James Wilcox is a doctoral student in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his dissertation project investigates the practices and politics of energy policy interventions. From 2011 to 2013 he was the program coordinator for Vasudha, an undergraduate living and learning community dedicated to sustainability at RPI. Prior to coming to RPI, he served as an education and outreach Fellow in the Office of Sustainability at the University of Vermont and studied media, design, and sustainability at The New School and Parsons The New School for Design, earning a master’s in media and urban studies.
Atsushi Akera is an associate professor in the department of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as the Chair-Elect of ASEE’s Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division. He is an elected member of Society for the History of Technology’s executive council; as associate editor of the international journal Engineering Studies; and a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Publications include Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2006).
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