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In 2024, eight college have been granted tenure within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. They embrace the next:
Dwaipayan Banerjee is an affiliate professor within the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. His work foregrounds the mental labor of South Asian scientists, engineers and medical practitioners, difficult standard understandings of science, expertise, and drugs. Banerjee has printed two books, “Enduring Cancer” and “Hematologies,” with a 3rd, “Computing within the Time of Decolonization,” beneath overview at Princeton University Press. His analysis spans the politics of well being, pandemics, and computing, all by way of a lens that critically examines international inequalities in scientific and technological observe. Drawing upon his analysis, Banerjee’s instructing philosophy emphasizes international views and interdisciplinary inquiry, with programs like STS.012 (Science in Action) and 21A.504J/STS.086J/WGS.276J (Cultures of Computing) being extremely well-liked at MIT. He has additionally performed a pivotal function in varied editorial boards, MIT committees, and advising PhD college students, additional solidifying his impression on each the tutorial and international neighborhood.
Kevin Dorst PhD ‘19 is an affiliate professor within the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He works on the border between philosophy and the behavioral sciences, combining mathematical, computational, and empirical strategies to check the causes of bias and polarization — and argues that persons are extra rational than you’d assume. He earned his PhD from MIT in 2019, after which was a junior analysis fellow at Magdalen College at Oxford University and an assistant professor on the University of Pittsburgh, earlier than returning to MIT in 2022. He at present holds a visiting Humboldt Research Fellowship on the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
Paloma Duong is an affiliate professor in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. At the intersection of cultural research, media concept, and demanding concept, she researches and teaches fashionable and up to date Latin American tradition. She works with social texts and emergent media cultures that talk to the train of cultural companies and the formation of political subjectivity. Her most up-to-date guide is “Portable Postsocialisms: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History,” a examine of Cuba’s altering mediascape and an inquiry on the postsocialist situation and its contexts. Her articles have been printed within the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Art Margins, and Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship a couple of Changing Cuba.
Amy Moran-Thomas is an affiliate professor in MIT Anthropology. Her ethnographic analysis focuses on how well being applied sciences and ecologies are designed and are available to be materially embodied — typically inequitably — by folks of their extraordinary lives. She acquired her PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2012. Her first guide, “Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (University of California Press, 2019),” provides an anthropological account of diabetes care applied sciences in use and the lives they form in international perspective. The guide acquired an award from the caregivers in Belize whose work it describes, alongside others. In 2024-26, she is co-leading a local weather and well being humanities challenge funded by an ACLS Digital Seed Grant, “Sugar Atlas: Counter-Mapping Diabetes from the Caribbean,” along with co-PIs Tonya Haynes and Nicole Charles. Also engaged on a guide about embodied histories of power, Moran-Thomas is fascinated by how social views on design can contribute to producing fairer well being applied sciences. More broadly, her analysis explores the fabric tradition of persistent situations; embodied features of planetary well being; intergenerational dilemmas of duty; and writing public anthropology.
Justin Reich is an affiliate professor in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He is an academic researcher fascinated by the way forward for studying in a networked world. He is the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, which aspires to design, implement and analysis the way forward for teacher studying. He is the writer of “Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools” and “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education” from Harvard University Press. He is the host of the TrainLab podcast, and 5 open on-line programs on EdX together with 0.504x (Sorting Truth from Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning) and 0.503x (Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices). He is a former fellow and school affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Bettina Stoetzer is an affiliate professor in MIT Anthropology. She is a cultural anthropologist whose analysis focuses on the intersections of ecology, globalization, and social justice in Europe and the U.S. Bettina’s award-winning guide, “Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin (Duke University Press, 2022),” attracts on fieldwork with immigrant and refugee communities, in addition to ecologists, nature fans and different Berlin residents as an instance how human-environment relations turn out to be a key register by way of which city citizenship is articulated in Europe. She can also be the writer of a 2004 guide on feminism and anti-racism, “InDifferenzen: Feministische Theorie in der Antirassistischen Kritik” (“InVariations: Feminist Theory in Antiracist Criticism, argument”). She co-edited “Shock and Awe: War on Words” with Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Anna Tsing (New Pacific Press, 2004). She is at present engaged on a brand new challenge on wildlife mobility, local weather change, and border politics within the U.S. and Germany. At MIT, she teaches courses on cities, race and migration, environmental justice, gender, and local weather change. She acquired her MA in sociology, anthropology and media research from the University of Goettingen and accomplished her PhD in anthropology on the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2011.
Ariel White is an affiliate professor within the Department of Political Science. She research voting and voting rights, race, the felony authorized system, and bureaucratic conduct. Her analysis makes use of giant datasets to measure individual-level experiences, and to make clear folks’s on a regular basis interactions with authorities. Her latest work investigates how potential voters react to experiences with punitive authorities insurance policies, corresponding to incarceration and immigration enforcement, and the way folks could make their approach again into political life after these experiences. In different initiatives, she and her co-authors have examined how native election officers deal with constituents of various ethnicities, how media shapes public conversations, and whether or not events face electoral penalties when nominating minority candidates. Her analysis has appeared within the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Science, and elsewhere.
Bernardo Zacka is an affiliate professor within the Department of Political Science. He is a political theorist with an curiosity in ethnographic strategies. His analysis focuses on how the state is skilled by those that work together with it and people who act in its title. His first guide, “When the State Meets the Street (Harvard University Press, 2017),” probes the on a regular basis ethical lifetime of street-level bureaucrats. His second guide challenge, “Institutional Atmospherics,” appears at a number of episodes within the twentieth century when welfare companies turned to structure and inside design to attempt to restore their relationship to residents, and recovers from that historical past a extra bold conception of what an interface between state and society can and will do. He acquired his PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University. He has been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and is at present on sabbatical on the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
