Making Energy Work: Enacting Renewable Transitions in the Deserts of Chile and California

Caroline White-Nockleby
Friday, January 24, 2025

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Stefan Helmreich
Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology
Committee Chair

Eden Medina
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Christine Walley
SHASS Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Anthropology

Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Professor of Anthropology
Brandeis University

Manuel Prieto
Professor of Geography
Universidad de Tarapacá

Crafting Cannabinoid Capitalisms: Health, Sustainability, and Regeneration in the United States

Alexander Nicholas Rewegan
Friday, January 24, 2025

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Heather Paxson
Associate Dean for Faculty, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Committee Chair

Stefan Helmreich
Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology

Amy Moran-Thomas
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Michael Polson
Director, Cannabis Research Center
Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
University of California, Berkeley

Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles

Nadia Christidi
Thursday, August 1, 2024

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Christine Walley
SHASS Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
Committee Chair

Michael M.J. Fischer
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies

Jennifer S. Light
Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning

Hadley Arnold
Co-Founder and CEO of DivingLAB Water Risk + Resilience Analytics

Orit Halpern
Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures
Technische Universität Dresden

Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Works in China

Di Wu
Friday, July 26, 2024

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Stefan Helmreich
Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology

Dwaipayan Banerjee
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Graham Jones
Professor of Anthropology
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow

 

Entanglements of Language, Religion, and Disability: The Politics of Assistive Technologies for Deaf People in Jordan

Timothy Y. Loh
Monday, June 10, 2024

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Stefan Helmreich
Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology

Amy Moran-Thomas
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Graham Jones
Professor of Anthropology
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Amahl Bishara
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Tufts University

Michele Friedner
Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Human Development
University of Chicago

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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of  Legal Research, 1880-1980

Alex Reiss-Sorokin

Monday, June 10, 2024

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095

Dissertation Committee
Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology
Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management

William Deringer
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

Christopher Capozzola
Professor of History
Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning