Professor Dr. Hugh Gusterson

Biography

Hugh Gusterson is a Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, obtained in 1991. His academic career has included teaching at prestigious institutions such as MIT, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Gusterson has served as the past president of the American Ethnological Society and has been involved with the executive boards of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Social Studies of Science. His research interests focus on militarism, anthropology, science, neoliberalism, ethics, counterinsurgency, securitization, nuclear policy, drones, polygraphs, and drug policy. He has published numerous scholarly works, including influential books such as Nuclear Rites and Drone, which won the Roy Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. His articles have appeared in prominent media outlets and he writes a regular column for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Sapiens.

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