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October 27, 2010
SIMON A. COLE
Department of Criminology, Law & Society School of Social Ecology 2357 Social Ecology II University of California Irvine, CA 92697‐7080
(949) 824‐1443 Fax: (949) 824‐3001
[email protected] TEACHING & RESEARCH POSITIONS
Associate Professor & Chair
2009‐present
Associate Professor 2006‐2009
University of California, Irvine
Department of Criminology, Law & Society
Assistant Professor 2002‐2006 Cornell University
Department of Science & Technology Studies
Visiting Scientist 2001‐2002
Visual Networks
Visualization Architect
2000
Rutgers University
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Postdoctoral Fellow 1997‐1999
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1998 Cornell University
Science & Technology Studies M.A. 1995
History A.B. with Honors Princeton University European Cultural Studies Certificate of
Proficiency 1989
PUBLICATIONS Books B2. Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, & Kathleen Jordan, Truth Machine: The
Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press).
2008
B1. Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press). • Awarded Rachel Carson Prize (for a book length work of social or
political relevance in the area of social studies of science and technology), Society for Social Studies of Science, October 17, 2003.
• Excerpt reprinted in California Lawyer, Volume 21, Number 6 (June 2001), pp. 46‐76.
• Excerpt reprinted in David A. Sklansky, Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems (Aspen Publishers, 2003), pp. 538‐540.
• Paperback edition (Harvard University Press, 2002).
2001
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 2 Journal Articles J31. Itiel E. Dror & Simon A. Cole, “The Vision in ‘Blind’ Justice: Expert Perception,
Judgment, and Visual Cognition in Forensic Pattern Recognition,” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 161‐167.
2010
J30. Simon A. Cole, “Don’t Shoot the Messenger by One of the Messengers: A Response to Merlino Et Al.,” Tulsa Law Review, Volume 45, Number 1 (Fall), pp. 111‐132.
• Placed on Social Science Research Network Top Ten Papers for Journal of Legal Scholarship Network: Evidence (Criminal Procedure) (October 15, 2010).
2009
J29. Simon A. Cole, “Forensics without Uniqueness, Conclusions without Individualization: The New Epistemology of Forensic Identification,” Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 233‐255.
2009
J28. Jay D. Aronson & Simon A. Cole, “Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and the Debate Over Capital Punishment in the United States,” Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 603‐633.
2009
J27. Simon A. Cole, “Cultural Consequences of Miscarriages of Justice,” Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 431‐449. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.874.
2009
J26. Simon A. Cole & Rachel Dioso‐Villa, “Investigating the ‘CSI Effect’ Effect: Media and Litigation Crisis in Criminal Law,” Stanford Law Review, Volume 61, Issue 6, pp. 1335‐1373.
• Placed on Social Science Research Network Top Ten download list for Law, Politics & the Media (May 29, 2009).
2009
J25. John R. Vokey, Jason M. Tangen, & Simon A. Cole, “On the Preliminary Psychophysics of Fingerprint Identification,” The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 62, Number 5, pp. 1023‐1040.
2009
J24. Simon A. Cole, “A Cautionary Tale About Cautionary Tales About Intervention,” Organization, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 121‐141. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508408098925
2009
J23. Simon A. Cole, Max Welling, Rachel Dioso‐Villa & Robert Carpenter, "Beyond the Individuality of Fingerprints: A Measure of Simulated Computer Latent Print Source Attribution Accuracy," Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 7, Number 3, pp. 165‐189.
2008
J22. Simon A. Cole, “Out of the Daubert Fire and into the Fryeing Pan? Self‐Validation, Meta‐Expertise and the Admissibility of Latent Print Evidence in Frye Jurisdictions,” Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Volume 9, Issue 2 (Spring), pp. 453‐541.
2008
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 3 J21. Simon A. Cole, “Twins, Twain, Galton, and Gilman: Fingerprinting, Individualization,
Brotherhood, and Race in Pudd’nhead Wilson,” Configurations, Volume 15, Number 3 (Fall), pp. 227‐265.
2007
J20. Simon A. Cole, “Toward Evidence‐Based Evidence: Supporting Forensic Knowledge Claims in the Post‐Daubert Era,” Tulsa Law Review, Volume 43, Number 2 (Winter), pp. 263‐283.
2007
J19. Simon A. Cole, “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Thinking about Expert Evidence as Expert Testimony,” Villanova Law Review, Volume 52, Number 4, pp. 803‐842.
2007
J18. Simon A. Cole & Rachel Dioso‐Villa, “CSI and Its Effects: Media, Juries, and the Burden of Proof,” New England Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3 (Spring), pp. 435‐469. • Listed on Social Science Research Network’s All Time Hits Top Ten downloaded papers for Journal of Criminology eJournal, Aug. 31, 2010 (more than 1,100 downloads). • Listed on Social Science Research Network’s All Time Hits Top Ten downloaded papers for Journal of Evidence & Evidentiary Procedure eJournal, October 16, 2010. • Reprinted in R. Satyanarayana (ed.), Burden of Proof (Hyderabad: Icfai University Press, 2009), pp. 55‐95.
2007
J17. Simon A. Cole, “How Much Justice Can Technology Afford? The Impact of DNA Technology on Equal Criminal Justice,” Science & Public Policy, Volume 34, Number 2 (March), pp. 95‐107.
2007
J16. Simon A. Cole & Michael Lynch, “The Social and Legal Construction of Suspects,” Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Volume 2, pp. 39‐60.
2006
J15. Simon A. Cole, "The Prevalence and Potential Causes of Wrongful Conviction by Fingerprint Evidence,” Golden Gate University Law Review, Volume 37, Number 1 (Fall), pp. 39‐105.
2006
J14. David M. Siegel, Mark Acree, Robert Bradley, Simon A. Cole, David L. Faigman, Stephen E. Fienberg, Paul C. Giannelli, Lyn Haber, Ralph N. Haber, Donald Kennedy, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Joëlle Anne Moreno, Jane C. Moriarty, D. Michael Risinger, John R. Vokey, & Sandy L. Zabell, “The Reliability of Latent Print Individualization: Brief of Amici Curiae submitted on Behalf of Scientists and Scholars by The New England Innocence Project, Commonwealth v. Patterson,” Criminal Law Bulletin, Volume 42, Number 1, pp. 21‐51.
2006
J13. Simon A. Cole, “Is Fingerprint Identification Valid? Rhetorics of Reliability in Fingerprint Proponents’ Discourse,” Law & Policy, Volume 28, Number 1 (January), pp. 109‐135. • Most accessed Law & Policy article of 2006.
2006
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 4 J12. Simon A. Cole, “‘Implicit Testing’: Can Casework Validate Forensic Techniques?”
Jurimetrics Volume 46, Number 2 (Winter), pp. 117‐128.
2006
J11. Simon A. Cole, William A. Tobin, Lyndsay N. Boggess, & Hal S. Stern, “A Retail Sampling Approach to Assess Impact of Geographic Concentrations on Probative Value of Comparative Bullet Lead Analysis,” Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 4, Number 4, pp. 199‐216.
2005
J10. Simon A. Cole, “Does ‘Yes’ Really Mean Yes? The Attempt to Close Debate on the Admissibility of Fingerprint Testimony,” Jurimetrics Volume 45, Number 4 (Summer), pp. 449‐464.
2005
J9. Simon A. Cole, “More Than Zero: Accounting for Error in Latent Print Identification,” Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Volume 95, Number 3 (Spring), pp. 985‐1078.
2005
J8. Michael Lynch & Simon Cole, “Science and Technology Studies on Trial,” Social Studies of Science Volume 35, Number 2 (April), pp. 269‐311.
2005
J7. Simon A. Cole, “Grandfathering Evidence: Fingerprint Admissibility Rulings from Jennings to Llera Plaza and Back Again,” American Criminal Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, pp. 1189‐1276.
