Technology and Society

Leah Aronowsky

Research Interests: history of twentieth-century life and environmental sciences; the historical relationship between ecology and engineering; the historical intersections of ecology and space flight science and technology; the Anthropocene.

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laronowsky@fas.harvard.edu

Juana Becerra

Research Interests: history of physics, cold war science, history of science in education, philosophy of science, ethnography of science.

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juanabecerra@g.harvard.edu

Sandip Bhatt

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. Read more about Sandip Bhatt

s_bhatt@g.harvard.edu

Kevin Castro Riestra

Research interests: History of aviation, aerospace, and space exploration technologies; transformation of aerospace technology to advance knowledge of astronomy and archeology.

Hannah Conway

Research Interests: History of science, technology, and engineering; public infrastructure and technology; state sponsorship of research and design; theory and epistemology of applied sciences; science-fiction and cultural acceptance of scientific and technological advance; technological fear. Read more about Hannah Conway

hannahconway@g.harvard.edu

Connemara Doran

Research Interests: history and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.

Cara Kiernan Fallon

Research Interests: Age, gender, and disability; history of medicine and public health; history of technology; material culture.

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cfallon@fas.harvard.edu

Emily A. Harrison

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.

Jordan Howell

Research Interests: Modern French and German intellectual history; history of the human sciences in Modern Europe, with emphasis on physiology, psychology and economics; history of capitalism. Read more about Jordan Howell

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j_howell@g.harvard.edu

Marija Jevtic

Research interests: science, technology, and society; colonialism and science; political influence; management of technology; history of psychology; psychological manipulation through science and technology.

Devin Kennedy

Research Interests: History of Computing and Technology, Media Theory, History of Economics and Finance, 20^th Century American History, Science and Technology Studies, History of Statistics and Data Sciences, Speed Studies.

Colleen Lanier Christensen

Research Interests: History of public health; history of environmental health; environmental history; science, technology, and society; science policy; history of biology and biotechnology; history of medicine. Read more about Colleen Lanier Christensen

Personal Website

colleenlanier@fas.harvard.edu

Angélica Márquez-Osuna

Research Interests: Agriculture; Anthropology; Environmental history; History of development. Read more about Angélica Márquez-Osuna

marquezosuna@g.harvard.edu

Wythe Marschall

Research Interests: Social studies of biotechnology and bioengineering; history of synthetic biology; science fiction; future of food; environmental criticism; history of the environmental sciences; history of medicine (pharmaceuticals); cultural entomology.

Evgeny Morozov

Research Interests: The irreducible materiality and the cultural mentalities of technological change, particularly as seen in his object of choice, the internet.