Name |
Dissertation |
Current Affiliation |
2022 |
Lauren Kapsalakis |
The Loss of Integration Vs. Unity in Diversity: American Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s and the Founding of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Sept. 2022 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
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Rijul Kochhar |
Antibiotic Resistance, Planetary Crisis, and Bacteriophage Futures in the 21st Century
Sept. 2022 | Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Crystal Lee |
Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
Sept. 2022 | Advisor: Graham Jones |
MIT |
Marc Aidinoff |
A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and Their New Computers in the New New South
Feb. 2022 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Richard Fadok |
In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature
Feb. 2022 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
University of Pennsylvania |
2021 |
Jia Hui Lee |
Interstitial Intelligence: Human-Rodent Sensing, Cognition, and Work in Morogoro, Tanzania
Sept. 2021 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Haverford College |
Rodrigo Ochigame |
Remodeling Rationality: An Inquiry into Unorthodox Modes of Logic and Computation
Sept. 2021 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Leiden University |
Luísa Reis Castro |
Vectors of Health: Epidemics, Ecologies, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science in Brazil
Sept. 2021 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
University of Southern California |
2020 |
Erik Stayton |
Humanizing Autonomous Futures: Engineers' and Social Scientists' Strategies to Realize Robotic Cars
Sept. 2020 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Alliance Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley |
Claire Webb |
Technologies of Perception: Searches for Life and Intelligence Beyond Earth
Sept. 2020 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
USC-Berggruen Institute Fellow |
2019 |
Ashawari Chaudhuri |
The Kernel of Doubt: Agricultural Biotechnology, Braided Temporalities, and Agrarian Environments in India
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer |
Cornell University |
Clare Kim |
The Subjects of Modernism: Mathematics, Art, and the Politics of Value in Twentieth-Century United States
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
University of Illinois Chicago |
Alison Laurence |
Afterlives of Extinction: The Politics of Display in the Modern United States
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
Stanford University |
Lucas Mueller |
Toxic Relationships: Health and the Politics of Science and Trade in the Postcolonial World
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
University of Geneva |
Peter Oviatt |
Truffle Crops and Soil Drugs: New Fungal Practices and Epistemologies for the 21st Century
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Heather Paxson |
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Beth Semel |
Speech, Signal, Symptom: Machine Listening and the Remaking of Psychiatric Assessment
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Graham Jones |
Princeton University |
Grace Kim-Butler |
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technoscientific
Re-Enchantment: Recasting Light, Colloids, and Microbes for Art and
Heritage Conservation in U.S. and Italian Laboratories
Feb. 2019 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Utrecht University |
Burcu Mutlu |
Transnational Biopolitics and Family-Making in Secrecy: An Ethnography of Reproductive Travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus
Feb. 2019 | Advisor: Heather Paxson |
Ozyegin University |
2018 |
Nicole Labruto |
The Plantation Network: Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Sustainability in the Global South
Sept. 2018 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Johns Hopkins University |
Ryan Shapiro |
Bodies at War: National Security in American Controversies over Animal & Human Experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
Sept. 2018 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
Property of the People |
2017 |
Renée Blackburn |
Highway Madness!: Politics and Citizen Participation in Postwar US Traffic Safety Technology and Policy
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith |
US DOT Volpe Center |
Marie Burks |
Meditations in an Emergency: Social Scientists and the Problem of Conflict in Cold War America
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Christopher Capozzola |
|
Hilary Robinson |
Making a Digital Working Class: Uber Drivers in Boston, 2016-2017
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Susan Silbey |
Northeastern University |
Shira Shmuely |
The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Vivisection and the Question of Animal Pain in Britain, 1876-1912
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
Tel Aviv University |
Amy Johnson |
Twitter and the Body Parodic: Global Acts of Re-creation and Recreation
June 2017 | Advisor: Graham Jones |
Amherst College |
Anna Wexler |
Sparking Controversy: The Contested Use of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
June 2017 | Advisor: Susan Silbey |
University of Pennsylvania |
2016 |
Amah Edoh |
Doing Dutch Wax Cloth: Practice, Politics, and "The New Africa"
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Christine Walley |
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Shreeharsh Kelkar |
Platformizing Higher Education: Computer Science and the Making of MOOC Infrastructure
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Graham Jones |
University of California, Berkeley |