2004
J6. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprinting: The First Junk Science?” Oklahoma City University Law Review, Volume 28, Number 1, pp. 73‐92.
2003
J5. Simon A. Cole, “From the Sexual Psychopath Statute to ‘Megan’s Law’: Psychiatric Knowledge in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Adjudication of Sex Criminals in New Jersey, 1949‐1999,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 55, Number 3, pp. 292‐314.
2000
J4. Simon A. Cole, “What Counts for Identity? The Historical Origins of the Methodology of Latent Fingerprint Identification,” Science in Context, Volume 12, Number 1, pp. 139‐172.
• Reprinted in Susan S. Silbey (ed.), Law and Science, Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 289‐322.
• Reprinted in Fingerprint Whorld, Volume 27, Number 103 (January 2001), pp. 7‐36.
1999
J3. Simon A. Cole, “Witnessing Identification: Latent Fingerprint Evidence and Expert Knowledge,” Social Studies of Science, Volume 28, Numbers 5‐6, pp. 687‐712.
• Reprinted in Fingerprint Whorld, Volume 28, Number 107 (January 2002).
1998
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 5 J2. Simon A. Cole, “Which Came First, the Fossil or the Fuel?” Social Studies of Science,
Volume 26, Number 4, pp. 733‐766. • Summarized in Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, “The World According to
Gold: disputes about the origins of oil” in The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 76‐92.
1996
J1. Simon A. Cole, “Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?” Social Text, Number 42, pp. 173‐193.
• Reprinted in Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, & Paul N. Edwards (eds.), Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 175‐195.
1995
Book Chapters BC10. Simon A. Cole & Michael Lynch, “DNA Profiling Versus Fingerprint Evidence: More of
the Same?” in Richard Hindmarsh & Barbara Prainsack (eds.), Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing (Cambridge University Press), pp. 105‐127.
2010
BC9. Simon A. Cole & Jay D. Aronson, “Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?” in Charles Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat (eds.), The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (New York University Press), pp. 46‐71.
2009
BC8. Simon A. Cole & William C. Thompson, “Legal Issues Associated with DNA Evidence” in Craig Hemmens (ed.), Current Legal Issues in Criminal Justice (Roxbury), pp. 135‐149.
2007
BC7. William C. Thompson & Simon A. Cole, “Psychological Aspects of Forensic Identification Evidence” in Mark Constanzo, Daniel Krauss, & Kathy Pezdek (eds.), Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts (Erlbaum), pp. 31‐68.
2007
BC6. Simon A. Cole & Henry N. Pontell, “‘Don’t be Low Hanging Fruit’: Identity Theft as Moral Panic” in Torin Monahan (ed.), Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life (Routledge), pp. 125‐147.
2006
BC5. Simon A. Cole, “Brandon Mayfield, Suspect” in John Knechtel (ed.), Suspect (Alphabet City Number 10) (MIT Press), pp. 170‐185.
2005
BC4. Simon A. Cole, “Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise” in Gary Edmond (ed.), Expertise in Regulation and Law (Ashgate), pp. 98‐120.
2004
BC3. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprint Evidence,” in Jane Campbell Moriarty, Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials, Release #8 (Thomson West), §§ 12:14 – 12:36.
2004
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 6 BC2. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprint Identification and the Criminal Justice System: Historical
Lessons for the DNA Debate” in David Lazer (ed.), DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice (MIT Press), pp. 63‐89.
2004
BC1. Simon A. Cole, “History of Fingerprint Identification” in Nalini K. Ratha and Ruud M. Bolle (eds.), Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (Springer‐Verlag), pp. 1‐25.
2003
Commentaries C9. Simon A. Cole, “Forensic Identification Evidence: Utility without Infallibility,”
Editorial Introduction to section on Forensic Evidence Processing, Criminology & Public Policy, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 375‐379.
2010
C8. Simon A. Cole, “Symmetry, Adversarialism, Scholarly Convention, and Latent Print Identification: A Reply to Merlino and Springer,” Tulsa Law Review, Volume 45, Number 1 (Fall), pp. 147‐155.
2009
C7. Simon A. Cole, “Comment on ‘Scientific validation of fingerprint evidence under Daubert,’” Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 7, Number 2 (June), pp. 119‐126.
2008
C6. Simon A. Cole, “The ‘Opinionization’ of Fingerprint Evidence,” BioSocieties, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 105‐113.
2008
C5. Simon A. Cole, “Jeff Cain’s Radio LAPD: Police as Content Providers in the Digital Age,” Art Journal, Volume 66, Number 3 (Fall), pp. 52‐55.
2007
C4. Simon A. Cole, “Coming Clean about ‘Junk DNA,’” Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Volume 102, pp. 107‐109, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2007/29/.
2007
C3. Simon A. Cole, “Is the ‘Junk’ DNA Designation Bunk?” Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Volume 102, pp. 54‐63, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2007/23/.
2007
C2. Simon A. Cole, “Witnessing Creation,” Social Studies of Science, Volume 36, Number 6 (December), pp. 855‐860.
2006
C1. Simon A. Cole, “Lessons from the Past for the Genetic Future,” Brooklyn Law Review, Volume 67, Issue 1, pp. 101‐110.
2001
Letters L3. Elizabeth F. Loftus & Simon A. Cole, “Contaminated Evidence,” Science, Volume 304,
Issue 5673 (May 14), p. 959.
2004
L2. Simon A. Cole, “The Fingerprint Controversy,” Issues in Science & Technology, Volume 20, Number 2, pp. 10‐11.
2004
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 7 L1. Simon A. Cole, “Science of Centerfolds,” New York Times [Science Times] (November 3),
p. F3.
1998
Book Reviews BR13. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 39, Number 1, pp. 106‐107.
Review of Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner (Zone 2007).
2008
BR12. Technology & Culture, Volume 49, Number 1, pp. 254‐255. Review of The Lie Detectors: The History of An American Obsession by Ken Alder (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
2008
BR11. Technology & Culture, Volume 48, Number 2, pp. 450‐451. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain (Princeton, 2006).
2007
BR10. Contemporary Sociology, Volume 35, Number 3, pp. 303‐304. Review of Genetics and Society: A Sociology of Disease by Anne Kerr
(Routledge, 2004).
2006
BR9. Isis, Volume 95, Number 3, pp. 510‐511. Review of Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific
Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle by Lawrence Frank (Palgrave 2004).
2005
BR8. Technology & Culture, Volume 46 Number 1, pp. 252‐253. Review of Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India by
Chandak Sengoopta (Macmillan, 2003).
2005
BR7. Journal of Criminal Justice & Popular Culture, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 34‐36. Review of Policing Contingencies by Peter K. Manning (University of Chicago
Press, 2003).
2004
BR6. Theoretical Criminology, Volume 8, Number 4, pp. 509‐512. Review of Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman by Cesare
Lombroso & Guglielmo Ferrero, Ed. & trans. Nicole Hahn Rafter & Mary Gibson (Duke University Press, 2004) & The Criminal Body: Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance by David G. Horn (Routledge, 2003).
2004
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 8 BR5. International Criminal Justice Review, Volume 12, pp. 119‐120.
Review of Lay Participation in Criminal Trials: The Case of Croatia by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkoviç (Austin & Winfield, 1999).
2002
BR4. Lychnos, Volume 65, pp. 261‐262. Review of Detective Fiction and Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald R. Thomas
(Cambridge University Press, 1999).
2000
BR3. Punishment & Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 248‐250. Review of Creating Born Criminals by Nicole Hahn Rafter (University of Illinois
Press, 1997).
1999
BR2. n.b. (Spring). Essay review of new books on child sexual abuse.
1999
BR1. n.b. (June). Review of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by
Roy Porter (Norton, 1997).
1998
Encyclopedia Entries EE7. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprint Identification” in McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science &
Technology, pp. 84‐86.
