About CNS-ASU

David Conz

Assistant Research Professor, Center for Nanotechnology in Society

Dave Conz is interested in how people create and respond to scientific knowledge and technological artifacts.  He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate on the Knowledge/Identity/Practice in Nanoscale Science and Engineering project at CNS-ASU.  In May 1995 he received a B.S. in Aerospace Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  While there, he earned his commercial instrument pilot’s license and became fascinated by the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS).  After backpacking through Europe and teaching K-12 science, math, and English, he moved to Arizona to pursue an M.A. degree in interdisciplinary humanities.  His master’s thesis is a Foucauldian analysis of the privatization of digital photo radar surveillance systems in the Phoenix metro area.  After graduating in May 1999, he began working on his doctorate in sociology at ASU, with concentrations in quantitative data analysis and the global/political sociology of science.  His dissertation, “Citizen Technoscience: Amateur Networks in the International Grassroots Biodiesel Movement,” is a longitudinal study of the business, social movement, and technoscientific facets of amateur collaborative networks.  He received his Ph.D. in May 2006.

Email: david.conz@asu.edu