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capozzol@mit.edu
Assistant Professor of History
Professor Capozzola's research focuses on the political and
cultural history of the United States in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, with a special interest in the impact of
war on American everyday life.
He received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College and a
Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 2002, and has taught
at Columbia University and Middlebury College. His dissertation,
"Uncle Sam Wants You: Political Obligations in World War I
America," examined the political and social history of homefront
mobilization in the United States.
Elting E. Morison Professor of History (History)
Professor Dower received a B.A. in American Studies from Amherst
College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages
from Harvard University in 1972. Before joining the MIT faculty he
taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972-1986) and the
University of California, San Diego (1986-1992). A specialist in
Japanese history and U.S.-East Asian relations, he has devoted
particular attention to issues of war and peace, racism, memory,
and representations of self and other in popular illustrations and
films.
His books include Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the
Japanese Experience (1979), War Without Mercy: Race and Power in
the Pacific War (1986); collected essays under the title Japan in
War and Peace (1994); and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of
World War II (1999) which was honored with numerous prizes
including the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and National Book Award.
jhowe@mit.edu
Professor and Head of the Anthropology Program
Professor Howe received a B.A. degree from Harvard College (1966),
an M.A. from Oxford University (Social Anthropology, 1967) and a
Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (Anthropology, 1974). He
carries out research in political and historical anthropology,
indigenous-state relations, and missionization. His publications
include The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama
(1986), and A People Who Would Not Kneel: Panama, the United
States, and the San Blas Kuna (1998).
jjackson@mit.edu
Professor and Head of the Anthropology Program
Professor Jackson received her B.A. from Wellesley College
(Anthropology/Sociology, 1965), and her M.A. and Ph.D. from
Stanford University (Medical Anthropology, 1966; Anthropology,
1972). She has been at MIT since 1972. She has been examining
social and ethnic identity among indigenous populations of the
Northwest Amazon since 1968, in 1983 publishing The Fish People:
Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia. A
volume co-edited with Kay Warren, Indigenous Movements,
Self-Representation and the State in Latin America, was published
in 2002.
She has also carried out research on gender, the epistemology of
ethnography, and, for the last seventeen years, chronic pain. "Camp
Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients, based on NIMH-funded
research in an in-patient pain center in New England, was published
in 2000.
mjacobs@mit.edu
Assistant Professor of American History (History)
Professor Jacobs's areas of focus include politics, culture, and
business history. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in
1990 and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia in
1998. Her book manuscript, "The Politics of Purchasing Power,"
explores the intersection of state development, consumer culture
and American politics in the New Deal and World War II.
khoury@mit.edu
Professor of History and Kenan Sahin Dean, School of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences (History)
Professor Khoury received his B.A. from Trinity College in 1971 and
his Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard
University in 1980. His publications include Syria and the French
Mandate (1987), which received the George Louis Beer Prize of the
American Historical Association, Tribes and State Formation in the
Middle East (1991), and The Modern Middle East: A Reader (1993).
His current research is focused on war and society in the 20th
century Middle East. Professor Khoury is Past President of the
Middle East Studies Association.
pmaier@mit.edu
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History
(History)
Professor Maier received her B.A. in American History and
Literature at Radcliffe College (1960) and her Ph.D. in History
from Harvard University (1968). She has taught at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
and served as the Cardozo Visiting Professor of History at
Yale.
Her research is primarily concerned with the American Revolution
and its impact. She is the author of From Resistance to Revolution:
Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Resistance to
Britain (Knopf, 1972); The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in
the Age of Samuel Adams (Knopf, 1980); The American People: A
History (a junior-high-school textbook; D.C. Heath and Co., 1985),
and American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
(Knopf, 1997), which was on the New York Times Book Review editors'
list of the best eleven books, fiction and nonfiction, of 1997, and
nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Award in
nonfiction.