2007
EE6. Simon A. Cole, “Davis v. Mississippi, 394 U.S. 721 (1969),” in William G. Staples (ed.), Encyclopedia of Privacy, Volume 1 (Greenwood Press), pp. 161‐162.
2007
EE5. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprints and Fingerprinting” in Ibid., pp. 230‐232.
2007
EE4. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprints” in Larry E. Sullivan et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Volume 1 (Sage), pp. 189‐191.
2005
EE3. Simon A. Cole, “Adult Treatment and Diagnostic Center” in Maxine N. Lurie & Marc Mappen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press), p. 4.
2004
EE2. Simon A. Cole, “Megan’s Law” in Ibid., pp. 511‐512.
2004
EE1. Simon A. Cole, “Menlo Park Diagnostic Center” in Ibid., p. 513.
2004
Magazine Articles M13. Simon A. Cole, “It’s the Testimony, Stupid,” National Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 15
(December 10), p. 22.
2007
M12. Simon A. Cole, “Double Helix Jeopardy,” IEEE Spectrum, Volume 44, Number 8 (August), 44‐49.
2007
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 9 M11. Simon A. Cole, “The Fingerprint Controversy,” Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 31, Issue 4
(July/August), pp. 41‐46.
2007
M10. Simon A. Cole, "The Myth of Fingerprints: The Legacy of Forensic Fingerprinting and Arrestee Databases," GeneWatch, Volume 19, Number 6 (Nov.‐Dec.), pp. 3‐6.
2006
M9. Simon A. Cole, “Misplaced Convictions,” New Scientist, Number 2543 (March 18), p. 23.
2006
M8. William C. Thompson & Simon A. Cole, “Lessons from the Brandon Mayfield Case,” The Champion, Volume 29, Number 3 (April), pp. 42‐44.
2005
M7. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprints Not Infallible,” National Law Journal, Volume 26, Number 25 (February 23), p. 22.
2004
M6. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprints: An Archival Whodunit,” New York Archives, Volume 1, Number 4, pp. 12‐15.
2002
M5 Simon A. Cole, “Is the ‘Gold Standard’ Becoming ‘Junk Science’? An Analysis of Recent Developments in Fingerprint Identification,” New York Capital Defense Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 9‐13.
2002
M4. Simon Cole, “The Myth of Fingerprints,” New York Times Magazine, (May 13), p. 13.
2001
M3. Simon Cole, “The Myth of Fingerprints: A Forensic Science Stands Trial,” Lingua Franca, Volume 10, Number 8, pp. 54‐62.
• Listed as one of “Lingua Franca’s Greatest Hits,” Ron Rosenbaum, “Lamentations, Poor Lingua Franca, An Orphan of the Academic Storm,” The New York Observer (November 12, 2001).
2000
M2. Simon Cole, “Unpopular Psychology,” Lingua Franca, Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 12‐14.
2000
M1. Simon Cole, “It’s A Gas!” Lingua Franca, Volume 7, Number 10, pp. 11‐13.
1997‐1998
Newspaper Articles N9. Simon A. Cole, “A Little Art, A Little Science, A Little ‘CSI’,” New York Times
(December 31), Section 2, p. 31.
2006
N8. Simon A. Cole & William C. Thompson, “Lawyers Should View Scientific Evidence With Critical Eye,” Los Angeles Daily Journal/San Francisco Daily Journal (September 20), p. 8.
2005
N7. Rachel Dioso & Simon Cole, “Media Spread Theory that ‘C.S.I.’ Influences Real Juries,” Los Angeles Daily Journal/San Francisco Daily Journal (July 28), p. 8.
2005
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 10 N6. Simon Cole, “A Century‐Old Message: Fingerprint System Is Not Foolproof,” Los
Angeles Daily Journal/San Francisco Daily Journal (May 27), p. 6.
2005
N5. Simon Cole & Rachel Dioso, “Law and the Lab,” Wall Street Journal (May 13), p. W13.
2005
N4. Simon A. Cole & William C. Thompson, “FBI Needs to Make More Changes in Fingerprint Analysis,” Los Angeles Daily Journal/San Francisco Daily Journal (November 26), pp. 6/4.
2004
N3. Simon A. Cole, “A Prop Too Far,” Orange County Register (October 27), p. L8.
2004
N2. Simon A. Cole & William C. Thompson, “DNA Initiative Is Wrong Way of Expanding State’s Database,” Los Angeles Daily Journal/San Francisco Daily Journal (October 25).
2004
N1. Simon A. Cole, “Fingerprinting: A Black Mark,” Los Angeles Times (January 7), p. B15.
2004
GRANTS 9. National Science Foundation, Human & Social Dynamics: Agents of Change, SES‐0623122
Workshops on Surveillance and Society, Co‐Principal Investigator, $ 108,807, September 15, 2006 – September 15, 2008.
8. Project on Scientific Knowledge & Public Policy, Measuring the Use and Effects of the Daubert
Decision: Pilot Studies, Assessing the Feasibility of Building a Database of Trial Transcripts Containing Scientific Testimony, Principal Investigator, $25,000, January 1, 2006 – July 31, 2007.
7. National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Ethical Legal and
Social Implications of Human Genetics and Genomic Research Small Grant Program, HG‐003302, Criminal Justice Applications of Genetic Information, Principal Investigator, $148,989, September 22, 2005 – August 31, 2007.
6. National Science Foundation, Standard Grant, IIS‐0527729, Privacy, Identity, and Technology, Co‐
Principal Investigator, $749,943, September 15, 2005 – August 31, 2008. 5. National Science Foundation, CAREER Grant, SES‐0347305, Toward a Systems Analysis of the
Utilization of Scientific Evidence in the Criminal Law, Principal Investigator, $402,806, February 1, 2004 – January 31, 2009 (estimated).
4. Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Seed Grant, Reconfiguring Forensic Identification in a
New Scientific and Regulatory Framework, Principal Investigator, $8,000, July 7, 2003 – September 12, 2003.
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 11 3. Smith College Archives, Margaret Storrs Grierson Travel‐to‐Collections Funds, Race, Biology, and
Fingerprints: The Role of Harris Hawthorne Wilder and Inez Whipple Wilder, Principal Investigator, $650, June 30, 2003 – July 1, 2003.
2. National Science Foundation, Standard Grant, SES‐0115305, DNA Profiling and Fingerprinting:
Relations between Closure and Controversy, Co‐Investigator, $143,881, September 1, 2001 – November 30, 2002.
1. New York State Archives Partnership Trust, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency, Principal
Investigator, 1996. LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations (Academic/Government) IA78. University of California, Irvine, Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Forensic
Science Education Series “Badly Fragmented: When Courts and Science Clash,” October 19.
2010
IA77. University of Manchester, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Forensic Cultures in the 20th Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives “Forensic Reality? CSI, Media, and Technoscience,” June 12, Manchester,
United Kingdom.
2010
IA76. Northumbria University, Centre for Forensic Science, Forensic Science in the 2010s: How to Survive a Difficult Decade “The NRC Report One Year On,” June 8, Newcastle upon Tyne, United
Kingdom.
2010
IA75. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies – Technology & Social Change “The Knowledge of Contingency: A Sociology of Forensic Science,” May 19,
Linköping, Sweden.
2010
IA74. University of Chicago, Human Rights Program/Department of Anthropology, Human Rights & the New Sciences: A Symposium “ ‘Respect for Private Life’: How Human Rights Discourse Retarded the
Inexorable Expansion of DNA Databases in S. & Marper v. United Kingdom,” May 14.
2010
IA73. University of Toronto, Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine, Controversies in Forensic Science & Medicine: Towards Resolution in the 21st Century “Forensics without Uniqueness, Conclusions without Individualization: The
New Epistemology of Forensic Individualization,” February 26.
2010
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 12 IA72. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Program on Understanding
Law, Science & Evidence, Forensic Science: A Blueprint for the Future “Forensics without Uniqueness, Conclusions without Individualization,”
February 18.
