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| Program in Science and Technology Studies | |
|---|---|
| Name | Program in Science and Technology Studies |
| Type | Interdisciplinary academic program |
| Established | 20th century |
| Affiliation | University |
| Director | Faculty |
| Location | Campus |
Program in Science and Technology Studies The Program in Science and Technology Studies is an interdisciplinary academic unit exploring interactions among Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and other historical figures with institutions such as the Royal Society, Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum, London, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It analyzes relationships among technologies produced by entities like Bell Labs, IBM, Siemens, General Electric, Tesla, Inc., and infrastructures represented by Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railway, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, International Telecommunication Union, and European Space Agency. The program engages methods developed in the tradition of scholars associated with Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, and Sheila Jasanoff to study episodes such as the Manhattan Project, Apollo program, Green Revolution, Human Genome Project, and Chernobyl disaster.
The program situates itself within debates initiated by Robert Merton, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Popper, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, and Hannah Arendt while interacting with institutional partners including National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Courses examine topics through case studies involving James Watt, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and Nikola Tesla alongside analyses of artifacts from Smithsonian Institution, Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum, London, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Library of Congress. The program emphasizes archival research using collections from Bodleian Library, British Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Mount Holyoke College Archives.
Origins trace to intellectual currents shaped by figures such as John Dewey, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and Norbert Wiener and institutional developments at universities including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia University, Yale University, and Princeton University. Early formative projects referenced events like the Industrial Revolution, Second Industrial Revolution, World War I, World War II, Cold War, and Space Race and engaged with agencies such as Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Atomic Energy Commission, and National Institutes of Health. Milestones include conferences held in venues linked to Royal Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, All Souls College, Oxford, and International Sociological Association.
The curriculum draws on theoretical texts by Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Donna Haraway and methodological training influenced by programs at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Pennsylvania. Degree pathways often intersect with departments such as History of Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, and Philosophy while collaborating with professional schools like Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Columbia Business School. Core courses examine archives associated with National Archives and Records Administration, technical dossiers from Bell Labs, and patent collections linked to United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office.
Research groups focus on themes studied by scholars like Sheila Jasanoff, Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, Harry Collins, and Evelyn Fox Keller and operate labs or centers modeled after Science, Technology, and Society Program (MIT), Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. Projects investigate technologies from companies such as AT&T, Intel Corporation, Google, Apple Inc., and Microsoft and historical cases including Hiroshima, Bhopal disaster, Three Mile Island accident, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Fieldwork engages sites like CERN, Large Hadron Collider, J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Faculty include scholars building on work by Robert Merton, Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Steven Shapin, and Evelyn Fox Keller and often hold joint appointments with institutions such as Harvard Kennedy School, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Oxford Internet Institute, University College London, and European University Institute. Administrative governance follows models used by Ivy League, Russell Group, Association of American Universities, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association with advisory boards drawing members from National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, and Academy of Social Sciences.
Students engage in activities inspired by professional networks such as Society for Social Studies of Science, History of Science Society, American Anthropological Association, American Sociological Association, and Association for Computing Machinery. Alumni pursue careers at organizations including United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, European Commission, UNESCO, and institutions like Smithsonian Institution, National Institutes of Health, Google, Facebook, Nature Publishing Group, The Lancet, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Notable alumni trajectories mirror careers of figures associated with Manhattan Project, Apollo program, Human Genome Project, and International Space Station collaborations.
The program partners with research centers and funders such as Wellcome Trust, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Gates Foundation and collaborates with laboratories like CERN, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Fermilab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. It maintains exchange relationships with universities including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, and University of Chicago.
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