Faculty

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

capozzol@mit.edu

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

History
Emeritus Faculty
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

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

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

egoldber@mit.edu

History
early medieval hunting, kingship, and political culture

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
Emeritus Faculty
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

gmj@mit.edu

Anthropology
magic, expressive culture, rationality, expertise, apprenticeship, computer-mediated communication, language ideologies

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
Emeritus Faculty

cleight@mit.edu

History
modern China; cultural history; capitalism

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 Studies
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

History
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

nagahara@mit.edu

History
modern Japan; history of media and popular culture; censorship

paxson@mit.edu

Anthropology
environment and agriculture; life sciences and biomedicine

History
Emeritus Faculty

postol@mit.edu

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

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

nds@mit.edu

STS
ethnography of science and technology; life sciences and biomedicine

hrshell@mit.edu

STS
visual representation in science; history and ethnography of recycling and salvage; documentary and experimental film studies; material culture of the life sciences/museum studies

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

Anthropology
Emeritus Faculty

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

cwilder@mit.edu

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

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