Contributors
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Doug Davis is a Marion L. Brittain Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently working toward the completion of his Ph.D. in the literary and cultural theory program at Carnegie Mellon University. His article in this issue is a part of his dissertation, A Strategic Fiction: Science, Culture, and the American Narrative of Nuclear Defense.
Sven Dierig is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Trained as a biologist, he is now a member of a Max Planck research group "The Experimentalization of Life-Configurations between Science, Art, and Technology." Dierig teaches at the Technical University and the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is co-editor of a forthcoming issue of Osiris on the theme of "Science and the City" (vol. 18) and has published several articles on the history of physiology and technology. He is currently preparing a book length study on experimental physiology in nineteenth-century Germany.
Walter J. Freeman is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught brain science for more than forty years. He is the author of more than 300 articles and four books, Mass Action in the Nervous System (1975), Societies of Brains (1995), Neurodynamics: An Exploration of Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics (2000), and How Brains Make Up Their Minds (2001).
Jennifer Ruth Hosek is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches courses on literature and brain science. Her research interests include: feminist and postcolonial analysis of East and West German literature and culture, and the study of the intersections between literature and science. Her article, "Dancing the [End Page 545] (Un)State(d): Kerstin Hensel's Tanz am Kanal," is forthcoming in a monograph on Hensel.
Andreas Kitzmann is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Culture and Communication at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research interests include the impact of communications technology on the construction and practice of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions. He is currently writing a book concerning the autobiographical uses of media technology ranging from hand written diaries to web-cams.
Robert N. Proctor is Distinguished Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University and the author of, most recently, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton, 1999), which won the Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association. His research interests coalesce around the political history and philosophy of science and science-based medicine; he has also written on environmental policy, human origins, molecular anthropology, racial foolishness, tobacco and other carcinogens, and the "social construction of ignorance." He has held positions as Senior Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1994), and as Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (1999-2000). He is Co-Director of the Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Initiative at PSU, and is working on a book on "The Mystery of the Acheulean," a book on Darwinism, and a book on agateering. [End Page 546]
