Faculty Research Interests
Boyd, Richard
Professor, rnb1@cornell.edu
Philosophies of science, psychology, epistemology, language, and mind.
Dear, Peter
Professor, prd3@cornell.edu
Early-modern science and epistemology; historical sociology of knowledge; history of scientific rhetoric.
Hilgartner, Stephen
Associate Professor and Chair, shh6@cornell.edu
Social dimensions and politics of contemporary and emerging science and technology, especially in the life sciences.
Kline, Ronald
Bovay Prof. in the History & Ethics of Professional Engineering, rrk1@cornell.edu
History of technology; history of information science and technology; history of technology in rural life; history of engineering and industrial research in the United States.
Leuenberger, Christine
Senior Lecturer, cal22@cornell.edu
Social studies of the human and behavioral sciences, sociology of science, classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, interactional sociology, sociology of culture, cultural studies, sociology of medicine, transformation studies of Eastern Europe, Near Eastern Studies.
Lewenstein, Bruce
Professor, b.lewenstein@cornell.edu
History and evaluation of public communication of science and technology; models of science communication; documentation and history of contemporary science.
Lynch, Michael
Professor, mel27@cornell.edu
Science & technology studies, biology & society, ethnomethodology & conversational analysis, social theory & philosophy of social science, the production of visual images in science, the relations between law and science with a focus on forensic DNA analysis.
Pinch, Trevor
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, tjp2@cornell.edu
Sociology of science and technology, sociology of selling, sound studies, materiality, performativity, internet review and recommendation systems.
Power, Alison
Professor, agp4@cornell.edu
Ecology of agricultural systems; pest management; social and environmental impacts of agricultural technologies; environment and rural development.
Prentice, Rachel
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, rep35@cornell.edu
The anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; the body at the interface of medicine and information technologies; multi-disciplinary research worlds; social and cultural theory.
Pritchard, Sara
Assistant Professor, sbp65@cornell.edu
History of technology (including environmental management technologies, colonialism, and gender), environmental history, and their intersection (envirotech); environmental and technical expertise; historical geography of science and technology.
Reppy, Judith
Professor Emerita and Graduate School Professor, jvr2@cornell.edu
Military technology; government policies for S&T; and economics of innovation.
Rossiter, Margaret W.
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, mwr4@cornell.edu
19th and 20th century American science, especially agricultural sciences and women in science.
Sengers, Phoebe
Associate Professor, sengers@cs.cornell.edu
Critical approaches to technology design, environmental sustainability and its framing in IT development, technology and consumer culture, modernization in rural Newfoundland.
Seth, Suman
Associate Professor, ss536@cornell.edu
History of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; gender and science; science, colonialism, and nationalism.
Vogel, Kathleen
Associate Professor, kmv8@cornell.edu
Military technology & innovation; nonproliferation & arms control; defense & science policy; intelligence assessments; scientific expertise; politics of S&T.