Sharon Traweek

Sharon Traweek
Born
Sharon Jean Traweek
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California at Santa Cruz
ThesisUptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (1982)
InfluencesRobert O. Paxton, Vartan Gregorian, Hayden White and Gregory Bateson
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Main interestsGender studies and history
Notable worksBeamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists

Sharon Jean Traweek[1] is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles. Her book Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists, which explores the social world of particle physicists, has been cited in thousands of books and articles relating to the sociology of science and translated into Chinese in 2003.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Traweek, Sharon (1982). Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (Ph.D thesis). OCLC 680612278.
  2. ^ Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (1986) [1979], "Postscript to second edition (1986)", in Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (eds.), Laboratory life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, pp. 273–286, ISBN 9780691094182. Originally published 1979 in Los Angeles, by SAGE Publications
  3. ^ Rosser, Sue V. (2004), "Life in the lab", in Rosser, Sue V. (ed.), The science glass ceiling: academic women scientists and the struggle to succeed, New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 45–46, ISBN 9780415945134.
  4. ^ "Profile: Sharon Traweek". ResearchGate.
  5. ^ "Google Scholar".