Faculty

aiyar@mit.edu

History
South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh); Africa; colonialism; decolonization; South Asian diasporas; race and politics; multiculturalism; transnational history

dwai@mit.edu

STS
cultures and histories of computing; decolonizing STS; anthropology of medicine; South Asia; social theory; science and aesthetics

hectorb@mit.edu

Anthropology
transnational computing; ethnography of media and infrastructures; Latinx Studies; language and knowledge practices; circulation and mobility of cultural forms

mablack@mit.edu

History
environmental history; United States and the World; history of capitalism; mining; technology; American West; settler colonialism

brownkl@mit.edu

STS
transnational; US and Soviet history; History of Cold War science, nuclear weapons and nuclear power production; environmental history; history of borderlands and nationalities

tristanb@mit.edu

History
Chinese history; legal history; history of science and religion; environmental history; borderland and frontier studies; history of empire; Islam in Asia

williamb@mit.edu

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

STS
Emeritus Faculty

manduhai@mit.edu

Anthropology
religion; shamanism; memory; politics; gender; post-socialism; state-building; Asia; virtual and other realities; democratic elections; women in politics; social memory; forgetting

clarkce@mit.edu

History
modern France, European cultural and intellectual history; visual culture; history of photography; media history

capozzol@mit.edu

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

condry@mit.edu

Anthropology
media ethnography; popular culture; performance; globalization; ethnography of cultural production; music and technology; animation and film; Japan

ndm@mit.edu

STS
design tools and technologies; spaceflight and simulation; the body and technology; technology and the urban environment

deringer@mit.edu

STS
Calculation and quantification; finance; political economy; history of the social sciences; historical epistemology; civic epistemology; early modern history; histories of the future

History
Emeritus Faculty

jdurant@mit.edu

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

lerna@mit.edu

History
Ottoman Empire, Turkish Republic (and non-Muslims in both); Armenian history; cultural pluralism in the Middle East; women in the developing world; women and gender during mass violent conflicts; genocide; diasporas; history of feminism in the non-Western world

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
History of 20th century American technology; agricultural science and technology; food history; environment and agriculture; institutional history esp. of these areas; World War II

mghachem@mit.edu

History
slavery and abolition; legal and constitutional history; the Atlantic revolutions; history of money/finance; criminal justice

egoldber@mit.edu

History
early medieval hunting; kingship; political culture

lrg@mit.edu

STS
Emeritus Faculty

sgh2@mit.edu

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

cdhoran@mit.edu

History
modern US; post-1945; cultural history; history of capitalism; business history; risk and uncertainty; neoliberalism

jhowe@mit.edu

Anthropology
Emeritus Faculty

jjackson@mit.edu

Anthropology
Emeritus Faculty

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; food and water insecurity and global health; race, infrastructure, and historic preservation

gmj@mit.edu

Anthropology
linguistic anthropology; language and technology; magic, science, and religion; secrecy; expressive culture

dikaiser@mit.edu

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

kars@mit.edu

History
early modern Atlantic and Early America; slavery; Dutch colonialism; gender; rebellion and revolution; narrative and history

STS
Emeritus Faculty

jslight@mit.edu

STS
embodied education; history of childhood; American technology since 1850; technology and the urban environment; technocracy and technical expertise; simulation and society

manning@mit.edu

STS/CMS/W
biography in science; African Americans in science, technology, and medicine; race and science; scientific institutions

STS
Emeritus Faculty

mavhunga@mit.edu

STS
Africa in global science & technology; global science & technology in Africa; environment, poverty, and technology in rural African villages; firearms in African/global history

amccants@mit.edu

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

eden@mit.edu

STS
history of technology; Latin America; computing; cybernetics; science, technology, and human rights; the relationship of science and technology to processes of political change

mindell@mit.edu

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

amorant@mit.edu

Anthropology
health and environmental change; anthropology of medicine; science, technology and ecology; kinship narratives; drugs and society; ethnographic writing

kmutongi@mit.edu

History
Africa; post-colonial history; histories of everyday life; historical ethnography; politics and culture; narrative and history

nagahara@mit.edu

History
modern Japan; politics of art, culture, and media since the 19th century; culture of diplomacy and imperialism

tanalis@mit.edu

History
Latin America; social movements; rural mobilizations; education; youth and student politics; oral history

paxson@mit.edu

Anthropology
food and agriculture; craft knowledge and manufacturing; material culture; reproductive technologies and feminist STS

History
Emeritus Faculty

postol@mit.edu

STS
Emeritus Faculty

ravel@mit.edu

History
Old Regime and Revolutionary France; European cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book and comparative media studies; World history

ritvo@mit.edu

History
Emeritus Faculty

rws42@mit.edu

STS
history of modern biology and medicine; bio-medicine and society; political cultures of science, environment and health; history of cancer; biotechnology; material culture of science; sports science; innovation; urban history; scientific humor

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 American technology up through the Civil War; comparative studies of early industrial communities; military enterprise and technological change

Anthropology
Emeritus Faculty

stoetzer@mit.edu

Anthropology
environmental anthropology, race and migration; urban ethnography; feminist anthropology and science studies; botany and (urban) wildlife

eteng@mit.edu

History
Chinese migration; diaspora; Chinese frontier studies; ethnic studies

sturkle@mit.edu

STS
digital life and new forms of conversation; 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; knowledge production; deindustrialization; social class; U.S. and East Africa; documentary media

History
Emeritus Faculty

cwilder@mit.edu

History
Atlantic world; Colonial North America; United States; urban history; history of science, religion, and culture

STS
Emeritus Faculty

elizwood@mit.edu

History/Women's & Gender Studies
Russian and Soviet history; Russian politics and society; feminist theory; gender and science; international science collaboration

Sloan School of Management
Emeritus faculty