Clay Davis
I am a PhD candidate in sociology and Mellon Cluster Fellow in science studies at Northwestern University. My interests lie in the tensions between democracy and expertise. In particular, I study how credentialed experts—and the health social movements that challenge them—use epistemic tools like randomized controlled trials (the focus of my first paper in Social Studies of Science), databanks (as I discuss in my recent Social Studies of Science paper), and meta-analysis (the topic of my dissertation) as sources of political power.