Caterina Scaramelli |
Swamps into Wetlands: Water, Conservation Science and Nationhood in Turkey
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Boston University |
Mitali Thakor |
Algorithmic Detectives Against Child Trafficking: Data, Entrapment, and the New Global Policing Network
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Heather Paxson |
Wesleyan University |
Michaela Thompson |
Governing the Shark: Predators and People in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
MIT |
Lan Li |
Intimate Cartographies: Body Maps and the Epistemic Encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985
June 2016 | Advisor: Emma Teng |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Canay Özden-Schilling |
Economy Electric: Techno-Economics, Neoliberalism, and Electricity in the United States
June 2016 | Advisor: Mike Fischer |
National University of Singapore |
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Tom Özden Schilling |
Salvage Cartographies: Mapping, Futures, and Landscapes in Northwest British Columbia
June 2016 | Advisor: Mike Fischer |
Johns Hopkins University |
2014 |
Teasel Muir-Harmony |
Project Apollo, Cold War Diplomacy and the American Framing of Global Interdependence
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum |
Rebecca Perry |
Rigging the World: 3D Modeling and the Seduction of the Real
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith |
Epic Games | |
David Singerman |
Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860-1930
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
University of Virginia |
Emily Wanderer |
Making Biosecurity, Making Mexico: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
University of Pittsburgh |
Benjamin Wilson |
Insiders and Outsiders: Nuclear Arms Control Experts in Cold War America
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
Harvard University |
Nathaniel Deshmukh Towery |
Changed Climate: Networking, Professionalization, and Grassroots Organizing in U.S. Environmental Organizations
June 2014 | Advisor: Susan Silbey |
Volpe - The National Transportation Systems Center |
Ellan Spero |
Institutes for Innovation: The Emergence of Academic-Industrial Cooperation and Narratives of Progress in the Early 20th Century
June 2014 | Advisor: Anne McCants |
Station1/MIT |
2013 |
Laurel Braitman |
Animal Madness: A Natural History of Disorder
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
Stanford University |
Shekhar Krishnan |
Empire's Metropolis: Money Time & Space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1940
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
Maharashtra State Police; Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai |
Alma Steingart |
Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1940-1975
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
Columbia University |
Rebecca Woods |
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
University of Toronto |
2011 |
Peter Doshi |
Influenza: a study of contemporary medical politics
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Theodore Postol |
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy / The BMJ |
Lisa Messeri |
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Yale University |
Michael Rossi |
The Rules of Perception: American Color Science, 1831-1931
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: David Jones |
University of Chicago |
Sara Wylie |
Corporate Bodies and Chemicals Bonds: An STS analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
Northeastern University
|
Xaq Frohlich |
Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the 'Affluent Society', 1945-1995
June 2011 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
Auburn University |
2010 |
Orkideh Behrouzan |
Prozŕk Diaries: Post-Rupture Subjectivities and Psychiatric Futures
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
SOAS University of London |
Nicholas Buchanan |
Negotiating Nature: Expertise and Environment in the Klamath River Basin
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
University of Freiburg |
Candis Callison |
More Information Is Not the Problem: Spinning Climate Change, Vernaculars, and Emergent Forms of Life
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
The University of British Columbia |
Chihyung Jeon |
Technologies of the Operator: Engineering the Pilot in the U.S. and Japan, 1930-1960
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
Sophia Roosth |
Crafting Life: A Sensory Ethnography of Fabricated Biologies
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
New York University (NYU) |
2009 |
Alexander Brown |
Accidents, Engineering and History at NASA: 1967-2003
2009 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Network for Learning |
Kieran Downes |
From Enthusiasm to Practice: Users, Systems, and Technology in High-End Audio
2009 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
Downes Guitars, LLC |
Richa Kumar |
The Yellow Revolution in Malwa: Alternative Arenas of Struggle and the Cultural Politics of Development
2009 | Advisor: Kenneth Keniston |
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
Jamie Pietruska |
Propheteering: A Cultural History of Prediction in the Gilded Age
2009 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith |
Rutgers University |
2008 |
Anita Say Chan |
The Promiscuity of Freedom: Development and Governance the Age of Neoliberal Networks
2008 | Advisor: Sherry Turkle |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Anya Zilberstein |
Planting Improvement: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scientific Agriculture in Northern British America, 1670-1820
2008 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
