SUSAN WRIGHT
CURRICULUM VITAE
OFFICE ADDRESS: Residential College, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1245
TELEPHONE/FAX: (734) 763-1194; Fax: (734) 763-7712; <spwright@umich.edu>
HOME ADDRESS: 1616 Traver Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
TELEPHONE: (734) 665-4615
EDUCATION: B.A. (Physics) Oxford University, 1961
M.S. (Physics) University of Michigan, 1963
Ph.D. (History of Science) Harvard University, 1975
HONORS AND AWARDS:
New England Biolabs Foundation Research Grant, 2003
Ford Foundation Research Grant, 1998-2000
MacArthur Foundation Research Grant, 1997-2000
New England Biolabs Foundation Research Grant, 2000
New England Biolabs Foundation Research Grant, 1996
Faculty Recognition Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 1998
Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, 1998-2002
American Institute of Indian Studies Research Grant, 1994
MacArthur Foundation, Research and Writing Fellowship, Program on Peace and International Cooperation, 1993
Faculty Recognition Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 1993
University of Michigan Excellence in Education Award, 1993
Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, 1992.
Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research. University of Michigan, 1990.
National Science Foundation Scholars Award, 1985-86
National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1981-83
National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1979-81
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, 1979-80
Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, History of Science, 1970-73
National National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, History of Science, 1968-70
University Fellowhip, History of Science, Harvard, 1967-68 Teaching Fellowship, History of Science, Harvard, 1965-66
Swedish Institute Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, 1963-64
Phi Beta Kappa, Physics, 1963
Teaching Fellowship in Physics, arranged by the English Speaking Union, University of Michigan, 1961-63
State Scholarship in Physics, Oxford University, 1958-61
APPOINTMENTS:
Consultant, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Program on Science and Global Security, 2003-2004.
Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2002-
Senior Research Fellow, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 1998-1999
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 1998-2002
Chair, Science and Society Program, Residential College, University of Michigan, 1979-1998
Lecturer, History of Science, Residential College, University of Michigan, 1979-
Lecturer, Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 1991-1994
Visiting Fellow, School of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1986
Project Director, Doctor of Arts Program in Humanities, University of Michigan, 1978-79
Tutor in History of Science, Harvard University, 1965-6
Research Associate, Commission on College Physics, University of Michigan, 1963-64
BOOKS:
Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). Coauthor and editor.
Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives, Indian edition (New Delhi: Vision Books, 2003).
Book chapters:
"Introduction: The Development of Western BW Disarmament Policy since 1990 and the Search for an Alternative."
"The Geopolitical Origins of the Biological Weapons Convention."
"Secrecy in the Biotechnology Industry: Implications for the Biological Weapons Convention." With David Wallace.
"Paths to Biological Disarmament." With Richard Falk.
Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982. 600 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Preventing a Biological Arms Race, co-author and editor. Original essays on technical, political, legal, and historical dimensions of biological warfare and disarmament. 450 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Book chapters:
"The Evolution of U.S. Biological Warfare Policy, 1945-1990."
"The Problem of Interpreting the U.S. Biological Defense Program," (senior author, with Stuart Ketcham, University of Michigan).
"Preventing a Biological Arms Race: New Initiatives," (joint author, with Richard Falk, Princeton University).
CURRENT RESEARCH:
"History of Biological Defense and its Implications for the Biological Sciences," Research Project in progress for Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, supported by the Carnegie Corporation.
Project Director, "Forming a North-South Alliance to Address Current Problems of Biological Warfare and Disarmament," 1997-2003. Research project supported by the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New England Biolabs Foundation and the University of Michigan.
"Feminist Tales From the Arms Control Front." In progress.
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS:
"A Hope for Peace," Ann Arbor News, 12 December 2003.
"Bush Team Pulls Off Great Illusion," Detroit Free Press, oped, 9 April 2003.
"Timing of Campaign against Iraq Truly Questionable." Detroit Free Press, oped, 30 September 2002.
"The Asilomar Conference on Genetic Engineering, 1975." Essay for Nature/Biotechnology Encyclopedia on the Human Genome Project (forthcoming, 2003).
"U.S. Vetoes Verification," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 58(2)
(March/April 2002).
"Double Langage et Guerre Bacteriologique," Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2001; reprinted in Maniere de Voir (November 2001); English translation, "Double Language and Biological Warfare," GeneWatch 15(2) (March 2002), 3-5.
