Animating STS @ Drexel University

• In Event: STS Across Borders Exhibit

Abstract

Drexel University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society (CSTS) is a dynamic, interdisciplinary research and teaching unit anchored by more than two dozen joint, affiliated, and visiting faculty members. CSTS was established in 2012 to support Drexel’s existing graduate degree program (in STS), as well as to launch several undergraduate minors. The Drexel STS exhibit will feature individual and collaborative scholarship, Center events, and innovative teaching methods. The exhibit will feature research profiles for faculty members and current students, including images from fieldwork and responses to the following questions: How did you find your way into STS as a field of research? What STS theories, methods, and debates have most animated your work? What STS projects have you engaged in during your career? What future plans and visions do you have for your own STS scholarship, and that of the broader field; where do we need to go? Have there been Drexel events, courses, or networks that inspired or shaped your engagements with STS? The exhibit will also feature material from more than three dozen events hosted through CSTS’s colloquium series, including workshops, conferences, and symposiums. Responses to the above questions, faculty and student materials, and archived CSTS activities will be used narrate a reflective essay and multimedia exhibit that highlights what it means to animate STS across borders, including in our own universities.

Authors

• Alison Kenner, Drexel University

• Eliza Nobles, Drexel University