Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Hélène Mialet
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley


Email: mialet@berkeley.edu

Mialet has held positions in the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and at Oxford University and post-doctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Her interests are in sociology, history and anthropology of science, continental philosophy and philosophy of science. Themes of interest include: cognition, innovation, discovery and creativity in science and industry, and the sociology of technology and techniques, subjectivity, self-fashioning, relations between humans and machines, disability studies, leadership and organizations. She has just completed a book entitled L’Entreprise Créatrice, an ethnographic study of practices and processes of invention in an applied research laboratory in a multinational corporation; it is forthcoming with Hermes-Lavoisier. She is also currently finishing a book on Stephen Hawking, entitled Hawking Incorporated, which is under contract with The University of Chicago Press.

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