Positions and Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Engineering, Design, & Society and 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; engineering education; qualitative, quantitative, and archival methodologies; Mexico and the United States of America.
Teaching
Courses Developed and Led for Engineers and Applied Scientists:
2019 and 2020: EDNS 491/492-Engineering for Communities Design Studio. Undergraduate Capstone course at Colorado School of Mines.
2019: EDNS 151/191-Design 1. Undergraduate Cornerstone course at Colorado School of Mines.
2019: EDNS 479-Engineers Engaging Communities. Undergraduate course at Colorado School of Mines.
2018 and 2019: EDNS 401-Projects for People. Undergraduate project-based course at Colorado School of Mines.
Book
2023. Reddy, E. ¡Alerta! Engineering on Shaky Ground. Cambridge: The MIT Press
Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
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 (accepted for publication)
2022: Reddy, E. J. Valenzuela, G. Muñoz, G. Rubio. “Border Scenario: Earthquake Risk Mitigation across the San Diego-Tijuana Border. “Journal of Environmental Justice (accepted for publication)
2021: McBride, SK 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): pp.WA77-WA102
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).
2017: Tapia Hernández E, Reddy E, Oros Avilés LJ. “Retos e Incertidumbres en la Predicción y Prevención del Riesgo Sísmico.” Revista de Ingeniería Sísmica 96.
2016: Reddy E. “The Production of Earthquake Emergencies: technoscientific earthquake early warning in a social and material world.” Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación 30.
2012: Gordon EJ, Reddy E, Ladner DP, Friedewald J, Abecassis MM, Ison MG. “Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Understanding of Increased Risk Donor Kidneys: A Qualitative Study.” Clinical Transplantation 23(2).
Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
2021: Reddy, E. and S. Mancus. “Social, Technical… and Environmental?: Addressing Environmental Entanglements as a Part of Engineering Education”American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Web Conference.
2020: Reddy, E, S. C. Rea, Q. Zhu. “Ethics by the Dose: Medical Treatment Metaphor for Ethics in Engineering Education.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Web Conference. https://peer.asee.org/34588
2019: Przestrzelski B, Reddy E, Lord S. “Teaching Social Responsibility in a Circuits Course.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
2019: Reddy E, Light L. “Designing For Stakeholders: Engineering and Applied Science Students Meet Stakeholders in a First-Year Undergraduate Introduction to Design Course.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
2019: Reddy E, Lucena J. “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.
2018: Reddy E, Hoople G, Choi-Fitzpatrick A, and Camacho, M. “Engineering Peace: Investigating Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Effects in a Team-Based Course About Drones.” American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
2018: Reddy E, Przestrelski B, Lord S, Khalil I. “Introducing Social Relevance and Global Context into the Introduction to Heat Transfer Course.” American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
2018: Przestrzelski B, Reddy E, Lord S. “Integrating Experiential with Technical: How Materials Science Modules Can Help Redefine the Traditional Engineering Canon.” American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
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
2020: Earthquake Hazards Program Grant from United States Geological Survey.
2015: Associate Dean’s Fellowship from the School of the Social Sciences in the University of California at Irvine.
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 National Science Foundation in Cultural Anthropology.
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.
Press About My Work
Karim W and Balliet B. 2015. “Shaking Up the Future.” University of California, Irvine website, May 4.
Impossible/Possible. 2018. “Earthquake Early Warning.” KUCI radio interviews, August 28 and September 4.
Essays
2018: Anderson R, Backe E L, Nelms T, Reddy E, and Trombley J. “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: Sloterdijk P, Boellstorff T, Berghof O, Lustig C, McCahey D, McCoy MR, Reddy E, Siakel DR, Valayden D, Wilson J, and Zani L, Gude R. “Satan at the Center and Double Rhizomes: Discussing ‘Spheres’ and beyond with Peter Sloterdijk.” Los Angeles Review of Books. January 14th.
2014: Reddy E. “Doing Critique in K-12: Kim Fortun on Ethnography, Environment, and the EcoEd Research Group.” 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).
Selected Invited Talks
2019: “Measurement and the Moving Earth: How Mexican Engineering Identities Shape Seismic Risk Management.” Occasional Talk at the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University in Portland, OR in May.
2018: “Like a Donkey Playing the Flute: Developing Environmental Risk Mitigation Technology in Mexico and the US.” School for the Future of Innovation at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ in January.
2017: “Earthquake Early Warning: Lessons from Mexico for California.” American Association of Civil Engineers November Meeting in San Diego, CA in September.
2017: “Cultura Sísmica Mexicana.” Conference on La Ingeniería Civil y los Retos en los Análisis del Riesgo por Fenómenos Naturales: Percepción Social at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana, BC in September.
2017: “Mexico’s Formal Seismic Culture.” Seismic Cultures Workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in September.
2017: “Crying Wolf: Misfire and Meaningmaking in Mexico.” STS Works in Progress Talk at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA in April.
2017: “Ugly Hoods: Algorithms and Aesthetics.” Algorithms Network Workshop in Sweden in February.
Current Service and Other Work
Associate Editor at Engineering Studies
Member at Large of the Board of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
Associations and Societies
American Anthropological Association
Society for the Social Studies of Science
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