PEOPLE | Faculty

HASTS faculty members represent the highest levels of academic and investigative achievement across a range of disciplines. As teachers, mentors, and advisors, they help our students shape and launch their research projects—and their careers. They are each affiliated with one of the participating units at MIT: Anthropology, History, or STS.

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Tanalís Padilla

History

Areas of Interest: Latin America; social movements; rural mobilizations; education; youth and student politics; oral history

Heather Paxson

paxson@mit.edu

Anthropology

Areas of Interest: food and agriculture; craft knowledge and manufacturing; material culture; reproductive technologies and feminist STS

Theodore Postol

Emeritus Faculty - STS

Areas of Interest:

Jeffrey Ravel

ravel@mit.edu

Emeritus Faculty - History

Areas of Interest: Old Regime and Revolutionary France; European cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book and comparative media studies; World history

Harriet Ritvo

ritvo@mit.edu

Emeritus Faculty - History

Areas of Interest: environmental history, British and British empire history, animal history, history of natural history and biology

Areas of Interest: Sociology of the Neurosciences; Race/Racism and Inequity; Neuroethics; Technoscientific Prediction and Surveillance; Social Justice; Biosocial Discourses; Social Theory; Blackness; Africana Studies; Violence Prevention and Criminal Justice

Ishani Saraf

isaraf@mit.edu

STS

Areas of Interest: discards, materials/materiality, labor, urban studies, qualitative methods, South Asia, Indian Ocean, transnational circulation, decolonizing/postcolonial STS

Robin Scheffler

rws42@mit.edu

STS

Areas of Interest: history of modern biology and medicine; bio-medicine and society; political cultures of science, environment and health; history of cancer; biotechnology; material culture of science; sports science; innovation; urban history; scientific humor

Susan S. Silbey

ssilbey@mit.edu

Anthropology

Areas of Interest: law and society; risk management; audit and surveillance; laboratory ethnography; environmental management; engineering profession and education; gender and science; research methods

Eugene Skolnikoff

Emeritus Faculty - Political Science

Areas of Interest:

Merritt Roe Smith

roesmith@mit.edu

STS | History

Areas of Interest: comparative studies of industrialization; social and political implications of American technology up through the Civil War; comparative studies of early industrial communities; military enterprise and technological change

Bettina Stoetzer

stoetzer@mit.edu

Anthropology

Areas of Interest: environmental anthropology, race and migration; urban ethnography; feminist anthropology and science studies; botany and (urban) wildlife

T.L. Taylor

tltaylor@mit.edu

CMS/W | Anthropology

Areas of Interest: critical internet studies, games and play, socio-technical systems and co-creative communities, immersive environments, fringe and conspiracy communities

Emma Teng

eteng@mit.edu

History

Areas of Interest: Chinese migration; diaspora; Chinese frontier studies; ethnic studies

Sherry Turkle

sturkle@mit.edu

STS

Areas of Interest: digital life and new forms of conversation; social/psychological impact of digital culture; science, technology, and memoir; psychology/epistemology of objects; psychoanalysis and the culture of simulation; artificial intimacy and generative AI

Christine Walley

cwalley@mit.edu

Anthropology

Areas of Interest: environmental conflict; knowledge production; deindustrialization; social class; U.S. and East Africa; documentary media

Craig Wilder

cwilder@mit.edu

History

Areas of Interest: Atlantic world; Colonial North America; United States; urban history; history of science, religion, and culture

Rosalind Williams

Emeritus Faculty - STS

Areas of Interest: The historical transition from dwelling in a predominantly given world to a largely self-constructed one. Events of consciousness which have made us especially aware of this transition. Physical, political, social, and educational efforts to prepare for life in the human-built world. The role of imaginative literature in describing and understanding its challenges.

Elizabeth Wood

elizwood@mit.edu

History

Areas of Interest: Russian and Soviet history; Russian politics and society; feminist theory; gender and science; international science collaboration

JoAnne Yates

Emeritus Faculty - MIT Sloan

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