SUSANNAH GLICKMAN 

Assistant Professor (Columbia University; August 2023)

Curriculum vitae

Office: N-329

Email: susannah.glickman@stonybrook.edu 

Interests:  Computing, Political Economy, 20th century US and the World, Histories of Science

My research and teaching focus on the history and political economy of computation and information through the transformations in global American science that occurred at the end of the Cold War. I also write about risk and uncertainty in other fields (for example, in the history of economics). My current book project examines the infrastructures which make ever-improving semiconductors and quantum technologies possible historically, with particular attention to how ideology and other kinds of narratives get translated into policy and granular practices, and how reciprocally those material practices get translated back into ideology. I have a background in mathematics and anthropology and work between the fields of science and technology studies and history, mixing archival and oral history methods. Specifically, I am broadly interested in how institutions deal with the category of the future and the origins of the category “tech.”

Publications:

"AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization", AI Now, (March 2024)

"Corporate Capture in California", The American Prospect (September 2023)

"Semi-Politics: Intel and the future of US chipmaking," Phenomenal World (June 2023).

"The History of Technoscientific Promises and the Promises of Technoscientific History," European Association for the Study of Science & Technology, 41:2 (October 2022).

"The Gulf States' Tech Play," The American Prospect (March 2022).