Books :: Online Scholarship :: Grants :: Editing
Two historical periods are important to my research:
1) The rise of progressive era American corporate, scientific, and educational institutions and the development of new communication, transportation, and information processing technologies.
2) The extension of mass media networks and the rise of the electronics industry in post-1960s America.
I am especially interested in how these moments redefine life and the potential of living beings.
I am an interdisciplinary scholar using the tools of cultural and intellectual history, continental philosophy, media theory, and science and technology studies.
Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2008.
Coauthored with Robert E. Mitchell (English, Duke University) and Helen Burgess (Electronic Media and Culture, Washington State University in Vancouver). An interactive DVD-ROM from the Mariner 10 Series of multimedia publications.
The Emergence of Genetic Ratonality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology 1870-1920. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Coedited with Robert E. Mitchell.
Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies with authors' response.
Reviewed in Leonardo by Eugene Thacker.
Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Coedited with Robert E. Mitchell. A Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Short Subject.
Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies with authors' response.
:: Online Scholarship ::
THE GENOMIC BOOK OF THE DEAD
An essay commisioned by the Henry Art Gallery for the Gene(sis) Exhibit
"THE G FILES": LINKING THE "SELFISH GENE" AND "THE THINKING REED"
An essay commisioned by Stanford University for the Stanford Presidential
Symposia in the Humanities and Arts
THE CREATION OF GENETIC IDENTITY
An essay for the Stanford Humanities Review, Volume 5 Special Supplement
"Cultural and Technological Incubations of Fascism"
:: Major Grants and Research Honors ::
2008: Selected as Center for New Media and History NEH Fellowship Partner, Geore Mason University.
2008: Science Studies Network, Focused Research Cluster for the Science Studies Network, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Co-organized with Alison Wylie (Philosophy), Malia Fullerton (History and Ethics of Medicine) Celia Lowe (Anthropology), and Simon Werret (History)
2008: Alfred P. Sloan, Exploring and Collecting History Online Grant, Administered by the Center for New Media and History at George Mason University.
2007: Science Studies Network, A Proposal for a Cross-disciplinary Research Network and Colloqium, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Co-organized with Alison Wylie (Philosophy), Malia Fullerton (History and Ethics of Medicine) Celia Lowe (Anthropology), and Simon Werret (History).
2007: University of Washington Graduate School Research Award, subvention for book-legth manuscript publication.
2007: University of Washington Royalty Research Award, "Extended Development: Toward a Cultural History of Evolutionary and Developmental BIology."
2005: Partner for Professor Ann Anagnost's (Anthropology) Associate Professor Research Initiative from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, "Embodiments of Value".
2005: Freimuth Travel Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
2005: North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Education Enhancement Grant for the production of “Reimagining Biocommerce: Owning Body Parts and Information” (Co-Primary Investigator along with Robert Mitchell, English, Duke University and Helen Burgess, Digital Technology and Culture, Washington State University in Vancouver).
2004: Faculty Research Award for the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (Co-investigator, along with others including Primary Investigator, Michael Jemtrud, Architecture, Carleton University).
2000-2001: Walter Simpson Chapin Humanities Center Award “Information and the Human Body” (along with Robert Mitchell, Comparative Literature, University of Washington).
1998-1999: Melvin and Joan Lane Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology.
1996-1997: Andrew P. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University.
1992-1996: History Department Fellowship, Stanford University.
In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedicine
Universityof Washington Press
Edited by Phillip Thurtle, University of Washington, and Robert Mitchell, Duke University
In Vivo is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the medical and life sciences, with a focus on the scientific and cultural practices used to process data, model knowledge, and communicate about biomedical science. Through historical, artistic, media, social, and literary analysis, books in the series seek to understand and explain the key conceptual issues that animate and inform iomedical developments.
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