2010
IA71. University of Florida, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, First Annual Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs, Tracking Citizens and Subjects: Evolving Technologies of Identity “Who Are You? Criminal Identification Technologies and Practices from
the Nineteenth Century to the Present,” January 13. 2010
IA70. Department of History, Colloquium on the History of Science “Science, Forensic Science, Pseudoscience, & Social Construction?” January
13.
IA69. Harvard University, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice Panelist, “The Road to Abolition: The Future of Capital Punishment,
November 6.
2009
IA68. University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Center for Advanced Study, Interpreting Technoscience: Explorations in Identity, Culture & Democracy “Forensic Reality? CSI, Media, and Public Technoscience,” October 8.
2009
IA67. University of Oxford, Identinet, Identifying the Person: Past, Present, and Future “Sex Crime in the Genetic Age: The Role of Sex Offenders in Generating a New
Identification Regime,” September 26.
2009
IA66. Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, Forensic Science for the 21st Century “The Strange and Sad History of the Latent Print Zero Error Rate,” April 4.
2009
IA65. University of Dundee, Biometric Identification Unit, M.Sc. course in Human Identification, “Expert Evidence,” March 25, Dundee, Scotland (via tele‐conference).
2009
IA64. Stanford University, School of Law, Stanford Law Review Symposium Panelist, “Constructions of the Criminal” (with Rachel Dioso‐Villa), January
30.
2009
IA63. University of British Columbia, Law & Society@UBC “Hyperscientia? CSI, Media, Juries and Fear of Too Much Science in Criminal
Justice,” Vancouver, Canada, January 22.
2009
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 13 IA62. University of Oxford, Identinet, The Documentation of Individual Identity: Historical,
Comparative & Transnational Perspectives since 1500 Panelist, “Discipline & Rights,” September 26.
2008
IA61. Santa Clara University School of Law, Innocence Network Conference “Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,” March 28. 2008
IA60. Panelist, “The Non‐Science of Individualization: Fingerprints, Bite Marks, and Bullets,” March 29.
IA59. Harvard University, School of Law, Twelfth Annual Symposium, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Panelist, “DNA Forensics & the Law,” March 13
2008
IA58. Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, The Road to Abolition “Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?” February 16, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (with Jay D. Aronson).
2008
IA57. Punjabi University, International Symposium on Advances in Fingerprint Identification “Fingerprint Identification: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty‐First
Century,” February 9, Patiala, India.
2008
IA56. Victoria University of Wellington/Innocence Project New Zealand, Conference 2007 “Scientific Validation of Fingerprint Evidence,” December 14.
2007
IA55. University of California, Irvine, Center for Organizational Research, Faculty Workshop “Does STS Have a Special Sauce, or Is It Just Gravy? Cautionary Notes on
Cautionary Notes about STS Interventions in Law,” December 7.
2007
IA54. Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Forensic Science Education Series “Evaluating the Reliability and Admissibility of Fingerprint Evidence,” October
17.
2007
IA53. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems “Biometrics in the 21st Century: A Historian's View,” September 28, Washington, D.C.
2007
IA52. University of Pennsylvania, Department of History & Sociology of Science “Crime, Privacy & Identity in the Age of Genetics & Information Technology,”
September 24.
2007
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 14 IA51. Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Statistics as a Boundary Object
between Science & the State “Forensic Science Gone Statistical? The Rise of the Statistical Suspect,” May 14,
Trondheim.
2007
IA50. Villanova University, School of Law, Expertise in the Courtroom: Scientists & Wizards “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Thinking About Expert Knowledge as
Expert Testimony,” October 21.
2006
IA49. Amherst College, Science in Law/Law in Science Seminar Series “Law‐Made Science? The Making of Forensic Scientific Knowledge,” October
16.
2006
IA48. New England School of Law, The C.S.I. Effect: The True Effect of Crime Scene Television on the Justice System “What Is the ‘C.S.I. Effect’?” (with Rachel Dioso‐Villa) October 13.
2006
IA47. Seminar Series “Law‐Made Science? The Making of Forensic Scientific Knowledge,” October
12, Boston, Massachusetts.
2006
IA46. Center for American & International Law, Actual Innocence “Forensic Science: Good Science, Bad Science, No Science,” August 18, Plano,
Texas.
2006
IA45. Stanford University, Program in Science, Technology & Society/Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science & Technology, Seminar on Science, Technology, & Society “How Much Justice Can Technology Afford? The Impact of Scientific and
Technological Developments on Equal (Criminal) Justice,” May 26.
2006
IA44. Arizona State University, Consortium on Science, Policy & Outcomes, Science, Policy & Inequities “How Much Justice Can Technology Afford? The Impact of Scientific and
Technological Developments on Equal (Criminal) Justice,” May 22.
2006
IA43. National Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting “Law‐Made Science? The Controversy Over the Scientific Validity of
Fingerprint Individualization,” Washington, D.C., April 25.
2006
IA42. American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy, Annual Retreat “Comparison IDs” (with Barry A.J. Fisher), Greensboro, North Carolina, April 1.
2006
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 15 IA41. North Carolina A&T State University, The Convergence of Law and Science: A
Multidisciplinary Search for Truth and Justice “Panel Discussion,” March 30.
2006
IA40. Claremont McKenna College, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum “Fingerprint Evidence: Science, Psychology, Law,” February 7.
2006
IA39. University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning & Development, Delinquency Control Institute “The Role of Science in the Criminal Justice System,” January 23.
2006
IA38. National Academy of Sciences, Sackler Colloquium: Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law “A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification,” Washington, D.C.,
November 18.
2005
IA37. University of California, San Diego, Science Studies Colloquium “Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise:
Contested Knowledge Domains in Art and Science,” October 10.
2005
IA36. Science Studies Program, Making Society, Knowing Society “Science and Technology Studies on Trial: Dilemmas of Expertise,” June 3.
2005
IA35. University of California, Irvine, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations “Fingerprinting: Between Humans and Machines,” May 25.
2005
IA34. HumaniTech, Human Rights, Technology & the Humanities Panelist, “Security, Privacy & the Law,” May 12.
2005
IA33. Columbia University, School of Law, Spring Colloquium: Internment “The Terrorist Within Us: The Case of Brandon Mayfield,” April 13.
2005
IA32. Sixth International Conference on Forensic Statistics “Natural Experiments on Latent Print (Fingerprint) Accuracy,” March 19,
Tempe, Arizona.
2005
IA31. Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting “Wrongful Conviction by Fingerprint,” January 8, San Francisco, California.
2005
IA30. University of California, Irvine, Department of Informatics “The Body and the Archive: Fingerprints as Information,” November 12.
2004
IA29. Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, Decisions & Justice “Towards Measurement of Fingerprint Accuracy,” October 30.
2004
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 16 IA28. Oxford University, Saïd Business School, Does STS Mean Business?
“Meaning Business in the Legal Arena: A Tentative Vision for STS,” June 30.
2004
IA27. Cardiff University, Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science “Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise,”
Cardiff, Wales, June 28.
2004
IA26. Saddleback College, Emeritus Institute, Distinguished Lecture Series “A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Investigation,” Mission Viejo, Cal.,
May 14.
2004
IA25. Bowling Green State University, Criminal Justice Program, Second Annual Criminal Justice Forum “Emerging Issues in Forensic Science,” April 8.
2004
IA24. University of California, Irvine, Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Social Science & the Law of Evidence “Evaluating the Reliability and Admissibility of Fingerprint Evidence,”
November 15.
2003
IA23. Northwestern University/American Bar Foundation, Center for Legal Studies, Law & Society Workshop (co‐sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program) “Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise,”
November 10.
2003
IA22. University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology “How Fingerprinting is Turning into DNA, and DNA Is Turning into
Fingerprinting,” September 29.
2003
IA21. California Association of Crime Laboratory Directors, Spring Meeting “Fingerprint Evidence and Daubert,” May 8, Los Angeles.
