Emily York
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily York |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | York |
| SIGNATURE | YORK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9253-9174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Difference—and Promise—of ESTS
In this final editorial for the 2020–2025 Editorial Collective, we reflect on how we have worked to action on our key editorial commitments, which included: cultivating greater transnationalization in the field, deepening open access infrastructures, foregrounding pedagogies as a vital domain of STS scholarship and practice, and engaging audiences beyond STS. We share how editing Engaging Science, Technology, and Society has foregrounded differen…
Situating Microbes
Issue 11.1 includes the thematic collection “Situating Microbes.” The collected essays on microbe studies in STS aims to situates microbes in complex ecologies beyond their pathogenic formations. All the articles in this issue render invisible microbes visible by walking us through different sociomaterial contexts. These detailed explorations not only provide a deeper understanding of “situated microbes” but also addresses how location matters. T…
Transitioning ESTS
Contributions to this issue focus on a wide range of domains and problematics—environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, surveillance—that offer a thought-provoking commentary on the many issues that inhabit contemporary intersections of science, technology, and society. It seems more than ever, we need sharp analyses that can help us understand, too, the ways global and national power struggles le…
We have been here Before
Caring for Scholarship in Transition
This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within the context of scholarly publishing; maintenance and repair studies; and experimental methods. We reflect on how the Issue’s thematic collection, “Maintenance & its Knowledges” guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, a…
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Standards, Pedagogies, and Celebrating the STS Infrastructure Award to ESTS
Volume 10 comes in two parts, issue 1 and 2 published together. The double issue includes two Thematic Collections, “Standards and their Containers” and “Pedagogical Intersections.” It also includes two original research articles and an engagements piece. With this issue, ESTS also celebrates winning the Infrastructure Award 2024 awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
The authors have identified a name change in the published article: This Addendum relates to the following article: Shannon N. Conley, Emily York, Eleanor S. Armstrong, Marisa Brandt, et. al. 2024. “Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 10(1–2): 103–133. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1927. On page 103, the authors should include Kathleen Sheppard and Aubrey Wigner in the author…
[Intro] Collaborative Formations at the Intersection of Pedagogy, Engagement, and Research
Science and Technology Studies (STS) pedagogies constitute a dynamic form of STS practice that occurs in formal and informal spaces, and in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs with different goals and objectives. This thematic collection of articles in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) turns an analytical gaze on the spaces, practices, artifacts, and interactions through which STS pedagogies are enacted. Specif…
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also an Original Research Article in this issue, by Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, and Laura Senier, examining masking and not masking during COVID-19. The issue is accompanied by another six supplemental materials in …
Towards Transnational STS
Transnational dialogues in STS matter and are at the heart of ESTS, exemplified by this issue. Two Original Research Articles, the first by Lucía Céspedes (2023) and the second co-authored by Gonçalo Santos, Naubahar Sharif, and Jack Linzhou Xing (2023) respectively, consider what is lost in translation—in the practice of astronomy in Argentina, and the translation of ‘STS’ in China’s academic institutions. The thematic collection, TRANSnationali…
Pursuing Transnational STS at Esocite/4S Joint Conference
In this editorial, the ESTS editorial collective (EC) reports on various events it had organized at the 2022 ESOCITE/4S joint meeting held at the Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla in Cholula, México. The EC hosted a journal “happy hour” meet-up and several roundtables on the “Politics of Language,” the challenges and opportunities for open research data in STS worlds, as well as a Managing Editor (ME) Roundtable collaborating with other OA journa…
Building Community with ESTS
This editorial describes the crucial role of building transnationally diverse STS communities that our Editorial Collective (EC) has imagined and sought to implement for Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS). Community-building as an ethic characterizes all aspects of our EC’s work: from editorial practices to infrastructural development, and from content publication to the broader initiatives that we undertake. In a context where the …
Open Research Data
In this editorial, we describe the work that has been undertaken by the ESTS editorial collective (EC) over the last two years towards establishing a publishing infrastructure for open research data. A broad movement in the scholarly community is pushing towards data sharing or “open data,” particularly in the natural sciences and medicine. Recognizing that there are compelling reasons why scholars are wary of data sharing and careful to protect …
Futures labs
Lab spaces can teach STEM ethics by highlighting and creating opportunities to practice the four key dimensions of the AIRR framework of Responsible Innovation (RI): anticipation, inclusion, responsiveness, and reflexivity. In this paper, we introduce ‘Futures Labs’∼ as a pedagogical approach to train students in RI skills and encourage them to become aware of, and more concerned about, the broad social, political, ethical, and environmental dime…
Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice
State and local public health agencies are at the forefront of planning and responding to the health challenges of climate hazards but face substantial barriers to effective climate and health adaptation amidst concurrent environmental and public health crises. To ensure successful adaptation, it is necessary to understand and overcome these barriers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (…