"The Politics of Biological and Chemical Disarmament," in Joseph Camilleri ed., Democratic Governance: An Imperative Within Reach (forthcoming, Macmillan).
"The Recombinant DNA Controversy: The Director’s Tale," (Book review) Nature 412 (26 July 2001), 378-39.
"Legitimating Genetic Engineering," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44(2) (Spring, 2001), 235-247; abbreviated version in Dissent (Winter 2001), 62-68.
"Varieties of Secrets and Secret Varieties: Secrecy and the Biotechnology Industry," with David Wallace. In Judith Reppy, ed., Secrecy and Knowledge Production, Cornell University Peace Studies Program, Occasional Paper #23 (October 1999); revised in Politics and the Life Sciences 19(1) (March 2000), 45-57.
"The Hijacking of UNSCOM," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 55 (3) (May/June 1999); reprinted in Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions (New York: Touchstone, 2003).
Co-editor, with Richard Falk, Symposium, "Responding to the Challenge of Biological Warfare — A Matter of Contending Paradigms of Thought and Action," Politics and the Life Sciences 18(1), March 1999, 55 - 117.
"Cuba Case Tests Treaty," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November/December 1997).
"Coping with Dolly: Scenes from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission," Politics and the Life Science 16(2) (September 1997).
"After Dolly, a Slippery Ban on Human Cloning," The Christian Science Monitor (23 June 1997).
"Molecular Politics in a Global Economy," Politics and the Life Sciences (September 1996); reprinted in Private Science, ed. Arnold Thackray (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
"Down on the Animal Pharm," The Nation (March 1996); reprinted in Biomedical Ethics (Greenhaven Press, 1998).
"Prospects for Biological Disarmament in the Pacific and Indian Ocean Regions," in Arms Control in the Post-War World, ed. Trevor Findlay (Canberra, Australia: Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, 1993).
"The Social Warp of Science: Writing the History of Genetic Engineering Policy," Science, Technology, and Human Values 18(1) (Winter 1993).
"Prospects for Biological Disarmament," Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 2(2) (Fall 1992).
"Biowar Treaty in Danger," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 47 (September 1991).
"Responding to the problems of defensive biological warfare programs: beyond confidence-building and verification," in Prevention of a Biological and Toxin Arms Race and the Responsibility of Scientists, ed. E. Geissler (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1991).
"Biotechnology and the Military," in Agricultural Bioethics. ed. D. Michael Warren (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. 1990).
"Reagan's Chemical and Biological Warfare Legacy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 45 (January/February 1989).
"B-Waffenpolitik in den Vereinigten Staaten," in Die Unsichtbaren, ed. Manuel Kiper (Koln: Volksblatt Verlag, 1988).
"The Recombinant DNA Controversy Revisited," The Borzoi College Reader, 6th ed., Charles Muscatine and Marlene Griffith (New York: Knopf, 1988).
"The New Military Dimension of Biotechnology," Metascience 5 (1987).
"The Defense Department's Changing CB Policy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 43 (January 1987).
"Recombinant DNA Technology and Its Social Transformation, 1972-1982," Osiris 2 (1986).
"Molecular Biology or Molecular Politics? The Construction of Scientific Consensus on the Hazards of Recombinant DNA Technology." Social Studies of Science 16 (1986).
"Die Sozialgeschichte der Kontroverse um die rekombinante DNS in den USA," in Die ungeklarten Gefahrenpotentiale der Gentechnologie, eds. R. Kollek and B. Tappeser (Munich: J. Schweitzer Verlag, 1986): 177-187.
"Genetic Engineering: Policy Making in Britain," Science 23 (5 December 1986). (Book review.)
"United States Military Policy and the New Biology," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 41 (May 1985); translated into German in Frontal (September 1986).
"Dangers of a Biological Arms Race," Boston Globe, (October 1984). (With Richard Falk.)
"Recombinant DNA Technology and Biological Warfare," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 39 (November 1983); 40 (February 1984). (With Robert L. Sinsheimer.)
"Recombinant DNA Technology: The Status of Hazards and Controls," Environment 24 (July/August 1982).
Manipulating Life: Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering, Report of the World Council of Churches, Geneva 1982. (With Charles Birch et al.)
"Status of hazards and of international, state, and municipal controls for recombinant DNA technology," unpublished report for the Biotechnology Task Force, State of Michigan, (October 1981).
"Recombinant DNA: Dismantling Controls," Environment 22 (December 1980).
