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Dr. Nicholas Buchanan

Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies

Coordinator, Wissenschaft – Technologie – Gesellschaft / Science – Technology – Society

Dr. Nick Buchanan’s interests are animated by two broadly interrelated concerns: how do science and technology underpin ideologies of control and mastery, both of people and of the natural world; and how do contests over what knowledge is, and who counts as a legitimate knower, permeate the dynamics of political conflicts.

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Affiliations

  • 2024–2026: Member, Board of Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences Degree Program, University of Freiburg.
  • since 2021: Program Coordinator, Wissenschaft – Technologie – Gesellschaft / Science – Technology – Society Teaching Program, University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg.
  • 2016–2020: Affiliated Faculty, Program in the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
  • 2013–2016: Assistant Professor (visiting), Program in the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
  • 2010: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society.
  • 2009: Hetlage Doctoral Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL.
  • 2002: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. BA in Geography with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa.