Fulbright Research Chair in Science and Society

Dr. Chelsea Schelly is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Her work is inspired by the belief that the technological systems used to sustain residential life structure how humans conceive of their relationship to the natural world and to one another.

Dr. Schelly's research explores socio-technological system interactions that shape human conceptions of nature, relationships among humans and between humans and non-humans, and human thought and action. It examines the historical normalization of residential technological systems in America and the ways in which alternative technological systems challenge the social, political, economic, and environmental consequences of those systems.

Gwen Ottinger is Associate Professor at Drexel University, in the Department of Politics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society. She directs the Fair Tech Collective, a research group that uses social science theory and methods to promote social justice in science and technology. She has received a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation for her research on “Environmental Justice and the Ethics of Science and Technology,” and the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science for her book, Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges.

Ottinger is an ACLS-Burkhardt Fellow and was a 2020-2021 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her commentary and analysis has been featured in The Washington Post, the Contra Costa Times, Issues in Science and Technology, and Undark, and she is working on a new book, Mending Fencelines: How Science Can Enhance Social Justice.

Dr. Carolan is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts at the Colorado State University. Other appointments include Professor of Political Science (Status-Only), University of Toronto, Canada and Research Affiliate, Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has published over 200 peer review articles and chapters. His areas of expertise include environmental and agricultural law and policy, environmental sociology, the sociology of food systems and agriculture, economic sociology, and the sociology of technology and scientific knowledge. 

Additionally, Dr. Carolan regularly writes pieces for public audiences, as he works to bridge the town-gown divide. His pieces regularly appear in such outlets asThe Conversation, Bloomberg, Market Watch, Mental Floss, Business Insider, Alternet, World Economic Forum, Houston Chronicle, Bangor Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Magazine, Salon, The Independent, Market Watch, Scroll.in, and New Food Economy (some of these articles have registered over 150,000 reads!). He also routinely makes radio and television appearances around the world, having been featured on the popular CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation) program Ideas, NPR, Radio New Zealand, andTVNZ-One (TV New Zealand).

Dr. Lewis is a former Christos and Mary Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics and Social Responsibility at Southern New Hampshire University in the US. He is a Professor of Computer Information Systems with research interests in applied artificial intelligence, social robots, and human-robot interaction. Dr. Lewis infuses his lectures with real-world examples and invites industry experts to help students prepare for information-technology careers. He also teaches courses on game design and digital music.

He holds thirty-seven US patents and has published three books on applications of AI in network and service management. He received a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in logic and AI at the University of Georgia, an MS in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Mathematics and BS in Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Lewis will use humanoid robots to help enhance the social skills of young subjects with autism and other cognitive/emotional deficits. He will design human-robot interaction protocols to encourage essential, foundational social skills such as joint attention and turn-taking. Subjects will be gauged on their improvements over time both within therapy sessions and in common activities outside the sessions.

He has participated in research awards from the Small Business Innovative Research program in the US government and the Australian Research Council on topics in cyber-security and enterprise management. Dr. Lewis has an entrepreneurial bent and has co-founded start-up companies in video game development, cybersecurity, and smart appliances.

Jennifer Kuzma is the Goodnight-NCGSK Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center, at North Carolina State University.  Prior to this, she was associate professor of science and technology policy at the University of Minnesota (2003-2013); study director at the U.S. National Academies of Science (NAS) (1999-2003); and an AAAS Risk Policy Fellow at the USDA (1997-1999).

She has over 100 scholarly publications on emerging technologies and governance and has been studying this area for over 25 years. She as held several other leadership positions, including a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Preparing for Future Biotechnology, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Council Member and Secretary, Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science & Technology Policy, Member of the US FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and a Member of the UN WHO-FAO Expert Group for Nanotechnologies in Food and Agriculture.

In 2014, she received the SRA Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Award for recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of risk analysis. She is cited and interviewed frequently in the media for her expertise in biotechnology policy, including the New York Times, Science, Nature, NPR, Washington Post, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, PBS Nova, Wired, and ABC & NBC News.

Dr. Dee Williams lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where he currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Alaska Regional Office of the US Geological Survey—the science agency of the US Department of the Interior. Over the last 15 years, he has worked in close coordination with resource management agencies and stakeholder groups in the Arctic to plan, design, and direct a wide range of physical, biological, and social research to monitor and mitigate impacts from energy sector development and ongoing climate change. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, with particular research expertise in resource management challenges involving indigenous communities throughout the Pacific Rim. Prior to government service, he earned multiple degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York, and worked as a professor and consultant to international development organizations. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of environmental anthropology, and serves on multiple Board of Directors and Technical Steering Committees concerned with the advancement of Arctic science.

President Emeritus of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, Washington, DC

Nigel Cameron is President Emeritus of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies in Washington, DC; in 2015-16 he was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy. He has written widely on technology, health, and ethics. In 2007 he was the U.S. Government’s (unsuccessful) nominee to be United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health. He is currently working on a biography of C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon-General from 1981-89, who lead America’s response to the AIDS pandemic.

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Dr. Wallach is a consultant, ethicist and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He is also a scholar with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (Arizona State University), a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology, and a visiting scholar at The Hastings Center. He is also the author of several books and articles relating to technology and applied ethics, including most recently A Dangerous Master: How to Prevent Technology From Slipping Beyond Our Control.

Dr. Guidotti has had a long and diverse career as a physician, professor of public health and medicine, and international consultant.  His core field of expertise is occupational and environmental medicine.  He has had a career spanning four decades in clinical medicine, public health teaching and practice, environmental protection and research.  Dr. Guidotti is the recipient of the William S. Knudsen Award for Lifetime Achievement in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a co-founder of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, the President-Elect for Sigma-Xi (starting July 2015) and Chair of the Expert Panel on wind turbine noise and human health of the Council of Canadian Academies.