Hugh Gusterson

Hugh Gusterson is a British anthropologist, and professor at George Mason University.

He took a B.A. in history at Cambridge University in 1980, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters degree in Anthropology in 1982, and from Stanford University with a PhD in anthropology in 1992. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1992-2006 He was Visiting Speaker at University of Wisconsin.

His expertise is in nuclear culture (history of nuclear weapons), international security and the anthropology of science. His work appeared in Foreign Policy; he is a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Works

• Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, University of California Press, 1998, ISBN 9780520213739
• People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex, University of Minnesota Press, 2004, ISBN 9780816638604

Editor

• Why America's top pundits are wrong: anthropologists talk back, editors Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 9780520243569
• The insecure American: how we got here and what we should do about it, editors Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Lowe Besteman, University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 9780520259690

Chapters

• "Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory", Living with the bomb: American and Japanese cultural conflicts in the Nuclear Age, editors Laura Elizabeth Hein, Mark Selden,M.E. Sharpe, 1997, ISBN 9781563249679
• "Nuclear Weapons Testing", Naked science: anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge, editor Laura Nader, Psychology Press, 1996, ISBN 9780415914659
• "Becoming a Weapons Scientist", Technoscientific imaginaries: conversations, profiles, and memoirs, editor George E. Marcus, University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 9780226504445
• "A Pedagogy of Diminishing Returns: Scientific Involution across Three Generations of Nuclear Weapons Science", Pedagogy and the practice of science: historical and contemporary perspectives, editor David Kaiser, MIT Press, 2005, ISBN 9780262112888
• "Missing the End of the Cold War in International Security", Cultures of insecurity: states, communities, and the production of danger, editor Jutta Weldes, U of Minnesota Press, 1999, ISBN 9780816633081

External links

• Roberto Jesús González, ed. (2004). "Lynne Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist". Anthropologists in the public sphere: speaking out on war, peace, and American power. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292701694.
• "Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War Hugh Gusterson", Danny Yee's Book Reviews
• "A letter regarding Hugh Gusterson's review of Natural Security", American Scientist,