Concordia University |
Etienne Benson |
The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and Environmental Values in Conservation Biology 2008 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo
|
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
Esra Ozkan |
Executive Coaching: Crafting a Versatile Self in Corporate America
2008 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
Loon |
2007 |
Natasha Myers |
Modeling Proteins, Making Scientists: An Ethnography of Pedagogy and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Structural Biology
2007 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich |
York University |
Margaret Hiesinger |
Those Who Don't Know: Modernity, Risk, and Transition in Hanoi's Local Markets
2007 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
The Human Nature Center |
Anne Pollock |
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
2007 | Advisor: David Jones |
King's College London |
Peter Shulman |
Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and American Technology before the Age of Oil
2007 | Advisor: David Kaiser |
Case Western Reserve University |
Nathan Greenslit |
Pharmaceutical Relationships: Intersections of Illness, Fantasy and
Capital in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
2007 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
Berklee |
2006 |
Hyun Gyung Im |
Temporal Coordination in Distributed Work
2006 | Advisor: Joanne Yates |
Seoul National University Asia Center |
Jenny Leigh Smith |
The Soviet Farm Complex: Industrial Agriculture in a Socialist Context,
1946-1965
2006 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Livia Wick |
Making Lives Under Closure: Birth and Medicine in Palestine's Waiting Zones
2006 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
American University of Beirut |
2005 |
Aslihan Sanal
|
Flesh Yours, Bones Mine: The making of the biomedical subject
in Turkey
2005 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
Harvard Medical School |
|
David Lucsko |
Manufacturing Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination
with Speed, 1915-1984
2005 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith |
Auburn University |
Eden Medina |
The State Machine: Politics, Ideology and Computation in
Chile, 1964-1973
2005 | Advisor: David Mindell |
MIT |
Shane Hamilton |
"Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of
Rural Life in Postwar America"
2005 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
University of York |
Wen-Hua Kuo |
"Japan and Taiwan in the Wake of Bio-Globalization: Drugs,
Race and Standards"
2005 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
2004 |
Chen-Pang Yeang |
"Characterizing Radio Channels: The Science and Technology
of Propagation and Interference, 1900-1935"
2004 | Advisor: David Mindell |
University of Toronto |
Rachel Prentice |
"Bodies of Information: Reinventing Bodies and Practice in
Medical Education"
2004 | Advisor: Sherry Turkle |
Cornell
University |
William Turkel |
"The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of
a North American Plateau"
2004 | Advisor: Harriet N.
Ritvo |
University
of Western Ontario |
Babak Ashrafi |
"Making and Remaking Quantum Field Theory"
2003 | Advisor: Evelyn Fox
Keller |
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine |
Brendan P. Foley |
"Fighting Engineers: The U.S. Navy and Mechanical Engineering,
1840-1905"
2003 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Lund University |
Timothy Wolters |
"Managing a Sea of Information: Shipboard Command and Control
in the U.S. Navy, 1899-1945"
2003 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Iowa State University |
2002 |
Barbara Masi |
"The Impact of 'Strategic Initiatives' on Structure, Governance
and Resource Allocation in U.S. Research Universities"
2002 | Advisors: Louis Bucciarelli
and John Van Maanen |
University of Rochester |
Heinrich Schwarz |
"Techno-Territories: The Spatial, Technological and Social
Reorganization of Office Work"
2002 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
Schwarz Innovation, Hamburg |
Kaushik Sunder Rajan |
"Bio Capital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life"
2002 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
University of Chicago |
Kendall Hoyt |
"The Role of Military-Industrial Relations in the History
of Vaccine Development"
2002 | Advisor: David Mindell |
Dartmouth
Medical School |
2001 |
Benjamin W. Pinney |
"Projects, Management, and Protean Times: Engineering Enterprise
in the United States, 1870-1960"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
Johnson Controls |
Eric D. Kupferberg |
"The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority
in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924"
2001 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
Northeastern University / Harvard School of Public Health |
Eric W. Sievers |
"Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital: The Post-Soviet
Decline of Central Asia"
2001 | Advisor: Peter Perdue |
ClonBio Group Limited / Ethanol Europe/ Danube Energy Ventures |
Gregory J. Galer |
"Forging Ahead: The Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts and
Two Centuries of Industrial Enterprise, 1635-1861"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
Association for Preservation Technology International |
Robert Martello |
"Paul Revere's Metallurgical Ride: Craft and Proto-Industry
in Early America"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
Olin College of Engineering |
2000 |
Karin Ellison |
"Making of a Multiple Purpose Dam: Engineering Culture,
US Bureau of Reclamation, and Grand Coulee Dam, 1917-1942"