2003
IA20. University of California, Santa Barbara, Law & Society Program/Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Executing Justice: America and the Death Penalty “Promise Unfulfilled: Forensic Science and the Death Penalty,” April 25.
2003
IA19. Oklahoma City University, School of Law, Symposium: The Use and Misuse of Forensic Evidence “Fingerprinting: The First Junk Science?” March 6.
2003
IA18. University of Western Australia “Fingerprint Evidence and the Nature of Forensic Science,” Perth, August 27.
2002
IA17. Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia “Recent Developments Concerning Fingerprint Evidence,” Perth, Australia,
August 28.
2002
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 17 IA16. Australian Federal Police
“Recent Developments Concerning Fingerprint Evidence,” Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, August 22.
2002
IA15. Griffith University Law School/Australian Innocence Project “Fingerprinting: The First Junk Science?” Gold Coast Campus, Queensland,
Australia, August 26.
2002
IA14. Australian National University, International Symposium on Law and Expertise. “From Science to Appraisal: The Reconstruction of Fingerprint Expertise in
U.S. v. Plaza,” August 23.
2002
IA13. University of Technology, Sydney “The Limitations of Fingerprint Evidence,” August 19.
2002
IA11. Australian Law Reform Commission “Lessons from the Past for the Genetic Future,” August 19.
2002
IA11. University of Toronto, Mississauga/Canadian Identification Society, Annual Meeting. “The Limitations of Fingerprint Evidence,” June 6.
2002
IA10. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York “The Digital Dilemma: A Critique of Fingerprinting as a Criminal Identification
Process,” April 25.
2002
IA9. Harvard University, School of Law, Criminal Justice Institute, Wrongful Convictions: A Call to Action. “Fingerprinting: The First Junk Science?” April 20.
2002
IA8. DePaul University, Center for Law and Science, Fingerprints: Forensic Applications. “Fingerprints and Forensic Science,” April 15.
2002
IA7. Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts, Daubert/Frye: Science and the Law. “What is Science and What is Not?”
Mars, Pennsylvania, April 10. 2002 IA6. Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, April 24.
IA5. Society of Medical Jurisprudence “Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification,”
New York, New York, January 14.
2002
IA4. Brooklyn Law School, DNA: Lessons from the Past – Problems for the Future “Commentary: Lessons from the Past for the Genetic Future,” March 9.
2001
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 18 IA3. National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, DNA and the Criminal Justice
System “Fingerprint Identification and the Criminal Justice System,” Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, November 20.
2000
IA2. University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, Science, Technology and the DNA Debate. “Identifying the Criminal Body,” October 27.
2000
IA1. Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice, In Search of the Criminal Body: Science and Myth in Criminological History (museum exhibition). “Visualizing Criminality: Criminal Identification from Photography through
Fingerprinting,” May 21.
1998
Invited Lectures (Non‐Academic) IP47. Administrative Office of the Courts of California, Center for Judicial Education &
Research, Appellate Judicial Attorneys Institute “Fingerprint Evidence,” October 25, Burlingame, California.
2010
IP46. Association for Criminal Justice Research (California), 72nd Semiannual Meeting “Should We Worry about the ‘CSI Effect’?” October 21, Huntington Beach.
2010
IP45. Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science “Forensics without Uniqueness, Conclusions without Individualization: The
New Epistemology of Forensic Individualization,” May 27, Linköping, Sweden.
2010
IP44. District of Columbia Courts, The Role of the Court in an Age of Developing Science and Technology “Fingerprint Admissibility as a Paradigm,” May 7, Washington, D.C.
2010
IP43. Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education/Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender, Defending Illinois Death Penalty Cases “Fingerprint Evidence and Processes for Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,”
March 24, Chicago, Illinois.
2010
IP42. Los Angeles County Public Defender, Forensic Science Training – Using the National Academy of Science Report in Litigation “Fingerprint Admissibility Challenges” (with Jennifer Friedman & Nina
Chernoff), March 20.
2010
IP41. Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Sixth National Seminar on Forensic Evidence and the Criminal Law “Deconstructing Forensic Reports,” January 9.
2010
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 19 IP40. “Is it Science? Fingerprints, Tool Marks, and Firearms ID” (with Adina
Schwartz), January 8, San Diego, California.
IP39. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Seventh Annual Forensics Seminar “Fingerprints,” October 22, Houston.
2009
IP38. Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Seventh Annual Forensic Science Conference “Where Is the Science in Forensic Science?” (all‐day lecture, with Mark Acree
and Kenneth Moses), June 13, Washington, D.C.
2009
IP37. The NAS Report and Its Implications for Admissibility Challenges to Previously Admitted Forensic Disciplines
“Friction Ridge Analysis: Fingerprints, Palm Prints and Extreme Tip Fingerprints” (with Patrick Kent), June 6, Washington, D.C.
2009
IP36. Riverside County Public Defender, Continuing Legal Education Series “Unreliable Fingerprint Evidence,” May 1, Riverside, California.
2009
IP35. Southwestern Association of Forensic Document Examiners, Annual Meeting Panelist, “Forensic Pattern Evidence Panel Discussion,” April 24, Los Angeles.
2009
IP34. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Sixth Annual Forensics Seminar “Fingerprints,” October 24, Dallas.
2008
IP33. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Fifth Annual Forensics Seminar “Fingerprints,” October 4, Dallas.
2007
IP32. Los Angeles County Public Defender, Forensic Science Seminar “Fingerprints,” September 15.
2007
IP31. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Annual Meeting & Seminar Panelist, “Reinvigorating Daubert to Challenge the Prosecution’s Sacred
Cows,” August 2. 2007
IP30. “Challenging Assumptions about Fingerprint Comparison Evidence,” August 2, San Francisco, California.
IP29. International Association for Identification, International Education Conference Panelist, “Moving Forward with Objectivity—A Panel Discussion,” July 23,
San Diego, California.
2007
IP28. California Attorneys for Criminal Justice/California Public Defenders Association, Capital Case Defense Seminar “Fingerprints” (with Jennifer Friedman), February 19, Monterey, California.
2007
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 20 IP27. Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Fourth National Seminar on
Forensic Evidence and the Criminal Law “More Than Zero: Documented Errors in Fingerprint Identification,” January
20, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007
IP26. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Fourth Annual Forensics Seminar “Fingerprints,” September 20, Dallas.
2006
IP25. Los Angeles County Bar Association, Issue in Forensic Science “Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,” September 9.
2006
IP24. Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Challenging Fingerprint Evidence and More . . . “Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,” June 23, Minneapolis.
2006
IP23. California State Division, International Association for Identification, Annual Seminar, Ontario “Debate on the Reliability and Admissibility of Fingerprints,” May 11. 2006
IP22. “Panel Discussion,” May 11.
IP21. Newport Harbor Bar Association “Science in the Courtroom” (with William C. Thompson), February 8.
2006
IP20. New England Division, International Association for Identification, Annual Education Conference, Burlington, Vermont “Made in America? The American Origins of Fingerprint Identification,”
November 4.
2005
IP19. “Debate on the Reliability and Admissibility of Fingerprints,” November 3. IP18. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Third Annual Forensics Seminar
“Fingerprints,” September 22, Dallas, Texas.
2005
IP17. Human Identification ESymposium, International Web Conference “Debate: Fingerprints – Science or Not?” April 15, http://www.humid.e‐symposium.com/
2005
IP16. California Attorneys for Criminal Justice/California Public Defenders Association, Capital Case Defense Seminar.
“Fingerprints” (with Michael Burt), Monterey, California, February 19.
2005
IP15. Newport Harbor Bar Association “Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification,”
January 12.
2005
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 21 IP14. Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Second Annual Forensic
Science Conference: An Interactive Crime Scene Investigation. “Fingerprint Comparison and Interpretation,” May 22.