"Recombinant DNA Policy: Controlling Large-Scale Processing," Environment 22 (September 1980).
"Recombinant DNA Policy: From Prevention to Crisis Intervention," Environment 21 (November 1979).
"The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee," Environment 21 (April 1979).
"The Problem with 'Designing our Descendants,'" Environment 20 (October 1978).
"DNA Decisions: The Charmed Circle of Participation," Nature 275 (October 12, 1978).
"Molecular Politics in Britain and the United States: The Development of Policy for Recombinant DNA Technology," Southern California Law Review 51 (September 1978).
"Setting Science Policy: The Case of Recombinant DNA," Environment 20 (May 1978); reprinted in Science Today (December 1978); translated into Japanese in Sekai (January 1979).
"Recombinant DNA Technology: Who Shall Regulate?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 33 (October 1977).
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Times Higher Educational Supplement No. 281 (March 11, 1977).
"Doubts over genetic engineering controls," New Scientist 72 (December 2, 1976).
"Strong Inference and Weak Interactions," Science 149 (July 30, 1965). (With E.M. Hafner.)
Henri Poincare: A Developmental Study of His Philosophical and Scientific Thought. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1975.
LECTURES, 1990-2004
Student Pugwash USA National Symposium, Biology and Security, Washington DC. "History of Biology and Security since the Completion of the Biological Weapons Convention." Washington DC, July 11, 2004.
University of California, Irvine. "The Biosciences Under the Bush Counterbioterrorism Regime," Invited lecture, May 28, 2004.
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Program on Science and Global Security, Seminar: "The Policy Agenda," Invited contribution: "Four Contradictions of Counterbioterrorism Defense." May 21, 2004
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Genetics, Toronto. Conference, Genomics, Genetics, and Society: Bridging the Disciplinary Divide, Invited discussant on papers on "The Production of Scientific Knowledge," Toronto, April 15-17, 2004.
Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Workshop, Science, Technology, and International Affairs: Historical Perspectives, "U.S. Biodefense Policy and its Implications for the Life Sciences," March 27, 2004.
Keynote speaker, "Confronting the Threat of Biological Weapons," 2003 Summer Faculty Institute on World Security Affairs, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 10-13, 2003 (invited).
"Understanding the Persistence of the BW Problem," Theme Panel, Reconstructing Knowledge of Biological Warfare and Disarmament, International Studies Association, Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon, February 27, 2003.
"Feminist Tales from the Arms Control Front," Panel on Masculinity, Missiles, and Defense Policy, International Studies Association, Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon, February 27, 2003 (invited).
"Iraq and the Biological Weapons Problem," Wayne State University, January 29, 2003; University of Michigan, January 11, 2003 (invited).
" ‘W’ and BW: Reflections on the Biological Warfare Question," Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, December 5, 2002.
"Intersections between the History of Science and Technology and Public Policy." Round Table Discussion, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, invited, November 9, 2002.
"Reflections on the Biological Warfare Question." Peace Studies Program and STS Program, Cornell University, October 24, 2002.
"Global Perspectives on Bioterrorism," Conference on "Bioterrorism:
"The Geopolitics of Historical Contexts, Long-Term Consequences," Departments of History, Anthropology, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, invited, 8 May 2002 and Conference on Terrorism, University of Calgary, Canada, invited, May 3-4, 2002.
Biological Warfare and Disarmament," Presentation to the delegates to the Fifth Review Conference of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 4 December 2001.
"The Biological Warfare Question," Conference, Is This Their Future? College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 14-15 July 2001.
"Feminist Tales From the Arms Control Front." Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, April 2001.
"Legitimating Genetic Engineering." Given in absentia, Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 15-17 February 2000.
"Complexity, Ambiguity, Secrecy: The Problem of ‘Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention." United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York, May 25, 1999.
Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society Conference, Convenor, Panel on Biological Disarmament: The Agenda for the Next Century," May 13, 1999.
"Three Problems of Biological Disarmament in Search of a New Paradigm." Discussion paper, Conference on Identity, Security, and Global Society, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, 18-20 November 1998.
Chair and Convenor, Conference on Biological Warfare and Disarmament: Problems, Perspectives, Possible Solutions, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, United Nations, Geneva, July 5-8, 1999.
"Varieties of Secrets and Secret Varieties: Secrecy and the Biotechnology Industry," Conference on Secrecy, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, April 17-19, 1998 and Conference on Biological Warfare and Disarmament: Problems, Perspectives, Possible Solutions, UN Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva, July 5-8, 1998.
