Başak Sarac̣-Lesavre

Başak is a Research Fellow based in the Department of Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester. Her work engages with what it entails to deal with remains. She is conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the development of technologies to deal with the remains of the nuclear age in robotics laboratories. Başak received an MRes from the LSE, before receiving a Fulbright scholarship and becoming a Visiting Fellow in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. In 2016, she held an assistant professorship position on a post-doctoral appointment within the same institution where she analysed European post-Fukushima nuclear stress-tests, and in 2017, she joined Virginia Tech’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society, where she examined post-Fukushima nuclear emergency response initiatives on a NSF-funded research project. She is currently working on a book project, based on her doctoral thesis, which traces how a series of exceptional measures, temporal bridges, have been designed to make the -almost eternal- temporality of nuclear waste discernible for contemporary American society. Read more about Başak

The Beam are delighted to announce the arrival of research associate Başak Sarac̣-Lesavre!