RESEARCH INTERESTS Logan D. A. Williams is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer (expected graduation May 2013). She is interested in processes of innovation and the political economy of sustainable world development.
For her dissertation she is using theory from Technology Studies, Political Sociology of Science & Technology, and Postcolonial Studies in order to make sense of data from her fieldwork. Her thesis investigates marginalized global health professionals in NGOs that are responding to 'undone science' in medicine. They are re-inventing surgical techniques, creating new ophthalmological products, and operationalizing a model of social entrepreneurship in order to fight avoidable blindness (such as cataract) in South Asia and Africa. She will analyze the processes by which the movement of these innovations throughout the world is made possible – to the benefit of global modern science . She intends her future research to be topically oriented around engineering, South Asia/ East Africa, and development. WORK IN PROGRESSKEYWORDSinnovation, sustainability, technological change and development, appropriate technology, networks, fields, social relations, power, periphery-center, technology transfer, social entrepreneurship
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