2004
IP13. Science & Engineering Academic Librarians, California Association of Research Librarians, Science & Crime: Intersections & New Paths for Investigation. Keynote address, “Incorporating Science & Technology to Study Crime,”
Irvine, Cal., May 11.
2004
IP12. North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Demystifying the Crime Lab. “Fingerprint Analysis: A Critical Review from the Beginning through U.S. v.
Plaza,” Raleigh, N.C., April 2.
2004
IP11. Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, First Annual Forensic Seminar. “Fingerprints,” August, 28, Plano, Texas.
2003
IP10. Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Can’t Trust the Message: Exploring, Exposing, and Exploiting the Evidence to Exonerate. “Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,” Madison, Wisconsin, June 19.
2003
IP9. California Attorneys for Criminal Justice/California Public Defenders Association, Capital Case Defense Seminar. “Challenging Forensic Evidence” (with Kim Kruglick), February 16, Monterey,
California.
2003
IP8. Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Criminal Practice Institute “Challenges to Fingerprints on Cross‐Examination: Chipping Away at the
Aura” (with Michael Saks), November 9.
2002
IP7. Los Angeles County Public Defender, Capital Case Seminar. “Challenges to Scientific Evidence ‐ An Overview,” October 5.
2002
IP6. Bronx Defender Organization “Fingerprint Evidence: Current Issues,” May 8.
2002
IP5. The Legal Aid Society of New York City, Criminal Appeals Bureau “Fingerprints,” February 21.
2002
IP4. Virginia Bar Association, Virginia Capital Defense Seminar. “Challenging Fingerprint Evidence,” November 15.
2001
IP3. New York State Capital Defender Office “Recent Developments in Forensic Fingerprint Evidence,” July 5.
2001
IP2. Defender Association of Philadelphia, Criminal Defense Update. “Debunking Fingerprints” (with Robert Epstein), April 21.
2001
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 22 IP1. Administrative Office of the United States Courts, National Seminar on Forensics
and the Criminal Law. “Understanding and Evaluating Fingerprint Evidence” (with Robert Epstein),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 4.
2000
Conference Presentations CP36. Society for Empirical Legal Studies, Fourth Annual Conference
“Speaking of Evidence: An Empirical Study of the Reporting of Forensic Conclusions in US Criminal Trials,” November 21, University of Southern California.
2009
CP35. American Society of Criminology, Annual Meeting “Teaching Miscarriages of Justice,” St. Louis, November 13.
2008
CP34. Society for Social Studies of Science/European Association for the Study of Science & Technology, Joint Annual Meeting “Lifestyle Intelligence and the Resurgence of Diagnostic Forensics,”
Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 22.
2008
CP33. Seventh International Conference on Forensic Inference & Statistics “Beyond Individualization, or How Wittgenstein Can Save Forensic
Identification,” Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21.
2008
CP32. Law & Society Association/Canadian Law & Society Association, Joint Meetings “Judging Experts: Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of Meta‐Expertise,”
Montreal, Quebec, May 31. 2008
CP31. “Experts on Fire: What Is an Arson Expert?” (with Rachel Dioso‐Villa) May 30.
CP30. Drexel University, Science, Technology and the Historical Influence of Race: An Interdisciplinary Conversation “Twins, Twain, Galton & Gilman: Fingerprinting, Individualization,
Brotherhood, and Race in Pudd’nhead Wilson,” March 9.
2007
CP29. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law The Faces of Wrongful Conviction “The Prevalence and Potential Causes of Wrongful Conviction by
Fingerprint,” April 8.
2006
CP28. Society for Social Studies of Science “ ‘A Wispy Thing Like Smoke’: Accounting for Error in Forensic
Identification,” Pasadena, California, October 22.
2005
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 23 CP27. Society for Social Studies of Science/European Association for the Study of
Science and Technology “Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and Public Proofs of Experience‐Based
Knowledge,” Paris, France, August 26.
2004
CP26. American Sociological Association “Core Ambiguities: The Legal Constitution of Core Sets in Disputes about
Forensic Evidence,” (with Michael Lynch) San Francisco, California, August 15.
2004
CP25. American Society of Criminology “DNA and Fingerprint Identification: Rhetorics of Reliability and Credibility”
(with Michael Lynch), Denver, Colorado, November 21.
2003
CP24. Society for Social Studies of Science “Suspect Identities: Author Meets Critic” (author), Atlanta, Georgia, October
18.
2003
CP23. Society for the History of Technology “Ne’er the Twins Shall Meet: Race, Criminal Identification Techniques, And
Pudd’nhead Wilson,” Atlanta, Georgia, October 17.
2003
CP22. Cornell University, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Connecting S&TS: The Academy, the Polity and the World “S&TS on Trial: Deploying S&TS in Criminal Litigation,” Sept. 28.
2003
CP21. Law and Society Association “Law Making Science: The Case of Forensic Fingerprint Identification,”
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7.
2003
CP20. Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities “A Roundtable On the Science of Law,” New York, New York, March 9.
2003
CP19. Society for Social Studies of Science “The Legal Reconstruction of Science: DNA, Daubert, and Fingerprinting”
(with Michael Lynch), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 8.
2002
CP18. American Sociological Association “Quantification and the Credibility of ‘Scientific’ Evidence: The Checkered
Careers of DNA Profiling and Fingerprinting” (with Michael Lynch), Chicago, August 19.
2002
CP17. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology “Judicial Metascience and the Credibility of Expert Evidence” (with Michael
Lynch), York, England, August 2.
2002
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 24 CP16. Law and Society Association
“DNA and Fingerprint Identification: A Comparative Controversy Study” (with Michael Lynch), Vancouver, British Columbia, May 31.
2002
CP15. American Academy of Forensic Science, Breakfast Seminar. “Fingerprint Evidence and the Nature of Forensic Science,” Atlanta, Georgia,
February 13.
2002
CP14. Society for Social Studies of Science “Constructing a Wayback Machine: Compiling an Archive on Voting
Technologies and the 2000 Presidential Election” (with Marcus Boon), Cambridge, Mass., November 2.
2001
CP13. National Institute of Justice, National Conference on Science and the Law, Emerging Trends: Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom. “Renegotiating Science: Fingerprinting and Daubert,” San Diego, California,
October 13.
2000
CP12. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology/ Society for Social Studies of Science “Fingerprinting at the Border: Technology, Race, Citizenship, Identity,”
Vienna, Austria, September 28. 2000
CP11. “Roundtable: Identifying Standardization: The Body, The Data and the Person in the Era of DNA Fingerprinting,” Vienna, Austria, September 29.
CP10. Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, Technoculture. “Your Friends and Neighbors: Stalking Sexual Predators in Cyberspace,” New
York, New York, June 11.
1999
CP9. American Association for the History of Medicine “From the Sexual Psychopath Statute to ‘Megan’s Law’: Psychiatric
Knowledge in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Adjudication of Sex Offenders in New Jersey, 1949‐1999,” New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 9.
1999
CP8. American Historical Association “Immutable Mobiles: The Role of Human Migration in the Origin of
Fingerprint Identification,” Washington, D.C., January 11. • Published in Proceedings of the American Historical
Association, 1999 (Ann Arbor: UMI).
1999
CP7. Social Science History Association “Sources of Identity, Signs of Sin: Criminal Identification Systems in the
United States,” Chicago, Illinois, November 20.
1998
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 25 CP6. Cornell University, Making People: The Normal and Abnormal in Constructions of
Personhood. “Identifying People: The Fingerprint as Sign, from Criminality to
Personhood,” April 26.
1998
CP5. American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association “Dactyloscopy versus Anthropometry at the 1904 Exposition,” Orlando,
Florida, April 11.
1998
CP4. Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Victorian Worlds: Anthropologies, Ethnicities, Geographies. “The Madness of Sir Francis Galton: The Colonial and Eugenic Origins of
Fingerprint Identification,” Smith College, April 5.
