Guide to Faculty Expertise
 

 

Anthropology

For more information, visit the MIT Anthropology website.
 

Héctor Beltrán
617-324-1740
hectorb@mit.edu

How the technical aspects of computing intersect with issues of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation

Manduhai Buyandelger
617-324-5510
manduhai@mit.edu

Globalization/neoliberal governmentality in countries after socialism, namely Mongolia, Russia and post-Soviet Central Asia

Ian Condry
617-452-2709
condry@mit.edu

Spread of twenty-first century cultural movements, particularly in Japan

M Amah Edoh
617-715-4119
medoh@mit.edu

Construction, meanings, and negotiations of “African-ness” on the continent, in its diasporas; how these processes unfold through commodities, creative production, and political mobilization

Michael M.J. Fischer
Room E51-296B
mfischer@mit.edu

Anthropology of biosciences, media circuits, and emergent forms of life

Stefan Helmreich
617-253-9343
sgh2@mit.edu

Marine biology, space, scientific culture

James Howe, emeritus
617-253-6954
jhowe@mit.edu

Political and historical anthropology,   indigenous-state relations, missionization

Jean Jackson, emeritus
617-253-6953
jjackson@mit.edu

Medical anthropology, indigenous politics

Erica Caple James
Joint appointment with Urban Studies
617-253-7321
ejames@mit.edu

Medical humanities, gender and violence, religion and healing, issues of race and human rights

Graham M. Jones
617-715-4969
gmj@mit.edu

Use of language and media in practice, performance, and interaction including magic in Western modernity

Amy Moran-Thomas
617-324-7439
amorant@mit.edu

Cultural anthropologist focusing in global health and medicine

Heather Paxson
617-253-7859
paxson@mit.edu

American food politics, artisanal cheese making, gender, morality and abortion,   contemporary craft movements

Susan Silbey
617-253-6952
ssilbey@mit.edu

Law and science professional ethics, engineering education, women in science

Bettina Stoetzer
617-253-3061
stoetzer@mit.edu

Intersections of ecology, globalization, and urban social justice

Christine Walley
617-258-7908
cwalley@mit.edu

Gender, social class and identity, science and indigenous knowledge

 

Comparative Media Studies / Writing

For more information, visit the MIT CMS/W website.
 

Vivek Bald
vbald@mit.edu

Documentary film and transmedia

Marcia Bartusiak, emeritus
bar2siak@mit.edu

Media and science; astronomy; physics

Eugenia Brinkema
brinkema@mit.edu

Film and media research focusing on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics

Federico Casalegno
casalegno@mit.edu

Impact of networked digital technologies on human behavior and society

Ian Condry
508-314-2567
condry@mit.edu

Media and globalization; media innovation and economics; new digital media

Junot Díaz
617-253-4010
junot@mit.edu

Literature and society; literary genre, writing, literary fiction

Paloma Duong
617-324-5075
pduong@mit.edu

Intersection of culture and politics in 20th and 21st century Latin America

Fox Harrell
fox.harrell@mit.edu

Imaginative cognition and computation

Heather Hendershot
617-324-4038
hshot@mit.edu

Media and politics; political discourse; American conservatism; film and genre

Eric Klopfer
617-253-2025
klopfer@mit.edu

Digital gaming and STEM education

Helen Elaine Lee
617-253-3060
helee@mit.edu

Fiction, incarceration, prison writing

Thomas Levenson
617-253-4069
levenson@mit.edu

Documentaries, film, and science

Alan Lightman
617-253-2308
lightman@mit.edu

Literary fiction, science, and physics

Kenneth Manning
617-253-4805
manning@mit.edu

Race, science, and medicine

Seth Mnookin
617-324-1868
smnookin@mit.edu

Media and society, medicine, vaccination

Nick Montfort
617-324-1429
nickm@nickm.com

Imaginative and poetic digital writing, Video and computer games, Material history of computational media, Interactive narrative

Jim Paradis
617-253-7392
jparadis@mit.edu

Popular representations of science; professionalism and vernacular culture

Paul Roquet
proquet@mit.edu

Cultural politics and power relations woven through mediated spatial perception, focusing on the use of media to shape the emotional environments of everyday life

Edward Schiappa
617-253-3062
schiappa@mit.edu

Argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory

Phillip Tan
617-324-2173
philip@mit.edu

Digital, live-action, tabletop game design, production and management

T.L. Taylor
617-324-4148
tltaylor@mit.edu

Internet and game studies

William Uricchio
617-452-3182
uricchio@mit.edu

Media technologies and cultural practices, knowledge and the public, histories of “old” media, interactions of media cultures and their audiences

