Santa Clara University

Keith Warner

Keith Douglass Warner OFM

Assistant Director for Education

Keith Douglass Warner is a Franciscan Friar and coordinates the Center’s educational work with the campus community. Santa Clara’s new undergraduate curriculum and new Engineering graduate minor in STS provide exciting new opportunities to teach STS. He works closely with faculty to develop STS teaching capacity. Keith has an MA in Spirituality from the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from University of California Santa Cruz.

Keith researches how institutions blend science, policy and human values for environmental protection initiatives. His dissertation investigated the co-evolution of agroecological knowledge systems and social networks in California agriculture. His present project, funded by the California Department of Food & Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, examines how conservation ethics and diverse social values have shaped the controversies surrounding the introduction of exotic biological control agents. It investigates how these value debates within hybrid scientific communities shape practice and policy, and you can find some of his publications here: webpages.scu.edu/ftp/kwarner/agecobc.htm. Keith also writes about the role of scientific knowledge in the Greening of Religions, and is beginning a research project to examine how scientists and religious leaders negotiate divergent cosmologies and moral visions in religious biodiversity protection partnerships.