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Hugh Gusterson

Room
E51-296F
Phone
617-253-7679
Email
guster@mit.edu
website
http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/gusterson/index.html

Professor Gusterson received his B.A. from Cambridge University (Modern History, 1980), his M.Sc. from the University of Pennsylvania (Cultural Anthropology, 1982), and his Ph.D. from Stanford University (Cultural Anthropology, 1991). He received a Weatherhead Postdoctoral Fellowship from the School of American Research (1991-1992), had a MacArthur Fellowship in International Peace and Security (1995), and was Arms Control Fellow at StanfordUniversity (1997-1998).

His research focuses on the political culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists and on contemporary psychopharmacology. He is the author of Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (1996) and the co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger (1999). His book Securityscapes: An Anthropologist Encounters the Nuclear Complex is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.