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About
CNS-ASU
 Cynthia Selin
Assistant Research Professor, Center
for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU and Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Cynthia Selin graduated with a
B.S. in American Studies from University of California/ Santa Cruz
(1996) where she wrote her senior thesis on the promise and peril of
nanotechnology. In 2000 she completed a M. A. in Science, Technology and
Society from Roskilde University (Denmark) where her research focused on
technology assessment, and, more specifically, scenario planning. These
interested were pursued at Copenhagen Business Schools’ Institute for
Management, Politics and Philosophy in her doctoral project, completed
2006. The PhD dissertation, entitled Volatile Visions: Transactions
in Anticipatory Knowledge explores three interwoven research areas-
foresight methodologies, the sociology of expectations and the emergence
of nanotechnology- in order to understand the development of new
technologies and to explore the tools and methods used to grasping their
emergence. Dr. Selin has published in Science, Technology and Human
Values, Futures, and Time & Society.
Email:
cynthia.selin@asu.edu |
