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Kristoffer Whitney

Associate Professor

Department of Science, Technology, and Society
College of Liberal Arts

585-475-4474
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Kristoffer Whitney

Associate Professor

Department of Science, Technology, and Society
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BS, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Bio

Ph.D. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

M.A. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Post Doctoral Fellow, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate-at-Large, Center for Culture, History, & Environment, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Winner of the 2016 David Edge Prize for the best article in the area of Science and Technology studies by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

585-475-4474

Select Scholarship

Invited Article/Publication
Whitney, Kristoffer. "History of Wildlife Tracking Technologies." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. (2022). Web.
Whitney, Kristoffer and Sabrina McCormick. "Comparing West Nile Virus and COVID‐19." Sociology of Health & Illness. (2020). Web.
Whitney, Kristoffer. "Margaret Morse Nice thought like a song sparrow and changed how scientists understand animal behavior." The Conversation. (2019). Web.
Journal Paper
Whitney, Kristoffer. "Bird-Banding and the Environmental Humanities: Institutions, Intersubjectivities, and the Phenomenological Method of Margaret Morse Nice." Environmental Humanities 13. 1 (2021): 113-135. Web.
Whitney, Kaitlin Stack and Kristoffer Whitney. "Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the US." Journal of Children and Media 15. 1 (2021): 25-28. Print.
Whitney, Kristoffer. "Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation." Journal of the History of Biology 53. 4 (2020): 631-652. Print.
Whitney, Kristoffer. "It’s About Time: Adaptive Resource Management, Environmental Governance, and Science Studies." Science, Technology & Human Values 44. 2 (2018): 263-290. Print.
Whitney, Kaitlin Stack and Kristoffer Whitney. "John Anthony Allan’s ‘Virtual Water’: Natural Resources Management in the Wake of Neoliberalism." Arcadia 11. (2018): N/A. Web.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
9/1/2021 -8/31/2022
     National Science Foundation
     Amount: $120,152
Book Chapter
Whitney, Kristoffer. "Design for Deaf Education: early history of the NTID." Making Disability Modern: Design Histories. Ed. Elizabeth E. Guffey and Bess Williamson. London, England: Bloomsbury, 2020. 143-158. Print.

Currently Teaching

STSO-140
3 Credits
This course explores the concepts and effects of science and technology on society, analyzes the relationship between science and technology, examines how each has come to play a major role today, and looks at how science and technology have affected and been affected by our values. This course also considers the environmental aspects of science and technology. Science and technology are often assumed to be value free, yet people, guided by individual and societal values, develop the science and technology. In turn, the choices people make among the opportunities provided by science and technology are guided by their individual values.
STSO-240
3 Credits
Modern society is increasingly based on technology. With each advance due to technology, unanticipated problems are also introduced. Society must define and solve these problems or the advances may be diluted or lost. In this course we study several interactions between technology and the world in which we live. We investigate how various technologies developed and compare the expected effects of the new technologies with the actual results.

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