Positions and Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Engineering, Design, & Society, affiliated in Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines.
Past Positions and Affiliations
2017-2018: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego.
Education
PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine.
MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
BA from Reed College.
Research Interests
Science and technology studies; nature, culture, and environment; hazard, risk, and disaster; data practice; earthquakes; engineering education; qualitative and archival methodologies; Mexico and the United States of America.
Book
2023. Reddy, E. ¡Alerta! Engineering on Shaky Ground. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
2024: Reddy, E. “Rationalizing geosociality: Mexican expert earthquake risk reduction practice.” Human Organization.
2024: Reddy, E., J. Valenzuela, N. Yavorsky, N. Guizzetti, and C. Schroeder. “Earthquake Early Warning Riskwork: ShakeAlert’s Operation with Institutionalized Uncertainties.” Natural Hazards Review.
2023: Reddy, E., J. Valenzuela, G. Muñoz, G. Rubio. “Border Scenario: Earthquake Risk Mitigation across the San Diego-Tijuana Border.” Journal of Environmental Justice 16(4).
2022: Saldaña Tejeda, A. X. Perez-Campos, E. Reddy. “Seismic Noise to Public Health Signal: Investigating the Effects of Pandemic Guidance in Mexico.” Tapuya: Latin America Science, Technology, and Society 5(1).
2021: McBride, S.K. H. Smith, M. Morgoch, D. Sumy, M. Jenkins, L. Peek, A. Bostrom, D. Baldwin, E. Reddy, R. de Groot, and J. Becker. “Evidence-based guidelines for protective actions and earthquake early warning systems.” Geophysics 87(1).
2020: Reddy, E. “Crying ‘Crying Wolf’: Misfire and Meaningmaking with Mexico’s Techno-scientific Disaster Risk Management Tools.” Ethnos 85(2).
2019: Reddy, E., Hoople G, Choi-Fitzpatrick A. “Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Reflections on Drones as a Classroom Boundary Object.” Engineering Studies 11(1).
2019: Reddy, E., Cakici B, Ballestero A. “Beyond Mystery: Putting Algorithmic Accountability in Context.” Big Data & Society 6(1).
2018: Reddy, E. “‘A World We Don’t Know’: The Spatial Configuration of Sensory Practices and Production of Knowledge in and Around Mexican Seismic Monitoring.” Journal of Political Ecology 25(1).
2016: Reddy, E. “The Production of Earthquake Emergencies: technoscientific earthquake early warning in a social and material world.” Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación 30.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
2023: Reddy, E., M. Stettler Kleine, M. Parsons, D. Nieusma. “Sociotechnical Integration: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Do It?” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
2023: Reddy, E., C. Van Kirk, M. Stettler Kleine, E. York, S. Conley, D. Tomblin, N. Farkas Mogul, M.R. Brandt, K. Peck “Pedagogical Workshops for Interdisciplinary Trading Zones with Faculty and Students: Insights from an Engineering-focused University” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
2022: Stettler Kleine, M., E. Reddy and J. Smith. “The Multiplicity of Care in Engineering Education and Program Building.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
2019: Reddy, E. and J. Lucena. “Engineering Students vs. Geological Risk in the Gold Supply Chain: Using Geological Risk in Gold Mining Communities to Overcome Technical Instrumentalism among Engineering Students.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
Book Chapters
2020: Reddy, E. “Stability.” Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, C. Howe and A. Pandian, eds. New York: Punctum Books.
Book Reviews
2017: Reddy, E. “New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South.” Information, Communication & Society 20(12).
2017: Reddy, E. “Altering Biopolitics: A Review of Puig de la Bellacasa’s Matters of Care.” Journal of Cultural Economy 11(3).
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2024: Earthquake Hazards Program Grant: Good Alerting: An Investigation of ShakeAlert Technical Partners’ Understandings and Uses of Professional Ethics in Early Earthquake Warning with funding from United States Geological Survey.
2021: Collaborative Research: RUI: Collaborative Research and Education Architecture for Transformative Engagement with STS (CREATE/STS) with funding from the Science and Technology Studies Program in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation in partnership with colleagues at James Madison University, Michigan State University, and University of Maryland.
2020: IPA with United States Geological Survey.
2015: Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship from the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
2014: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the Cultural Anthropology Program in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
2014: Melvin Kranzberg Fellowship from the Society for the History of Technology.
2013: Grant-in-Aid from the American Institute of Physics.
2013: Dissertation Research Grant from the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States.
Media & Press
2023: New Books Network: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: ¡Alerta! interview by Liliana Gil.
2023: Humanidades Ambientales. Pensar desde Las Plantas: ¡Alerta! talk with Alejandro Ponce de Leon and others (en español e ingles).
Essays
2018: Anderson R., E. L. Backe, T. Nelms, E. Reddy and J Trombley. “Speculative Anthropologies.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, December 18, 2018.
2018: Reddy E. “Speculative Fiction and Speculating about the Social.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, December 18, 2018.
2016: Reddy E. “Stability.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website.
2015: Reddy E. “The Earthquake Early Warning System that the West Coast (Almost) Already Has.” Platypus: the blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
2014: Reddy, E. “What Does it Mean to Do Anthropology in the Anthropocene?” Platypus: the blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
Current Service and Other Work
Associate Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Science graduate program
Associate Editor at Engineering Studies
President-Elect of the Board of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
Associations and Societies
American Anthropological Association
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