Shannon Cram is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell where she coordinates the Science, Technology, and Society program. Her essays have appeared in Environmental Humanities, Public Culture, Environment and Planning D, Fugue, and elsewhere.

Her most recent book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility (UC, 2023), explores the embodied, multi-millennial challenges of remediation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She represents the University of Washington on the Hanford Advisory Board.