Administration

Adminstration

Below are Center for Science and Society staff, cluster administrators, and work-study students. 

  • Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society. At Columbia, she teaches history of early modern Europe and the history of science. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton 1994; 1995 Pfizer Prize), and The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago 2004; 2005 Leo Gershoy Prize). Her work on alchemy, artisans, and the making of vernacular and scientific knowledge has been supported by fellowships at the Wissenschafts-Kolleg, as a Guggenheim Fellow, a Getty Scholar, a Samuel Kress Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts in Washington, DC, and by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

    Pamela Smith leads the Making and Knowing Research Cluster and serves as an Executive Committee and Advisory Board Member. 

  • Naomi Rosenkranz is the Associate Director of the Center for Science and Society and its research cluster, the Making and Knowing Project. She oversees the development and administration of the Center and its research clusters, Scholars, grant programs, activities, and events. For the Making and Knowing Project, she serves as the main administrative liaison between the various research, editorial, and digital activities of the Project staff, collaborators, and participants. She supports the historical reconstruction research, oversees the Project’s chemical laboratory, and maintains the digital collaboration systems. She studied physics at Barnard College (class of 2015), concentrating her research experiences in materials science and engineering (including synthesis and characterization of superconductors and photoconductive properties of organic nanorods). In 2014-15, she served as the inaugural Science Resident in Conservation with Columbia’s Ancient Ink Lab, identifying and characterizing ancient carbon-based inks. She continued her investigation of inks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the departments of Scientific Research and Paper Conservation to examine medieval iron-tannate black inks through recipe reconstructions and spectral analysis of museum objects.

  • Madi Whitman is a postdoctoral research scholar and assistant director of curriculum development in the Center for Science and Society. As a sociocultural anthropologist and science and technology studies (STS) researcher, Madi studies how technologies, institutions, and subjectivities are made together. This research is currently animated by questions about surveillance and marginality in changing regimes of data collection in higher education in the United States.

    Madi’s pedagogical work includes supporting interdisciplinary co-teaching at Columbia, developing curricula in science and society, and investigating the landscape of STS education in the U.S. Prior to coming to Columbia, Madi was involved in collaborations with the National Science Foundation Center for Science of Information in creating critical data modules for students. Madi earned a PhD in anthropology from Purdue University in 2020, completed a BA in anthropology at the University of North Dakota, and was previously a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

  • Jozef Sulik is the assistant director of the Center for Science and Society and Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program. Jozef manages events, grants, communications, and budgets. He also provides administrative support for the postdoctoral scholars affiliated with the Center and their research projects. Before joining Columbia University, Jozef worked in the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Harvard College and spent several years as an agent in talent management in the UK. Jozef received his BA in government from Harvard University Extension School. 

  • Caroline Surman is the Project and Communications Manager with the Center for Science and Society and the Making and Knowing Project. She assists in planning events, administering the Center's grant programs, and oversees communications and social media. She is also responsible for training and overseeing the Center's Work Study Administrative Assistants. Caroline studied anthropology with a minor in environmental science at Barnard College and holds a masters of science in nonprofit management from Columbia University. Previously, she worked for Bank Street School for Children and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

  • Anamika is an undergraduate work-study student at the Center for Science and Society, studying civil engineering with a minor in computer science. Deeply passionate about leveraging engineering to bridge socio-economic disparities, Anamika actively participates in organizations such as Engineers without Borders and the Society of Women Engineers. In addition, she is actively engaged with the Columbia Community, assuming various leadership roles, which include serving as an orientation leader for the New Student Orientation Program and acting as a recruitment liaison for the Muslim Student House. Back home in Georgia, Anamika is very active in her community, having interned and volunteered at community-centered organizations such as Live Healthy Gwinnett. In her free time, Anamika loves to explore the boroughs of NYC, go on food crawls with friends, and create art.

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