2000 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald |
Arizona State University |
Hannah L. Landecker |
"Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture and Cellular
Life in 20th Century Biomedicine"
1999 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
UCLA Department of Sociology |
Patricia P. Bentley |
"Genetic Manipulation: The Paradox of Control in a Flexible
Corporation"
2000 | Advisor: Hugh Gusterson |
MIT Sloan |
Christopher M. Kelty |
"Scale and Convention: Programmed Language in a Regulated
America"
2000 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics |
1999 |
Gregory K. Clancey |
"Foreign Knowledge or Art Nation, Earthquake Nation: Architecture,
Seismology, Carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923"
1999 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
National
University of Singapore |
Linda Eikmeier Endersby |
"Expositions, Museums, and Technological Display: Building
Cultural Institutions for the 'Inventor Citizen' in the Late 19th
Century United States"
1999 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
Museum of Art & Archaeology |
Vyacheslav Gerovitch |
"Speaking Cybernetically: The Soviet Remaking of an American
Science"
1999 | Advisor: Loren Graham |
MIT |
Diane M. Greco |
"Finding a Form: The Study of Terrestrial Magnetism at Goettingen,
1818-1839"
1999 | Advisor: Jed Buchwald |
Boston University |
Jennifer L. Mnookin |
"Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise and Technologies of
Knowledge in the American Courtroom"
1999 | Advisor: Michael Fischer |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
1998 |
Rebecca M. Herzig |
"In the Name of Truth: Sacrificial Ideals and American Science,
1870-1930"
1998 | Advisor: Leo Marx |
Bates
College |
1997 |
Roberta E. Bivins |
"The Needle and the Lancet: British Acupuncture and the Cross-Cultural
Transmission of Medical Knowledge"
1997 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo |
University of Warwick |
Russell Olwell |
"Atomic Workers, Atomic City: Labor and Community in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, 1942-1950"
1997 | Advisor: Christian Appy |
Eastern Michigan University |
1996 |
David A. Mindell |
"'Datum for its Own Annihilation': Feedback, Control, and
Computing, 1916-1945"
1996 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
MIT |
Joel Genuth |
"The Local Origins of United States National Science Policy"
1996 | Advisor: Loren Graham |
|
Sara E. Wermiel |
"Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Development of the Fireproof
Building in the United States, 1790-1911"
1996 | Advisor: Robert Fogelson |
MIT, Independent scholar |
Antonio José Junqueira Botelho |
"Professional Against the State: French Electronics Policy
in Historical Perspective"
1996 | Advisor: Charles Sabel |
Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj)
Universidade Cândido Mendes (UCAM)
|
1995 |
Brian O'Donnell, S.J. |
"The Spindles Stop: Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester,
New Hampshire Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry"
1995 | Advisor: Merritt Roe
Smith |
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Parish |
George O'Har |
"Shipbuilding, Markets, and Technological Change in East Boston"
1995 | Advisor: Leo Marx |
Brownstone Institute |
Jessica Wang |
"American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Civil
Liberties, and the Cold War, 1945-1950"
1995 | Advisor: Charles Weiner |
University of British Columbia |
David M. Hart |
"Competing Conceptions of the Liberal State and the Governance
of Technological Innovation in the United States, 1933-1953"
1995 | Advisor: Ira Katznelson |
George
Mason University |
1994 |
Wade Roush |
"Catastrophe and Control: How Technological Disasters Enhance
Democracy"
1994 | Advisor: Charles Weiner |
Freelance |
1993 |
David H. Guston |
"The Social Contract for Science: Congress, the National Institutes
of Health, and the Boundary Between Politics and Science"
1993 | Advisor: Eugene Skolnikoff |
Arizona State
University |
1992 |
Bruce Bimber |
"Institutions and Information: The Politics of Expertise in
Congress"
1992 | Advisor: Charles Stewart |
University
of California, Santa Barbara |
1990 |
Gary Herrigel |
"Industrial Organization and the Politics of Industry: Centralized
and Decentralized Production in Germany"
1990 | Advisor: Charles Sabel |
University
of Chicago |
1989 |
AnnaLee Saxenian |
"The Political Economy of Industrial Adaptation in Silicon
Valley"
1989 | Advisor: Charles Sabel |
University of California, Berkeley |
Ronni Lynne Rosenberg |
"Computer Literacy Education"
1989 | Advisor: Joseph Weizenbaum |
|
1988 |
Colleen Dunlavy |
"Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United
States and Prussia"
1988 | Advisors: Merritt Roe
Smith and Suzanne Berger |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
1987 |
Lindy Biggs |
"Industry's Master Machine: Factory Planning and Design in
the Age of Mass Production, 1900 to 1930"
1987 | Advisors: Merritt Roe Smith and Robert Fogelson |
Auburn University (retired) |
George G. Hoberg, Jr. |
"Pluralism by Design: Environmental Policy and the American
Regulatory State, 1933-1980"
1987 | Advisor: Walter Dean
Burnham |
University
of British Columbia |
1986 |
Richard E. Sclove |
"Technology and Freedom: A Prescriptive Theory of Technological
Design and Practice in Democratic Societies"
1986 | Advisor: Joshua Cohen |
Loka
Institute |
Paul R. Josephson |
"The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute and the Birth
of Russian Physics"
1986 | Advisor: Donald Blackmer |
Colby College |
1985 |
Frank Laird |
"Limiting Democracy: Participation, Competence, and Energy
Policy"
1985 | Advisor: Eugene Skolnikoff |
University of Denver |