Principal Investigator Heather Paxson
Co-investigators Manduhai Buyandelger , Karen L Gardner , Stefan Helmreich , William Broadhead , Louis Bucciarelli , Christopher Capozzola , Michael Fischer , Deborah Fitzgerald , James Howe , Erica James , David Kaiser , Kenneth Keniston , Kenneth Manning , Anne McCants , David Mindell , Theodore Postol , Jeffrey Ravel , Harriet Ritvo , Susan Silbey , Eugene Skolnikoff , Merritt Smith , Leon Trilling , Sherry Turkle , Christine Walley , Rosalind Williams , Elizabeth Wood , JoAnne Yates , Clapperton Mavhunga , Peter C Perdue , Hanna Rose Shell , Arthur Steinberg , Craig Wilder
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/hasts/index.html
MIT’s Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) trains scholars to study science and technology as activities situated in social and cultural contexts. HASTS faculty examine expert as well as popular engagement with the processes and products of technological and scientific work, and conduct research across a spectrum of geographical areas and historical periods.
Faculty members from History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society share responsibility for teaching the required graduate courses and for working with students in individual tutorials, reading courses, and dissertation research.
HASTS faculty and students employ historical, ethnographic, and sociological methods and theories to investigate a wide range of topics, including:
(*) cultures of engineering(*) the making of scientific tools and theories(*) conventions of laboratory practice(*) science and technology in military enterprise(*) the relation of technology to economic institutions(*) the relation of science and law(*) the politics of race and science(*) knowledge-production in biomedicine and life sciences(*) agricultural and environmental history(*) science education
The HASTS program supports faculty and student research across a range of interdisciplinary topics, linked by a shared concern with the social and historical foundations of science and technology.