Jing Wang 
(1950- 2021) In Memoriam

 

Advertising and marketing; civic media and communication; social media action research; popular culture; and nonprofit technology

Rosalind Williams, emeritus
rhwill@mit.edu

The history of technology

Sulafa Zidani
310-880-1405E15
zidani@mit.edu

Digital culture; online civic engagement across geopolitical contexts and languages such as Mandarin, English, Arabic, Hebrew, and French

 

Economics 

For more information, visit the MIT Economics website.
 

Alberto Abadie
617-715-2047
abadie@mit.edu

Econometrics, causal inference, program evaluation

Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor
617-253-1927
daron@mit.edu

Human capital, unemployment,
economic growth, wage inequality, relationship of economics to political structure

Isaiah Andres
617-253-3399
iandrews@mit.edu

Econometrics

George-Marios Angeletos
617-452-3859
angelet@mit.edu

Global games, heterogenous information and expectations, self-fulfilling crises, incomplete markets, fiscal and monetary policy

Joshua Angrist
617-253-8909
angrist@mit.edu

Human capital, schooling, education, economics of the family

David Atkin
203.936.9367
atkin@mit.edu

Development, international trade, applied microeconomics

David Autor
617-258-7698
dautor@mit.edu

Trade, human capital, labor market impacts of technological change, consequences of employment protection, inequality

Abhijit Banerjee
617-253-8855
banerjee@mit.edu

International development, poverty alleviation, random controlled trials, income distribution, "Herd behavior" in financial and other markets

Ricardo Caballero
617-253-0489
caball@mit.edu

Frictions in financial and labor markets, speculative bubbles, restructuring

Victor Chernozhukov
617-253-4767
vchern@mit.edu

Econometric theory, financial econometrics, machine learning

Arnaud Costinot
617-324-1712
costinot@mit.edu

International trade

Peter Diamond, emeritus
617-253-3363
pdiamond@mit.edu

U.S. Social Security, social insurance

Dave Donaldson
617-258-6242
ddonald@mit.edu

Intersection of international/intranational trade, development economics, economic history, and environmental economics

Esther Duflo
617-258-7013
eduflo@mit.edu

Poverty alleviation, human resources in developing countries, industrial organization in developing countries

Glenn Ellison
617-253-8702
gellison@mit.edu

Game theory, industrial organization, technology adoption

Amy Finkelstein
617-253-4149
afink@mit.edu

Public finance, health economics, industrial organization

Drew Fudenberg
617-715-4582
drewf@mit.edu

Game theory, decision theory, behavioral economics, theoretical industrial organization, mechanism design

Robert Gibbons
617-253-0283
rgibbons@mit.edu

Organizational design and performance, relational contracts within and between firms, human resource management

Jonathan Gruber
617-253-8892
gruberj@mit.edu

Social Security and retirement, access to health care and health care outcomes, effects of employer-provided health insurance, Affordable Care Act

Mihai Manea
617-324-1894
manea@mit.edu

Microeconomic theory, game theory, network theory

Anna Mikusheva
617-324-5459
amikushe@mit.edu

Econometric theory, times series econometrics

Whitney Newey
617-253-6420
wnewey@mit.edu

Theoretical and applied econometrics

Benjamin Olken
617-253-6833
bolken@mit.edu

Political economy of developing countries, economics of climate change

Parag Pathak
617-253-7458
ppathak@mit.edu

Market-mechanism design, game theory, local public finance and education, financial markets

James Poterba
617-253-6673
poterba@mit.edu

Tax policy, retirement savings

Drazen Prelec
617-253-2833
dprelec@mit.edu

Psychology, decision theory, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics

Nancy Rose
617-253-8956
nrose@mit.edu

Firm behavior and industry performance

Alp Simsek
617-253-4836
asimsek@mit.edu

Economic theory, macroeconomics, finance

Juuso Toikka
617-324-3666
toikka@mit.edu

Microeconomic theory, game theory

Robert Townsend
617-452-3722
rtownsen@mit.edu

Decentralization with private information, financial structure and growth

John Van Reenan
now at the London School of Economics

https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/people/person.asp?id=1358
j.vanreenen@lse.ac.uk

Innovation and productivity, labor, organization, management, public policy, health

