Curriculum
Vitae
Cyrus
C.M. Mody
Employment:
Assistant
Professor, Department of History, Rice University, 2007-present
Program
Manager, Nanotechnology
and Innovation
Studies, Center for
Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical
Heritage Foundation, 2005-2007
Other
affiliations:
External
collaborator, Center for Nanotechnology in
Society, University of California – Santa Barbara, 2005-present
Fellow,
Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2007-present
Degrees:
Ph.D.,
Cornell University, in Science and Technology Studies, August
2004
M.A.,
A.B.,
Harvard University, (magna cum laude)
in Engineering Sciences, June 1997
Fellowships
and awards:
National
Science Foundation Scholar’s Award “The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: New Institutions
for Microelectronics Research, 1966-2004,” SES 1027160, 2011-12.
Collaborative Research
Fellowship (with Hyungsub Choi, Patrick McCray, and Mara Mills) for
“Micro-Histories and Nano-Futures: The Co-Production of Miniaturization and
Futurism,” American Council of Learned Societies, spring 2011.
Fellow,
Center for Interdisciplinary
Research group “Science
in the Context of Application,” Universität
Bielefeld, in residence June-July 2007
Gordon Cain
Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship, Chemical Heritage
Foundation, in residence September 2004-June 2005
Hacker/Mullins Prize
for best graduate student paper, American
Sociological Association section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology,
awarded August 2003
Sloan Foundation/National Bureau of Economic Research, Science and Engineering Workforce Project
fellowship, awarded January 2003
Lemelson Center for the Study of
Invention and Innovation Fellowship,
National Museum of American History,
in residence June-August 2002
Chemical
Heritage Foundation travel grant, awarded April 2002
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Electrical
History Fellowship, awarded April 2001
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement
Grant number SES 0094582, awarded December 2000
Mullins Prize
for best graduate student paper, Society for
Social Studies of Science, awarded September 2000
American Institute of Physics grant-in-aid for dissertation
research, awarded August 2000
National
Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship, awarded April 1997
Current
projects:
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “‘An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal’:
Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era Stanford,” for Groovy Science: The Counter-Cultures and Scientific Life, 1955-1975,
ed. David Kaiser (possible edited volume contribution).w
Publications:
Citation
information from Google Scholar can be found here.
Dissertation:
“Crafting the Tools of Knowledge: The Invention, Spread, and Commercialization
of Probe Microscopy, 1960-2000”
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Cyrus
C.M. Mody and Hyungsub Choi, “From Materials Science to Nanotechnology:
Institutions, Communities, and Disciplines at Cornell University, 1960-2000,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
(submitted).
Cyrus
C.M. Mody and Andrew J. Nelson, “‘A Towering Virtue of Necessity’: Computer
Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford,” Osiris
(under review for volume 28, Music in the Laboratory).
Sonali
K. Shah and Cyrus C.M. Mody, "Innovation, Social Structure, and the
Creation of New Industries," Academy
of Management Journal (in revision/R&R).
Cyrus C.M. Mody and Michael Lynch, “Test Objects and
Other Epistemic Things: A History of a Nanoscale Object,” British Journal for the History of Science 43.3 (2010): 423-458.[*]
Hyungsub Choi and Cyrus C.M. Mody,
“The Long History of Molecular Electronics: Microelectronics Origins of
Nanotechnology,” Social Studies of Science 39.1 (2009): 11-50.[†]
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “The Larger World of Nano,” Physics Today 61.10 (2008): 38-44.
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “The Sounds of Science: Listening to
Laboratory Practice,” Science, Technology, and Human Values 30 (2005):
175-198.[‡]
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “Small, But Determined:
Technological Determinism in Nanoscience,” Hyle/Techne (special joint
issue on nanotechnology) 10 (2004): 99-128 [reprinted in Joachim
Schummer and Davis Baird, Nanotechnology
Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics, and Society (New Jersey:
World Scientific, 2006): 95-130].
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “A Little Dirt Never Hurt Anyone:
Knowledge-Making and Contamination in Materials Science,” Social Studies of
Science 31 (2001): 7-36[§]
[reprinted in Susan Silbey, Law and
Science, volume II (
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “‘A New Way of Flying’: Différance,
Rhetoric, and the Autogiro in Interwar Aviation,” Social Studies of Science
30 (2000): 513-543.[**]
Edited volume contributions:
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “University in a Garage: Instrumentation and Innovation from UC Santa
Barbara,” for volume on tech transfer and economic development in the
University of California system, ed. Martin Kenney, David Mowery, and Mary
Walshok (Stanford: Stanford University Press, draft submitted for review by
editors and contributors).
