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Steven Shapin
STEVEN SHAPIN is emeritus professor of the history of science at Harvard. His books include A Social History of Truth and The Scientific Life. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about What We Eat and Who We Are will be published next year.
Frédérique Aït-Touati
Frédérique Aït-Touati is a theatre director and a CNRS Research Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her work explores connections between the sciences and the arts. Her books include Fictions of the Cosmos, Chicago UP, 2011 ; Terra Forma, 2019 (MIT Press, 2022) ; Trilogie Terrestre, 2022 (with Bruno Latour). She runs the Experimental
Leah Aronowsky
Leah Aronowsky is a historian of science and the environment. She received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard. Most recently, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. In January 2024, she will join the faculty of the Columbia Climate School as an Assistant Professor of Climate.
Deborah Coen
Deborah R. Coen is a professor of history at Yale. Her research centers on the relationship between science and democracy in modern Europe, including the politics of climate change. Her latest book is Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale.
Paul N. Edwards
Paul N. Edwards is Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. He writes and teaches about the history, politics, and culture of information infrastructures. Edwards is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the
Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich is an anthropologist who studies how scientists in oceanography, biology, acoustics, and computer science define and theorize their objects of study, particularly as these objects — waves, life, sound, code — reach their conceptual limits. A Book of Waves (Duke University Press, 2023) details how scientists at sea and in the lab monitor and modelElting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology
Caroline A. Jones
Caroline A. Jones is a full Professor at MIT, teaching in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture and also serving as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Architecture and Planning. She studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception, and on its
Joseph Koerner
Joseph Koerner teaches the history of art and architecture from the late Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on Northern Renaissance art, as well as on Dutch seventeenth-century, European Romanticism, and German and Austrian Modernism. He also teaches thematic courses on European prints and drawings, self-portraiture, monuments (with Sarah Lewis), Adam and Eve (with Stephen Greenblatt), and witches (with Felipe Pereda). He has written books on
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, she is the author or coauthor of four books and the editor of a dozen collective volumes/journal issues and over one hundred articles and chapters
Hélène Mialet
Hélène Mialet is a professor in the Department of STS at York University, Toronto. She is co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) global program “Future Flourishing.” Her current research involves the use of prosthetics, computer driven monitoring devices, algorithms and extended medical networks involving assemblages of caregivers, patients, animals and machines. She is particularly interested
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Projit Bihari Mukharji is Professor and Head of the Department of History at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India. He is also currently a Guggenheim Fellow and the co-editor-elect for Isis. His most recent monograph is titled Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, c.1920-66 (Chicago, 2023).
Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. An internationally renowned scientist and historian, she is a leading voice on the reality on anthropogenic climate change and the history of efforts to undermine climate action and scientific truth. Oreskes
Antoine Picon
Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the GSD. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. His French
Amit Prasad
Amit Prasad teaches in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is also an affiliate faculty of the Atlanta Global Studies Center and the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. His research is aimed at excavating the history of the present in relation to post/de-colonial, transnational, and global aspects of
Isabelle Stengers
Isabelle Stengers is professor emerita of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. After graduating in chemistry she has turned to philosophy, and as a doctoral student she has worked in Ilya Prigogine physical chemistry department. Her first work with Prigogine and her dissertation was about the contrast between the conceptual inventiveness of physics and its claim
Anna Tsing
Anna Tsing teaches anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her most recent collaboratively written book is Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press, 2024).