UCSD: Ph.D. student in Communication and Science Studies, 2004 present.
Brown University: BA with honors in Art/Semiotics, 1997

Emma’s research combines ethnographic, historical and critical theoretical methodologies to find out how scientific practice and scientific knowledge function in contested terrains such as resource management and environmental restoration. Emma is a participant in the interdisciplinary Science Studies Program (http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu/), and she is a fellow at the NSF-funded IGERT program at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/). Emma also has a background and continuing interest in video, film and digital production

“Sound Science, Stewardship, and Sustainability: fisheries research for resource management” at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, October 2007

“In Space, NASA Can Hear You Scream” co-authored with Robert Lecusay, at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Pasadena, CA, October 2005.

Emma grew up in New York City and lived there until her move to San Diego. She made her living as a motion picture camera assistant and worked on many illustrious projects destined for television and theatrical release.