Iván Werning
617-452-3662
iwerning@mit.edu

Macroeconomics, public economics, unemployment insurance design

Michael Whinston
617-258-8408
whinston@mit.edu

Industrial organization, antitrust policy, contract theory, organizations, health economics, innovation

Heidi Williams
now at Stanford University
https://profiles.stanford.edu/heidi-williams

Now at Stanford University
 

Alexander Wolitzky
617-324-6779
wolitzky@mit.edu

Game theory, microeconomic theory, political economy

Muhamet Yildiz
617-253-5331
myildiz@mit.edu

Game theory, bargaining

 

Global Languages

For more information, visit the MIT GL website.
Faculty listed below are affiliated with Global Languages; their primary academic homes are shown after their names. 
 

Catherine E. Clark, History
617-324-2428
clarkce@mit.edu

French history, culture, and society; French film and media; photography

Ian Condry, Comparative Media Studies
617-452-2709
condry@mit.edu

Japanese media and culture, Japanese anime and comic books (manga), Japanese nationalism

Paloma Duong, Comparative Media Studies
617-324-5075
pduong@mit.edu

Intersection of culture and politics in 20th and 21st century Latin America

Shigeru Miyagawa, Linguistics, emeritus
617-253-6346
miyagawa@mit.edu

Japanese language and culture, linguistics, origins of human language

Bruno Perreau, Literature
bperreau@mit.edu

French politics, literature, and culture; gender and sexuality; queer theory; social and political theory

Paul Roquet, Comparative Media Studies
proquet@mit.edu

Cultural politics and power relations woven through mediated spatial perception, focusing on the use of media to shape the emotional environments of everyday life

Bettina Stoetzer, Anthropology
617-253-3061
stoetzer@mit.edu

Intersections of ecology, globalization, and urban social justice

Emma Teng, History; Director, Global Languages
617-253-4536
eteng@mit.edu

Chinese and Asian American studies

Edward Baron Turk, Literature, emeritus
ebturk@mit.edu

Contemporary French theater, French film history

Jing Wang, Comparative Media Studies
(1950- 2021) In Memoriam
 

Media with a focus on the People's Republic of China

William Uricchio, Comparative Media Studies
617-452-3182
uricchio@mit.edu

Interplay of media technologies and cultural practice

Elizabeth Wood, History
617-253-3255
elizwood@mit.edu

Soviet history and the performance of power in Russia today

 

History 

For more information, visit the MIT History website.
 

Sana Aiyar
617-324-7285
aiyar@mit.edu

History of modern South Asia; South Asian diasporas

Megan Black
mablack@mit.edu

U.S. environmental management and foreign relations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

William Broadhead
617-258-6668
williamb@mit.edu

History of Italy during the Roman Republic

Tristan Brown
tristanb@mit.edu

Law, science, environment, and religion in late imperial and modern China

Christopher Capozzola
617-452-4960
capozzol@mit.edu

Political and cultural history of the U.S. from 1861-1945

Catherine E. Clark
617-324-2428
clarkce@mit.edu

French history, culture, and society; French film and media; photography

John Dower, emeritus
617-253-4965

Japanese history, U.S.-Japan relations

Robert M. Fogelson
617-253-1671
foge@mit.edu

Urban planning, suburbia, collective action

Malick W. Ghachem
617-324-7284
mghachem@mit.edu

Slavery and abolition, criminal law, and constitutional history

Eric Goldberg
617-324-2420
egoldber@mit.edu

Political and cultural history of late antiquity and the early middle ages

Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
617-253-9621
lerna@mit.edu

Modern Middle East; Turkish and Armenian land in the 19th and 20th centuries

Philip Khoury
Associate Provost for the Arts
former Dean of MIT SHASS

617-253-0887
khoury@mit.edu

Middle East politics and sociology

Anne McCants
617-258-6669
amccants@mit.edu

Medieval and early modern Europe, economic history, women's history

Kenda Mutongi
617-324-7730
kmutongi@mit.edu

African history, world history, and gender history

Hiromu Nagahara
617-324-4977
nagahara@mit.edu

History of modern Japan; Japanese art and culture

Tanalís Padilla
617-324-7544
tanalis@mit.edu

Modern Mexico with a focus on agrarian, social, and student movements

Jeffrey Ravel
617-253-4451
ravel@mit.edu

French and European political culture between the 17th and 19th centuries

Merritt Roe Smith
(617) 253-4008
roesmith@mit.edu

History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society

Emma Teng
617-253-4536
eteng@mit.edu

Chinese and Asian American studies

Craig Steven Wilder
617-324-7537
cwilder@mit.edu

Race, religion, and culture

Elizabeth Wood
617-253-3255
elizwood@mit.edu

Soviet history

 

Linguistics 

For more information, visit the MIT Linguistics website.
 

