Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved over time, how they privilege certain metrics over others (e.g. quantitative over qualitative, representative cases over edge cases), and how they reflect the valuation of different types of labor (e.g. coding vs. manual review) within the development community.
Research interests: History of economic thought, international history, logical positivism, neoliberalism, eugenics, history and philosophy of the social sciences.
Research Interests: History of technology; history of computing; history of the human & social sciences; history of security; national security policy; cybernetics; STS; surveillance studies; media studies; visual & material culture; philosophy of science & technology
Research Interests: The intersections of health and development, the global and the local, in the making and mediation of people, ideas, values, practices and materials. The focus of her current project is infant mortality.
Research Interests: Science, technology, and society; colonialism and science; political influence; management of technology; history of psychology; psychological manipulation through science and technology.
Research Interests: History of the body; history of the mind; knowledge exchange and re/production; globalization of science and standards; media in science; Japan and empire.
Research Interests:History of finance; history of economics;quantification; history of state and colonial administration.
Mateo is an Ashford Fellow and PhD student in the History of Science department. He is interested in the technicalization of financial instruments, audits, and government initiatives and their relations with political economic thought beginning in the Early Modern period. He currently focuses on Early Modern France and its colonial holdings. Mateo received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Williams College
Research Interests: Native science; indigeneity and science; science and nation building; intellectual decolonization movements; New Deal sciences; traditional ecological knowledge, history of anthropology and archeology; environmental history; postcolonial, feminist and queer theory; haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history; postcolonial material history and museum studies.
Research Interests: History of Medicine and Public Health; Black Studies; Critical Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Medical Humanities; Carceral Sciences; Biomedicalization; Reproductive Medicine; Psychiatry and Mental Health
