Elizabeth Reddy

Beth is an Assistant Professor in Engineering, Design, and Society. She studies how experts consider, respond to, and communicate about risk—specializing in topics related to earthquakes—as well as STEM education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Reed College and continued on to earn a master’s in social science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in anthropology the University of California at Irvine.

She has done research in clinics, laboratories, field stations, archives, and offices to study the work of engineering, science, medicine, and education. Her work has been funded by research grants from the NSF, the Society for the History of Technology, the American Institute for Physics, and the USGS, among others.