Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (M.A.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | George Washington University George Mason University MIT |
Hugh Gusterson is an anthropologist at George Washington University,[1] currently on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study[2] at Princeton. His work focuses on nuclear culture, international security and the anthropology of science. His articles have appeared in the LA Times,[3] the Boston Globe, the Boston Review[4] the Washington Post,[5] the Chronicle of Higher Education,[6] Foreign Policy,[7] and American Scientist.[8] He is a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[9]
Biography
Hugh Gusterson grew up in England. He has a B.A. in history from Cambridge University, a Master's degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (as a Thouron Scholar), and a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University.[10] He taught at MIT from 1992-2006 before moving to George Mason University. One of the founders of the anthropology of science,[citation needed] his early work was on the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. More recently he has written on teenage use of alcohol.[11] and counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan.[citation needed] A leading critic of attempts to recruit anthropologists for counterinsurgency work, he is one of the founders of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.[citation needed]
Gusterson served on the American Association of Anthropology's Executive Board from 2009–12, co-chaired the committee that rewrote the Association's ethics code 2012, and currently serves on the Association's Task Force on Engagement with Israel/Palestine. He is President-elect of the American Ethnological Society.
He is married to Allison Macfarlane, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). They have two children.
Works
- Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, University of California Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-520-21373-9
- People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex, University of Minnesota Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8166-3860-4
Editor
- Why America's top pundits are wrong: anthropologists talk back, editors Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24356-9
- 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 978-0-520-25969-0
- Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, editors Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson, and Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing Anthropology, edited by Network of Concerned Anthropologists, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009
Videos
- "Surprising Fact about Political Views of Nuclear Weapons Scientists", March 1, 2015 talk at the Helen Caldicott Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction
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 978-1-56324-967-9
- "Nuclear Weapons Testing", Naked science: anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge, editor Laura Nader, Psychology Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-415-91465-9
- "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 978-0-262-11288-8
- "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 978-0-8166-3308-1
References
- ^ http://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/hugh-gusterson
- ^ https://www.ias.edu/
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/29/opinion/op-27882
- ^ http://www.bostonreview.net/hugh-gusterson-the-auditors-public-trust
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mcdonnell-should-beware-of-donors-bearing-gifts/2013/08/16/0742a34a-0453-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html
- ^ http://chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Change-Academic/134546/
- ^ http://foreignpolicy.com/2008/07/21/when-professors-go-to-war/
- ^ "Hugh Gusterson (Biography)". American Scientist Online. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Columnist: Hugh Gusterson". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ http://www.thouronaward.org/docs/thouronnewsSUM06.pdf
- ^ http://teenalcoholcultures.gmu.edu/publications/publications.html