Shannon Cram
Associate Professor
Faculty Coordinator, Science, Technology & Society
Education
Ph.D. Geography, University of California Berkeley
M.A. Geography, University of Oregon
B.A. Geography, Cal Poly Humboldt
Courses
- BIS 115 Digital Cultures
- BIS 245 Environmental Humanities
- BIS 252 Politics of Science
- BIS 290 Interdisciplinary Writing Seminar
- BIS 307 Environmental Justice
- BISSTS 307 Science, Technology and Society
- BIS 490 Advanced Seminar in AI Ethics
Books
- Cram, Shannon, 2023. Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. University of California Press.
Essays
- Cram, Shannon, 2025. “Origin Story” River Teeth, 27 (1): 9-11′
- Cram, Shannon, 2023. “Here, in the Plutonium” Moss, 8: 175-187
- Cram, Shannon, 2020. “A Good Day to Die” Beautiful Things
- Cram, Shannon, 2019. “Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery” Fugue, 56
- Cram, Shannon, 2016. “Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure” Public Culture, 28 (3): 519-539
- Cram, Shannon, 2015. “Wild and Scenic Wasteland: Conservation Politics in the Nuclear Wilderness” Environmental Humanities 7 (1): 89-105
- Cram, Shannon, 2015. “Becoming Jane: The Making and Unmaking of Hanford’s Nuclear Body.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33 (5): 796-812
- Cram, Shannon, 2011. “Escaping S-102: Waste, Illness, and the Politics of Not Knowing” International Journal of Science in Society 2 (1): 243-252
Forums and Dialogues
- Cram, Shannon. 2025. “Book Forum: Author Response” Progress in Environmental Geography
- Lusztig, Irene and Shannon Cram, 2024. “Placemaking in the Nuclear Sensorium” Visual Anthropology Review. 40 (1): 176-188
- Cram, Shannon, 2023. “On Telling Nuclear Stories: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado” Society +Space
- 2024 Washington State Book Award, Finalist
- 2024 Julian Steward Award, Anthropology and Environment Society
- 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science
- 2024 CAPE Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Geographers
- 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, Honorable Mention, Society for Cultural Anthropology
- 2024 Bronze Medal in Environment/Ecology, Independent Book Publisher Association
- 2024 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award, Finalist, Association of American Publishers
- 2024 National Indie Excellence Award, Finalist
- 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Finalist, Foreword Reviews
- 2023 A Best Indie Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews
- 2021 First Book Fellowship, Simpson Center for the Humanities
- 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology, Finalist, University of Washington
- 2018 Writing Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
- 2017 – 2018 Society of Scholars Fellowship, Simpson Center for the Humanities