Video of Cook Marshall accepting a Making and Doing Award in Amsterdam summer 2024 for her work at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference in Hawaii fall 2023. She comes on stage at about min 1:30. If you are unfamiliar with Science and Technology Studies of Society, this brief video will also give you a small window into the breadth of the field and the way in which social scientists, historians, and philosophers of science and technology analyze and engage with science and technology also as pursuits that create culture, the economy, and the world we live in.
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North Carolina Agriculutural and Technical State University cacookmarshall at ncat.edu Principal Investigator, Multidisciplinary Research Direct 11-person team, creating a mobile application through ethical machine learning centering decision-making & climate change adaptation. Conceptualize & direct adaptation & transfer for sustainable technology. Research and Service Development Establish a culture of trust through weekly research & service project meetings, emphasizing research & project staff engagement. Liaise with Office of Intellectual Property Development & Commercialization, community stakeholders & partners. Director and Principal Investigator: NC AgrAbility. Restructured program leading to 421% increase in service. |
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666930740/Big-Rural-Rural-Industrial-Places-Democracy-and-What-Next
Lexington Press of Rowman & Littlefield in their Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics series: Big Rural. Big Rural reconceptualizes the economic sectors we take for granted in the 21st Century United States, especially those in single sector rural regions. It analyzes these as large technical systems in order to reveal their developments as deliberate interventions that can be dissected, dismantled, and replaced. Big Rural examines the historical making of the rural industrial space, or “big rural” and this space’s brittleness as a system, how this system breaks and under what duress, and how big rural may be dismantled. Then, given hindsight, Big Rural enters into the remaking of this big rural space from various paths–policy, planning, practice, research. |
Making Geology, Making Places: Past, Present, Future
August 2024, Texas Tech Geosciences Department.
The rise of geology in the 19th Century as a science in the US coincides with advocacy in Virginia and West Virginia for the heart of their economies to move from plantation agriculture/subsistence agriculture to the modern industrial era. Embedded in this tale of politics, patriotism, science for public good, technology, personality, and finance is the story of the making of the current large technological culture and spaces of that region– a culture also of geologists, oil and gas engineers, compliance science practitioners, reclamation scientists, and biological systems engineers, etc. unexamined for their past, present, and future impact.
The promoted and lauded sciences of their day (the 19th Century’s "nano-tech, genetics, and AI"), these sciences and technologies drove the Industrial Revolution. We have since become so dependent on and used to the material abundance and industrial-scale application they support that their prevailing industrial practice and culture is obscured and under-examined in the media, and also by scholars in Science and Technology Studies, Rural Studies, Rural sociology, Appalachian studies, anthropology, political science, political economy, etc.
By contrast, what ought the relationships among these disciplines be?
How ought we co-create science culture and ethics for the 21st Century and beyond?
What ought to be the future of science and science as a culture?
August 2024, Texas Tech Geosciences Department.
The rise of geology in the 19th Century as a science in the US coincides with advocacy in Virginia and West Virginia for the heart of their economies to move from plantation agriculture/subsistence agriculture to the modern industrial era. Embedded in this tale of politics, patriotism, science for public good, technology, personality, and finance is the story of the making of the current large technological culture and spaces of that region– a culture also of geologists, oil and gas engineers, compliance science practitioners, reclamation scientists, and biological systems engineers, etc. unexamined for their past, present, and future impact.
The promoted and lauded sciences of their day (the 19th Century’s "nano-tech, genetics, and AI"), these sciences and technologies drove the Industrial Revolution. We have since become so dependent on and used to the material abundance and industrial-scale application they support that their prevailing industrial practice and culture is obscured and under-examined in the media, and also by scholars in Science and Technology Studies, Rural Studies, Rural sociology, Appalachian studies, anthropology, political science, political economy, etc.
By contrast, what ought the relationships among these disciplines be?
How ought we co-create science culture and ethics for the 21st Century and beyond?
What ought to be the future of science and science as a culture?
a couple of Problems Cook Marshall Has addressed
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Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Cook Marshall reorganized the constituent outreach for the "See Jane" project into a fully fledged organization, "The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media," designed its nonprofit business model and course of action, stewarded its inceptive major donor, and conceived and launched its signature events and mode of outreach and engagement.
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Draft National Rural Strategy/
Draft Sustainable Agricultural Strategy Cook Marshall analyzed the need for the
US to address rural issues outside of its current catch-all "The Farm Bill." In her book Big Rural she proposes a forward-thinking national rural strategy, and, follows directly with a sustainable agricultural strategy focused on the development of rural sustainable agricultural infrastructure. Cook Marshall insists the latter must be part of a plan for US food security, national security, and making the lives of rural Americans more equitable. |
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Crystal Cook Marshall
Header photo, photo with pigs, photo in grey hat by Nancy Andrews. Crystal Cook Marshall Copyright © 2025