Associate Professor, Department of Government, California State University, Sacramento, USA, and Research Associate, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
Short Bio:
Mark Brown joined the Department of Government at California State University, Sacramento, in the fall of 2003. Before that he held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Science & Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany. He completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University in 2001. He is currently on leave from his position in Sacramento and working as co-leader of a research group on "Science, Values, and Democracy" at Bielefeld University. His areas of interest include modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and science and technology studies. His book Science in Democracy will be published by MIT Press in August 2009.
Selected Publications:
“Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research”, with David H. Guston, Science and Engineering Ethics, forthcoming.
"Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics, February 2009.
"Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?", Technology in Society , 29 (2007): 327-338.
“Ethics, Politics, and the Public: Shaping the Research Agenda”, in Shaping Science & Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research, ed. David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
“The Political Philosophy of Science Policy”, Essay Review of Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 42, no. 1 (2004): 77-95.

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Posizione:
Professore associato, Department of Government, California State University, Sacramento, Stati Uniti e Ricercatore Associato, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germania
Cenni biografici:
Mark Brown ha cominciato a lavorare per il Department of Government della California State University, Sacramento (Stati Uniti) nell’autunno del 2003. Prima di quella data ha conseguito un post-doc di due anni presso l’Institute for Science & Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germania. Nel 2001 ha completato il suo Ph.D. in Scienze Politiche presso la Rutgers University. Attualmente è in congedo dal suo incarico a Sacramento e lavora come corresponsabile di un gruppo di ricerca su “Scienza, Valori e Democrazia” presso la Bielefeld University. La sua area di interesse include la teoria politica moderna e contemporanea, la teoria democratica e gli studi sulla scienza e la tecnologia. Il suo libro Science in Democracy sarà pubblicato dalla MIT Press nell’agosto del 2009.
Alcune pubblicazioni:
“Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research”, con David H. Guston, Science and Engineering Ethics, in preparazione.
"Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics, Febbraio 2009.
"Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?", Technology in Society , 29 (2007): 327-338.
“Ethics, Politics, and the Public: Shaping the Research Agenda”, in Shaping Science & Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research, ed. David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
“The Political Philosophy of Science Policy”, recensione di Science, Truth, and Democracy di Philip Kitcher, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 42, no. 1 (2004): 77-95.