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Kenneth Keniston
| Room |
E51-171 |
| Phone |
617-253-4055 |
| Email |
kken@mit.edu |
| website |
http://www.kken.net |
Professor Keniston received his B.A. from Harvard College (Government, 1951) and a D.Phil. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar (Social Studies, 1956). After being a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, he taught at Harvard University and at Yale University, where he was Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry. From 1972 to 1977 he was Chairman and Director of the Carnegie Council on Children.
He moved to MIT in 1977 and was the Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society from 1987-1992. He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (Ecoles des Mines, Paris) and at the University of Paris V (Sorbonne). His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ford Foundation and NEC. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the Director of the MIT India Program.
His research focuses on issues of equity, diversity, and information technology, especially in India. With Jill Ker Conway and Leo Marx he published Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment in 2000. With Deepak Kumar, he is editing another book, Bridging the Digital Divide: Lessons from India, to be published by Sage (Delhi) in 2002.
Activities:
Equity, Diversity, and Information Technology in India
Professor Kenneth Keniston (http://www.kken.net) continues his research on cultural aspects of software localization with support from the NEC Corporation (via the Provost's MIT Research Support Committee), the Provost's HASS Fund, and the Mustard Seed Foundation. He has an ongoing grant from the Ford Foundation for the study of "Equity, Diversity, and Information Technology in India." Prof. Keniston spent the Fall of 1999 in Bangalore as a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science.