Clay Davis
I am a PhD candidate in sociology and Mellon Cluster Fellow in science studies at Northwestern University. My work is unified by the theme that data is a source of power. I have studied how lay experts use databanks to motivate collaborations with their credentialed counterparts (as I discuss in my recent Social Studies of Science paper) and how surgeons, judges, and global health researchers use meta-analysis (the topic of my dissertation) to synthesize data in a way that often inadvertently creates uncertainty.Check out my profile in Northwestern’s TGS Spotlight.