Karuna Vikram

Research Interests: History of Technology; U.S. legal history; labor history; political economy.

Karuna studies how technology, law, and society constitute each other. Her previous research examined how U.S. corporate leaders shaped international intellectual property standards in the form of the TRIPS Agreement. Currently, she is researching the history of technology and automation in the workplace in the twentieth-century United States.

Previous Degrees:

B.A., History, Columbia University 
M.Phil., Economic and Social History, University of Cambridge