Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric Studies

Professional Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, Anthropology (2016)

Contact

  • Academic
    mark.gardiner@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Program in Writing and Rhetoric Position: Lecturer

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Mark Gardiner is a sociocultural anthropologist with a particular interest in how society shapes and is shaped by science and technology.

Mark's teaching focuses on rhetoric in conjunction with critical approaches to data studies, managerial sciences, labor, and the environment. While his current teaching is in Stanford's Program in Writing and Rhetoric, previous courses have been offered through the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Center for African Studies.

His past research, focused on resource politics, conservation, energy, and the intersection of science and government in Southern Africa. Specifically, his dissertation analyzed the racial and environmental politics of Namibia's "uranium rush" in the mid-2000s.

2024-25 Courses