"Biotechnology, the Military, and Development," Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, March, 1997.
"The Biological Weapons Convention in the Post-Cold War Era: Interpreting North-South Confrontations," Panel on International Law
and the Management of Transnational Issues, International Studies Association, annual meeting, April 1996.
"The Politics of Genetic Engineering in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1972-1982." Science Studies Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, April 1995.
"Biotechnology in the Global Economy: From Initiation to Technology Transfer," National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Delhi, India; Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India; March 1995.
"Genetic Engineering Revisited," Residential College, University of Michigan, October 1994.
"Exploring the Boundary Between Politics and Science," Center for the Study of Social Transformations, October 1994.
"Molecular Politics in a Global Economy," Stanford University; Board of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz; Center for Social Change, UC Berkeley; February 1994.
"Molecular Politics in a Global Economy," Conference on the Biotechnology Industry and the Rise of Contemporary Molecular Biology, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, October 1993.
"Bringing Power Back Into the History of Science: A
Counterturn," panel on "The Character of Knowledge in the Post-Modern World," annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., December 1992.
"The Future of Biological Disarmament," Invited paper for Conference on the Future of Arms Control and Disarmament, Canberra and Perth, Australia, June 25-30, 1992.
"Writing the History of Genetic Engineering Policy,"
Colloqium, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1992.
"The Social Warp of Science: Power, Discourse, and the Genetic Engineering Story," Invited paper for symposium: Language, Praxis, and Action: Historical, Sociological, and Political Dimensions of Genetic Engineering, Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1991.
"Proposals for the Third Review Conference on the Biological Weapons Convention," Briefing for Delegates to the Third Review Conference, Geneva, September 11, 1991, sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists, the Council for Responsible Genetics, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
"Recent Developments with Respect to Defensive Biological Warfare Research and Development," Seminar on Chemical and Biological Disarmament, Tokyo, Japan, July 5-8, 1991.
"The Spread of Biological and Toxin Weapons," Conference on Supply-Side Control of Arms Proliferation, Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, Ottawa, Canada, June 18-21, 1991.
"Prospects for Chemical and Biological Disarmament," Workshop on Global Security, World Order Models Project, Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 4-8, 1991.
"Biotechnology and Public Policy," University of California, Berkeley, February 1991.
"Ambiguous Military Research: The Responsibility of Scientists," New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 10, 1990.
"Science and Social Responsibility: The Case of Biological Defense Research," Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 11, 1990.
"Prospects for Biological Disarmament in the 1990s,"
Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, October 11, 1990.
"The Formation of Policy for Genetic Engineering: Precedents for the Human Genome Project," Conference on the Human Genome Project, Harvard University, June 15, 1990.
"Approaches to Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention in the 1990s," Forum on Prospects for Strengthening the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, United Nations, New York, May 15, 1990.
"The Formation of Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering in the United States and Britain," Conference on Technological Choices: American and European Experiences," Indiana University, April 12-14, 1990.
"Science and Social Responsibility: The Case of Biological Warfare," Poynter Center, Indiana University, April 12, 1990.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 1990-present
Expert testimony, Tri-Valley Cares, Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, et al. v. United States Department of Energy, National Security Administration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 22, 2003.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Politics and the Life Sciences
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Consultant.
Federation of American Scientists, Member, Expert Working Group on Biological and Toxin Weapons Verification, 1990.
National Science Foundation, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science: Reviewer.
National Science Foundation, Program in Ethics and Values in Science and Technology: Reviewer.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Reviewer
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 1976-90
Lectures University Values Seminar, University of Michigan, February 1976.
Department of Biophysics, King's College, London, November 1976.
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, UK, April 1977.
Department of Science and Technology Policy, Manchester University, UK, May 1977.
Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, December 1977.
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 1978.
Villa Julie College, Maryland, Symposium on Recombinant DNA Technology, May 1978.
Villa Julie College, Maryland, May 1978.
History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, October 1978.
Stanford University, Forum on Science and the Public, January 1979.
National Council of Churches, Stony Point, New York, December 1982.
History and Philosophy of Science Program, University of Michigan, March 1983.
University of Pennsylvania, Symposium on Chemical and Biological Warfare, April 1983.
Division on Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, Winter 1984.
Co-chair, Symposium on Biological Research and Military Policy, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York, May 1984.
Department of Science and Technology Policy, Manchester University, UK, June 1984.
