Alumni

Humanizing Autonomous Futures: Engineers' and Social Scientists' Strategies to Realize Robotic Cars
Sept. 2020 | Advisor: David Mindell

Alliance Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley

Technologies of Perception: Searches for Life and Intelligence Beyond Earth
Sept. 2020 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Berggruen Institute and the University of Southern California

The Kernel of Doubt: Agricultural Biotechnology, Braided Temporalities, and Agrarian Environments in India
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Asia Research Institute (ARI) at National University of Singapore

The Subjects of Modernism: Mathematics, Art, and the Politics of Value in Twentieth-Century United States
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Washington University in St. Louis

Afterlives of Extinction: The Politics of Display in the Modern United States
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Stanford University

Toxic Relationships: Health and the Politics of Science and Trade in the Postcolonial World
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

University of Geneva

Truffle Crops and Soil Drugs: New Fungal Practices and Epistemologies for the 21st Century
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Heather Paxson

Speech, Signal, Symptom: Machine Listening and the Remaking of Psychiatric Assessment
Sept. 2019 | Advisor: Graham Jones

MIT

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

Getty Research Institute

Transnational Biopolitics and Family-Making in Secrecy: An Ethnography of Reproductive Travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus
Feb. 2019 | Advisor: Heather Paxson

Orient-Institut Istanbul

The Plantation Network: Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Sustainability in the Global South
Sept. 2018 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Johns Hopkins University

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

Highway Madness!: Politics and Citizen Participation in Postwar US Traffic Safety Technology and Policy
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Meditations in an Emergency: Social Scientists and the Problem of Conflict in Cold War America
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Christopher Capozzola

Stanford University

Making a Digital Working Class: Uber Drivers in Boston, 2016-2017
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Susan Silbey

Northeastern University

The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Vivisection and the Question of Animal Pain in Britain, 1876-1912
Sept. 2017 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Tel Aviv University

Twitter and the Body Parodic: Global Acts of Re-creation and Recreation
June 2017 | Advisor: Graham Jones

Amherst College

Sparking Controversy: The Contested Use of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
June 2017 | Advisor: Susan Silbey

University of Pennsylvania

Doing Dutch Wax Cloth: Practice, Politics, and "The New Africa"
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Christine Walley

MIT

Platformizing Higher Education: Computer Science and the Making of MOOC Infrastructure
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Graham Jones

University of California, Berkeley

Swamps into Wetlands: Water, Conservation Science and Nationhood in Turkey
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Boston University

Algorithmic Detectives Against Child Trafficking: Data, Entrapment, and the New Global Policing Network
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Heather Paxson

Wesleyan University

Governing the Shark: Predators and People in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Sept. 2016 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Harvard University

Intimate Cartographies: Body Maps and the Epistemic Encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985
June 2016 | Advisor: Emma Teng

Rice University

Economy Electric: Techno-Economics, Neoliberalism, and Electricity in the United States
June 2016 | Advisor: Mike Fischer

National University of Singapore

Salvage Cartographies: Mapping, Futures, and Landscapes in Northwest British Columbia
June 2016 | Advisor: Mike Fischer

Johns Hopkins University

Project Apollo, Cold War Diplomacy and the American Framing of Global Interdependence
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Mindell

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Rigging the World: 3D Modeling and the Seduction of the Real
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Epic Games

Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860-1930
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Kaiser

University of Virginia

Making Biosecurity, Making Mexico: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

University of Pittsburgh

Insiders and Outsiders: Nuclear Arms Control Experts in Cold War America
Sept. 2014 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Harvard University

Changed Climate: Networking, Professionalization, and Grassroots Organizing in U.S. Environmental Organizations
June 2014 | Advisor: Susan Silbey

Volpe - The National Transportation Systems Center

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

Animal Madness: A Natural History of Disorder
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Stanford University

Empire's Metropolis: Money Time & Space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1940
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Maharashtra State Police; Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1940-1975
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Columbia University

The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
Sept. 2013 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

University of Toronto

Influenza: a study of contemporary medical politics
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Theodore Postol

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and The BMJ

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Yale University

The Rules of Perception: American Color Science, 1831-1931
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: David Jones

University of Chicago

Corporate Bodies and Chemicals Bonds: An STS analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States
Sept. 2011 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Northeastern University

Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the 'Affluent Society', 1945-1995
June 2011 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

Auburn University

Prozàk Diaries: Post-Rupture Subjectivities and Psychiatric Futures
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

SOAS University of London

Negotiating Nature: Expertise and Environment in the Klamath River Basin
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

University of Freiburg

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

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)

Crafting Life: A Sensory Ethnography of Fabricated Biologies
Sept. 2010 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Unaffiliated

Accidents, Engineering and History at NASA: 1967-2003
2009 | Advisor: David Mindell

Network for Learning

From Enthusiasm to Practice: Users, Systems, and Technology in High-End Audio
2009 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Downes Guitars, LLC

The Yellow Revolution in Malwa: Alternative Arenas of Struggle and the Cultural Politics of Development
2009 | Advisor: Kenneth Keniston

India Institute of Technology Delhi

Propheteering: A Cultural History of Prediction in the Gilded Age
2009 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Rutgers University

The Promiscuity of Freedom: Development and Governance the Age of Neoliberal Networks
2008 | Advisor: Sherry Turkle

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Planting Improvement: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scientific Agriculture in Northern British America, 1670-1820
2008 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Concordia University

The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and Environmental Values in Conservation Biology
2008 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

University of Pennsylvania

Executive Coaching: Crafting a Versatile Self in Corporate America
2008 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Loon

Modeling Proteins, Making Scientists: An Ethnography of Pedagogy and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Structural Biology
2007 | Advisor: Stefan Helmreich

