ladyobscure

So any further decisions? Where is everyone tentatively going? 

Today would be the day, I assume. A lot of programs send out contacts on Friday afternoons.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.  

I also just got accepted to York STS! Congrats!

For Cornell STS mine is, and always has been, "Complete."
*shrugs* I've come to believe these websites are largely useless for application status.  

My research interests are situated within the intersections of technology, water governance, political ecology, knowledge production, and religion. My overarching research aim is to understand how people come to know "nature" and their environment(s)...exploring how tensions present between science/religion become embedded in environmental debates within the scientific community and public sphere. Specifically, I focus on water technology of the modern Middle East (Israel/Palestine), looking at how water systems (including desalination, irrigation, and reclaimed water use) have developed historically and how they contribute to embodied space. Obviously, this lends itself to integrating a lot of broader themes like nationalism, power and territoriality, borderlands and hybrid geographies. 
(I mean ideally this is what I'd work on. Currently, I'm working on refreshing my email every 5 seconds and checking all applications for some hint of change.)
 

That sounds pretty interesting. I've done some casual reading on hierarchies and taxonomy. I really liked Nature's Body and The Platypus and the Mermaid. Good reads.
I'm interested in cultural artifacts that reflect or affect occupational bias and identity. My undergraduate research focuses primarily on biographies, but I'd like to expand my scope in graduate school. It's sort of a vague description, but basically I'm interested in things made by cultures that demonstrate the "right" way to be a scientists or do science. Similarly, I'm interested in the groups that these things often don't target, as they tend to be underrepresented, marginalized groups.
There's my elevator pitch.