Michael Burnam-Fink
mburnamf@asu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, ASU (Completion 2016)
Dissertation: Making better students: ADHD, higher education, and regulation of stimulant mediation.
Course Emphasis
Science and Technology Studies.
Innovation: Theory, Practice, and Policy.
History of medicine.
Disability perspectives.
B.A Science, Technology and Society, Vassar Graduated Fall 2009
Minor: Physics
Course Emphasis
Senior Thesis: Architectures of Control: The Growth of the Panopticon in 21st Century China
(A with Distinction).
Mechanical Engineering, Caltech. Transferred to Vassar Winter 2007.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES
2012-2014
Alliance for Person-centered Accessible Technologies (APAcT) NSF IGERT Fellow.
2011
BT Generation Fellow, The Breakthrough Institute.
2011, 2014 Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Grad Student Representative to Faculty.
2010-2011
Chief Officer for Operations, The Prevail Project w/ Joel Garreau.
2010
Intern, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Washington DC.
2008
Science Intern, Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
2008
Research Assistant to Professor Michael Bennett, Vassar STS Mellon Fellow.
2008
Vassar STS Department Intern.
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Futures: Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography (co-author).
2014 Futures: Creating narrative scenarios: science fiction prototyping at Emerge.
2014
Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational Implications (co-author). In
Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies. Ed.
Stephen John Thompson.
2014
To beseech the mods-Democratic participation in unequal spaces. In Stories in PostHuman Culture. Eds. Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot. Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2013
Slate.com: MOOCs need to go back to their roots.
2012
The Cairo Review of International Affairs: Drone Wars.
2011
ScienceProgress.com: In defense of the National Science Foundation
2011
ScienceProgress.com: The rise and decline of military human enhancement
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2014 Dupont Summit 2014 on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy: Military adventures
as a normal accident.
2014 Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum #16: “Heatwave” Relatable narrative scenarios for
climate futures in Phoenix.
2014 4S: Patient-Powered Research: Bringing laboratory medicine to the real world (co-author).
2014 Governance of emerging technologies: Narrative foresight techniques for scenario generation
using “Eventuality.”
2013 S.NET: “Eventuality” A narrative (nano) foresight engine.
2013 Visions8: To Beseech the mods: democratic participation in unequal spaces.
2013 Governance of emerging technologies: Blitzkrieg technology and national security.
2013 STGlobal: Guerilla science and blitzkrieg technology-Military theories for governing emerging
technologies.
2013 Emerge. Panel organizer: The drone war-truth and reconciliation commission.
2012 York University-Generative Figurations: Writing the future-Science fiction as technology
assessment
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014 Harvard STS Summer School participant.
ASU Doctoral Recruiting Fellowship
Vassar Senior Thesis: A with Distinction
National Merit Scholar 2005
TEACHING
2015
POS 394: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy (ASU Online)
2014
Human and Social Dimensions Colloquium leader. Topic: Education.
2011-2012
TA, Science Policy, Professional Science Master’s core classes.
REFERENCES
J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Title: Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences
Address: Center for Biology and Society
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501
Office: 480-965-9767
E-mail: bhurlbut@asu.edu
Clark A. Miller
Titles: Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Associate Director of
the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Chair, PhD Program, Human and Social Dimensions
of Science and Technology
Address: Arizona State University
Department of Political Science
PO Box 875603
Tempe, AZ 85287-5603
Office: 480-965-1778
Email: clark.miller@asu.edu