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Program in Science,
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Constance Perin
Constance Perin is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the
study of professional work, knowledge, and value systems. She is
the author of four books and several articles analyzing American
culture and professionals' work and careers. She has held
Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Ford Foundation fellowships, two
Rockefeller Foundation residencies at the Bellagio Study and
Conference Center, and visiting appointments at several
universities here and abroad. Since 1997 she has been a visiting
scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In support of her new book, "Shouldering Risks: The Culture of
Control in the Nuclear Power Industry" (Princeton University Press,
2005), in 2000, she received a grant for Research and Writing from
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program in
Global Security and Sustainibility. In 1998, she received an
individual award from the National Science Foundation for a
field-based study in the USA, "Hard and Soft Knowledge in
High-Hazard Technologies." From 1990-1995 in the MIT International
Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Plant Safety at the Sloan School
of Management, she carried out field studies, in the USA and
abroad, of the relationship between safe operations and work and
organizational systems,. In 1996-97, she co-organized a workshop,
"Organizational Analysis in High-Hazard Industries: An
Academy-Industry Dialogue" supported by the NSF, bringing together
safety scholars and experts in chemical process safety. She has
also carried out studies of groupware use and telecommuting at the
MIT Center for Coordination Science. In the 1980's, also at the
Sloan School, she studied the organizational implications of
computer technologies in the "Management in the 1990s" research
program.
Constance Perin received an AB and AM in Anthropology from the
University of Chicago, a master's degree in City and Regional
Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD in
Cultural Anthropology from The American University. She is a member
of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for
Cultural Anthropology, and the Society for the Social Study of
Science. For further bibliographical and biographical details,
please go to: http://www.constanceperin.net/
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