Kristoffer Whitney
Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
Department of Science, Technology, and Society
College of Liberal Arts
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Kristoffer Whitney
Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
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)
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Journal Paper
Whitney, Kristoffer and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. "Squished Bugs: Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in Ecology." Environmental Humanities 16. 1 (2024): 211–229. Web.
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.
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.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
9/1/2021 -8/31/2022
National Science Foundation
Amount: $120,152
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.