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Exemplary Cases and Accounting for Research,” for Can Rich Countries Still Invent? Towards a
New Model of International Innovation, ed. Christopher Newfield and Daryl
Boudreaux (submitted).
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, "Essential Tensions and Representational Strategies," Representation
in Scientific Practice II, ed. Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar, Janet Vertesi,
Catelijne Coopmans (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Conferences and the Emergence of Nanoscience,” in The Social Life of Nanotechnology, ed.
Barbara Herr Harthorn and John Mohr (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Climbing the Hill: Seeing (and
Not Seeing) Epochal Breaks from Multiple Vantage Points,” in Science Transformed?: Debating Claims of an
Epochal Break, ed. Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, and Gregor Schiemann (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Conversions: Sound and Sight,
Military and Civilian,” in Oxford
Handbook of Sound Studies, ed. Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge:
Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000,” in Science
and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and
Employment, ed. Richard Freeman and Daniel Goroff (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody and David Kaiser, “Scientific
Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge,” in Handbook
of Science and Technology Studies, ed. Edward J. Hackett, Olga
Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman, 3rd edition
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008): 377-402.
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Short-Term Implications of
Convergence for Scientific and Engineering Disciplines,” in Nanotechnology:
Societal Implications II – Individual Perspectives, ed. Mihail C. Roco
and William Sims Bainbridge (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Instruments in Training: The Growth
of American Probe Microscopy in the 1980s,” in Pedagogy
and the Practice of Science: Producing Physical Scientists, 1800-2000,
ed. David Kaiser (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “How Probe Microscopists Became
Nanotechnologists,” in Discovering
the Nanoscale, ed.
White papers:
Other articles:
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “Nanotechnology,” in The
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Integrated Circuits:
Material, Social, Spatial,” Volume [journal of the
Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, issue on “counterculture”]
24 (2010).
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, entries in Encyclopedia
of Nanoscience and Society, ed. David H. Guston and J. Geoffrey Golson
(London: Sage, 2010): “Chronology
of Nanoscience”: xxxiii-xliii; “Center
for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology”: 76-78; “IBM”: 325-328; “Interdisciplinary Research
Centers”: 348-350; “International
Council on Nanotechnology”: 351-353; “Microscopy,
Atomic Force”: 416-417; “Microscopy,
Electron (Including TEM and SEM)”: 417-419; “Microscopy, Exotic”: 419-421; “Microscopy, Optical”: 421-422; “Microscopy, Scanning Probe”: 423-424; “Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling”:
424-425; and “National Institute of
Standards and Technology (U.S.)”: 580-581.
Cyrus
Mody and W. Patrick McCray, “Big Whig History and Nano Narratives: Effective
Innovation Policy Needs the Historical Dimension,” Science Progress (http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/04/big-whig-history-and-nano-narratives/),
April 6, 2009.
Cyrus
Mody, “Buckyball and Carbon Nanotubes,” in Molecules
That Matter [exhibit catalog], ed. Raymond J. Giguere (
Cyrus
C.M. Mody, “Chemistry, Microscopy, and the Nanoworld,” Chemical Heritage
24.3 (2006): 14-19.
Reviews:
Cyrus C.M. Mody, review of Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
(submitted).
Cyrus C.M. Mody, review of Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild
Semiconductor, by Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock,
Cyrus C.M. Mody, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb, the Nuclear Reactor, the Computer, Ham Radio, and
Recombinant DNA” [review of five recent books on Cold War science and technology],
Historical Studies in the Natural
Sciences 38.3 (2008): 451-461.[††]
Professional
service:
Contributing
editor, Technology and Culture,
2009-present.
Program
committee, Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies, 2010
and 2011 meetings.
Melvin
Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship committee, Society for the History of Technology,
2010-2012 (chair, 2012)
Leonardo
da Vinci Medal committee, Society for the History of Technology, 2012
Member,
Society for Social Studies of Science, Society for the History of
Technology. Quondam (et olim) member of American Sociological Association,
American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology.
Reviewer,
Social Studies of Science, Hyle, Techne, Journal of Biomedical Discovery and
Collaboration, Technology &
Culture, Historical
Studies in the Natural Sciences, Department
of Energy, Leonardo, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Science,
Technology & Human Values, Dutch Council for the Humanities, IEEE Annals of the History of
Computing, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Technology Forecasting and
Social Change, Bridgepoint
Education, Minerva,
National Science Foundation.
