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Saul Halfon

Saul Halfon, Associate Professor & Department Chair

Saul Halfon, Associate Professor
Saul Halfon, Associate Professor & Department Chair, Science and Technology in Society.

Department of Science, Technology, and Society
232 Lane Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-1648 | shalfon@vt.edu

Saul Halfon is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. 

  • Political sociology of technoscience
  • Technical practices of policy institutions
  • Food studies
  • Reproductive health
  • Public engagement with science and technology
  • PhD, Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies.
  • BA, Wesleyan University, Chemistry and the Science in Society Program. 
  • Director, Graduate Studies, STS
  • Chair, University Commission of Graduate Studies and Policies
  • Co-Chair, Theatre Workshop in Science, Technology, and Society
  • Co-Chair, Choices and Challenges Public Forums
  • Member, Society for the Social studies of Science
  • 2013-2014 College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Advising.

Books

Halfon, Saul. 2006. The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women’s Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Taylor, Peter, Saul Halfon, and Paul Edwards (Eds). 1997. Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Journal Articles

Halfon, Saul. April, 2015. “Contesting Human Security Expertise: Technical Practices in Reconfiguring International Security,” In Trine Villumsen Berling and Christian Bueger (editors), Capturing Security Expertise: Practice, Power, Responsibility. (PRIO New Security Studies), Cambridge/New York: Routledge. Pages 141-157.

Halfon, Saul. 2010. “Confronting the WTO: Intervention Strategies in GMO Adjudication.” Science, Technology and Human Values, 35/3 (May): 307-329.

Halfon, Saul. 2010. “Encountering Birth: Negotiating Expertise, Networks, and My STS Self.” Science as Culture, 19/1 (March): 61-77.

Halfon, Saul. 2008. “Depleted Uranium, Public Science, and the Politics of Closure.” Review of Policy Research, 25/4 (July): 295-311.

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