About the magazine
Soundings Magazine
From the Office of Deborah Fitzgerald
Kenan Sahin Dean
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
4-212, 4-240
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02139-4307
shass.mit.edu
Editor | Art Director
Communications Director
Emily Hiestand
Contributing Writers
Lynda Morgenroth
Kathryn O'Neill
Teresa Pease
Stephanie Schorow
Sarah Wright
Contributing Photographers
Richard Howard
Jonathan Sachs
Ilavenil Subbiah
Design Consultant
Print edition
Ilavenil Subbiah
Web Consultants
Jonathan Sachs
Robert Wilt
Staff Assistance
Stephanie Muto
Kerry Ducharme
Linda Malouf
Acknowledgments
Anne Marie Michel
Assistant Dean for Development
Additional Photography
Marc B. Jones
Justin Knight
Graham Ramsay
Christine Southworth
Peter Urban
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Soundings Magazine publishes writerly articles about
the exciting research and community of the School.
Letters are welcome.
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Research Portfolio and Community Profiles.
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