The Open University, UK, June 1984.
American Biophysical Society, Baltimore, Annual Meeting, February 1985.
International Congress of the History of Science, Symposium on Genetics and Society, August 1985.
American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 1985.
University of Groningen, Netherlands, March 1986.
University of Leiden, Netherlands, March, 1986.
University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, March 1986.
University of Twente, Netherlands, March 1986.
University of Wageningen, Netherlands, March 1986.
The Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 1986. Conference on Genetic Engineering: Social and Political Issues, Heidelberg, West Germany, March 1986.
Co-chair, Symposium on "Strengthening the Prohibition Against Biological Warfare," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, May 1986.
School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, August 1986.
Department of Politics and Economics, Monash University, University of Melbourne, Australia, September 1986.
Center for Peace Studies, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, September 1986.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, September 1986.
Center for Human Aspects of Science and Technology, University of Sydney, Australia, September 1986.
"Biological Warfare Policy in the United States," State Parliament of Lower Saxony, Hanover, West Germany, May 1987.
"Biological Warfare: New Weapons, New Threats, and the Current Disarmament Debate," Biology Department, The Open University, United Kingdom, May 1987.
Iowa State University, Symposium on Agricultural Bioethics, November 1987.
Society for Social Studies of Science, Annual Meeting, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 1987.
Ohio State University, Lecture Series, Social and Ethical Implications of biotechnology.
Cornell University, Program in Science, Technology and Society. "The Dual Use of Biotechnology." November 1988.
Cornell University, Conference on the Role of Scientists in the Making of Security Policy. "The Role of Biologists in Influencing Biological Warfare Policy in the 1980s." April 1989.
International Committee of Health Professionals, Geneva. "The Prospects for Biological Disarmament." May 1989.
Consultations, testimony
Consultant, British Broadcasting Corporation, for program in "Horizon" series, Genetic Roulette," Spring 1977.
Consultant for Weekend Television, London, for documentary on genetic engineering, Spring 1977.
Testimony, United States Senate, Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, hearings on recombinant DNA technology, November 1977.
Consulting editor for Environment, 1978-1982.
Member, planning committee for three-year study of scientific controversies with strong ethical and political elements, a joint research project of the Center for Bioethics, Kennedy Institute and the Institute for Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, Fall 1978.
Member, World Council of Churches Committee on Ethical and Social Issues in Genetic Engineering and Chair, Subcommittee on Biological Warfare, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 1981.
Member, Task Force on Biotechnology and Chair, Subcommittee on Regulation of Biotechnology, State of Michigan, 1981-82.
Consultant on ethical and social issues associated with genetic engineering, National Council of Churches, 1982-83.
Consultant, British Broadcasting Corporation, for program in "Horizon" series on chemical and biological warfare, May 1983.
Consultant, Master's Degree Policy Exercise on the Biological Weapons Convention, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1986.
Consultant, Planning Conference for Doctoral Program in Social, Historical, and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, May 1986.
Member, Committee on Chemical and Biological Warfare, International Commission of Health Professionals, 1989-90.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
History of Science Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
International Studies Association
COURSES, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, AND CONFERENCES:
Courses:
Problems in the History of Technology, 1700-1970
Freedom, Technology and Society
Perspectives on High Technology
The Recombinant DNA Controversy
Technology and Work
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (Team-taught)
History of Biotechnology
Scientific Change
Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Knowledge*
Politics of Chemical and Biological Warfare and Disarmament
Science and Politics*
Problems in World Politics: New Paradigms of International Security*
Exploring the Boundary Between Politics and Science*
Current Issues in International Relations Theory and Practice*
Social Dynamics of Science, Technology, and Medicine
*Senior and/or graduate level
Curriculum Development:
Design of an interdisciplinary concentration, Science, Technology, and Society, aimed at integrating substantial training in science with studies in the social and cultural dimensions of science.
Lecture Series:
New Paradigms of Global Security, University of Michigan, Winter Term, 1994. Speakers: Gita Sen (Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum), Gunther Handl (Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan), Mark Levy (Department of Politics, Princeton University), Ann Tickner (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts), and Richard Falk (Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University).
Radio Commentaries:
"The Chemical Weapons Convention." Commentary, WUOM, Michigan Radio, April 23, 1997.
"Cloning--I." Commentary, WUOM, Michigan Radio, June 17, 1997.
"Cloning--II." Commentary, WUOM, Michigan Radio, July 8, 1997.