Natasha Schüll

Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She joined MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society in the Fall of 2007.  Her book, Machine Life: Control and Compulsion in Las Vegas, is based on extended research among compulsive gamblers and the engineers who design the slot machines they play (to be published by Princeton University Press in 2008).  Her documentary film, BUFFET: All You Can Eat Las Vegas, has appeared in numerous film festivals and will screen on PBS in 2008 (www.buffetmovie.com).  Schüll's current research, supported by the National Science Foundation, explores the social dimensions of emerging knowledge in Neuroscience, focusing on neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and addiction pharmacology.  At MIT, she offers courses on Technology and Experience, Bioethics, and Neuroscience and Society.

updated 01/28/08