HASTS graduates go on to teach in universities in tenure-track positions, and HASTS alumni currently teach at Bates College, Boston College, Cornell, Dartmouth Medical School, MIT, the National University of Singapore, Olin College of Engineering, Rice University, and UCLA, among other schools. Other graduates have chosen to apply their scholarly training to work in journalism, science policy, law, and business.
| Name | Dissertation | Current Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | ||
Alexander Brown |
Accidents, Engineering and History at NASA: 1967-2003 |
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Kieran Downes |
From Enthusiasm to Practice: Users, Systems, and Technology in High-End Audio |
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Richa Kumar |
The Yellow Revolution in Malwa: Alternative Arenas of Struggle and the Cultural Politics of Development |
|
Jamie Pietruska |
Propheteering: A Cultural History of Prediction in the Gilded Age |
|
| 2008 | ||
Anita Chan |
The Promiscuity of Freedom: Development and Governance the Age of Neoliberal Networks |
|
Anya Zilberstein |
Planting Improvement: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scientific Agriculture in Northern British America, 1670-1820 |
|
Etienne Benson |
The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and Environmental Values in Conservation Biology |
|
Esra Ozkan |
Executive Coaching: Crafting a Versatile Self in Corporate America |
Centre Maurice Halbwachs |
| 2007 | ||
Natasha Myers |
Modeling Proteins, Making Scientists: An Ethnography of Pedagogy and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Structural Biology |
York University |
Margaret Hiesinger |
Those Who Don't Know: Modernity, Risk, and Transition in Hanoi's Local Markets |
|
Anne Pollock |
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference |
Georgia Tech |
Peter Shulman |
Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and American Technology before the Age of Oil |
Case Western Reserve University |
Nathan Greenslit |
Pharmaceutical Relationships: Intersections of Illness, Fantasy and |
MIT |
2006 |
||
Hyun Gyung Im |
Temporal Coordination in Distributed Work |
|
Jenny Leigh Smith |
The Soviet Farm Complex: Industrial Agriculture in a Socialist Context,
1946-1965 |
|
Livia Wick |
Making Lives Under Closure: Birth and Medicine in Palestine’s Waiting Zones |
|
2005 |
||
Aslihan Sanal |
Flesh Yours, Bones Mine: The making of the biomedical subject
in Turkey |
|
David Lucsko |
Manufacturing Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination
with Speed, 1915-1984 |
|
Eden Miller-Medina |
The State Machine: Politics, Ideology and Computation in
Chile, 1964-1973 |
|
Shane Hamilton |
"Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of
Rural Life in Postwar America" |
|
Wen-Hua Kuo |
"Japan and Taiwan in the Wake of Bio-Globalization: Drugs,
Race and Standards" |
|
2004 |
||
Chen-Pang Yeang |
"Characterizing Radio Channels: The Science and Technology
of Propagation and Interference, 1900-1935" |
|
Rachel Prentice |
"Bodies of Information: Reinventing Bodies and Practice in
Medical Education" |
|
William Turkel |
"The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of
a North American Plateau" |
|
Babak Ashrafi |
"Making and Remaking Quantum Field Theory" |
|
Brendan P. Foley |
"Fighting Engineers: The U.S. Navy and Mechanical Engineering,
1840-1905" |
|
Timothy Wolters |
"Managing a Sea of Information: Shipboard Command and Control
in the U.S. Navy, 1899-1945" |
|
2002 |
||
Barbara Masi |
"The Impact of 'Strategic Initiatives' on Structure, Governance
and Resource Allocation in U.S. Research Universities" |
|
Heinrich Schwarz |
"Techno-Territories: The Spatial, Technological and Social
Reorganization of Office Work" |
|
Kaushik Sunder Rajan |
"Bio Capital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life" |
|
Kendall Hoyt |
"The Role of Military-Industrial Relations in the History
of Vaccine Development" |
|
2001 |
||
Benjamin W. Pinney |
"Projects, Management, and Protean Times: Engineering Enterprise
in the United States, 1870-1960" |
|
Eric D. Kupferberg |
"The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority
in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924" |
|
Eric W. Sievers |
"Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital: The Post-Soviet
