The Department of Science & Technology Studies (S&TS) at Cornell is concerned with understanding the larger ethical, social, and political dimensions of science-intensive issues. Science and technology are at the core of many of the most important concerns or topics of our day, from the control of military technology, to the ethics of assisted reproduction, to privacy on the Internet. The thread connecting these diverse issues is a shared understanding of science and technology as inherently social activities that are best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell is recognized internationally as a leader in the field. Its faculty has expertise in both historical and contemporary social studies of science and technology, and the department offers a variety of courses on the place of science and technology in the modern world.

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Marc Aidinoff

Postdoctoral Associate

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor

Publications

  • “Cicadas’ World: Headsets, Loudspeakers, and the Transformation of Auditory Culture in Modern China”(知了世界:耳機、喇叭與現代中國聽覺觀念的流轉》) in Dongjie Wang ed., New History (新史學), Vol. 17. (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2024).
  • “‘Feminine Frequencies’: Gender, Radio, and the Auditory Culture of Revolution in 1940s China” (《女性的頻率:性別、廣播與1940年代中國革命的聽覺文化》)Max Xiaobing Tang, Ling Kang, eds., Listening to Modern China (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2024). A substantially expanded version of the earlier publication under the same title.
  • “A Missionary’s Prescription for China to Search for Wealth: A Frequency Analysis of Certain Vocabularies in Timothy Richard’s Shishi Xinlun”(《一位傳教士給中國的求富藥方:李提摩太〈時事新論〉用詞頻率分析》), Christianity Studies (基督教學術)Vol. 16. (Shanghai: Sanlian shudian, 2023).
  • “A Tale of Two Eggs: A Medical History of Communist ‘Tongues and Mouthpieces’ ” (《從兩枚雞蛋說開去——關於喉舌的一段醫療史》)PolyU, Kaiwu: Science, Technology and Culture 2, 2023.
  • “Timothy Richard, Numbers, and Knowledge Qiao-Yi in the Late Qing Dynasty,” Journal for the Study of Christian Culture, Vol. 49, Eschatologie und Hoffnung (Spring 2023):  170-189.
  • “‘Feminine Frequencies’: Gender, Radio, and the Auditory Culture of Revolution in 1940s China”, Women’s History Today, 2022 (2).
  • “Listening to the Enemy: Radio Consumption and Technological Culture in Maoist China”, Twentieth-Century China 47, 2022 (2).
  • “India as Method: Timothy Richard, Min Ben, and the Reception of Colonial Discourses in Fin de Siècle China”, Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie 68, 2022(2). 
  • “Education Policies and Theories in Manchukuo”, in Jonathan Hernshaw, Craig A. Smith and Norman Smith, eds. Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2021).
  • “‘Feminine Frequencies’: Gender, Radio, and the Auditory Culture of Revolution in 1940s China” (《女性的頻率:性別、廣播與1940年代中國革命的聽覺文化》), Journal of Chinese Women’s Studies (婦女研究論叢), 2021(4).
  • “Revolution’s Polyphony: Radio Announcers and the Localization of Socialist Broadcasting Aesthetics”(革命的復調地方視野下的社會主義播音風格)Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art (文藝理論與批評), 2021(3).
  • Timothy Richard, Review of the Times (時事新論)Wang Yu. ed., (Guangzhou: Nanfang ribao chibanshe, 2021).
  • Second author with Ping-Chun Hsiung (first author), “Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962) Through Shunkouliu (顺口溜).” Qualitative Inquiry 25, no. 8 (October 2019): 811–21.
  • “The Structure of Knowledge in the Age of Imperialism: Timothy Richard and Lieguobiantong xingshengji” (帝國主義時代知識的構成:論李提摩太《列國變通興盛記》), Christianity Studies, (June 2018): 252-264.
  • Timothy Richard, The Histories of the Countries to Reach Strength and Prosperity Review of the Times (列國變通興盛記), Wang Yu, ed., (Guangzhou: Nanfang ribao chibanshe, 2018).
  • Jeffrey Pilcher (first author), Yu Wang, Jackson Guo, “‘Beer with Chinese Characteristics’: Marketing Beer Under Mao,” RAE 58, (May/June 2018): 303-315. 
  • “Let Xianglin’s Wife Speak: Revolution and Acoustic Practices of the Chinese Communist Party” (让祥林嫂说话:革命与共产党的声音实践), Chinese Language and Literature Research (汉语言文学研究) 9, (April 2018), 57-66.
  • “The Technology of Listening: Radio Set, Space, and Acoustic Modernity in  Shanghai, 1929-1932 (“的技术:收音机、空间与技术现代性(1929-1932), Literature and Culture 33, (Spring 2018): 41-52.
  •  “Textbooks, Gramophone and Radio in Republican Soundscape, 1912-1937,” (《民国声域里的课本、留声机与广播 1912-1937) Hot Wind: The Journal of Cultural Studies (热风:文化研究) 1, 2016: 46-57. 

Mary Gilliland

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Trystan Sterling Goetze

Director of the Sue and Harry E. Bovay Program

Alena Zhang

Graduate Student

Ashawari Chaudhuri

Lecturer

Seyma Tok

Ph.D. Candidate

Dan Hirschman

Associate Professor

Amanda Domingues

Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies, ELSO Writing and Presenting Tutor

Margarita Rayzberg

Postdoctoral Associate

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