I am currently a Fellow in MIT's Program on Emerging Technologies (or PoET). PoET is funded through the National Science Foundation's IGERT program. PoET seeks to bring together graduate students from Political Science, the Engineering Systems Division and STS for collaborative, interdisciplinary investigations of the uncertainties surrounding emerging technologies, and how various interest groups respond to those uncertainties. Within the PoET project, I have been co-author on two papers — one exploring the rhetoric of emerging technologies and policy issues that arrise from that rhetoric, the other devoted to the unanticipated consequences that resulted from the spread of the automobile during the 20th century in the United States (both forthcoming).

My research at the present time is focused on electronics technology in the high-end audio industry. My other research projects include a paper on Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket scientist behind the V-2, when he was brought to the United States after World War II to develop rocket and missile technology for the military. I presented my von Braun paper at the SHOT conference in November of 2005.

I graduated from The Evergreen State College in 1997, and before coming to MIT I worked at an interactive advertising agency in New York.

Links to published articles and other pieces will (I hope!) be forthcoming shortly.

I can be reached at kieran (at) mit.edu

Check out these pages:

• HASTS homepage (my program)
• Sociology@MIT