Alumni - MIT HASTS

Originally called History and Social Study of Science and Technology (HSSST), and renamed to History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) in 2004, the program has granted 112 doctoral degrees since its inception in 1988. HASTS alumni bring deep intellectual curiosity to their professional lives—whether they are serving in academic positions or making their mark at a public agency or private corporation. Read more about what our alumni are doing after graduation in the News and Alumni Books sections of this website.

David Lucsko

Dissertation: Manufacturing Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination with Speed, 1915-1984

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 2005

Current Affiliation: Auburn University

Eden Medina

Dissertation: The State Machine: Politics, Ideology and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973

Advisor: David Mindell

Degree Awarded: 2005

Current Affiliation: MIT

Aslihan Sanal

Dissertation: Flesh Yours, Bones Mine: The making of the biomedical subject in Turkey

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 2005

Current Affiliation: Harvard Medical School

Babak Ashrafi

Dissertation: Making and Remaking Quantum Field Theory

Advisor: Evelyn Fox Keller

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Brendan P. Foley

Dissertation: Fighting Engineers: The U.S. Navy and Mechanical Engineering, 1840-1905

Advisor: David Mindell

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: Lund University

Rachel Prentice

Dissertation: Bodies of Information: Reinventing Bodies and Practice in Medical Education

Advisor: Sherry Turkle

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: Cornell University

William Turkel

Dissertation: The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of a North American Plateau

Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: University of Western Ontario

Timothy Wolters

Dissertation: Managing a Sea of Information: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, 1899-1945

Advisor: David Mindell

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: Iowa State University

Chen-Pang Yeang

Dissertation: Characterizing Radio Channels: The Science and Technology of Propagation and Interference, 1900-1935

Advisor: David Mindell

Degree Awarded: 2004

Current Affiliation: University of Toronto

Kendall Hoyt

Dissertation: The Role of Military-Industrial Relations in the History of Vaccine Development

Advisor: David Mindell

Degree Awarded: 2002

Current Affiliation: Dartmouth Medical School

Barbara Masi

Dissertation: The Impact of 'Strategic Initiatives' on Structure, Governance and Resource Allocation in U.S. Research Universities

Advisor: Louis Bucciarelli and John Van Maanen

Degree Awarded: 2002

Current Affiliation: University of Rochester

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Dissertation: Bio Capital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 2002

Current Affiliation: University of Chicago

Heinrich Schwarz

Dissertation: Techno-Territories: The Spatial, Technological and Social Reorganization of Office Work

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 2002

Current Affiliation: Schwarz Innovation, Hamburg

Gregory J. Galer

Dissertation: Forging Ahead: The Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts and Two Centuries of Industrial Enterprise, 1635-1861

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 2001

Current Affiliation: Association for Preservation Technology International

Eric D. Kupferberg

Dissertation: The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924

Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerlad

Degree Awarded: 2001

Current Affiliation: CITI Program / Stack Education

Robert Martello

Dissertation: Paul Revere's Metallurgical Ride: Craft and Proto-Industry in Early America

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 2001

Current Affiliation: Olin College of Engineering

Benjamin W. Pinney

Dissertation: Projects, Management, and Protean Times: Engineering Enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 2001

Current Affiliation: Johnson Controls

Eric W. Sievers

Dissertation: Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital: The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia

Advisor: Peter Perdue

Degree Awarded: 2001

Current Affiliation: ClonBio Group Limited Ethanol Europe Danube Energy Ventures

Patricia P. Bentley

Dissertation: Genetic Manipulation: The Paradox of Control in a Flexible Corporation

Advisor: Hugh Gusterson

Degree Awarded: 2000

Current Affiliation: MIT Sloan (retired)

Karin Ellison

Dissertation: Making of a Multiple Purpose Dam: Engineering Culture, US Bureau of Reclamation, and Grand Coulee Dam, 1917-1942

Advisor: Deborah Fitzgerlad

Degree Awarded: 2000

Current Affiliation: Arizona State University

Hannah L. Landecker

Dissertation: Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture and Cellular Life in 20th Century Biomedicine

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 2000

Current Affiliation: UCLA Department of Sociology

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*Alumni with an asterisk (*) next to their name received a degree from another MIT PhD program, but were advised or co-advised by STS faculty members before the HSSST graduate program was created.

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