HSTS Graduate Students
Graduate student offices are located in the Old Civil Engineering Building, Room G42. The Graduate Student Representatives for 2008 - 2009 are Jennifer Rogers and Fang Zhou.
Graduate Student Publications
Some of the publications authored by HSTS graduate students in the past year include:
Baker, Paul M.A. and Nathan W. Moon. 2008. "Wireless Technologies and Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Findings from a Policy Research Instrument," Journal of Assistive Technology. 20(3).
Ward, Henderson C. and Nathan W. Moon. 2007. A Century of Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech: Crucible for a Discipline. Atlanta, GA: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Graduate Student Presentations
Some of the presentations made by the HSTS graduate students in the past year include:
Sybrina Y. Atwaters,"Cultures of Traumatic Stress: Trends in Institutional Climate and Black Students' Experience at Georgia Institute of Technology." Paper presented at the conference Diversity Challenge 2008: Race, Culture and Trauma, Boston College, Boston, MA.
Sybrina Y. Atwaters, "Truth Seekers: Conveying Religious Truths and Constructing Religious Narratives Through Animation Technology." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Education Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lisa Borello, "Gender, Technology and Global Marriage." Paper presented at the Mid-South Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Huntsville, AL.
Lisa Borello, "Technology and the Global Marriage Market." Paper presented at the Southeast Women's Studies Association Conference, Charlotte, NC.
Angel Long, "Making Atmospheric Sciences Global: U.S. - Soviet Satellite Networking and the Development of High Technology." Paper presented at the HTS Graduate Student Forum, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Angel Long, "Situating the 'Un': An Appraisal of Small Manufacturing in the Small World." Bernard Bellon Prize Lecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2007).
Chris McGahey, "The Practice of Patenting." Paper presented at the HTS Graduate Student Forum, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Ashok Maharaj, "Regaining Indian Prestige: The Chinese Nuclear Test, NASA and the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Nathan W. Moon, "The Speed Years: Charting the Extramedical Uses of Amphetamines in the 1960s." Paper presented at the HTS Graduate Student Forum, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Nathan W. Moon, "'Strange Couchfellows': Drugs and Psychoanalysis in Postwar American Outpatient Psychiatry." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, NY.
Irina Nikiforova, "A Turtle in the Classroom: Envisioning Playing and Learning with Logo." Paper presented at the conference-workshop on History, Gender, and Computing, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Irina Nikiforova, "Evolution of Consumer Ethics, 1880-1920." Paper presented at the Popular Culture/American Culture Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Yu Tao, "The Career Status of Asian Engineers in the U.S." Paper presented at the Mid-South Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Huntsville, AL.
Yu Tao, "Earning Differences Between Asian and White Engineers." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Dudley L. Poston, Heather Terrell Kincannon and Jungwon Yoon, "Socioeconomic Development and Fertility in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Korea." Paper presented at the Shanghai Forum, Shanghai, China (2007).
Jungwon Yoon, "The Technocratic Trend and its Implication in China." Paper presented at Science and Technology in Society: An International Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Washington, DC (2007).
Fang Zhou, "Understanding Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Chinese Context." Paper presented at the Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York.
Fang Zhou, "The Impact of Public Transportation on Urban Infrastructure and City Layout: Comparative Case Studies of Shanghai and New York City During the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries." Invited Paper Presented at Urban Culture and Urban Life: International Symposium on Urban Culture in Shanghai and New York, Urban Culture Research Center, Shanghai Normal University.
Current Graduate Students
Sybrina Atwaters - Ph.D. program; Emory University, M.A. syatwat@gatech.edu
Marisa Benson - Ph.D. program; Georgia State University, M.A. marisa.benson@gatech.edu
Jonathan Bodnar - Ph.D. program; Indiana University, Bloomington, M.A. (Library Science) jon.bodnar@gatech.edu
Lisa Borello - Ph.D. program; Georgia State University, M.A. (Women's Studies) lisab@gatech.edu
Jason Callahan - Ph.D. program; University of Florida, B.A. (History of Science) jcal@gatech.edu
Samuel Conway - Ph.D. program; University of Georgia, B.S. (Mathematics) saconway@gatech.edu
Albert George - Ph.D. program; Harvard University, M.A. (Public Policy)
Eric Hardy - Ph.D. program; University of New Orleans, M.A. (History) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Steven Usselman
Rodney Jordan - Ph.D. program; Southern Polytechnic State University, M.S. (Communications)
Angelina Long - Ph.D. program; Armstrong Atlantic State University, B.A. (American History) angelina.long@gatech.edu
Ashok Maharaj - Ph.D. program; Loyola College, M.A. (Applied History) Thesis Advisor - Dr. John Krige ashok@gatech.edu
Giselle Martin - M.S. program, Agnes Scott College, B.A. (International Relations) gmartin@gatech.edu
Nathan Moon - Ph.D. program, Georgia College and State University, M.A. (History) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Andrea Tone gtg947j@mail.gatech.edu
Irina Nikiforova - Ph.D. program, Clark University, B.A. (Government and International Relations) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Mary Frank Fox Irina.Nikiforova@gatech.edu
Jennifer Rogers - M.S. program, Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. (HTS) jennifer.rogers@gatech.edu
Larry Stokes - M.S. program, Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. (HTS) gte401v@mail.gatech.edu
Yu Tao - Ph.D. program, Boston University, M.S. (Educational Media and Technology) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr. yutao@gatech.edu
Hannah Weksler - Ph.D. program, University of Georgia, B.A. (Anthropology) hweksler3@gatech.edu
Diana Wey - Ph.D. program, Case Western Reserve University, B.S.E. (Biomed Engineering) diana.wey@gatech.edu
Liang Yao - Ph.D program, Nankai University, M.A. (World History) lyao6@gatech.edu
Jungwon Yoon - Ph.D. program, Texas A & M University, College Station, M.A. (Sociology) jyoon30@gatech.edu
Patrick Zander - Ph.D. program, Georgia State University, M.A. (History) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Jonathan Schneer
Fang Zhou - Ph.D. program, University of California, San Diego, M.A. (International Affairs) Thesis Advisor - Dr. Hanchao Lu fzhou@gatech.edu