Decline of Central Asia" |
|
Gregory J. Galer |
"Forging Ahead: The Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts and
Two Centuries of Industrial Enterprise, 1635-1861" |
|
Robert Martello |
"Paul Revere's Metallurgical Ride: Craft and Proto-Industry
in Early America" |
|
2000 |
||
Christopher M. Kelty |
"Scale and Convention: Programmed Language in a Regulated
America" |
|
Karin Ellison |
"Making of a Multiple Purpose Dam: Engineering Culture,
US Bureau of Reclamation, and Grand Coulee Dam, 1917-1942" |
|
Patricia P. Bentley |
"Genetic Manipulation: The Paradox of Control in a Flexible
Corporation" |
|
1999 |
||
Diane M. Greco |
"Finding a Form: The Study of Terrestrial Magnetism at Goettingen,
1818-1839" |
|
Gregory K. Clancey |
"Foreign Knowledge or Art Nation, Earthquake Nation: Architecture,
Seismology, Carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923" |
|
Hannah L. Landecker |
"Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture and Cellular
Life in 20th Century Biomedicine" |
|
Jennifer L. Mnookin |
"Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise and Technologies of
Knowledge in the American Courtroom" |
|
Linda Eikmeier Endersby |
"Expositions, Museums, and Technological Display: Building
Cultural Institutions for the 'Inventor Citizen' in the Late 19th
Century United States" |
|
Vyacheslav Gerovitch |
"Speaking Cybernetically: The Soviet Remaking of an American
Science" |
|
1998 |
||
Rebecca M. Herzig |
"In the Name of Truth: Sacrificial Ideals and American Science,
1870-1930" |
|
1997 |
||
Roberta E. Bivins |
"The Needle and the Lancet: British Acupuncture and the Cross-Cultural
Transmission of Medical Knowledge" |
|
Russell Olwell |
"Atomic Workers, Atomic City: Labor and Community in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, 1942-1950" |
|
1996 |
||
David A. Mindell |
"'Datum for its Own Annihilation': Feedback, Control, and
Computing, 1916-1945" |
|
Joel Genuth |
"The Local Origins of United States National Science Policy" |
|
Sara E. Wermiel |
"Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Development of the Fireproof
Building in the United States, 1790-1911" |
MIT |
Antonio José Junqueira Botelho |
"Professional Against the State: French Electronics Policy
in Historical Perspective" |
|
1995 |
||
Brian O'Donnell, S.J. |
"The Spindles Stop: Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester,
New Hampshire Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry" |
|
George O'Har |
"Shipbuilding, Markets, and Technological Change in East Boston" |
|
Jessica Wang |
"American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Civil
Liberties, and the Cold War, 1945-1950" |
|
David M. Hart |
"Competing Conceptions of the Liberal State and the Governance
of Technological Innovation in the United States, 1933-1953" |
|
1994 |
||
Wade Roush |
"Catastrophe and Control: How Technological Disasters Enhance
Democracy" |
|
1993 |
||
David H. Guston |
"The Social Contract for Science: Congress, the National Institutes
of Health, and the Boundary Between Politics and Science" |
|
1992 |
||
Bruce Bimber |
"Institutions and Information: The Politics of Expertise in
Congress" |
|
1990 |
||
Gary Herrigel |
"Industrial Organization and the Politics of Industry: Centralized
and Decentralized Production in Germany" |
|
1989 |
||
AnnaLee Saxenian |
"The Political Economy of Industrial Adaptation in Silicon
Valley" |
|
Ronni Lynne Rosenberg |
"Computer Literacy Education" |
|
1988 |
||
Colleen Dunlavy |
"Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United
States and Prussia" |
|
1987 |
||
Lindy Biggs |
"Industry's Master Machine: Factory Planning and Design in
the Age of Mass Production, 1900 to 1930" |
|
George G. Hoberg, Jr. |
"Pluralism by Design: Environmental Policy and the American
Regulatory State, 1933-1980" |
|
1986 |
||
Richard E. Sclove |
"Technology and Freedom: A Prescriptive Theory of Technological
Design and Practice in Democratic Societies" |
|
Paul R. Josephson |
"The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute and the Birth
of Russian Physics" |
|
1985 |
||
Frank Laird |
"Limiting Democracy: Participation, Competence, and Energy
Policy" |
|
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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