Welcome! I am an anthropologist of science and technology. My research examines the role of place in scientific practice and technology development. Not only do I write about where science and technology happen, I am also interested in how scientists transform their objects of study into places and engineers make worlds with their devices. My first project considers planetary scientists and how they come to understand distant, alien formations of gas and rock as intimate, familiar places. My second project turns to virtual reality researchers and innovators.
I am an Assistant Professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale University. I am also affiliated with Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Before joining Yale in 2017, I was faculty in the program in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia, where I taught STS to engineering students. I was also a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the Integrated Studies Program, an innovative liberal arts curriculum for honors freshmen.
I earned my Ph.D. from MIT's program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society. I have an S.B. also from MIT in aerospace engineering.
My research has been featured in articles appearing in Wired and The Guardian. I wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times about the significance of finding an Earth-Like exoplanet. More articles about my research and teaching are here, here, & here.
You can follow me on twitter @lmesseri
I am an Assistant Professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale University. I am also affiliated with Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Before joining Yale in 2017, I was faculty in the program in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia, where I taught STS to engineering students. I was also a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the Integrated Studies Program, an innovative liberal arts curriculum for honors freshmen.
I earned my Ph.D. from MIT's program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society. I have an S.B. also from MIT in aerospace engineering.
My research has been featured in articles appearing in Wired and The Guardian. I wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times about the significance of finding an Earth-Like exoplanet. More articles about my research and teaching are here, here, & here.
You can follow me on twitter @lmesseri
