India today is widely recognized for producing world-class tech talent and Silicon Valley leaders, yet captures only a fraction of the global tech industry’s profits, primarily providing skilled but inexpensive labor…

“A masterpiece of historical analysis … Skillfully written and a pleasure to read.” — Nature “Engrossing … Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity.”—…

Jen Light’s teaching and research aim to close the gap between the growing body of research on movement and the learning process and the pedagogical strategies that educators use, finding ways…

Bina Venkataraman works at the intersection of science, policy, and public life. She is a writer and leading thinker on emerging technologies, climate change, public health, and public controversies in science,…

Kate Brown’s research interests illuminate the point where history, science, technology and bio-politics converge to create large-scale disasters and modernist wastelands. She has written four books about topics ranging from population…

How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a…

In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history…

In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this…