies of our day: AI/machine learning and human genome editing.
Dates at IAS
Visiting Professor
School of Social Science
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Degrees
UC San Diego
Ph.D.
1996
Oxford University
M.A.
1985
Honors
2018
Nuffield Council Working Group on Human Genome Editing
2017
Honorary Doctorate, Norwegian Science and Technology University
2016
World Economic Forum Global Technology Council on Technology, Values, and Policy
2008
Social Science Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
2007
Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Study of Science
Appointments
London School of Economics and Political Science
2018–2020
RQIF Professor
UC Berkeley
2010–2018
Chancellor's Professor
UC Berkeley
2003–2010
Associate Professor
Harvard
2000–2003
Assistant Professor