Below is a reading list for this year’s Summer School, with specific readings associated with each session.
For legal reasons the STS Summer School cannot post copies of these readings online. Access instructions will be provided by the organizers.
General Readings
H. Simmet, S. Jasanoff and S. Hilgartner. Core STS Concepts Crib Sheet.
S. Jasanoff. In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium. Routledge, 2012, 261–89.
M. Callon. Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. The sociological review 32, no. 1_suppl (1984): 196-233.
Learning Session: STS Analytic Lexicon (Science, Power, and Politics)
L. Winner. Do Artifacts Have Politics? In The Whale and the Reactor, pp. 19-39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
S. Jasanoff. The Discontents of Truth and Trust in 21st Century America. Daedalus 151, 4 (2022): 25–42.
J.D. Moses, J. B Hurlbut, S. Jasanoff, and K. Saha. Introducing Perspectives from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing. The CRISPR Journal, 23 May 2025.
Learning Session: Academic Writing – Responsibility, Rigor, and Style
A. Sibarium. Harvard President Claudine Gay Hit With Six New Charges Of Plagiarism. Washington Free Beacon. January 1, 2024. https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-president-claudine-gay-hit-with-six-new-charges-of-plagiarism/
S. Jasanoff. “Morning Prayers, Appleton Chapel.” March 20, 2003.
M. Valverde. “How the academy negatively affects writing practice.” Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 76, no. RS (2025): 1-8.
Learning Session: Abstracts and Abstraction
S. Jasanoff. A New Climate for Society. Theory, Culture & Society, 27(2-3), 233-253.
1-2 sample abstracts, circulated day of.
Learning Session: Interpretive STS Analysis
W. Cronon. A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative. The Journal of American History 78, 4 (1992): 1347-1376.
L. Fleck. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University of Chicago Press, 1981. 38-51, 105-109.
M. Weber. “Objectivity” in social science and social policy.” The methodology of the social sciences (1949): 102-112.
