Sharon Traweek

Sharon Jean Traweek^[1] is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles.^[2]

Her book Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists,^[3] which explores the social structures of particle physicists, has been cited in a number of books relating to the sociology of science, in particular, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar's book "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts",^[4] and Sue V. Rosser's "The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed".^[5]

Education

Traweek gained her degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley (adviser: Robert O. Paxton), her masters in Modern European History from California State University at San Francisco (adviser: Vartan Gregorian) and her Ph.D., in 1982, in the History of Consciousness, (advisers: Hayden White and Gregory Bateson) from the University of California at Santa Cruz.^[2]

Bibliography

Books

• Amara, Roy; Lipinski, Hubert; Spangler, Kathleen; Sharon Traweek (1978). Communication needs in computer modeling (Report). Menlo Park, California: Institute for the Future.  Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help) Research Conducted for the Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, National Science Foundation. Published in Conference proceedings 1978 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 1978). Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (1982). Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (Ph.D. thesis). Santa Cruz: University of California. OCLC 8884706.  Abstract.
• Traweek, Sharon (1992). Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674044449. 
• Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey (2000). Doing science + culture. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415921121. 

Chapters in books

• Traweek, Sharon (1984), "Nature in the age of its mechanical reproduction: the reproduction of nature and physicists in the high energy physics community", in Bélisle, Claire; Schiele, Bernard, Les Savoirs dans les pratiques quotidiennes: recherches sur les représentations, Paris: Editions du CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, pp. 94–112, ISBN 9782222035862. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1988), "Discovering machines: nature in the age of its mechanical reproduction", in Dubinskas, Frank A., Making time: ethnographies of high-technology organizations, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 39–91, ISBN 9780877225355. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1992), "Big science and colonialist discourse: building high-energy physics in Japan", in Galison, Peter, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 100–128, ISBN 9780804718790. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1992), "Border crossings: narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan", in Pickering, Andrew, Science as practice and culture, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, pp. 429–465, ISBN 9780226668017. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1995), "Bachigai (out of place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan", in Marcus, George E., Technoscientific imaginaries: conversations, profiles, and memoirs, Late Editions 2: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 355–378, ISBN 9780226504445. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1993), "Contrasts between Japan and the United States", in Harding, Sandra, The "Racial" economy of science toward a democratic future, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 398–407, ISBN 9780253208101. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1995), "Bodies of evidence: law and order, sexy machines, and the erotics of fieldwork among physicists", in Foster, Susan Leigh, Choreographing history, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 211–228, ISBN 9780253209351.  Pdf.

Reprinted in: Traweek, Sharon (January 1994). "Bodies of evidence: law and order, sexy machines, and the erotics of fieldwork among physicists". Forum Dança Revista (in Portuguese) 3–4: 31–42. 

