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Ria Bahadur
Student Employee, Hoover Institution
Undergraduate, Program in International Relations
Peer Advisor, Science, Technology and Society
Undergraduate, Science, Technology and SocietyBioRia Bahadur is an Honors student in Stanford University’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, concentrating in Innovation & Organization with a minor in International Relations focused on International Security. Her work spans military wargaming, research security, scientific governance, AI and organizational systems, and science diplomacy.
Her Honors thesis, Credibility by Design: How Military Wargames Shape Plausibility Judgments, examines how professional wargames produce and legitimate judgments about uncertain futures of conflict.
At the Hoover Institution, she serves as Main Staff to Project Innovation, a national-security study focused on U.S. scientific innovation, technological leadership, and research security. Her broader work has included NATO CCDCOE, the Science and Technology in Society Forum, neurotechnology governance, AI product strategy, and public-policy initiatives.
Ria also serves as an STS Peer Advisor at Stanford.
More: https://riabahadur.people.stanford.edu/
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Denise Geraci
Administrative Director, Science, Technology and Society
BioAs the administrative director for the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, I am responsible for managing and overseeing the program’s operational, financial, and human resources. I hold a PhD in anthropology and have long been interested in applied social science and public anthropology. I am happy to support a program that trains students to think critically about how social contexts and processes relate to practices of science and technology. My professional interests also include community-university partnerships and international education. Before joining STS, I worked for Stanford Global Studies, managing professional development programs for community college faculty interested in internationalizing college curriculum. I also worked for Stanford's Center for Latin American Studies, and have more than ten years’ experience conducting research, working, and studying in Latin America, primarily Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
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Philip Gilbert
Student Services Officer, Science, Technology and Society
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Officer
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Kyoko Sato
Associate Director, Science, Technology and Society
BioKyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. Her research examines technoscientific governance in Japan and the United States. Her areas of research include: the politics of expertise; nuclear politics; narratives and representation of nuclear technology and radiation protection; and Covid-19 governance. She co-edited (with Soraya Boudia and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent) Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima, a 2022 interdisciplinary post-Fukushima reflection on the development of the global nuclear order. She has conducted fieldwork in various areas affected by nuclear technology (e.g., Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki; communities surrounding TMI, Hanford site, and other facilities; Church Rock) to examine the dynamics and relationships among global and national nuclear governance, expertise, and democratic citizenship. Her previous work examined interdisciplinary knowledge production in the United States and the politics of genetically modified food in France, Japan, and the United States. She has published in journals such as Science, Technology and Human Values; East Asian Science, Technology and Society; Theory and Society; and 科学技術社会論研究 (Journal of Science and Technology Studies; in Japanese) and book chapters on the Fukushima disaster both in English and in Japanese. She worked as a journalist in Tokyo before pursuing her PhD in sociology from Princeton University.