Interspecies Ethics and the Limits of Epistemic Authority in Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler's 2013 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves explores the intimate violence of Cold War-era state-supported research on chimpanzees and its connection to contemporary corporate and globalized research and consumption practices that make animals killable. It does so through the story arc of a woman named Rosemary and a chimpanzee named Fern who were raised together as part of a science experiment in the 1950s. Yet the centr…
Infrastructuring ESTS
In our inaugural editorial, we, the incoming Editorial Collective (EC) of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), describe the digital and social infrastructural work that we have undertaken since assuming editorship of the journal. We also note some of the changes we have introduced in terms of the journal’s content and policies. A key argument is that even though publishing infrastructures shape the form and movement of scholarly cont…
Publishing ESTS
In our previous editorial (Khandekar et al. 2021), we noted the blackboxing of scholarly publication infrastructure that we encountered when we assumed editorship of the journal. We outlined several aspects of infrastructuring that we have undertaken since, with an explicit goal of supporting transnational workflows and participation in ESTS. In this editorial, we continue describing our infrastructural work, highlighting especially the work of c…
Beyond Climate Impacts
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) provided the most up-to-date understanding of climate change and its effects on the Earth system and on consequences for the United States, including impacts and associated risks, along with approaches to coping with these effects. It is intended to provide guidance to decision-makers in governmental sectors while, in practice, providing guidance for nongovernmental actors. Its regional and topical ch…
Creative Anticipatory Ethical Reasoning with Scenario Analysis and Design Fiction
Public engagement in contested political contexts
This special issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation interrogates the political cultures and practices that render engagements among publics, emerging technologies, and institutions both dee
Doing STS in STEM Spaces
This is a story of critical participation in engineering and applied science spaces that examines the challenges and opportunities of STS (Science and Technology Studies) experiments in relation to disciplinary identity, institutional values, and the power dynamics at work in the experiment. Comparing my experiences as an STS graduate student negotiating access in a research-oriented nanoengineering department geared toward capital formation, and…
Smaller is Better? Learning an Ethos and Worldview in Nanoengineering Education
Nano Dreams and Nanoworlds
Fantastic Voyage , a 1966 Hollywood science fiction film based on a screenplay written by Harry Kleiner, is often associated with contemporary nanotechnology imaginings. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted within a new nanoengineering department and undergraduate major to show how this film is deployed to produce a particular disciplinary and professional identity for nanoengineering. By juxtaposing my analysis of how the f…
Doing STS in STEM Spaces
This is a story of critical participation in engineering and applied science spaces that examines the challenges and opportunities of STS (Science and Technology Studies) experiments in relation to disciplinary identity, institutional values, and the power dynamics at work in the experiment. Comparing my experiences as an STS graduate student negotiating access in a research-oriented nanoengineering department geared toward capital formation, and…
We have been here Before
Smaller is Better? Learning an Ethos and Worldview in Nanoengineering Education
Smaller is Better? Learning an Ethos and Worldview in Nanoengineering Education
Nano Dreams and Nanoworlds
Fantastic Voyage , a 1966 Hollywood science fiction film based on a screenplay written by Harry Kleiner, is often associated with contemporary nanotechnology imaginings. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted within a new nanoengineering department and undergraduate major to show how this film is deployed to produce a particular disciplinary and professional identity for nanoengineering. By juxtaposing my analysis of how the f…
Doing STS in STEM Spaces
This is a story of critical participation in engineering and applied science spaces that examines the challenges and opportunities of STS (Science and Technology Studies) experiments in relation to disciplinary identity, institutional values, and the power dynamics at work in the experiment. Comparing my experiences as an STS graduate student negotiating access in a research-oriented nanoengineering department geared toward capital formation, and…
Beyond Climate Impacts
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) provided the most up-to-date understanding of climate change and its effects on the Earth system and on consequences for the United States, including impacts and associated risks, along with approaches to coping with these effects. It is intended to provide guidance to decision-makers in governmental sectors while, in practice, providing guidance for nongovernmental actors. Its regional and topical ch…
Creative Anticipatory Ethical Reasoning with Scenario Analysis and Design Fiction
Public engagement in contested political contexts
This special issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation interrogates the political cultures and practices that render engagements among publics, emerging technologies, and institutions both dee
Infrastructuring ESTS
In our inaugural editorial, we, the incoming Editorial Collective (EC) of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), describe the digital and social infrastructural work that we have undertaken since assuming editorship of the journal. We also note some of the changes we have introduced in terms of the journal’s content and policies. A key argument is that even though publishing infrastructures shape the form and movement of scholarly cont…
Publishing ESTS
In our previous editorial (Khandekar et al. 2021), we noted the blackboxing of scholarly publication infrastructure that we encountered when we assumed editorship of the journal. We outlined several aspects of infrastructuring that we have undertaken since, with an explicit goal of supporting transnational workflows and participation in ESTS. In this editorial, we continue describing our infrastructural work, highlighting especially the work of c…
Pursuing Transnational STS at Esocite/4S Joint Conference
