[Air-L] @HASTS_MIT: October lineup

Wed Oct 8 09:30:11 PDT 2014

Hi folks,

The second month of @HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT>, a collaborative Twitter project, has just begun. HASTS is history, anthropology, and STS at MIT. Each week of the fall 2014 semester a different HASTS community member — students, faculty, alumni, staff, affiliates, etc. — is running the @HASTS_MIT account. It's a social media experiment in interdisciplinarity. Check it out for thoughts on research, projects, reading, fieldwork, and much more. The first month was both fascinating and tremendous fun. Come join us!

You can follow the account<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT> or, if you don't have a Twitter account, drop by https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT.>.

October schedule (bios below)
10/6 - 10/12    Shreeharsh Kelkar
10/13 - 10/19  Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
10/20 - 10/26  Harriet Ritvo
10/27 - 11/2    Diane Greco Josefowicz

Curious what people were tweeting about in September? Links to curations for individual September hosts follow the October bios.

If you have questions or comments about the project, please contact me at amyj at mit.edu or via Twitter @shrapnelofme.

Thanks,
~Amy

October lineup:

Shreeharsh Kelkar<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/kelkar.html>, HASTS PhD candidate
Shreeharsh Kelkar is interested in understanding the role of computing in workplaces using historical and ethnographic methods. Broadly, his interests lie in understanding the relationship between institutions, technology and knowledge production. His dissertation will focus on online learning technologies (like MOOCs) and the changes they are bringing about in different workplaces and their associated roles and work practices.

Shreeharsh also tweets as @scritic<https://twitter.com/scritic>.

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft<http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/postdocs.html>, HASTS affiliate
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he writes about lab-grown meat and the futures of food. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Swarthmore College and did his graduate work in European intellectual history at Berkeley. Before coming to MIT he was the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research, and a visiting researcher at UCLA. His scholarly articles, essays, and writings on food culture have appeared in History and Theory, Modern Intellectual History, Gastronomica, Meatpaper and other publications, and several books are in the works.

Ben also tweets as @benwurgaft<https://twitter.com/benwurgaft>.

Harriet Ritvo<http://history.mit.edu/people/harriet-ritvo>, HASTS faculty
Harriet Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo5764147.html> (Chicago UP, 2009), The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674673588> (Harvard UP, 1997), The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674037076> (Harvard UP, 1987), and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History<http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4121.xml> (Virginia, 2010); she is also the co-editor of Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Imperialism, Exoticism<https://www.dukeupress.edu/Macropolitics-of-Nineteenth-Century-Literature/index-viewby=author&lastname=Arac&firstname=Jonathan&middlename=&sort=newest.html> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), and the editor of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication<http://www.amazon.ca/Variation-Animals-Plants-Under-Domestication/dp/0801858674/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412625913&sr=1-10> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Her articles and reviews on British cultural history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Review of Books, Science, Daedalus, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and The New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields.

Harriet also tweets as @HRitvo<https://twitter.com/HRitvo>.

Diane Greco Josefowicz<http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/people/writing-program-faculty/diane-greco-josefowicz/>, HASTS alum
Diane Greco Josefowicz cowrote The Zodiac of Paris<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9147.html> (Princeton UP, 2010) with Jed Z. Buchwald, an account of the fortunes of an ancient, Egyptian bas-relief ceiling smuggled into nineteenth-century Paris where it caused a controversy between scientists and religious fundamentalists. The author of the pioneering Cyborg Web, she worked for many years as an editor at Eastgate Systems, the premier hypertext publisher in the United States. Her award-winning fiction, essays and articles have appeared in national publications such as Conjunctions, Fence, and Poets & Writers Magazine, and her scholarly articles and reviews appear regularly in Isis and Perspectives on Science, among others. She is the Science and Technology editor of The Victorian Web<http://www.victorianweb.org>, and teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Boston University.

Diane also tweets as @dianegreco<https://twitter.com/dianegreco>.

Curious what project hosts were tweeting about in September? Then check out these curations to read the tweets of a particular host from beginning to end:

September collections
Mitali Thakor: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-mitali-thakor
Ian Condry: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-ian-condry
Amy Johnson: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-amy-johnson
Wade Roush: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-wade-roush
Lan Li: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-lan-li

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Amy Johnson
PhD candidate<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/johnson.html>, MIT HASTS
Berkman Center for Internet & Society<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ajohnson>, Harvard
Keio International Project for Internet & Society<http://kipis.sfc.keio.ac.jp/people/amy-johnson/>, Keio University
@shrapnelofme<https://twitter.com/shrapnelofme>