• Traweek, Sharon (2014) [1996], "When Eliza Doolittle studies 'enry 'iggins", in Aronowitz, Stanley; Barbara, Martinsons; Menser, Michaelr, Technoscience and cyberculture, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, pp. 37–55, ISBN 9781135206178.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (1996), "Kokusaika, Gaiatsu, and Bachigai: Japanese physicists' strategies for moving into the international political economy of science", in Nader, Laura, Naked science: anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge, New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 174–197, ISBN 9780415914659. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1996), "Sharon Traweek (1988), 'Buying time and taking space: negotiations, collaboration, and change' in Beamtimes and Lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 126, 145-56 and notes", in Nowotny, Helga; Taschwer, Klaus, The sociology of the sciences (Part II: Scientific communities between collaboration and competition), Cheltenham, UK Brookfield, Vermont, US: E. Elgar, pp. 180–193, ISBN 9781852789114.  Pdf of book contents.
• Traweek, Sharon (1996), "Unity, dyads, triads, quads, and complexity: cultural choreographies of science", in Ross, Andrew, Science wars, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, pp. 139–151, ISBN 9780822318712.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (1997), "Iconic devices: toward an ethnography of physics images", in Downey, Gary Lee; Dumit, Joseph, Cyborgs & citadels: anthropological interventions in emerging sciences and technologies, Santa Fe, New Mexico Seattle, Washington: School of American Research Press, pp. 103–116, ISBN 9780933452961.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (2013), "Warning signs: acting on images", in Clarke, Adele; Olesen, Virginia, Revisioning women, health and healing feminist, cultural and technoscience perspectives, New York London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 187–201, ISBN 9781317795445.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (1999), "Pilgrim's Progress: male tales told during a life in physics (1988, abridged 1998)", in Biagioli, Mario, The science studies reader, New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 525–542, ISBN 9780415918688. 
• Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey (2000), "Introduction: researching researchers", in Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey, Doing science + culture, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–20, ISBN 9780415921121. 
• Traweek, Sharon (2000), "Faultlines", in Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey, Doing science + culture, New York: Routledge, pp. 21–48, ISBN 9780415921121.  "Faultlines" or "How Modern Became Retro: an historical political economy of knowledge," pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (2004), "Keizu to Nendaiki: making history in Tsukuba Science City", in Valero Matas, Jesús A., Social study of science: an interdisciplinary context, Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9788460929581.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (2005), "Generating high-energy physics in Japan: moral imperatives of a future pluperfect", in Kaiser, David, Pedagogy and the practice of science historical and contemporary perspectives, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 357–392, ISBN 9781423729976.  Pdf.

Journal articles

• Traweek, Sharon (April 1978). "Women at particle physics laboratories in Japan and the Soviet Union". Beam Line (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) 19 (4): 6–7. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1980). "Tradition in the training of novice physicists in Japan and the United States". Journal of Asian Affairs 5 (2): 135–148. 

Also known as "Culture and the organisation of scientific research in Japan and the United States" paper presented at the conference on Communications in Scientific Research, Simon Fraser University, 1981.

Later published in: Traweek, Sharon (1992). Beamtimes and lifetimes the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674044449. 

See also: Traweek, Sharon (1982). Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (Ph.D. thesis). Santa Cruz: University of California. OCLC 8884706.  Abstract.

• Traweek, Sharon (November 1984). "High energy physics: a male preserve" (PDF). MIT Technology Review, special section pp. 29-56: women in technology (Jason Pontin (publisher)) 87 (8): 42–43. 
• Traweek, Sharon; Dubinskas, Frank A. (March 1984). "Closer to the ground: a reinterpretation of Walbiri iconography". Man (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 19 (1): 15–30. doi:10.2307/2803222. 
• Traweek, Sharon (January 1987). "An anthropologist among the physicists at Tsukuba Science City, Japan". Chūōkōron (in Japanese) (Chuokoron-Shinsha): 145–153. 
• Traweek, Sharon (Summer 1988). ""Feminist perspectives on science studies": commentary". Science, Technology, & Human Values (Sage) 13 (3-4): 250–253. JSTOR 689933. 
• Traweek, Sharon (1993) [1991]. "An essay on gender, science, and technology". Bulletin of the Institute for Women's Studies, New Series (in English and Japanese) (Ochanomizu University, Japan) 5.  CS1 maint: English language specified (link)
• Traweek, Sharon (March 1993). "An introduction to cultural and social studies of sciences and technologies". Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, special issue: Biopolitics: The Anthropology of the New Genetics Immunology (Springer) 17 (1): 3–25. doi:10.1007/BF01380596. 
• Traweek, Sharon; Biagioli, Mario; Reid, Roddey (Winter 1994). "Preface (by journal's guest editors)". Configurations, special issue: Located Knowledges: Intersections between Cultural, Gender, and Science Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2 (1): vii–ix. doi:10.1353/con.1994.0015. 
• Traweek, Sharon (Spring 1995). "Morphing to Obachan". Found Object, special issue: Technoscience/Cyberculture (CUNY) (# 5): 51–59.  Pdf.
• Traweek, Sharon (Spring 1996). "Unity, dyads, triads, quads, and complexity: cultural choreographies of science". Social Text (Duke University Press). 46-47: 129–139. doi:10.2307/466849.  Pdf.

References

External links

• Profile page: Sharon Traweek UCLA