Elizabeth Reddy

Cite as:

Adams, James. 2018. “Elizabeth Reddy.” In UCI Anthro Alumni, edited by James Adams and Margaret Woodruff.  In UCI Anthro STS, edited by James Adams and Margaret Woodruff. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August. http://stsinfrastructures.org/content/elizabeth-reddy/essay.

Essay Metanarrative

This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”

This essay is part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.

STS Across Borders In Brief

STS Across Borders is a special exhibit organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to showcase how the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has developed in different times, places...Read more

Who is Elizabeth Reddy?

About Elizabeth Reddy

Elizabeth Reddy received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine in 2016. Dr. Reddy studies the sociotechnical work that engineers and scientists (mostly in Mexico and the United States) do when they take on risk mitigation projects. Informed by the insights of...Read more

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STS Across Borders Interviews

Notable Work

The Production of Earthquake Emergencies: technoscientific earthquake early warning in a social and material world

In order to prevent injury and save lives, earthquake early warning systems like Mexico’s public Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano (SASMEX) must pair timely, effective hazard detection with effective alert dissemination to responsive users. The alert makes seismicity meaningful to its users in...Read more

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