A bold project for change unfolded in Latin America at the beginning of the 1970s. After an electoral victory in Chile, the socialist government led by Salvador Allende and his governing…
How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design
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The primary activity of the STS program is research, which takes many forms: individual faculty members pursuing intellectual inquiry, teaching in our graduate program, organizing and hosting conferences, colloquia, and other types of publications.
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Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
A bold project for change unfolded in Latin America at the beginning of the 1970s. After an electoral victory in Chile, the socialist government led by Salvador Allende and his governing…
Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
From the author of the prescient best seller and classic Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, comes an urgent warning about how our ever-increasing reliance on human-like AI chatbots is…
Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution
What new perspectives about the history and practice of science, technology, and medicine emerge when we foreground the intellectual labor of thinkers and practitioners from the Global South? Dwaipan Banerjee’s work…
Tiny Gardens Everywhere - The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.
Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and…
A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine
Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer “germ,” inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be…
Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of/through Problem-solving
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
Academics are letting Africa down. With all that we know, what do…
At the Pivot of East and West
Michael MJ Fischer CV
Michael Fischer is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, and Lecturer in Global Health and Social…