1998
CP3. Law and Society Association “The Profession of Truth: Fingerprint Examiners and Expert Knowledge,” St.
Louis, Missouri, May 31.
1997
CP2. Society for Social Studies of Science/Society for the History of Technology “Trying Dactyloscopy: The Mechanization of Truth in the Courtroom,”
Charlottesville, Virginia, October 19.
1995
CP1. Cornell University, Doing is Believing: Credibility and Practice in Science and Technology. “There Is Something to this Science: Establishing the Credibility of
Fingerprinting in the United States,” April 23.
1995
SERVICE Profession Commissioner, American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science and
Public Policy. The American Judicature Society (AJS), founded in 1913, is an independent, national, nonpartisan organization of judges, lawyers, and other members of the public who seek to improve the justice system. The AJS Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy is composed of distinguished scientists, nationally respected law enforcement officials, prominent attorneys and judges, and other citizens devoted to improving the administration of justice through the application of cross‐disciplinary research and education.
2005 – present
Advisory Boards Innocence Project New Zealand 2007 – present Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science 2010 – present
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 26 Journals Theoretical Criminology
Co‐Editor 2008 – present U.S. Book Review Editor
2005 – 2007
Law & Society Review Editorial Advisory Board 2010 ‐ present
Manuscript/Proposal/Report reviews
Publishers: 1999 – present Jones & Bartlett Cambridge University Press University of California Press SAGE New York University Press Southern Illinois University Press
MIT Press Rutgers University Press University of Illinois Press Harvard University Press University of Minnesota Press Westview Press.
Journals: 2001 – present Journal of Criminal Justice University of Toronto Law Journal Law, Culture & the Humanities Science in Context Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Crime, Law & Social Change Current Issues in Criminal Justice Canadian Journal of Sociology Justice Quarterly Surveillance & Society Jurimetrics Law & Society Review Punishment & Society European Journal of Criminology Science & Public Policy
British Journal of Sociology Perspectives on Science Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Contexts Judicature Law & Social Inquiry Technology & Culture Psychology, Public Policy & Law Science, Technology & Human Values Social Problems American Historical Review Social Studies of Science Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied
Sciences.
Funding Agencies: 2004 – present Israel Science Foundation The Wellcome Trust
California Policy Research Center National Science Foundation
Campus Chair, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
2009 – present
Vice Chair, Department of Criminology, Law & Society 2007 – 2009
Member, Council on Faculty Welfare Representative to Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Child Care
2008 – present
SIMON A. COLE PAGE 27
Faculty Senate Chair, School of Social Ecology
2006 – 2007
Member, Campuswide Honors Program Board
2005 – 2008
Member, Conflict of Interest Oversight Committee 2003 – 2006 MEMBERSHIP 1. Law and Society Association. 2. Society for Social Studies of Science.
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Addendum to Curriculum Vita—Legal Consulting Experience Trial Testimony 10. District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, State v. Casteneda, Doc. 179, No. 162,
October 5, 2010 (Douglas County Public Defender). 9. Superior Court for the County of Orange, California, People v. Eliseo Morales, No.
08CF1420, April 20, 2009 (Orange County Public Defender). 8. Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, California, People v. Hameed Brown,
March 11, 2008 (County of Sacramento Office of the Public Defender). 7. Superior Court for the County of Orange, California, People v. Morgan McGregor
Hamilton, No. 07CF0236, September 4, 2007 (Orange County Public Defender). 6. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California, People v. Shondel Larkin,
No. LA048009, July 28, 2006 (Los Angeles County Public Defender). 5. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California, People v. Jeffrey Daugherty,
No. SA058855, June 27, 2006 (Los Angeles County Public Defender). 4. Superior Court for the County of San Francisco, California, People v. Gregory
Bussani, No. 192248, January 19, 2005 (San Francisco Public Defender). 3. Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, California, People v. Robert Johnson,
April 13, 2004 (County of Sacramento Office of the Public Defender). 2. Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, California, People v. Patrick Milo
Bryant, December 20, 2003 (County of Sacramento Office of the Public Defender).
1. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California, People v. Heans Victor, No.
PA040775-01, September 24, 2003 (Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender).
Admissibility Hearing Testimony 20. Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County, People v. James
Edward Jones, No. NA085343, January 7, 2011 (R. Stephen Bolinger, Esq.). 19. Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County, People v. Ricardo
Rodriguez, No. SA064420, December, 2010 (Los Angeles County Public Defender).
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18. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Riverside, People v. Daniel Gonzalez Garcia, No. RIF136371, August 2, 2010 (Riverside County Public Defender).
17. Circuit Court for the State of Oregon for Lane County, State v. Stephen Angius, No.
200924231, June 23, 2010 (Middleton & Lee, P.C.). 16. Second Judicial District Court, County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, State v.
Richard Ireland, # 62CR-09-15586, June 1, 2010 (Ramsey County Public Defender).
15. Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles, People v. Tyrone
Eleby, No, NA083009, March 9, 2010 (Los Angeles County Public Defender). 14. United State District Court, District of Utah, United States v. Thomas James Zajac,
No. 2:06-CR-0811CW, March 3, 2010 (Law Office of Deirdre Gorman). 13. Seventh Judicial District Court, County of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, State v.
Jeremy Hull, CR-07-2336, August 28, 2008 (Minnesota Board of Public Defense). 12. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, People v. Kevin Carradine,
Jr., SCN 196416 & 200050, January 23, 2008 (San Francisco Public Defender). 11. Superior Court of Bibb County, State of Georgia, State v. Jomekia Dechelle Pope, No.
05CR59664, July 12, 2007 (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender). 10. Hennepin County, Minnesota, State v. Michael Columbus, No. 04082599, May 18,
2006 (Hennepin County Public Defender). 9. Superior Court for the County of San Diego, People v. Jaime Peña, Aug. 25, 2005
(San Diego County Public Defender). 8. Hillsborough County Superior Court, State of New Hampshire v. William Sullivan, Jr.,
No. 03-S-1635-1637, deposition, May 23, 2005; admissibility hearing testimony, June 9, 2005 (Law Office of Paul J. Garrity & Richard Monteith).
7. Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, State v. Duane Armstrong, deposition, Jan. 28,
2005; pre-trial hearing testimony, May 29, 2005 (Law Offices of the Public Defender).
6. Superior Court in and for New Castle County, State of Delaware v. Donald Cole, May
13, 2002 (Office of the Public Defender). 5. Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida, State v. Victor
Reyes, Case No. 96-027365 CF10A, deposed January 25, 2002; Frye hearing testimony, May 17, 2002 (Heyer & Associates).
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4. Superior Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Commonwealth v. Owen McCants,
No. SUCR2000-10944, April 22, 2002 (Shea & LaRocque). 3. Fourth Judicial District for El Paso and Teller Counties, Colorado, People v. Robert
Hood, Case No. 01CR2263, January 18, 2002 (Colorado Springs Regional Office, Colorado Office of the State Public Defender).
2. Supreme Court, Kings County – Part 23, New York, People v. James Hyatt,
Indictment No. 8852/00, October 4, 2001 (Criminal Defense Division, Legal Aid Society of New York City).
1. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States v.
Byron Mitchell, Cr. No. 96-407, July 13, 1999 (Federal Court Division, Defender Association of Philadelphia).
• Record stipulated to in:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Terry L. Patterson, No. SJC-09478,
Lanigan motion, 2005.
Superior Court for the County of San Francisco, California, People v. Robert Nawi, Case No. 1812436, Kelly-Frye hearing, October 10, 2000.
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
United States v. Ahmed Ressam, Criminal Action No. CR99-666C, Daubert motion, April 2001.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
United States v. Gary Ramsey, Daubert motion, Criminal Action No. 01-005, October 16, 2001.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
United States v. Llera Plaza, Acosta, Rodriguez, Criminal Action Nos. 98-362-10, 11, 12, Daubert motion, January 7, 2002.
