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Stephen Hilgartner
Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Science & Technology Studies
Cornell University
304 Rockefeller Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
607-255-9950


Stephen Hilgartner studies the social dimensions and politics of contemporary and emerging science and technology, especially in the life sciences. His research focuses on situations in which scientific knowledge is implicated in establishing, contesting, and maintaining social order-a theme he has examined in studies of expertise, property formation, risk disputes, and biotechnology. His book on science advice, Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama, won the 2002 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Selected Publications:

Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama, Stanford University Press, 2000.
http://www.sup.org/

"Intellectual Property and the Politics of Emerging Technology: Inventors, Citizens, and Powers to Shape the Future." Forthcoming Chicago-Kent Law Review (2009).

"Las dimensiones sociales del conocimiento experto del riesgo" ("The Social Dimensions of Expert Knowledge about Risk"). Forthcoming in Moreno Castro, Carolina, ed., Comunicar Los Riesgos (Spain: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009).

"The Anticipatory State: Making Policy-Relevant Knowledge about the Future," a special issue, N. Nelson, A. Geltzer, and S. Hilgartner, eds., Science & Public Policy, volume 8, no. 8, October 2008, pp. 546-606.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/

"Making the Bioeconomy Measurable: Politics of an Emerging Anticipatory Machinery" (Comment). BioSocieties 2(3): 382-6, 2007.
http://journals.cambridge.org/

"Overflow and Containment in the Aftermath of Disaster" (Comment). Social Studies of Science, 37(1):153-58, 2007.
http://www.hurricanearchive.org

"Voting Machinery, Counting, and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election." Michael Lynch, Stephen Hilgartner, and Carin Berkowitz, in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. MIT Press, 2005.

"Making Maps and Making Social Order: Governing American Genome Centers, 1988-1993." In From Genetics to Genomics: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics, edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Routledge, 2004.

"Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories." In States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order, edited by Sheila Jasanoff, Routledge, 2004.

"Biotechnology." In Smelser, Neil J. and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2:1235-40, Elsevier, 2002.

"Acceptable Intellectual Property." Journal of Molecular Biology, 319(4): 943-46, 2002.

"Data Withholding in Academic Genetics: Evidence From a National Survey." Eric G. Campbell, Brian R. Clarridge, Manjusha Gokhale, Lauren Birenbaum, Stephen Hilgartner, Neil A. Holtzman, David Blumenthal, Journal of the American Medical Association 287(4):473-80, 2002.

"Data Access Policy in Genome Research." Pp. 202-18 in Arnold Thackray, ed., Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

"Access to Data and Intellectual Property: Scientific Exchange in Genome Research." Pp. 28-39 in National Academy of Sciences, Intellectual Property and Research Tools in Molecular Biology: Report of a Workshop, National Academy Press, 1997.
http://www.nap.edu/books/

"The Sokal Affair in Context." Science, Technology & Human Values 24(2): 506-22, 1997

"Biomolecular Databases: New Communication Regimes for Biology?" Science Communication 17(2): 506-22, 1997.

"The Dominant View of Popularization: Conceptual Problems, Political Uses," Social Studies of Science, 1990.

The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model," Stephen Hilgartner and Charles L. Bosk, American Journal of Sociology, 1988.

Teaching:

Spring 2009 - (STS 7201)
Studying Emerging Technologies

Spring 2007 - (S&TS 391/Govt 309/AmStud 389)
Science in the American Polity: 1960- Now

Spring 2007 - (S&TS 411)
Knowledge, Technology and Property

Fall 2006 - (BSOC/S&TS 205)
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Fall 2006 - (S&TS 645/Govt 634)
The New Life Sciences: Emerging Technology, Emerging Politics

Links:

Voting Technology Archive:
http://www.sts.cornell.edu/voting_technology_archive/

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