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Name Email Current Research Areas

Behrouzan, Orkideh

orkideh@mit.edu

medical anthropology; history of medicine; Middle East and gender; stigma; medicalization; modernity and globalization of medicine; mental health; psychiatry; depression; biological sciences

Benson, Etienne

esbenson@mit.edu

environment; wildlife; surveillance technology; biology; ecology; modern American history

Braitman, Laurel

lbrait@mit.edu

environmental history; environmental conservation; global trade; emerging technologies

Brown, Alexander

afbrown@mit.edu

cultures of engineering; culture and safety in complex systems; information and communication technologies; history of science and technology

Buchanan, Nick

nscb@mit.edu

environment, indigeneity, rural life, law and society, expertise, governance and regulation

Callison, Candis

candis@mit.edu

media; environment; climate change

Chan, Alex

ahchan@mit.edu

economics, finance, history of technology, business history, history of economic thought, history of science, institutional economics, financial modeling, field experiments, development economics

Chan, Anita

anita1@mit.edu

neoliberal governance; information/communication technologies and economic development; social movements and digital networks

Doshi, Peter

pnd@mit.edu

contemporary medical politics; globalization of public health; science and democracy; public relations and mass media

Downes, Kieran

kieran@mit.edu

history of technology; modern American history; history of Cold War science; vacuum tubes and high-end audio technology; technological enthusiasm

Frohlich, Xaq

frohlich@mit.edu

food and agricultural studies; history of nutrition; law and science; cultural history of technology

Jeon, Chihyung

cjeon@mit.edu

technology and modern world; material culture of science; science and technology in East Asia

Krishnan, Shekhar

shekhar@mit.edu

urban history; South Asia; GIS (Geographic Information Systems); FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)

Kumar, Richa

richak@mit.edu

information technology and rural development; neoliberalism and agriculture; history of modern India

Messeri, Lisa

lmesseri@mit.edu

history of technology

Perry, Rebecca

rebperry@mit.edu

representations in science, scientific visualization, visual communication of science, virtual environments

Pietruska, Jamie

jlp@mit.edu

American history and literature; history of technology; nineteenth-century communication technologies and information networks

Robinson, H.C.

hc_r@mit.edu

biological sciences; genomics; surveillance technology; forensics; stigma; race; gender; law; science and democracy; equality

Roosth, Sophia

sroosth@mit.edu

anthropology of the biosciences, sound as scientific knowledge, synthetic biology, biology and temporality

Rossi, Michael

mrossi@mit.edu

history of medicine, history of technology, aesthetics and modernity, visual and material culture

Shapiro, Ryan

ryannoah@mit.edu

human and animal experimentation; vivisection; industrialized animal agriculture; animals as technologies; Cold War science; biomedicine and bioethics

Singerman, David

singsing@mit.edu

physical sciences; empires; metrology; SSK; the nineteenth century; racism and eugenics; the history of economic thought; space weapons; Simon Newcomb

Steingart, Alma

almas@mit.edu

history of mathematics, modern physics, models and formalisms

Wanderer, Emily

wanderer@mit.edu

anthropology of the life sciences, medical anthropology, public health and politics, security studies, biodefense

Wang, Mian Rachel

mian@mit.edu

development of commerce; technology integration; legal system; east asia

Woods, Rebecca

rjwoods@mit.edu

history of medicine; environmental history; people and other animals

Wylie, Sara

sawylie@mit.edu

anthropology/history of biology; endocrine disruption; synthetic chemicals in the environment

Zilberstein, Anya

anyaz@mit.edu

environment; empire; natural history; eighteenth-century