Adam Albright
617-252-1472
albright@mit.edu

Phonology, morphology, language acquisition, computational linguistics

Noam Chomsky, emeritus
617-253-7819
chomsky@mit.edu

Linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, philosophy of language

Michel DeGraff
617-258-5270
degraff@mit.edu

Syntax, semantics, Creole languages, role of language in early education and nation building

Kai von Fintel
617-253-3228
fintel@mit.edu

Semantics, syntax

Edward Flemming
617-452-4183
flemming@mit.edu

Phonology, phonetics

Suzanne Flynn
617-253-7821
sflynn@mit.edu

Language acquisition, second language acquisition, autism, aphasia

Danny Fox
617-258-7411
fox@mit.edu

Syntax, semantics

Martin Hackl
617-253-9373
hackl@mit.edu

Syntax, semantics, modality, cognition of number and space

Irene Heim
617-253-2565
heim@mit.edu

Semantics

Sabine Iatridou
617-253-2640
iatridou@mit.edu

Syntax, semantics

Michael Kenstowicz
617-253-4457
kenstow@mit.edu

Phonology, phonetics, African and East Asian languages

Shigeru Miyagawa, emeritus
617-253-6346
miyagawa@mit.edu

Japanese language and culture, linguistics, origins of human language

Wayne O'Neil
617-253-2557
waoneil@mit.edu

Second language acquisition, language change, linguistics and education

David Pesetsky
617-253-0957
pesetsk@mit.edu

Syntax, morphology, language acquisition, Russian syntax

Norvin Richards
617-258-6837
norvin@mit.edu

Syntax, endangered languages, Austronesian languages

Roger Schwarzschild
617-324-7883
schild@mit.edu

Semantics

Donca Steriade
617-715-4066
steriade@mit.edu

Phonology, morphology, Greek and Latin

 

Literature

For more information, visit the MIT Literature website.
 

Sandy Alexandre
617-253-4450
alexandy@mit.edu

19th and 20th century American and African-American literature and culture

Arthur Bahr
617-253-3616
awbahr@mit.edu

Old and Middle English literature, medieval London's literary, political, and legal culture

Eugenia Brinkema
617-253-3068
brinkema@mit.edu

Violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in film and media

Jim Buzard
617-253-7649
jmbuzard@mit.edu

19th century British literature and culture, modernism

Peter Donaldson
617-253-1447
psdlit@mit.edu

Shakespeare, Machiavelli, education technology, digital archives

Stephanie Frampton
617-253-4452
sframpton@mit.edu

Classicist, comparatist, and historian of media in antiquity; histories of books, reading, writing, and scholarly practice

Mary Fuller
617-253-8848
mcfuller@mit.edu

Renaissance English literature, Milton, history of the book, literature of travel

Diana Henderson
617-253-5147
dianah@mit.edu

Shakespeare, women's literature, media studies

Noel Jackson
617-452-3597
njackson@mit.edu

Late 18th century Romantic literature and culture, poetry, science, and literature

Alvin Kibel
617-253-3580
akibel@mit.edu

History of ideas, literary theory, Darwin studies

Ruth Perry
617-253-8876
rperry@mit.edu

18th century studies, feminist literary and social history, history of the family

Shankar Raman
617-253-8873
sram@mit.edu

World literature, literature and probability, medieval and Renaissance literature

Margery Resnick
617-253-5277 
resnick@mit.edu

Contemporary Spain, history of women at MIT

Stephen Tapscott
617-253-4148
tapscott@mit.edu

Poetry, 20th century American literature and culture, translation

David Thorburn
617-253-6950
thorburn@mit.edu

Poetry, digital media, and society

 

Music

For more information, visit the MIT Music & Theater Arts website.

