Science, Technology and Society - Ph.D. / Sc.D.
Recent Submissions
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The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and agrarian environments in India ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Genetically modified (GM) cotton, Bt cotton was introduced in India in 2002 through a joint venture company, Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited (MMB). It is a collaboration between the Indian agricultural ... -
The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)My dissertation illuminates the status of mathematical knowledge in relation to other intellectual domains and racialized social forms-particularly American Orientalism-in the twentieth-century United States. Observers and ... -
Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the American popular imagination. Dinosaurs, in particular, have been iconic and pervasive representatives of a planetary past for much of the twentieth century. While natural ...