Bios Talk: Hallam Stevens - Experiments with Life in China's Experimental City: BGI, DNA, and Shenzhen

Hallam Stevens is an historian of science and technology whose work examines the intersections between the life sciences and information technologies. He is the author ofLife Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (2013), Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction(Chicago, 2016), and the co-editor of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Life After the Genome (Duke, 2015) andCrafting Everyday Food: Traditional, Taste, and Technology in Modern East Asia(Hawaii, 2025). He is currently completing a book about electronics manufacturing titledTropics of Silicon: Labor and the Making of Global Electronics in Southeast Asia(under contract, Johns Hopkins).