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Joseph P. Masco Office: Haskell 201 Phone: (773) 834-7807 Email Interests:

US National Security Culture, Science and Technology, Politics of Everyday Life in the Nuclear Age and in Post-Cold War America
Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College

University of California San Diego, PhD '99

Professor Masco is a scholar of technoscience, ecology, affect, and social theory, with a long-term focus on technological revolutions and their aftermaths in the United States after 1945. He explores how technological advancements, particularly within the framework of national security, have reshaped ecological conditions, public perceptions of risk and threat, and concepts of citizenship, race, and futurity.

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