Offers of Proof 5. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, People v.
DeShawn Day, No. BA350290, December 17, 2009 (Los Angeles County Public Defender).
4. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, People v. Carl
Price, No. TA096158, August 14, 2009 (Alternate Public Defender).
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3. Virginia Beach Circuit Court, Commonwealth v. Glenn A. Harrison, Jr., No. CR070004705-00-01, May 20, 2009 (Zoby & Broccoletti, P.C.).
2. Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Hillsborough County,
State of Florida v. Ray Lamar Johnston, No. 99-11338, post-conviction Habeas proceeding, December 1, 2006 (Florida Capital Collateral Counsel).
1. Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, State v. Gregory Stevenson, No. CR305-
1267, March 8, 2006 (Missouri State Public Defender). Deposition 1. Circuit Court of Cook County, State of Illinois v. Juan Luna, No. 02-CR-15430,
January 12, 2007 (Illinois Appellate Defender). Affidavits 17. Superior Court of Washington, County of King, State v. Le Nhu Le, No. 09-C-06804-
2 SEA, August 6, 2010 (David Treiweiler, Esq.) 16. Superior Court of Washington, County of King, State v. Kenneth Sims, No. 08-1-
06912-1 KNT, January 2010 (Ellis, Holmes, and Witchley). 15. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division,
Shannon Wayne Agofsky v. United States, No. 1:07-CV-51, September 4, 2009 (Defender Association of Philadelphia).
14. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, People v.
Tashami Sims, No. VA 106 619, June 26, 2009 (pro se). 13. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Joe Burnell v. Warden, Habeas proceeding, April 14,
2009 (pro se). 12. District Court of Johnson County, State of Kansas v. Edwin R. Hall, No. 07 CR
1474, March 19, 2008, (Paul D. Cramm, Esq.). 11. Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Riverside, People
v. Javier William Victorianne, Case No. RIF-093353, October 2007 (John Aquilina, Esq.).
10. Superior Court, Anson County, North Carolina, State v. Robert Odell Lilly, 03-CRS-
51698, July 15 2007 (Kenneth A. Swain & Carol Kendrick). 9. State v. Robert Cowan, Habeas proceeding, May 2007 (Mark Goldrosen, Esq.).
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8. Circuit Court for Baltimore County, State of Maryland v. Brian Rose, Case No. K-06-0545, April 30, 2007 (Maryland Office of the Public Defender).
7. State v. Prentice Snow, Habeas proceeding, December 2006 (Habeas Corpus Resource
Center). 6. United States District Court for the Central District of Los Angeles, United States v.
Petro Krylov, No. CR 02-0220(B)-NM, May 1, 2006 (Geragos & Geragos). 5. Municipal Court of the City of Seattle, City of Seattle v. Michael Holland, No. 461349,
May 2, 2005 (The Defender Association). 4. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, United States v.
Rudolph, Cr-00-N-0422-S, affidavits submitted, Dec. 21, 2004 & Feb. 17, 2005 (Law Office of Michael Burt).
3. District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Montana, State v. Fred Van Dyken,
June 2004 (Carolyn Long Soldier). 2. Isle of Wight Crown Court (United Kingdom), Rex v. Darrell James Howard, April
2004 (Wilks, Price, Hounslow Solicitors). 1. Supreme Court, Queens County, New York, People v. John Taylor, April 10, 2002
(New York State Capital Defender Office). Consultation 30. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, United States v. Titus Faison, 2008-CF2-
16636, March – August, 2010 (Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia).
29. United State District Court, District of Minnesota, United States v. Thomas Travis
Widner, Cr. No. 09-326, May, 2010 (Office of the Federal Defender, District of Minnesota).
29. Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, People v. Nathaniel
Greenwood, No. BA351185, February 5, 2010 (Los Angeles County Public Defender).
28. Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, People v. Matthew
Walker, No. VA111316, January 2010 (Los Angeles County Public Defender). 27. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, People v. Stephen S. Powell,
CN. 2426569, January, 2010 (San Francisco Public Defender).
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25. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, United States v. Aafia Siddiqui, 08 CR 826, December, 2009 (Whitfield, Sharp & Sharp).
24. Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Multnomah County, State v. Jose Zamora-
Camacho, Nos. C 06-07-33949, DA 2088087-4, December, 2009 (Laurie Bender, Esq.).
23. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, People v.
Daniel Cowie, No. TA091960-01, July 2009 (Los Angeles County Public Defender).
22. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Orange, People v. E.L.,
No. DL029187-005, July, 2009 (Orange County Public Defender). 21. Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of King, State v.
Michael Moshofsky, No. 07-1-02628-9 SEA, June 2009 (Defender Association of Seattle).
20. Superior Court of the State of Indiana for Allen County, State v. Michael Harmeyer,
No. 02D04-0804-FC-121, March, 2009 (Allen County Public Defender’s Office). 19. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Orange, People v.
Coleman Hart, No. 08WF0198, January, 2009 (Orange County Public Defender). 18. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, People v.
Brandon Henderson, No. NA078467, September, 2008 (Los Angeles County Public Defender).
17. Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Contra Costa,
People v. Darryl Thomas Kemp, No. 5-051777-1, August, 2008 (Contra Costa County Public Defender).
16. Third District Court, Salt Lake County, State of Utah v. Robert Michael Sheehan,
Case No. 061908535, April 2008 (Bugden & Isaacson, L.L.C.). 15. United States District Court for the District of Utah, United States v. Thomas James
Zajac, No. 2:06 CR 811 DAK, July 2007 (Utah Federal Defender). 14. Superior Court for the County of San Mateo, People v. Luis Padilla-Muniz, Case No.
SC 62751, May 2007 (Raymond Buenaventura, Esq.). 13. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California, People v. Angel Arellano,
Case No. TA 084793, April 2007 (Law Offices of Edmont T. Barrett). 12. Superior Court, Judicial District of Fairfield, People of the State of Connecticut v.
Terrance Morgan, September 2006 (Law Offices of Erskine McIntosh).
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11. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, People v. Jesus Osaeta, No. 5 AL
01522, September 2006 (Alternate Public Defender). 10. Superior Court for the County of San Francisco, California, People v. Leroy James,
No. 2225473, 2006 (San Francisco Public Defender). 9. Superior Court for the County of San Francisco, California, People v. James Jackson,
No. 2211286, 2005-2006 (Law Office of George Beckwith). 8. Supreme Court of New York, People v. Hilson, June 2004 (New York State Capital
Defender Office). 7. Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California, People v. Shannon Bratton,
No. GA050055, April 2003 (Los Angeles County Public Defender). 6. Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, California, People v. Russo Vang, No.
98F09534, January-December 2003 (County of Sacramento Office of the Public Defender).
5. People of the State of Connecticut v. Gomez, September 2002 (Linda Sullivan, Esq.). 4. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, United States v.
Rashaan Dewayne Roberts, No. 4:02CR00053 JMM, July 2002 (J. Blake Hendrix, Esq.).
3. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, United States v.
James Broten et al., 01-CR-411, June-July 2002 (Office of the Public Defender, Districts of Northern New York & Vermont).
2. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States v.
Carlos Ivan Llera Plaza, Wilfredo Martinez Acosta, and Victor Rodriguez, Cr. No. 98-362-10, 11, 12, January-February 2002 (Krasner & Restreppo).
1. Superior Court of Carroll County, Georgia, State v. Jeffrey Vincent McGee, Indictment
No. 99-CR-277, October 2000 (Georgia Multi-County Public Defender). Amicus Curiae 2. Supreme Court of the United States, E.K. McDaniel v. Troy Brown, No. 08-559, Brief
of 20 Scholars of Forensic Evidence as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, July 24, 2009.
1. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Commonwealth v. Patterson, No. 09478,
Brief of Amici Curiae submitted with 14 other amici, Aug. 19, 2005.