Sharon Traweek
Sharon Traweek | |
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| Born | Sharon Jean Traweek |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (1982) |
| Influences | Robert O. Paxton, Vartan Gregorian, Hayden White and Gregory Bateson |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Main interests | Gender studies and history |
| Notable works | Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists |
Sharon Jean Traweek 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.