Dr. Hugh Gusterson

Biography

Hugh Gusterson, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991). He has a joint appointment with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and his prior academic roles include positions at 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 active on the executive boards of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Social Studies of Science. His research interests encompass topics such as militarism, anthropology of science, neoliberalism, ethics, counterinsurgency, securitization, nuclear policy, drones, polygraphs, and drug policy. He has authored several books, including ‘Nuclear Rites’ and ‘People Bomb.’ In addition to his academic writing, he is known for his contributions to popular media, with articles featured in major outlets like the Washington Post and Nature. Gusterson's research has received funding from prestigious organizations such as the Guggenheim Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation, and he has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

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