Those Who Don't Know: Modernity, Risk, and Transition in Hanoi's Local Markets
2007 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
2007 | Advisor: David Jones

Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and American Technology before the Age of Oil
2007 | Advisor: David Kaiser

Pharmaceutical Relationships: Intersections of Illness, Fantasy and
Capital in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
2007 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Berklee

Temporal Coordination in Distributed Work
2006 | Advisor: Joanne Yates

Seoul National University Asia Center

The Soviet Farm Complex: Industrial Agriculture in a Socialist Context, 1946-1965
2006 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Making Lives Under Closure: Birth and Medicine in Palestine's Waiting Zones
2006 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

American University of Beirut

Flesh Yours, Bones Mine:  The making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
2005 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Manufacturing Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination with Speed, 1915-1984
2005 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Auburn University

The State Machine: Politics, Ideology and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973
2005 | Advisor: David Mindell

MIT

"Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America"
2005 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

University of York

"Japan and Taiwan in the Wake of Bio-Globalization: Drugs, Race and Standards"
2005 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Yang Ming University

"Characterizing Radio Channels: The Science and Technology of Propagation and Interference, 1900-1935"
2004 | Advisor: David Mindell

University of Toronto

"Bodies of Information: Reinventing Bodies and Practice in Medical Education"
2004 | Advisor: Sherry Turkle

Cornell University

"The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of a North American Plateau"
2004 | Advisor: Harriet N. Ritvo

University of Western Ontario

"Making and Remaking Quantum Field Theory"
2003 | Advisor: Evelyn Fox Keller

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

"Fighting Engineers: The U.S. Navy and Mechanical Engineering, 1840-1905"
2003 | Advisor: David Mindell

Lund University

"Managing a Sea of Information: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, 1899-1945"
2003 | Advisor: David Mindell

Iowa State University

"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

"Techno-Territories: The Spatial, Technological and Social Reorganization of Office Work"
2002 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

Schwarz Innovation, Hamburg

"Bio Capital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life"
2002 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

University of Chicago

"The Role of Military-Industrial Relations in the History of Vaccine Development"
2002 | Advisor: David Mindell

Dartmouth Medical School

"Projects, Management, and Protean Times: Engineering Enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Johnson Controls

"The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924"
2001 | Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerald

Northeastern University and Harvard School of Public Health

"Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital: The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia"
2001 | Advisor: Peter Perdue

Ethanol Europe

"Forging Ahead: The Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts and Two Centuries of Industrial Enterprise, 1635-1861"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Boston Preservation Alliance

"Paul Revere's Metallurgical Ride: Craft and Proto-Industry in Early America"
2001 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Olin College of Engineering

"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

"Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture and Cellular Life in 20th Century Biomedicine"
1999 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

UCLA Department of Sociology

"Genetic Manipulation: The Paradox of Control in a Flexible Corporation"
2000 | Advisor: Hugh Gusterson

MIT Sloan

"Scale and Convention: Programmed Language in a Regulated America"
2000 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics

"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

"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 and Columbia College

"Speaking Cybernetically: The Soviet Remaking of an American Science"
1999 | Advisor: Loren Graham

MIT

"Finding a Form: The Study of Terrestrial Magnetism at Goettingen, 1818-1839"
1999 | Advisor: Jed Buchwald

Boston University

"Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise and Technologies of Knowledge in the American Courtroom"
1999 | Advisor: Michael Fischer

UCLA Law

"In the Name of Truth: Sacrificial Ideals and American Science, 1870-1930"
1998 | Advisor: Leo Marx

Bates College

"The Needle and the Lancet: British Acupuncture and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Medical Knowledge"
1997 | Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

University of Warwick

"Atomic Workers, Atomic City: Labor and Community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1950"
1997 | Advisor: Christian Appy

Eastern Michigan University

"'Datum for its Own Annihilation': Feedback, Control, and Computing, 1916-1945"
1996 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

MIT

"The Local Origins of United States National Science Policy"
1996 | Advisor: Loren Graham

"Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Development of the Fireproof Building in the United States, 1790-1911"
1996 | Advisor: Robert Fogelson

MIT, Independent scholar

"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)

"The Spindles Stop: Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry"
1995 | Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Catholic Conference of West Virginia

"Shipbuilding, Markets, and Technological Change in East Boston"
1995 | Advisor: Leo Marx

Boston College

"American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Civil Liberties, and the Cold War, 1945-1950"
1995 | Advisor: Charles Weiner

University of British Columbia

"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

"Catastrophe and Control: How Technological Disasters Enhance Democracy"
1994 | Advisor: Charles Weiner

Freelance

"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

"Institutions and Information: The Politics of Expertise in Congress"
1992 | Advisor: Charles Stewart

University of California, Santa Barbara

"Industrial Organization and the Politics of Industry: Centralized and Decentralized Production in Germany"
1990 | Advisor: Charles Sabel

University of Chicago

"The Political Economy of Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley"
1989 | Advisor: Charles Sabel

University of California, Berkeley

"Computer Literacy Education"
1989 | Advisor: Joseph Weizenbaum

"Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia"
1988 | Advisors: Merritt Roe Smith and Suzanne Berger

University of Wisconsin-Madison

"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)

"Pluralism by Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State, 1933-1980"
1987 | Advisor: Walter Dean Burnham

University of British Columbia

"Technology and Freedom: A Prescriptive Theory of Technological Design and Practice in Democratic Societies"
1986 | Advisor: Joshua Cohen

Loka Institute

"The Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute and the Birth of Russian Physics"
1986 | Advisor: Donald Blackmer

Colby College

"Limiting Democracy: Participation, Competence, and Energy Policy"
1985 | Advisor: Eugene Skolnikoff

University of Denver