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Paul N. Edwards Associate Professor
BA, Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
(734) 764-2617
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E-mail: pne@umich.edu
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SI Ph.D. students currently advised:
Paul N. Edwards is an associate professor in the School of Information. In 2000, he founded the U-M Science, Technology & Society Program, serving as director from 2000-03 and 2005-06.
Before joining SI in January 1999, Edwards was senior research scholar and lecturer in the Program in Science, Technology and Society and in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.
In 2003, Edwards was named a Carnegie Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. The awards allowed him to spend a year in South Africa on a research project entitled "The Technopolitics of Information Infrastructure in South Africa: Apartheid, Regime Change, and Legitimate Sovereignty."
His areas of expertise are the history, politics, and cultural aspects of:
- Computers, networks, and information infrastructures
- Computer models of climate and Earth systems
- Global data networks
Edwards is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. In addition, he is the author of one book, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996), and co-editor of two others: Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001). He is presently completing a second monograph, tentatively titled "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics," expected to appear in 2007 with MIT Press.
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