Faculty

williamb@mit.edu

History
Greek and Roman history; Roman Italy; Latin and Sabellic epigraphy; the ancient city

STS
Emeritus Faculty

capozzol@mit.edu

History
American history; law and society; foreign relations; war and the military; migration labor

ciarlo@mit.edu

History
European imperialism; 19th- and early 20th-century mass culture; visual culture; modern German history

History
modern Japan; war and memory; visual culture

jdurant@mit.edu

STS
public engagement with science and technology; public scientific and technological controversies; museum studies; science and religion

mfischer@mit.edu

STS/Anthropology
ethnographic practice; social and cultural theory and critique; aesthetics; multi-sited global processes, ideologies and religions; biomedical and information technologies; focus on US, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia

dkfitz@mit.edu

STS
agriculture; environment; technology

lrg@mit.edu

STS
Emeritus Faculty
history of modern science; science policy; history of Russian science; Native American history

sgh2@mit.edu

Anthropology
anthropology of the life sciences; race and science; kinship; cultures of computing; maritime anthropology/social studies of oceanography; sound studies

jhowe@mit.edu

Anthropology
Latin America; ethnohistory; indigenous-state relations and missionization in the Americas; cultural representation; photography; symbolism

jjackson@mit.edu

Anthropology
anthropology of lowland South America; Latin American indigenous movements, focus on Columbia; medical anthropology, focus on chronic pain, stigma, mind/body problem

mjacobs@mit.edu

History
20th century US history; political history; energy

ejames@mit.edu

Anthropology
violence, human rights, and transitional justice; professional ethics; medical and psychiatric anthropology; anthropology of the senses; regional focus on Haiti and the African Diaspora

dsjones@mit.edu

STS
history of disease and medicine;
health disparities; bioethics; race and genetics

STS
Emeritus Faculty

dikaiser@mit.edu

STS
history of modern physics; science and the Cold War; pedagogy and science

STS
Emeritus Faculty

kken@mit.edu

STS
information technology and development; the role of technology in modern India

lepinay@mit.edu

STS
economy; finance; banking; formalism

pmaier@mit.edu

History
the American Revolution; ratification of the Constitution; the technology of early America; the legal foundations of American economic development

manning@mit.edu

STS/Writing and Humanistic Studie
biography in science; African Americans in science, technology, and medicine; race and science; scientific institutions

leomarx@mit.edu

STS
Emeritus Faculty

amccants@mit.edu

History
economic history; medieval and early modern technology; the Netherlands and global trade

mindell@mit.edu

STS
history of aviation and spaceflight; large scale engineering systems; relationships between humans and machines; archaeology in the deep ocean

paxson@mit.edu

Anthropology
environment and agriculture; life sciences and biomedicine

pcperdue@mit.edu

History
environmental history; East Asian/ Central Eurasian history; world history, historical methods; history of agrarian and military technology; images and memory

postol@mit.edu

STS
nuclear weapons; missile defense;
science, technology, and international security policy

nds@mit.edu

STS
ethnography of science and technology; life sciences and biomedicine

ravel@mit.edu

History
early modern European history; French history; comparative media studies in historical perspective; Latin American history

ritvo@mit.edu

History
environmental history; people and other animals; modern British history; history of natural history

haimanti@mit.edu

History
South Asia; India; Bangladesh; British Colonialism; Nationalism; partition of India; Bengal; migration and refugee movements; women's history

ssilbey@mit.edu

Anthropology
law and society; risk management; audit and surveillance; laboratory ethnography; environmental management; engineering profession and education; gender and science; research methods

STS
Emeritus Faculty

roesmith@mit.edu

STS
comparative studies of industrialization; social and political implications of technology in the Civil War era; comparative studies of early industrial communities; military enterprise and technological change

STS
Emeritus Faculty

sturkle@mit.edu

STS
social/psychological impact of digital culture; science, technology, and memoir; psychology/epistemology of objects; psychoanalysis and the culture of simulation

cwalley@mit.edu

Anthropology
environmental conflict in East Africa and urban United States; politics of conservation and development; expert and popular forms of knowledge; social inequalities domestically and internationally; transnational feminism; documentary film production

STS
Emeritus Faculty

rhwill@mit.edu

STS
cultural history of technology; modern European history and literature; the built world

elizwood@mit.edu

History/Women's Studies
Russian and Soviet history; feminist theory; cultural, political, and social history; Russian politics and society today

jyates@mit.edu

Sloan School of Management
business history (American); history of information technology; history of standardization