Is this degree program right for me?

• Want to empirically interrogate how science and technology emerge in practice—not as abstractions but as mundane, situated achievements (e.g., through ethnographic attention to labs, algorithms, regulatory infrastructures);
• Are drawn to examining technologies of governance, knowledge-making, or exclusion, using methods from fieldwork to discourse analysis of scientific, policy, or media texts;
• Seek to collaborate with diverse actors (scientists, bureaucrats, activists, or marginalized users) as co-producers of knowledge, not merely as “objects” of study;
• Are fascinated by the epistemic politics of reading/writing—whether parsing STS scholarship, legal cases, policy documents, or genre-bending work (science fiction, poetry, manifestos)—and by developing ways to render visible what dominant accounts obscure;
• Value sustained engagement with the crafts of empirical social research (deep listening, slow description) and academic argumentation (making visible one’s own positionality, attending to gaps in dominant narratives);
• Hold (or will soon complete) a BA in any field—from anthropology to engineering to physics—and are open to unlearning disciplinary orthodoxies;
• Can demonstrate engagement with qualitative social research methods—be it through coursework, activist research, or independent fieldwork (e.g., medical students doing interviews with patients to study pharmaceutical governance).

We welcome applicants who see the extraordinary in the ordinary: infrastructures so ubiquitous they vanish from view, yet shape everything.