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Gretchen Gano

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Science and Technology Policy

Public Engagement

Sustainability Education

Interdisciplinary Studies

Google Scholar Profile

Professor

Ph.D. in Sustainability Education Program

Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies
Prescott College
PhD, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, 2014
Linked-In

220 Grove Avenue

Prescott, Arizona 86303
Email: gretchen.gano@prescott.edu
Twitter @Softmegamachine

Curriculum Vitae

Research

BOOK PROJECT Another Research is Possible: Setting Otherwise Agendas

Research agenda-setting charts the course not only for the scientific discoveries and new technologies and systems that result from the work, but also informs the institutional and governance arrangements that spring up around them. These arrangements maintain and valorize specific research entities, define expertise, and ensure that fresh agendas align with existing structural and procedural logics. There is growing interest among Science and Technology Studies scholars to call out the ethical, social justice and ecological stakes involved in pursuing and resourcing particular kinds of agendas and leaving others unarticulated, unfunded and ultimately, undone. I am beginning a book project to put several of these strands of scholarship concerning “responsible” research agenda-setting into conversation. 


CFP Special Issue on Community-Engaged Critical Research for the Journal of Sustainability Education

Participatory Technology Assessment

My technology assessment research has national policy impact through the Experts and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology Network (ECAST). ECAST is a U.S. network of policy research institutions, universities, and science museums working together to foster the development of balanced, nonpartisan technology assessments and related public engagement activities.


Between 2012-2015, I consulted on design and research associated with five multi-institutional research projects that engaged stakeholders and citizens in technology assessment of the development of synthetic biology; nanotechnology and emerging technologies in cities; US national space policy; as well as in the formation of international climate, energy & biodiversity policy.


The Winter 2023 Issues in Science and Technology article "How Would You Defend the Planet from Asteroids?" recounts the story of ECAST's engagement with NASA's Asteriod Initiative.

Select publications

Gretchen Gano (2020). “The Megamachine.” The Soft Megamachine: Lewis Mumford’s Metaphor of Technological Society and Implications for (Participatory) Technology Assessment, dissertation Arizona State University, UMI, 2014, pp. 26-73. In C. A. Schwartz (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. (Vol. 395, pp. 190–207). Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, a Cengage Company.


Ramsey, S., Greeson, K., Affolter, E., Gretchen Gano., & Dunbar, R. (2020). 2020 Vision: How a Global Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement Focused our Teaching. European Journal of Educational Sciences, 07(04). https://doi.org/10.19044/ejes.v7no4a3


Tomblin, David, Zachary Pirtle, Mahmud Farooque, David Sittenfeld, Erin Mahoney, Rick Worthington, Gretchen Gano, Michele Gates, Ira Bennett, Jason Kessler, Amy Kaminski, Jason Lloyd & David Guston. (2017). “Integrating Public Deliberation into Engineering Systems: Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission.” Astropolitics 15(2)

141–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/14777622.2017.1340823


Selin, Cynthia, Kelly Rawlings, Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone, Gretchen Gano, Jathan Sadowski, Carlo Altamirano, Sarah Davies, Mindy Kimball, and David Guston (2016). “Experiments in Engagement: Designing PEST for Capacity-Building,” Public Understanding of Science, 1-16, http:/doi.org/10.1177/0963662515620970


Gretchen Gano (2015). Starting with Universe: Buckminster Fuller's Design Science Now, Futures, 70, 3, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2014.12.011


Gretchen Gano and David Sittenfeld (2015). “Amplifying Deliberative Results to Access Policy Networks: The Role of Informal Science Education Institutions,” In Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation, eds. Mikko Rask and Richard Worthington


Teaching

Mission-based Experiential Education

Mission-based Experiential Education

Mission-based Experiential Education

I teach courses and advise students in the Ph.D. Program in Sustainability Education at Prescott College. As the first doctoral program in sustainability education in North America (started in 2005), Prescott College offers a unique model of a cohort-based experiential curriculum grounded in social and environmental justice. I am also cur

I teach courses and advise students in the Ph.D. Program in Sustainability Education at Prescott College. As the first doctoral program in sustainability education in North America (started in 2005), Prescott College offers a unique model of a cohort-based experiential curriculum grounded in social and environmental justice. I am also currently the Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Program. In my first two years at the College I Directed the Undergraduate Core Curriculum and taught in the Department of Social Justice Studies.

Graduate

Mission-based Experiential Education

Mission-based Experiential Education

Going Public: Strategies for Socially Engaged Scholarship

syllabus / portfolio template


Concepts for Sustainability in the Social Sciences

syllabus


Critical Foundations of Research and Scholarship

syllabus


Advanced Research Design syllabus


Participatory Digital and Visual Research  (Anthropology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst) – syllabus / MA 

Going Public: Strategies for Socially Engaged Scholarship

syllabus / portfolio template


Concepts for Sustainability in the Social Sciences

syllabus


Critical Foundations of Research and Scholarship

syllabus


Advanced Research Design syllabus


Participatory Digital and Visual Research  (Anthropology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst) – syllabus / MA project website and press / ASU project site


Global Governance and Biodiversity (Public Policy, UMass Amherst) – syllabus


Art/Science Collisions: Communicating with Data (Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University) – syllabus / course wiki

Undergraduate

Mission-based Experiential Education

Undergraduate

Race, Gender & Technology 

course description


Crowds, Clouds and Networks course description


Social Media and Its Discontents

course description


Social Ecology as Ecological Humanism syllabus


The History of Big Data 

(History, University of California Berkeley) Syllabus


Core Curriculum 2: Ways of Knowing - The Future and You Syllabus


Science, Tech

Race, Gender & Technology 

course description


Crowds, Clouds and Networks course description


Social Media and Its Discontents

course description


Social Ecology as Ecological Humanism syllabus


The History of Big Data 

(History, University of California Berkeley) Syllabus


Core Curriculum 2: Ways of Knowing - The Future and You Syllabus


Science, Technology, and Society (History & Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California Berkeley)


Guest Lecturer 

on Democratizing Biotechnology and Science and Public Participation 

Engagement


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