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I am currently working on general and theoretical papers on science, technology, activism, and social movements. My earlier work involved discussions of cultural approaches in STS (such as in Science and Technology in a Multicultural World) and discussions of ethnography in STS. I also edited the collected papers of the late Diana Forsythe, a colleague who died unexpectedly in a hiking accident.

Selected Publications and Conferences in Science and Technology Studies

Forthcoming "Undone Science: Social Movement Challenges to Dominant Scientific Practice." By Scott Frickel, Sahra Gibbon, Jeff Howard, Joana Kempner, Gwen Ottinger, and David Hess. Science, Technology, and Human Values.

2007 "Science, Technology, and Social Movements," coauthored with Steve Breyman, Nancy Campbell, and Brian Martin, in the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (MIT Press).

2007 "Crosscurrents: Social Movements and the Anthropology of Science and Technology." American Anthropologist 109(3).

2006 "Backfire, Repression, and the Theory of Transformative Events," coauthored with Brian Martin. Mobilization 11(2): 249-267.

2005 "Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating Social Movement Studies and STS." Science, Technology, and Human Values 30(4): 515-535. Abstract.

2004 "Guest Editorial: Health, the Environment, and Social Movements," Science as Culture, 13(4): 421-427.

2002 "Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas," by E.J. Woodhouse, David Hess, Steve Breyman, and Brian Martin. Social Studies of Science 32/2: 297-319. Abstract.

2002 Workshop at Renssealer on "Technologies for Communities." The workshop included presentations on sustainable, healthy communities as well as work on information technologies, electronic media, and the built environment as they relate to building more sustainable, just, and democratic regions. More information is available here.

2001 "Scientific Culture." In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier.

2001 Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence, by Diana Forsythe (posthumous). Edited and with an introduction by David Hess. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2001 "Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies." Sage Handbook of Ethnography. Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, Lyn Lofland, and John Lofland, eds. Invited and refereed. here

1998 "If You're Thinking of Living in STS....A Guide for the Perplexed." In Gary Downey and Joe Dumit (eds.), Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies. Santa Fe: SAR Press.

1997 Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction. Monograph. New York University Press.

1995 Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. Monograph. Columbia University Press.

1992 Knowledge and Society Volume 9: The Anthropology of Science and Technology. Coedited with Linda Layne; series editor Arie Rip. JAI Press. Articles by Hess: "Introduction: The New Ethnography and the Anthropology of Science and Technology." This was the first edited collection of anthropologists of science and technology.