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.

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

Christopher M. Kelty

Dissertation: Scale and Convention: Programmed Language in a Regulated America

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 2000

Current Affiliation: UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics

Gregory K. Clancey

Dissertation: Foreign Knowledge or Art Nation, Earthquake Nation: Architecture, Seismology, Carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 1999

Current Affiliation: National University of Singapore

Linda Eikmeier Endersby

Dissertation: Expositions, Museums, and Technological Display: Building Cultural Institutions for the 'Inventor Citizen' in the Late 19th Century United States

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 1999

Current Affiliation: University of Oklahoma

Vyacheslav Gerovitch

Dissertation: Speaking Cybernetically: The Soviet Remaking of an American Science

Advisor: Loren Graham

Degree Awarded: 1999

Current Affiliation: MIT

Diane M. Greco

Dissertation: Finding a Form: The Study of Terrestrial Magnetism at Goettingen, 1818-1839

Advisor: Jed Buchwald

Degree Awarded: 1999

Current Affiliation: Boston University

Jennifer L. Mnookin

Dissertation: Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise and Technologies of Knowledge in the American Courtroom

Advisor: Michael M.J. Fischer

Degree Awarded: 1999

Current Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rebecca M. Herzig

Dissertation: In the Name of Truth: Sacrificial Ideals and American Science, 1870-1930

Advisor: Leo Marx

Degree Awarded: 1998

Current Affiliation: Bates College

Roberta E. Bivins

Dissertation: The Needle and the Lancet: British Acupuncture and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Medical Knowledge

Advisor: Harriet Ritvo

Degree Awarded: 1997

Current Affiliation: University of Warwick

Russell Olwell

Dissertation: Atomic Workers, Atomic City: Labor and Community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1950

Advisor: Christian Appy

Degree Awarded: 1997

Current Affiliation: Middlesex Community College

Antonio José Junqueira Botelho*

Dissertation: Professional Against the State: French Electronics Policy in Historical Perspective

Advisor: Charles Sabel

Degree Awarded: 1996

Current Affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj) Universidade Cândido Mendes (UCAM)

Joel Genuth*

Dissertation: The Local Origins of United States National Science Policy

Advisor: Loren Graham

Degree Awarded: 1996

Current Affiliation:

David A. Mindell

Dissertation: Datum for its Own Annihilation': Feedback, Control, and Computing, 1916-1945

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 1996

Current Affiliation: MIT

Sara E. Wermiel*

Dissertation: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Development of the Fireproof Building in the United States, 1790-1911

Advisor: Robert Forgelson

Degree Awarded: 1996

Current Affiliation: Independent scholar, MIT, Boston University

David M. Hart*

Dissertation: Competing Conceptions of the Liberal State and the Governance of Technological Innovation in the United States, 1933-1953

Advisor: Ira Katznelson

Degree Awarded: 1995

Current Affiliation: George Mason University

Brian O'Donnell, S.J.

Dissertation: The Spindles Stop: Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry

Advisor: Merritt Roe Smith

Degree Awarded: 1995

Current Affiliation: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Parish

George O'Har

Dissertation: Shipbuilding, Markets, and Technological Change in East Boston

Advisor: Leo Marx

Degree Awarded: 1995

Current Affiliation: Brownstone Institute / National Association of Scholars

Jessica Wang

Dissertation: American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Civil Liberties, and the Cold War, 1945-1950

Advisor: Charles Weiner

Degree Awarded: 1995

Current Affiliation: University of British Columbia History | University of British Columbia Geography

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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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