Alumni
Alatout, Samer
Dissertation Title: "Imagining Hydrological Boundaries, Constructing the Nation-State: A 'Fluid' History of Israel, 1936-1959" (2002).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Berkowitz, Carin
Dissertation Title: "Medical Science as Pedagogy in Early Nineteenth-century Britain: Charles Bell and the Politics of London Medical Reform" (2010).
Current Location: Associate Director, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Boczkowski, Pablo
Dissertation Title: "Affording Flexibility: Transforming Information Practices in Online Newspapers" (2000).
Current Location: Professor, Department of Communication, Northwestern University.
Caruso, David
Dissertation Title: "War and Knowledge Production: American Military Medicine, 1898 to 1918" (2008).
Current location: Oral History Program Manager, Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Chiu, Imes
Dissertation Title: "When New Things Were Old: Three case studies on the transition from muscle to motor power" (2006).
Current Location: Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Costa, Shelley
Dissertation Title: "The Ladies' Diary: Society, Gender and Mathematics in England, 1704-1754" (2000).
Current Location: Independent Scholar.
Daemmrich, Arthur
Dissertation Title: "Therapeutic Cultures: Pharmaceutical Regulation and Medical Politics in the United States and Germany" (2001).
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and The International Economy, Harvard Business School.
David, Shay
Dissertation Title: Open Systems in Practice and Theory: The Social Construction of Participatory Information Networks" (2008).
Current location: Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Kaltura.
Doing, Park
Dissertation Title: "Velvet Revolutions: Accounting for Epistemic and Political Change at a Modern Physics Laboratory amid the Second Rise of Biology in Synchrotron Science" (2003).
Current Location: Lecturer, Bovay Program in Engineering Ethics, Cornell University.
Downer, John
Dissertation Title: "The Burden of Proof: Regulating Reliability in Civil Aviation" (2006).
Current Location: Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.
Dunbar-Hester, Christina
Dissertation Title: "Propagating Community, Propagating Technology? Low-Power Radio Activism and Technological Negotiation in the U.S., 1996-2006" (2008).
Current location: Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University.
Geltzer, Anna
Dissertation Title: “Surrogate Epistemology: the Transition from Soviet to Russian Biomedicine" (2012).
Current Location: Independent Scholar.
Greenberg, Joshua
Dissertation Title: "From Betamax to Blockbuster: Mediation in the Consumption Junction" (2004).
Current Location: Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship, Center for History & New Media, New York Public Library.
Halfon, Saul
Dissertation Title: "Reconstructing Population Policy After Cairo: Demography, Woman's Empowerment, and the Population" (2000).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Science & Technology in Society, Virginia Tech.
Kusiak, Pauline
Dissertation Title: The Machine that "Makes the Inside Visible": Medical Instruments, Mentalities-Talk, and the Politics of Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal (2005).
Current Location: Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy - SOLIC&IC/Stability Operations Capabilities.
Lezaun, Javier
Dissertation Title: "Policing Purity: Testing, Traceability, and the Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms" (2003).
Current Location: Lecturer, James Martin Institute, Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
Ma, EunJeong
Dissertation Title: "Medicine in the Making in Postcolonial Korea, 1948-2006" (2008).
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Science Education for the Next Society, Seoul National University.
Maerker, Anna
Dissertation Title: "Model Experts: The Production and Uses of Anatomical Models at La Specola, Florence, and the Josephinum, Vienna, 1775-1814" (2005).
Current Location: Sr. Lecturer, History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University.
Mahajan, Manjari
Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Public Health Emergencies: AIDS Epidemics in India and South Africa" 2008.
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, NY.
Martin, Aryn
Dissertation Title: "I Contain Multitudes": Chimeras, Cells and the Materialization of Identities" (2006).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University (Toronto).
Mody, Cyrus
Dissertation Title: "Crafting the Tools of Knowledge: The Invention, Spread, and Commercialization of Probe Microscopy, 1960-2000" (2004).
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rice University.
Moon, Suzanne
Dissertation Title: "Constructing 'Native Development': Technological Change and the Politics of Colonization in the Netherlands East Indies" (2000).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of History of Science, University of Oklahoma.
Nelson, Nicole
Dissertation Title: "Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems and Epistemic Scaffolds in Animal Behavior Genetics" (2011).
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.
Onaga, Lisa
Dissertation Title: "Silkworms, Science and Nation: A Sericultural History of Genetics in Modern Japan" (2012).
Current Location: Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics.
Parthasarathy, Shobita
Dissertation Title: "A Global Genome? Comparing the Development of Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer in the United States and Britain" (2002).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Paton, Miranda
Dissertation Title: "Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944" (2008).
Current location: Horning Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Oregon State University.
Plafcan, Dan
Dissertation Title: "Between State and Transnational Community: U.S.-Japan Technoscientific Diplomacy in Earth Observation" (2007).
Current Location: Social Scientist and Senior Analyst, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, US Government.
Reardon, Jenny
Dissertation Title: "Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genetics" (2002).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz.
Rogers, Hannah
Dissertation Title: "The Practices of Art and Science" (2012).
Current Location: Lecturer, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia.
Saul, Jessie
Dissertation Title: "The Tainted Gift: A Comparative Study of the Culture and Politics of the Contamination of the Blood Supply with the AIDS Virus in France and the United States" (2004).
Current Location: Director of Research, NAQC (North America Quitline Consortium)
Schmid, Sonja
Dissertation Title: "Envisioning a Technological State: Reactor Design Choices and Political Legitimacy in the Soviet Union and Russia" (2005).
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Science & Technology in Society, Virgina Tech.
Sharif, Naubahar
Dissertation Title: "Emergence of the National Innovation systems conceptual Approach and its Application to Hong Kong" (2005).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
Shuldiner, Alec
Dissertation Title: "Trapped Behind the Automat: Technological Systems and the American Restaurant, 1902-1991" (2000).
Current Location: Business Process Analyst, Autodesk.
Tinn, Hong-hong
Dissertation Title: "Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, and Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984" (2012).
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, National University of Singapore.
Vertesi, Janet
Dissertation Title: "'Seeing Like a Rover': Images in Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission" (2009).
Current Location: Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University.
Voskuhl, Adelheid
Dissertation Title: "The Mechanics of Sentiment: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe" (2006).
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of History of Science, Harvard University.
Wetmore, Jameson
Dissertation Title: "Systems of Restraint: Redistributing Responsibilities for Automobile Safety in the United States Since the 1960s" (2003).
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University.