In this editorial, the ESTS editorial collective (EC) reports on various events it had organized at the 2022 ESOCITE/4S joint meeting held at the Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla in Cholula, México. The EC hosted a journal “happy hour” meet-up and several roundtables on the “Politics of Language,” the challenges and opportunities for open research data in STS worlds, as well as a Managing Editor (ME) Roundtable collaborating with other OA journa…
Building Community with ESTS
This editorial describes the crucial role of building transnationally diverse STS communities that our Editorial Collective (EC) has imagined and sought to implement for Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS). Community-building as an ethic characterizes all aspects of our EC’s work: from editorial practices to infrastructural development, and from content publication to the broader initiatives that we undertake. In a context where the …
Open Research Data
In this editorial, we describe the work that has been undertaken by the ESTS editorial collective (EC) over the last two years towards establishing a publishing infrastructure for open research data. A broad movement in the scholarly community is pushing towards data sharing or “open data,” particularly in the natural sciences and medicine. Recognizing that there are compelling reasons why scholars are wary of data sharing and careful to protect …
Futures labs
Lab spaces can teach STEM ethics by highlighting and creating opportunities to practice the four key dimensions of the AIRR framework of Responsible Innovation (RI): anticipation, inclusion, responsiveness, and reflexivity. In this paper, we introduce ‘Futures Labs’∼ as a pedagogical approach to train students in RI skills and encourage them to become aware of, and more concerned about, the broad social, political, ethical, and environmental dime…
Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice
State and local public health agencies are at the forefront of planning and responding to the health challenges of climate hazards but face substantial barriers to effective climate and health adaptation amidst concurrent environmental and public health crises. To ensure successful adaptation, it is necessary to understand and overcome these barriers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (…
Interspecies Ethics and the Limits of Epistemic Authority in Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler's 2013 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves explores the intimate violence of Cold War-era state-supported research on chimpanzees and its connection to contemporary corporate and globalized research and consumption practices that make animals killable. It does so through the story arc of a woman named Rosemary and a chimpanzee named Fern who were raised together as part of a science experiment in the 1950s. Yet the centr…
[Intro] Collaborative Formations at the Intersection of Pedagogy, Engagement, and Research
Science and Technology Studies (STS) pedagogies constitute a dynamic form of STS practice that occurs in formal and informal spaces, and in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs with different goals and objectives. This thematic collection of articles in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) turns an analytical gaze on the spaces, practices, artifacts, and interactions through which STS pedagogies are enacted. Specif…
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also an Original Research Article in this issue, by Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, and Laura Senier, examining masking and not masking during COVID-19. The issue is accompanied by another six supplemental materials in …
Towards Transnational STS
Transnational dialogues in STS matter and are at the heart of ESTS, exemplified by this issue. Two Original Research Articles, the first by Lucía Céspedes (2023) and the second co-authored by Gonçalo Santos, Naubahar Sharif, and Jack Linzhou Xing (2023) respectively, consider what is lost in translation—in the practice of astronomy in Argentina, and the translation of ‘STS’ in China’s academic institutions. The thematic collection, TRANSnationali…
Caring for Scholarship in Transition
This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within the context of scholarly publishing; maintenance and repair studies; and experimental methods. We reflect on how the Issue’s thematic collection, “Maintenance & its Knowledges” guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, a…
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Standards, Pedagogies, and Celebrating the STS Infrastructure Award to ESTS
Volume 10 comes in two parts, issue 1 and 2 published together. The double issue includes two Thematic Collections, “Standards and their Containers” and “Pedagogical Intersections.” It also includes two original research articles and an engagements piece. With this issue, ESTS also celebrates winning the Infrastructure Award 2024 awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
The authors have identified a name change in the published article: This Addendum relates to the following article: Shannon N. Conley, Emily York, Eleanor S. Armstrong, Marisa Brandt, et. al. 2024. “Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 10(1–2): 103–133. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1927. On page 103, the authors should include Kathleen Sheppard and Aubrey Wigner in the author…
The Difference—and Promise—of ESTS
In this final editorial for the 2020–2025 Editorial Collective, we reflect on how we have worked to action on our key editorial commitments, which included: cultivating greater transnationalization in the field, deepening open access infrastructures, foregrounding pedagogies as a vital domain of STS scholarship and practice, and engaging audiences beyond STS. We share how editing Engaging Science, Technology, and Society has foregrounded differen…
Situating Microbes
Issue 11.1 includes the thematic collection “Situating Microbes.” The collected essays on microbe studies in STS aims to situates microbes in complex ecologies beyond their pathogenic formations. All the articles in this issue render invisible microbes visible by walking us through different sociomaterial contexts. These detailed explorations not only provide a deeper understanding of “situated microbes” but also addresses how location matters. T…
Transitioning ESTS
Contributions to this issue focus on a wide range of domains and problematics—environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, surveillance—that offer a thought-provoking commentary on the many issues that inhabit contemporary intersections of science, technology, and society. It seems more than ever, we need sharp analyses that can help us understand, too, the ways global and national power struggles le…
We have been here Before
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Library science (6 works)