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Nicholas Seong Chul Buchanan Doctoral Candidate Program in Science, Technology, and Society |
I'm a doctoral candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) at MIT, a graduate program jointly run by the eponymous departments of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. My educational background is in Geography, with a focus on the human and physical dimensions of environmental change. Research My research focuses on questions of rural communities, indigenous peoples, and environmental legality. My dissertation, which is motivated by concern for the struggles engendered by the profound environmental and social transformations underway today in rural America, is an exploration of resource management in action. The dissertation follows disputes over water, land, and ecological restoration and considers the oft-fraught interactions between different ways of knowing and living in nature; the strengthening interconnections between scientific and legal authority and the responses of different groups to this situation; the interplay of cultures and environments; and the emergence of new configurations of governance meant to address the perceived shortcomings of top-down regulations. Teaching and Fellowships I've TA'ed in courses on law and society and the history of technology in the United States, and I've instructed History 103 (21H.103), "American Indian History." With Eve Darian-Smith and Chris Anderson, I'm founder and coordinator of the Collaborative Research Network on Law and Indigeneity of the Law and Society Association. Since beginning graduate school, I've held a number of fellowships, including the MIT Kenan Sahin Presidential Graduate Fellowship and the US Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship, as well as a fellowship from the MIT Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability. I have also been a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL and a recipient of a Dan David Prize Scholarship. Free and Open Software I am also interested in Free and Open Source software and efforts to make such software a viable alternative to proprietory software. To that end I've begun to compile a list of a complete suite of FOSS software for grad students in the humanities and social sciences. Other Things I love cycling, and recently completed a three week bike tour of Maui and The Big Island, with a little backpacking and car camping thrown in there for good measure. Here are some preliminary slide shows. Education • Doctoral Candidate (2003 – ), Program in History and Anthropology of Science and Technology, MIT. |
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