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We asked our core faculty to nominate a few classic STS texts that they'd love to see a major read before they graduate. Think of this as the staff picks shelf at your favorite bookstore.

Alex Blanchette, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
	Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era by Melinda Cooper (University of Washington Press, 2008)
	Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway (Routledge, 1990)
	The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
	The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice by Annemarie Mol (Duke University Press, 2003)
	Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison (Zone Books, 2007)
Ricky Crano, Lecturer, English
	Technics and Time 1-3 by Bernard Stiegler (Stanford University Press, 1998/2008/2010)
	Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media by Wendy Chunn (The MIT Press, 2016)
Moon Duchin, Associate Professor, Mathematics
	The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) by Ian Hacking (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
	Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin (Princeton University Press, 2017 [1985])
Sam Weiss Evans, Research Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
	Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences by Geoff C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (The MIT Press, 2000)
	Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Patrick Forber, Associate Professor, Philosophy
	The Dynamics of Reason by Michael Friedman (CSLI Publications, 2001)
	Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (Princeton University Press, 1986)
	Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality by Helen E. Longino (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Jess Keiser, Assistant Professor, English
	Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image by Joseph Rouse (The University of Chicago Press, 2015)
	Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin (Princeton University Press, 2017 [1985])
Sheldon Krimsky, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
	The Logic of Scientific Discovery By Karl Popper (Routledge, 2002 [1959])
	Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology By Evelyn Fox Keller (Columbia University Press, 1995)
	The Social Construction of What? By Ian Hacking (Harvard University Press, 2000)
Keren Ladin, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy and Community Health
	Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure by Charles Bosk (The University of Chicago Press, 2003 [1979])
	Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich (Marion Boyars Publishers, 1999 [1976])
	The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin (Beacon Press, 2001 [1987])
Anne Mahoney, Senior Lecturer, Classics
	Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman (Dover Publications, 2001 [1940])
	The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow (Martino Fine Books, 2013 [1959])
Alecia McGregor, Assistant Professor, Community Health
	People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin (Stanford University Press, 2013)
	The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease By Jonathan M. Metzl (Beacon Press, 2010)
	Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Apartheid by Alondra Nelson (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
	The Social Transformation of American Medicine By Paul Starr (Basic Books, 1982)
Sarah Pinto, Professor, Anthropology
	The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh (Harper Perennial, 2001 [1996]
	The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss (W.W. Norton Company, 2000 [1923])
	Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies by Marilyn Strathern (Routledge, 1992)
Alisha Rankin, Associate Professor, History
	Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Zone Books, 1998)
Nick Seaver, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
	Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour (Harvard University Press, 1987)
	Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kimberly Tallbear (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
	Beamtimes and Lifetime: The World of High Energy Physicists by Sharon Traweek (Harvard University Press, 1992)
George Smith, Professor, Philosophy
	The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory by Pierre Duhem (Princeton University Press, 1991 [1954])
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (University of Chicago Press, 2012 [1962])
Jeffrey Taliaferro, Associate Professor, Political Science
	Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict by Vipin Narang (Princeton University Press, 2014)
	Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History by Thomas Rid (W. W. Norton & Company, 2016)
Rosemary Taylor, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Community Health
	Science and Public Reason By Sheila Jasanoff (Routledge-Earthscan, 2012)
	Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago By Eric Klinenberg (University of Chicago Press, 2015 [2002])
	An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets By Donald MacKenzie (MIT Press, 2006)
	The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 By Charles E. Rosenberg (University of Chicago Press, 1987 [1962])
Ben Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Biology
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (University of Chicago Press, 2012 [1962])
	Philosophy of Microbiology by Maureen A. O'Malley (Cambridge University Press, 2014)