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		Ph.D. Students Sharon Ruff Ph.D., expected May 2008, STS Blacksburg Engineers in the Popular Imagination Zaijing Sun Ph.D., expected December 2007, STS Blacksburg Emergence of Engineering Education in China Tom Bigley Ph.D., expected December 2007, STS Blacksburg Chinese Occidentalism Brent Jesiek Ph.D., expected December 2006, STS Blacksburg A History of Persistent Instability: The Co-Production of Technology, Knowledge, and Discipline in Computer Engineering Wairimu Njambi Ph.D., May 2001, STS Blacksburg Colonizing Bodies: A Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-FGM Discourse Amy Crumpton Ph.D., December 1998, STS Blacksburg Toward a Democratic Science?: Environmental Justice Activists, Multiple Epidemiologies, and Toxic Waste Controversies Juan Lucena Ph.D., December 1996, STS Blacksburg Making Policy for Making Selves in Science and Engineering: From Sputnik to Global Competition Juan Rogers Ph.D., May 1996, STS Blacksburg Implementation of a National Information Infastructure: Science and the Building of Society Rafael Balderrama Ph.D., May 1996, Program in Science and Technology Studies The Social Construction of Compatibility: Setting Voluntary Safety Standards for Agricultural Tractors Dey W. Watts Ph.D., May 1995, Department of Landscape Architecture Doing Design: Notes on the Social Organization of Studio Life Chung-Hsi Lin Ph.D., May 1994, STS Blacksburg The Politics of Scientific Practice in Taiwan: The Hepatitis B Control Program Maarten Heyboer Ph.D., May 1992, STS Blacksburg Grass-counters, Stock-feeders, and the Dual Orientation of Applied Science: The History of Range Science, 1895-1960 M.S. Students Sharon Ruff M.S., expected December 2005, STS Blacksburg Popular Images of Engineers John Gibney M.S., expected May 2006, STS Alexandria Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Considerations in DOD IT Transfer John Fiore M.S., December 2004, STS Alexandria, non-thesis option Amy Nichols M.S., May 2003, STS Blacksburg Globalization on the Ground: Health, Development, and Volunteerism in Meatu, Tanzania Brent Jesiek M.S., May 2003, STS Blacksburg Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics Stephen Garber M.S., January 2002, STS Falls Church Birds of a Feather?: How Politics and Culture Affected the Designs of the U.S. Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran Kristin Gile M.S., May 2000, STS Blacksburg, non-thesis option Angela Ragusa M.S., May 2000, STS Blacksburg, non-thesis option Bingbing Yu M.S., May 1999, STS Blacksburg, non-thesis option Ming-hui Hu M.S., May 1997, STS Blacksburg Maintaining NASTRAN: The Politics and Technics of Aerospace Computing Carmen Sears M.S., December 1996, STS Blacksburg (Re)Visions of the Village Tobin White M.S., May 1996, STS Blacksburg How to Do a Physics Problem: Negotiation of Student Identities in Undergraduate Physics Courses Shannon Hegg M.S., May 1995, STS Blacksburg A Guide to the Experiences of Undergraduate Women Engineers Chris Furlow M.S., May 1993, STS Blacksburg The Islamization of Scientific Knowledge Stephane Castonguay M.S., May 1993, STS Blacksburg The Legitimation of Agrobiology in Quebec Virginia Salmon M.S., May 1991, STS Blacksburg Technical Theater and the Computer Maarten Heyboer M.S., September 1999, STS Blacksburg Knowledge Development in Applied Science: The Case of Range Management Hong L. Oei M.S., June 1989, STS Blacksburg A Study of Multi-Disciplinary Research Centers at Virginia Tech