Hugh Gusterson

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Hugh Gusterson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, University of California, Berkeley, University of British Columbia, George Mason University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University

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#854

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#331

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PhD Anthropology Stanford University

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Areas of Specialization: Anthropology of Science
Hugh Gusterson is an anthropologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He formerly held the position of Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He earned a B.A. from University of Cambridge, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

His research has focused on the anthropology of science through the lens of international security and nuclear culture. He has been active in advocacy for the protection of the role of anthropologists as a founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. His initial research efforts focused on nuclear weapons culture and most recently has focused on counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as teenage alcohol consumption.

He has published numerous works, including Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, People of the Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex, and Drone Remote Control Warfare.

His articles have been featured in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Scientist, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Sapiens. He is currently the President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society and serves on the American Association of Anthropology’s Task Force on Engagement with Israel/Palestine.

He is currently conducting research under a National Science Foundation grant, investigating the ethnographic history of the polygraph, studying the practical application of polygraph tests.

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According to Wikipedia, Hugh Gusterson is an English anthropologist at the University of British Columbia and George Washington University. His work focuses on nuclear culture, international security and the anthropology of science. His articles have appeared in the LA Times, the Boston Globe, the Boston Review the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Foreign Policy, and American Scientist. He is a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has a regular column in Sapiens, an anthropology journal.

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Hugh Gusterson's Published Works

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Studying Up Revisited (1997) (288)
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War by Hugh Gusterson (1997) (254)
Cultures Of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (1999) (233)
From Brexit to Trump (2017) (123)
Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination (1999) (97)
Introduction: constructing insecurity (1999) (89)
Anthropology and Militarism (2007) (75)
Drone: Remote Control Warfare (2016) (66)
ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS SPIES (2005) (48)
EXPLODING ANTHROPOLOGY'S CANON IN THE WORLD OF THE BOMB (1993) (38)
People Of The Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex (2004) (36)
Homework: Toward a critical ethnography of the university (2017) (36)
Cultures of Insecurity (1999) (34)
Life by Algorithms (2019) (32)
NIF-Ty Exercise Machine (1995) (29)
Militarization: A Reader (2019) (27)
Militarization (2020) (25)
The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It (2009) (24)
Nuclear futures: anticipatory knowledge, expert judgment, and the lack that cannot be filled (2008) (22)
The virtual nuclear weapons laboratory in the New World Order. (2001) (22)
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years (2019) (21)
Anthropology and the military — 1968, 2003 and beyond? (2003) (19)
Cultures of Militarism (2019) (17)
How Not to Construct a Radioactive Waste Incinerator (2000) (17)
Can the Insurgent Speak (2013) (16)
Spies in Our Midst (2005) (15)
Paranoid, Potbellied Stalinist Gets Nuclear Weapons (2008) (12)
Nuclear Tourism (2004) (12)
Project Minerva and the Militarization of Anthropology (2009) (11)
Drone Warfare in Waziristan and the New Military Humanism (2019) (10)
Tall Tales and Deceptive Discourses (2001) (8)
The assault on Los Alamos National Laboratory: A drama in three acts (2011) (6)
THE ETHICS OF SPYING (2005) (6)
COMING OF AGE IN AWEAPONS LAB (1992) (6)
A Response to Matti Bunzl: Public Anthropology, Pragmatism, and Pundits (2008) (5)
ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND WAR (2007) (5)
EMPIRE OF BASES (2009) (4)
“Freedom Edition”: Considering Sony Pictures and The Interview (2016) (4)
Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: A response to the Las Vegas shooting (2017) (4)
An Education in Occupation (2012) (3)
Anthropologists on the front line (2008) (3)
Debate (2017) (2)
Social Containment of Disaster (2011) (2)
Narrating Abolition (2009) (2)
STS.011 American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices, Fall 2004 (2004) (2)
The McNamara Complex (2002) (2)
Where Are We Going? Engaging Dilemmas in Practicing Anthropology (2006) (2)
What’s in a Laptop? (2012) (2)
Inventing Annihilation (2006) (2)
2. The Seven Deadly Sins Of Samuel Huntington (2019) (2)
An Internet Experiment (1998) (2)
Taking the Next Step: Why We Should Continue Strengthening the AAA Ethics Code (2009) (2)
Dr. Strangelove Moves Mountains (2006) (1)
LAB CULTURE: Taking RRW personally (2007) (1)
A Nuclear Advocacy Dilemma (2017) (1)
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (review) (1998) (1)
Anthropology and the United States military: coming of age in the twenty-first century – Edited by Pamela R. Frese & Margaret C. Harrell (2006) (1)
Chapter 10. Toward an Anthropology of Drones (2018) (1)
Elites, Anthropology of (2001) (1)
Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body (2019) (1)
The McNamara complex : Civilization, vulnerability and translation: Reflections in the aftermathos September 11th (2001) (1)
Nuclear Orientalism (2019) (1)
Taking RRW personally (2007) (1)
Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment. LOUISE KRASNIEWICZ (1994) (1)
How Far Have We Traveled (2004) (1)
Physics: Quantum outsiders (2011) (1)
Re-Imagining Russian Nuclear Weapons Scientists (1998) (1)
COVID‐19 Darwinism (2020) (1)
Report to the executive board: The Task Force on AAA engagement on Israel-Palestine (2015) (1)
War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency (2019) (1)
REVEILLE FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS (2010) (0)
Militarism and Technology (2019) (0)
What They’re Reading (2014) (0)
Anthropology of War and Peace (PDF) (2004) (0)
12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency (2020) (0)
Skeletons in the Biomedical Closet (2012) (0)
AN HOUR WITH NOAM CHOMSKY (2002) (0)
The Second Nuclear Age 1 (2020) (0)
: Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text . Frances Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe. ; Giving the Body Its Due . Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. (1995) (0)
10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body (2020) (0)
FAKE: THE FIRST ANNUAL DEBATE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KEYWORDS (ADAK) (2016) (0)
Drugs, Politics, and Culture (PDF) (2005) (0)
Militarism and the Media (2019) (0)
Coming Soon to a Battlefield Near You (2009) (0)
Media and War Fall 2006 Thursdays 7:20 (2006) (0)
On the Origin of Specious Arguments (2009) (0)
Science and Technology In a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts:Science and Technology In a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. (1997) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Los Alamos: Summer under Siege (1999) (0)
1 Introduction (2006) (0)
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban’s remarkable futuristic novel about England after a nuclear holocaust. The strength of Canaday’s book lies in the encapsulated history of modern physics he presents to make his case for a connection between fic- (2001) (0)
While We Were Sleeping (2005) (0)
Presenting the Creation: Dean Acheson and the Rhetorical Legitimation of NATO (1999) (0)
Radiance: A Novel (2002) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
The rituals of science: Comments on Abir‐Am (with response) (1992) (0)
Studying Up: Four Modalities, Two Challenges (2021) (0)
York, Herbert Frank (24 Nov. 1921–19 May 2009), nuclear physicist (2020) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)

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