- Interests:
- Displacement, Relief Efforts, Interviews, Ethnography, Content Analysis, Crime, Policing, Media
- Discipline(s)
- Sociology
- Role(s):
- Researcher
- Location(s) of Work:
- New Orleans, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
Biography
- This
is the only job I have ever had, and I’ve been in the Department of
Sociology at Louisiana State University since 1982. Since 1987 I’ve
been the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Social Studies of
Science (please join us!)
My main interest has always been the sociology of science and
technology, although I took detours into other areas of the sociology
of culture (ritual disrobement at Mardi Gras and the role of critics in
high and popular art). I recently completed a decade long study of
multi-institutional collaborations in high energy physics, space
science, geophysics, astronomy, and allied disciplines. Yet my main
work since the early 1990s involves scientific communication networks,
in particular the role of the Internet in Africa and Asian science (see
the Globalization of Science website)
I focus mainly on Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, and the southwestern
state in India known as Kerala. Together with a group of students and
faculty in the department, I’ve been working recently on digital video
methods for ethnographic research.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
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