 

Peter Child
(617) 253-9862
child@mit.edu

Composition

Michael Cuthbert
(617) 324-0460
cuthbert@mit.edu

14th century music, trecento fragments, composition since 1960, minimalism, computer-aided musicology; Music21 tools for musicology

Eran Egozy
(617) 253-1738
egozy@mit.edu

Music technology, music for video games, interactive music systems

John Harbison
(617) 253-3671
harbison@mit.edu

Composition, chamber music, jazz ensemble

Ellen Harris, emeritus
(617) 253-5882
eharris@mit.edu

Handel, 18th century studies, Baroque opera and vocal performance

Frederick E. Harris, Jr.
(617) 452-2283
fharris@mit.edu

Wind and jazz ensembles, new music, conducting

Lowell Lindgren, emeritus
(617) 253-3210
lindgren@mit.edu

17th and 18th century studies, opera in Rome, Italians in Handelian London, stage design

Keeril Makan
(617) 324-2195
keeril@mit.edu

Minimalism, composition, theory

Emily Pollock
617-715-4266
pollock@mit.edu

Opera from the bel canto era to the present, twentieth-century concert music, and the politics of musical style

Patricia Tang
617-452-3572
pjtang@mit.edu

Ethnomusicology specializing in West African music

Marcus Thompson, Institute Professor
(617) 253-6951
bratsche@mit.edu

Chamber music, performance studies, viola

Evan Ziporyn
(617) 452-2302
zipo@mit.edu

Composition, world music, avant-garde, jazz, classical

 

Philosophy 

For more information, visit the MIT Philosophy website.
 

Alex Byrne
(617) 258-6106
abyrne@mit.edu

Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology

Caspar Hare
(617) 253-2648
casparh@mit.edu

Ethics, metaphysics

Sally Haslanger
(617) 253-4458
shaslang@mit.edu

Metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, feminist theory

Vann McGee
(617) 253-6394
vmcgee@mit.edu

Philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language

Agustín Rayo
Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT SHASS, February 2022
(617) 253-2559

arayo@mit.edu

Philosophy of logic, mathematics, and language

Tamar Schapiro
650-906-4496
tamschap@mit.edu

ethics, Kant, moral psychology, philosophy of action

Kieran Setiya
(617) 715-4264
ksetiya@mit.edu

Ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind

Brad Skow
(617) 253-4147
bskow@mit.edu

Philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, philosophy of time

Robert Stalnaker, emeritus
(617) 253-4072
stal@mit.edu

Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics

Judith Thomson  
In Memoriam  (2019-2020)
 

Moral philosophy, metaphysics

Roger White
(617) 253-3554
rog@mit.edu

Philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphyiscs

Stephen Yablo
(617) 258-0740
yablo@mit.edu

Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, philosophy of language

 

Political Science 

For more information, visit the MIT Political Science website.
 

Suzanne Berger
(617) 253-6640
szberger@mit.edu

Comparative politics, political economy

Adam Berinsky
(617) 253-8190
berinsky@mit.edu

Political behavior of ordinary citizens

Andrea Campbell
(617) 253-2295
acampbel@mit.edu

American politics, political behavior, public opinion, political inequality, social policy, politics of healthcare insurance

Devin Caughey
617-324-4085
caughey@mit.edu

American political development; Southern politics; representation; political parties; Congress; state politics; latent-variable models; survey weighting; regression-discontinuity designs; permutation inference.

Nazli Choucri
(617) 452-6198
nchoucri@mit.edu

International relations, international political economy, political and strategic implications of e-development, e-knowledge, and e-politics

Fotini Christia
(617) 324-5595
cfotini@mit.edu

Ethnicity and civil wars, Afghanistan, Bosnia, public policy

Taylor Fravel
(617) 324-0222
fravel@mit.edu

International security, China's foreign and security policies

F. Daniel Hidalgo
(617) 253-8078
dhidalgo@mit.edu

Political economy of elections and campaigns, representation in developing democracies, Latin American elections

Chappell Lawson
(617) 452-3524
clawson@mit.edu

Mexican political economy, survey research, U.S. foreign policy

Evan Lieberman
(617) 324-1642
evanlieb@mit.edu

Development and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa

Erik Lin-Greenberg
eriklg@mit.edu

Emerging technology, crisis escalation, and security strategy

Asya Magazinnik
asyam@mit.edu

American political institutions; political methodology; causal inference; local political economy; federalism; political geography; representation; immigration

Vipin Narang
617-258-7363
narangv@mit.edu

Nuclear; nuclear proliferation; nuclear strategy; south Asia; international relations; international security.