More recently she wrote the first eight chapters, spanning the
period from the first human habitation of the Americas to the
inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, for a new AAmerican History
textbook, Inventing America (W.W. Norton and Co., 2002). She also
contributed to several historical television series both for the
History Channel and PBS, including "Liberty! The American
Revolution" and "The Biography of America," and is beginning work
on a book about the ratification of the federal Constitution that
is under contract to Simon and Schuster.
bmazlish@mit.edu
Professor (History)
Professor Mazlish received his B.A. from Columbia College (1944)
and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1955), in Modern European
History. He has taught at the University of Maine, Columbia
University, and, since 1955, MIT. His areas of interest are Western
intellectual and cultural history, with a special nod to history of
science and technology; the culture of capitalism; and history of
the social sciences. His most recent publications are The Uncertain
Sciences (1998), The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of
Humans and Machines (1993), and A New Science: The Breakdown of
Connections and the Birth of Sociology (1989). He is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the
Kluge Center of the Library of Congress Scholars' Council.
pcperdue@mit.edu
T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilzations (History)
and Director of Graduate Studies of the Doctoral Program in the
History and Social Study of Science and Technology
Professor Perdue received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University (History, 1970; East Asian Studies, 1973; and History
and East Asian Languages, 1981). He is the author of Exhausting the
Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (1987), and
several articles, including "The Qing State and the Gansu Grain
Market, 1739-1864," "Technological Determinism in Agriculture," and
"Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China,
Russia, and Mongolia."
His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social
and economic history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award
and a past holder of the Ford Interna- tional Career Development
Chair. He was awarded the James A. Levitan Prize and he is
currently writing a book on the Chinese conquest of Central Asia
from 1680 to 1760.
hnritvo@mit.edu
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History and Head of the History
Faculty (History)
Professor Ritvo received her B.A. (1968) and her Ph.D. (1975) from
Harvard University; she also studied at the Cambridge University.
Her research interests include environmental history, British
cultural history, history of human-animal relations, and the
history of natural history. Her research has been supported by the
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and the National Humanities Center; she has also received a Whiting
Writer's Award.
She is the author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other
Figments of the Classifying Imagination (1997), and of The Animal
Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age
(1987). Professor Ritvo is currently a senior fellow at the
National Humanities Center.
ssilbey@mit.edu
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology (Anthropology)
Professor Silbey received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of Chicago and post-graduate training in enthnography in
the Sociology Department of Brandeis University. She served as
editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society (1990-1997), and the
Law & Society Review (1998-2000). Silbey is the past president
of the Law & Society Association, and a fellow of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science. In 1998, she published The
Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life describing the ways
in which Americans imagine, use, and construct the rule of
law.
Recent publications include, "Subversive Stories and Hegemonic
Tales: Toward a Sociology of Narrative;" "Let Them Eat Cake:
Globalization, Postmodern Colonialism and the Possibilities of
Justice;" and "The Architecture of Authority: the Place of Law in
the Space of Science."
Her current research projects include a study of the invention of
an environmental management system for research laboratories, the
role of gender in research organizations, and a comparative
analysis of two new engineering colleges.
ssly@mit.edu
Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Professor of the Study of Women
in the Developing World (Anthropology)
Susan Slyomovics is the author of The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian
Hilali Epic Poet in Performance (1988) and The Object of Memory:
Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998), winner of the
1999 Albert Hourani Book Award given by the Middle East Studies
Association, and the 1999 Chicago Folklore Prize; co-editor of
Women and Power in the Middle East (2001) and editor of The Walled
Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living
Medina in the Maghrib (2001).
Her areas of research and teaching are the expressive culture of
the Middle East and North Africa, gender studies, the overlap
between oral and written literature, approaches to hybrid
literatures and bilingualism, and the relationship between visual
anthropology and literature.
elizwood@mit.edu
Associate Professor (History)
Professor Wood received her undergraduate degree from Harvard
College in Russian History and Literature in 1980, and her Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan in Russian and Soviet History in
1991.
Her research interests are primarily focused on the 1920s in Soviet
Russia with attention to women's history, cultural history and
political history. In 1996 she received the Levitan Prize for her
research on political trials performed as plays in workers' and
student clubs from 1920-1933. Her first book, The Baba and the
Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (1997) was
published by Indiana University Press. Her current book manuscript
is entitled "Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Revolutionary
Russia, 1920-1933" (forthcoming). Currently, Professor Wood is the
Director of Women's Studies at MIT.
jyates@mit.edu
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Professor Yates received her B.A. from Texas Christian University
and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She studies communication and information as they shape and are
shaped by technologies, ideologies, and work practices over time,
using both historical and rhetorical/social scientific methods.
Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American
Management (1989; 1993) covered the period from 1850 to 1920.
Her current historical project focuses on the life insurance
industry's adoption and use of information technology in the 20th
century. In addition to her general interest in business history,
she collaborates with Wanda Orlikowski on studies of communication
and work practices around electronic media in contemporary
organizations, focusing on genres and temporal patterns of
communication.
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