UCSC

Environmental Studies

Awards and Honors

Scholarships and Fellowships

Walther Rathenau Fellowship.  Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. 1996.

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and the Global Environment.  Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University. 1995.

International Scholarship.  Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). 1994.

S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Studies. University of California, Berkeley. 1993.

Junior Research Fellowship. Wolfson College, University of Oxford. 1992.

Beit Senior Research Scholarship in Commonwealth History. University of Oxford. 1992.

Federal and Foundation Grants

Environmental Protection Agency. Graduate Award. 2010.

The Christensen Fund. $ 20,000 to establish a program in Sustainability at College Eight, UC Santa Cruz. 2010–12.

National Science Foundation. Division of Social and Economic Sciences. Science and Society Program. $ 189,298 grant to study Science, Democracy and Environmental Policy in Developing Countries. 2009–11.

France Berkeley Fund. $ 10,000 to conduct comparative research on the social and ecological risks associated with Genetically Modified Organisms. (with Professor Deborah Letourneau, UCSC, and Dr. Christophe Bonneuil (CNRS, Paris). 2008.

The Christensen Fund. $ 5000 grant to stage a workshop entitled, “Ecologies of Hope.” 2005.

School of Advanced Research in the Human Experience (SAR), Santa Fe. Short Seminar Award for the “Ecologies of Hope” project. 2005.

National Science Foundation. Division of Social and Economic Sciences. Ethics and Value Studies Program. $ 185,735 grant to study environmental governance. 2002–5.

National Science Foundation. Division of Social and Economic Sciences.  Graduate Award. 2000.

Other Institutional Awards

UC Pacific Rim Graduate Award. 2009.

Grant from the Committee on Research, and the Social Science Division, University of California, Santa Cruz (with Deborah Letourneau and Dennis Kelso) for a research project entitled, “Mobilizing Science: Ecological Risk and Public Policy – the Case of Genetically Engineered Organisms.” 2005.

Grant from the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, University of California, Santa Cruz, to co-convene (with Nancy Chen and Monica Casper) a program of research and studies on “Science, Technology and Justice.” 2001; Renewed 2002.

Alfred D. Bell Jr. Fellowship. Forest History Society. 2001.

Grants from the Committee on Research, and the Social Science Division, University of California, Santa Cruz, to study regulatory compliance concerning chemical exposure and accidents in India. 1999-2001.

Grant from the Center for Global, Regional and International Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. (with Roberto Sanchez), for a research project on “Environmental Justice in the Age of Globalization.” 1998.

Charles Wallace Trust Grant. 1992.

Radhakrishnan Trust Grant. 1992.

Wolfson College Graduate Award. Oxford. 1990.

Radhakrishnan Scholarship. Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee of India. 1989.

ICPR Fellowship in Philosophy.  The Indian Council of Philosophical Research (declined). 1989.

The Overseas Research Scheme (ORS) Award, UK. 1989.

Visiting Studentship.  The Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. Bangalore. 1987.