Richard Nielsen
617-324-4823
rnielsen@mit.edu

Islam, jihad, terrorism, al-Qaeda, ISIS, International Relations, applied statistics

Melissa Nobles
Chancellor of MIT
Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT SHASS, 2015-2021

mnobles@mit.edu

Comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, Retrospective justice

Ken Oye
(617) 253-3412
oye@mit.edu

Science, technology policy, environmental policy

Roger Petersen
(617) 253-6781
rpeters@mit.edu

Comparative politics with focus on conflict and violence

Barry Posen
(617) 253-8088
posen@mit.edu

U.S. national security policy, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferations in the Middle East/Persian Gulf

Richard Samuels
617-253-2449
samuels@mit.edu

Comparative politics focusing on Japan

Ben Ross Schneider
617-253-7207
brs@mit.edu

Comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics

David Singer
617-253-9372
dasinger@mit.edu

International political economy, financial regulation, central banking

Charles Stewart
617-253-3127
cstewart@mit.edu

American politics, elections

Kathleen Thelen
617-324-3651
kthelen@mit.edu

The origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in democracies

Lily Tsai
617-253-6643
l_tsai@mit.edu

Accountability, governance, state-society relations, Chinese society

Stephen Van Evera
(617) 253-0530
vanevara@mit.edu

International relations, WWI, American defense policy

Jim Walsh
617-324-3712
j_walsh@mit.edu

International security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons, the Middle East, and East Asia

Ariel White
617-715-4646
arwhi@mit.edu

American politics; political behavior; voting; race/ethnicity.

Teppei Yamamoto
617-253-6959
teppei@mit.edu

Political methodology; applied statistics; causal inference; survey methodology; experimental design; political behavior.

 

Science, Technology, and Society

For more information, visit the MIT STS website.
 

Dwai Banerjee
(617) 324-3978

dwai@mit.edu

How social inequity shape medical, scientific and technological practices; how scientific and medical practice ease or sharpen such inequities; science and technology studies into the global south

Kate Brown
(617) 253-4056

brownkl@mit.edu

Environmental history, Cold War history, and creative non-fiction history writingand ethics on the electronic frontier

William Deringer
(617) 253-9651

deringer@mit.edu

History of the social sciences, historical and social studies of finance, and the history and sociology of quantification.

Michael Fischer
(617) 253-2564
mfischer@mit.edu

Social and ethical issues in bioscience and biotechnology, Law and ethics on the electronic frontier

Deborah Fitzgerald
Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT SHASS, 2007-2015
(617) 253-8077
dkfitz@mit.edu

Agriculture and technology in society

David Kaiser
(617) 452-3173
dikaiser@mit.edu

History of science and the role of institutions in innovation

Jennifer Light
(617) 452-2390
jslight@mit.edu

History of using scientific methods and technological tools to solve social and political problems

Kenneth Manning
(617) 253-4805
manning@mit.edu

Role of blacks in American science and medicine

Clapperton Mavhunga
(617) 324-2792
mavhunga@mit.edu

Interaction between people, science, technology and nature/environment in Africa

Eden Medina
(617) 253-1943
eden@mit.edu

History of science and technology in Latin America; how political projects shape, and are shaped by, technologies such as computers

David Mindell
(617)-253-0221
mindell@mit.edu

History of space exploration, Deep ocean robotic archaeology

Lisa Parks
(805) 680-0252
lparks@mit.edu

Global media, satellite technologies and media cultures, critical studies of media infrastructures, militarization and surveillance

Merritt Roe Smith
(617) 253-4008
roesmith@mit.edu

History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society

Sherry Turkle
(617) 253-4068
sturkle@mit.edu

Robots, digital pets, and simulated creatures designed for children and the elderly, impact of technology on face to face conversations

Robin Wolfe Scheffler
(617) 253-7679
rws42@mit.edu

Modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history

Rosalind Williams, emeritus
(617) 253-2847
rhwill@mit.edu

History of technology, environmental changes of late 19th century Europe

 

Theater Arts

For more information, visit the Music & Theater Arts website.
 

Alan Brody, emeritus

(617) 253-4892
brody@mit.edu

History of theater, playwriting

Sara Brown
(617) 253-0862
saralb@mit.edu

Director of Design, MIT Theater Arts; Scenic design

Charlotte Brathwaite
(646) 204-1813
cbrath@mit.edu

Directing; staging; performance art; race, gender, and power

Claire Conceison
(617) 851-5226
claireco@mit.edu

Chinese theater, Asian American theatre, sport as performance

Jay Scheib
(617) 253-3210
jscheib@mit.edu

Contemporary theater production

Janet Sonenberg
(617) 253-1131
json@mit.edu

Theater direction, production, acting