This October, the MIT Program in History, Anthropology, and STS (HASTS) launched Contrasts, a magazine of public facing works that intersect science, technology, and society. It is edited and produced by graduate students of the HASTS PhD program.
Contrasts‘s editorial collective includes editors-in-chief Alona Bach, Hina Walajahi, and Gwendolyn Wallace, as well as Thea Appelbaum Licht, Tathagat Bhatia, Danhue Kim, Xinche Zheng, and Boyd Ruamcharoen PhD ’25. The initiative’s faculty advisor is Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT.
Oriented around the theme of “portals,” the inaugural issue of the magazine was released on Thursday, October 30th at a celebration that took place in MIT’s Hayden Library. The event featured zine-making, food, and a DJ set curated by Rustam Khan.
To view Contrasts online, readers may visit the magazine’s website at www.contrastsmag.net.
