Claire Votava

Claire Votava

Claire Votava

Graduate Student

Email: votavac@ucla.edu

Office: Bunche 2155

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Biography

Claire Votava is a Ph.D. student in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. She studies resistance to scientific and technological development in the 19th and 20th centuries, the long history of Luddism, and the making of global capitalism.

She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College in History and received a Fulbright Research Grant in 2020 to study gender and the Nobel Prize at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (cancelled due to COVID-19).

Field of Study

Science, Medicine, and Technology

Subfield

Technology, technocriticism, Luddism, Capitalism

Awards & Grants

Fulbright Research Fellowship (2020-2021)

Advisor(s)

Soraya de Chadarevian

Degrees

  • B.A. Dartmouth College (High Honors)