University service:
Wiess College Faculty Associate,
S09-present
First-year common reading committee, S08-present
Organizing committee of the Celebration of the 25th
Anniversary of the Buckminsterfullerene Discovery, S10/F10
Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program, co-instructor (with
Lora Wildenthal and Dan Wagner), S09
Department service:
History department Lunch Lectures & Writing Workshop
coordinator, F10-present
History department undergraduate committee, F08-S10
History department graduate committee, F07/S08/S12
Courses:
History 418 “Science, Technology, and
the Cold War,” S08/S10
History 417 “Perspectives on
Silicon Valley,” F08
History 237/Chemistry 235/Anthropology 235 “Nanotechnology:
Content and Context” (with Prof. Kristen Kulinowski), F07/8/9
History/Electrical and Computer Engineering 234
“Technological Disasters,” (with Prof. Kevin Kelly), S09/S10/F10
History 233 “Science
in the Modern World,” F07/S09/F09/F10
History 166 “Scientists and Fiction” [first-year seminar],
S12
History 348, “Global Histories of Science,” S12
Funding:
National
Science Foundation Scholar’s Award “The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: New
Institutions for Microelectronics Research, 1966-2004,” SES 1027160.
Head
of Rice-UCSB team awarded Collaborative Research
Fellowship, 2010 funding cycle, American
Council of Learned Societies.
Funded
as part of Interdisciplinary Research Group 1 of the UC Santa Barbara Center for Nanotechnology in Society, NSF
Grant SES 0531184.
Head
of three-person Rice-UCSB research team awarded Social and Ethical Issues
funding through National Nanotechnology
Infrastructure Network, NSF Grant ECCS 0335765.
Head
of three-person Rice-UCSB research team conducting historical/ethnographic
project for Center for Biological and
Environmental Nanotechnology, NSF Grant EEC 0647452
Interviews and news articles:
Brotzen,
Franz, “Two Rice Profs Named ACLS Fellows and Grantees,” Rice News, June 11, 2010.
DuBois, Lisa A., “Uncle Sam: Scientist,”
and Bill Snyder, “Canary
in the Research Lab,” Lens, Winter
2009: 4-9 and 12-16.
KTRU
News, (October 19, 2008), interview with Carina Baskett.
Science
and Society podcast, (July 30, 2006), interview with David Lemberg.
Conferences
organized:
(with
Ann Johnson) Instruments in
Manufacturing workshop (
(with Sarah Kaplan)
Joint Wharton-CHF Symposium on Social Studies of Nanotechnology (Philadelphia,
Penna.: Wharton School and Chemical Heritage Foundation, June 7-8, 2007) [referenced
in Ivan Amato,
“Pacing Nanotechnology,” Chemical &
Engineering News 85.28 (July 9, 2007): 3].
(with
Chi Chan and Arthur Daemmrich) Third Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day and
Schlinger Symposium (
(with
Maria Alvarez and Arthur Daemmrich) Second Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day and
Schlinger Symposium (
Nano
Before There Was Nano: Historical Perspectives on the Constituent Communities
of Nanotechnology (
The
Significance of Noise (
Invited
single-speaker talks:
“Interdisciplinarity
and Vietnam-Era Protest at Stanford” (
“The Long Arm of
Moore’s Law: The Microelectronics Industry and Nanotechnology” (
“Between Success and Scandal: Visionary Scientists and
Molecular Electronics” (
“Institutions
as Stepping Stones: Rick Smalley and the Commercialization of Nanotubes” (
“Conferences and the Development of Nanotechnology: Two Case
Studies” (
“The Long Arm of Moore’s Law” (
“Molecular Electronics in the Longue Durée” (
“Constituent Communities and the Creation of Nanotechnology”
(
“Commercializing Probe Microscopy” (
“Universities, Corporations, and Instruments:
Commercializing Probe Microscopy” (
“Instrumental Communities and the Commercialization of
Knowledge” (
“On Becoming a Nanoscientist: Shifting Identities in the
Probe Microscopy Community” (
“On Becoming a Nanoscientist: Shifting Identities in the
Probe Microscopy Community” (
“From Replication to Routinization: Putting Probe Microscopy
to Work” (
“On Becoming a Nanoscientist: Shifting Identities in the
Probe Microscopy Community” (
“What
Does an Existence Proof Prove?: Surface Science and the Topografiner” (
“Scanned
Probes and Surface Science: Crafting Communities and Instruments in the ‘80s
and ‘90s” (
“Pilgrimage
to
“Failed
(Auto)Revolution: Ideology, Invention, and the Autogiro” (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
Science Studies Reading Group, March 28, 1998).
Invited
workshop talks/papers:
With
Andrew J. Nelson, “‘A Towering Virtue of Necessity’: Computer Music at
Vietnam-Era Stanford,” (
“An
Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal” (Princeton: Groovy
Science – The Countercultures and Scientific Life, 1955-1975, February 4-5,
2011).
