Graduate Student INFO

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Name	Email	Current Research Areas
Blackburn, Renée	rmblack@mit.edu	business and economic history; history of technology; automotive history; regulation; risk; industrial accidents; engineering; gender
Burks, Marie	meburks@mit.edu	history of the social sciences; history of the human sciences; modern US cultural and intellectual history
Chaudhuri, Ashawari	ashawari@mit.edu	anthropology; sociology of science; hybridity; nature and culture; material-semiotic study of Bt cotton
Edoh, M. Amah	medoh@mit.edu	visual and material culture; anthropology of art and design; politics of representation; blackness; African-ness
Fadok, Richard	rfadok@mit.edu	history, philosophy, and anthropology of the life and health sciences; neuroscience; psychiatry; scientific technique and practice; historical epistemology, philosophy of science; social theory; historiography; science communication
Johnson, Amy	amyj@mit.edu	language and technology; linguistic and media anthropology; sociolinguistics; social media; CMC; parody; satire; humor
Kapsalakis, Lauren	lkapsa@mit.edu	medical anthropology; risk studies & statistics; environmental illness; diagnostic categories; epistemic authority; graphic evidence; ethnography & subjectivity; Latin America
Kelkar, Shreeharsh	skelkar@mit.edu	sociology of computing, work and organizations; human-computer interaction; computer-supported cooperative work
Kim, Clare	clarek@mit.edu	history of mathematics; applied mathematics; science pedagogy
Kim, Grace	g_kim@mit.edu	film; museum practices; visual culture
Labruto, Nicole	nlabruto@mit.edu	energy studies; anthropology of biology; environmental anthropology; biofuels; global STS; Brazil; Mozambique
Laurence, Alison	laurence@mit.edu	animals on display; cultures of collecting; natural history; museums; material culture; American history; cultural history
Lee, Jia Hui	jiahui@MIT.EDU	human-non-human-animal relations; anthrozoology; post-conflict; international development; smell; rats
Li, Lan	lanli@mit.edu	history of medicine; China; integrative medicine; film and science; cultural anthropology of medicine and the body
Lin, Xi	elinxi@MIT.EDU	anthropology of the body; medicine and science; autism; disability; ethics and practices of care; China
Müller, Lucas	lmm@mit.edu	history of life sciences and medicine; science policy; science in the public sphere
Mutlu, Burcu	bmutlu@mit.edu	new reproductive technologies; anthropology of science, technology and medicine; borders/boundaries; feminist theory
Oviatt, Peter	oviatt@mit.edu	agriculture; land use; food systems; political ecology; soil conservation; domestication and commodification of fungi; mushrooms; mycorrhiza; history and anthropology of mycology
Özden-Schilling, Canay	ozden@mit.edu	economic anthropology; electricity markets; energy; infrastructures
Özden-Schilling, Tom	tom_sa@mit.edu	mining, strategic minerals, Canada, First Nations, geoinformatics, economic anthropology, environmental history, visual culture, history of geology
Reis Castro, Luísa	luisarc@mit.edu	anthropology of biology and health sciences; anthropology of science, technology and medicine; global STS; animal-human interactions; public health and politics; mosquitoes and vector control; mosquito-borne diseases
Robinson, Hilary	hc_r@mit.eduu	biological sciences; genomics; surveillance technology; computing; databases; forensics; stigma; race; gender; law; science and democracy; equality
Scaramelli, Caterina	scaramel@mit.edu	anthropology of water and of natural resources governance; politics and imaginaries of hydropower; eco-parks and natural reserves governance; environmental conflict and social movements; Turkey
Semel, Beth	bsemel@mit.edu	psychology; psychiatry; therapy; evidence; expertise; practice; health care; mind/brain/body
Shapiro, Ryan	ryannoah@mit.edu	modern American history; history of medicine; history of science; animal-human interactions; environmental history; nuclear studies; war and society; surveillance; policing dissent; freedom of information
Shmuely, Shira	sshmuely@mit.edu	environmental history; human-animal relationships; law and science; law and society; critical theory
Thakor, Mitali	mitalit@mit.edu	sex work; trafficking; feminist STS; critical surveillance and crime studies; digital STS
Thompson, Michaela	mjthomps@mit.edu	environmental history; history of biology; marine science; animal-human interactions; taxonomy; history of technology; apex predators
Tylko, John	tylko@mit.edu	history of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship; history of aeronautics and spaceflight; Apollo and the Cold War
Webb, Claire	ciwebb@mit.edu	astronomy; history; feminist studies; philosophy; SETI; popular science
Wexler, Anna	annaw@mit.edu	neuroscience and society; brain machine interfaces; neuroengineering; bioethics; science and law; science and public policy