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Cyrus C.M. Mody Assistant Professor of History Office: Humanities 309 Phone: 713-348-2553 Email: Cyrus.Mody [at] rice.edu Fax: 713-348-5207 Cell: 281-222-5189 |
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Prof. Mody teaches the history of science, technology, and
engineering in the modern era (~1600 to the present). His own research focuses on the physical
and engineering sciences in the very
modern era (~1970 to the present), with particular emphasis on the creation of
new communities and institutions of science in the late Cold War and the
post-Cold War periods. His book, Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and
the Path to Nanotechnology (to be published by MIT Press) explores the
co-evolution of an experimental technology (the scanning tunneling microscope
and atomic force microscope and their variants) and the community of
researchers who built, bought, used, sold, theorized, or borrowed these
instruments. Currently, he is
working on a history of the communities and institutions of nanotechnology, in
collaboration with colleagues at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at
the
Education:
Ph.D.,
A.B.,
Some Publications:
2008. “The Larger World of Nano.” Physics Today 61.10: 38-44.
2008 (with David Kaiser). “Scientific Training and the
Creation of Scientific Knowledge.”
In Handbook of Science and
Technology Studies, ed. Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska,
Curriculum Vitae (with more links to articles)
Courses
History 418 Science, Technology, and the Cold War
History
417 Perspectives on Silicon Valley
History 237/Chemistry
235/Anthropology 235 Nanotechnology: Content and Context (with Prof. Kristen
Kulinowski)
Hist/Elec 234
Technological Disasters (with Prof. Kevin Kelly)
History 233 Science in the
Modern World
Podcasts