“The
Political Economy of the Knowledge Economy: Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era
Stanford” (
“Fifty Years of
Nanotechnology” (
“Conversions: Sound to
Picture, Military to Civilian” (
“Some Early Historical Observations on the Commercialization
of Nanotubes” (
With Michael Lynch (Lynch presenting), “From Dr. Goring to
Nanotechnology: Test Objects as Reflexive Instruments” (
“Conferences, Institutions, and Nanotechnology” (
With Hyungsub Choi (Mody and Choi presenting), “Molecular
Electronics in the Longue Durée: The Microelectronics Origins of
Nanotechnology” (
With Hyungsub Choi (Mody presenting), “Molecular
Electronics and the Microelectronics Origins of Nanotechnology,” (
“Building a Probe Microscopy Community” (
“Some Thoughts on Why History Matters in Understanding the
Social Issues of Nanotechnology and Other Converging Technologies” (
“Commercializing Probe Microscopy” (
“Probe
Microscopists at Work and at Play: The Growth of American STM in the 1980s” (
Other
Presentations:
“What Happens When an Emerging Technology Never Quite
Emerges? Josephson Computing in the ‘70s and ‘80s,” (
“The Josephson Junction at IBM, 1968-1983,” (
“Choosing Paths for Research at Vietnam-Era Stanford,” (
Panel participant, “Leo Marx Meets Some New Readers,” (
Panel participant, “The Feynman Legacy,” (
“From Microscience to Nanotechnology, 1970-2000,” (Society
for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, August 26, 2010).
“Fifty Years of Nanotechnology,” (Palo Alto, CA: President’s
Council of Advisers on Science and Technology NNI Review, panel on
environmental, ethical, societal, and legal concerns, February 18, 2010).
“Context in the Classroom: Co-Teaching Our Way to Societal
Dimensions of Nano,” (
“Conversions: Sound to
Picture, Military to Civilian” (
With Sonali Shah (Shah presenting), “Innovation, Social
Structure and the Creation of New Industries: User Communities as Paths from
Innovation to Industry” (
“Institutions as Stepping Stones: Rick Smalley and the
Commercialization of Nanotubes” (
“Crazy or
Brilliant or … ?: Molecular Electronics and the Interpretive Flexibility of
Personality,” (
“Conferences, Community, and Nanotechnology: From Birth to
Rebirth” (
With Michael Lynch (Mody presenting), “Test Objects and the
Materials of Community” (
“Nanotechnology and the
“Instrumental Communities and the Commercialization of
Knowledge” (
“The History of the AFM” (
“Intervening Technology, Representing Technique: Probe
Microscopy and the Art of the Nanoworld” (
“Studying from the Middle: Following Mediators into the
Laboratory” (
“Builders, Runners, Users: Adaptations to Commercialization
in the Probe Microscopy Community” (
“Probe Microscopists at Work and Play: The Growth of
American STM and AFM in the 1980s” (
“From the Topografiner to the STM to the AFM: What Probe
Microscopy Can Tell Us about Nanoscience Instrumentation” (
“Pedagogy and Probe Microscopy: Building Instruments and
Instrumentalists” (
“The
Microscopist’s Apprentice: Managing Diversity in Scanning Probe Microscopy” (
“Instruments
of/and Noise: Hearing and Laboratory Practice” (
“Tending
and Attending: Using, Reading, and Listening to Laboratory Artifacts” (
“Cleanliness
is next to . . . ? Purity and Epistemology among Materials Scientists” (San
Diego: Society for Social Studies of Science conference, October 30, 1999).
“Jakobson's
Deep Impact: A Jakobsonian Reading of the Alvarez Extinction Paper” (Cambridge,
Mass.: Conference on The Problem of Evidence, Center for Literary and Cultural
Studies, Harvard University, May 14, 1999).
Rice
and Houston-area presentations:
With Kevin Kelly, “Technological Disasters: Learning from
the Past to Prepare for Tomorrow” (
With Kevin Kelly, “Technological Disasters” (
“Interdisciplinarity and Vietnam-Era Protest at Stanford” (
“Microscience/technology and Vietnam-Era Protest at
Stanford” (
With Sonali Shah (Shah presenting), “Innovation, Social
Structure and the Creation of New Industries: User Communities as Paths from
Innovation to Industry,” (
“Institutions as Stepping Stones: Rick Smalley and the
Commercialization of Nanotubes” (
“Building an Engineering Profession,” (
“On the Origin of
Theses: Locating
“Charles Darwin,” (
“Molecular Electronics in the Longue Durée:
Microelectronics, Futurism, and Nanotechnology” (
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updated February 6, 2012
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