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Bruce Mazlish

Room
E51-293
Phone
617-253-4456
Email
bmazlish@mit.edu
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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.