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The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and...

The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and agrarian environments in India Chaudhuri, Ashawari. Genetically modified (GM) cotton, Bt cotton was introduced in India in...

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The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in...

The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States Kim, Clare Seungyoon. My dissertation illuminates the status of mathematical knowledge in...

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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States

Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States Laurence, Alison(Alison G.) Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the American popular imagination. Dinosaurs, in...

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Truffle crops and soil drugs : new fungal practices and epistemologies for...

Truffle crops and soil drugs : new fungal practices and epistemologies for the 21st century Oviatt, Peter Gibbs. Perigord truffles (Tuber melanosporum) have, over the past 200 years, become a...

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Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China

Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China Lin, Emily Xi. Caring for Star-Children: Autism, Families, and Ethics in Contemporary China studies the emergence and...

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The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting...

The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting light, Colloids, and microbes for art and heritage conservation in U.S. and Italian laboratories Kim, Grace,Ph....

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Transnational biopolitics and family-making in secrecy : an ethnography of...

Transnational biopolitics and family-making in secrecy : an ethnography of reproductive travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus Mutlu, Burcu,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This dissertation...

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The plantation network : Brazilian bioenergy science and sustainability in...

The plantation network : Brazilian bioenergy science and sustainability in the global South Labruto, Nicole Francesca Hayes This dissertation provides a multiscalar analysis of climate change solutions...

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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal &...

Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror Shapiro, Ryan Noah The rhetoric and apparatus of national security have...

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Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict...

Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America Burks, Marie Elizabeth Through the mode of conceptual history, this dissertation examines some of the...

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Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic...

Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic safety technology and policy Blackburn, Renée Marie Modern U.S. traffic safety policy is largely guided by three...

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Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic...

Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic safety technology and policy Blackburn, Renée Marie Modern U.S. traffic safety policy is largely guided by three...

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Making a digital working class : Uber drivers in Boston, 2016-2017

Making a digital working class : Uber drivers in Boston, 2016-2017 Robinson, H. C. (Hillary C.) Pocket computers, called "smartphones," have become a part of everyday life over the past decade. Most...

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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in...

The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912 Shmuely, Shira Dina This dissertation examines the mutually reinforcing connections between science and...

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Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation

Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation Johnson, Amanda This dissertation investigates Twitter parody accounts as a form of social critique and linguistic play across...

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Sparking controversy : the contested use of noninvasive brain stimulation

Sparking controversy : the contested use of noninvasive brain stimulation Wexler, Anna (Anna M.) My dissertation examines the controversy over transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a...

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Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America

Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America Martello, Robert, 1968- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society,...

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Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa'

Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa' Edoh, Amah Melissa This dissertation examines how Africa's place in the world is negotiated in different forms of material engagement...

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Platformizing higher education : computer science and the making of MOOC...

Platformizing higher education : computer science and the making of MOOC infrastructures Kelkar, Shreeharsh This dissertation investigates the role of software in institutional transformation using the...

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Algorithmic detectives against child trafficking : data, entrapment, and the...

Algorithmic detectives against child trafficking : data, entrapment, and the new global policing network Thakor, Mitali Nitish My dissertation explores how "anti-trafficking" has emerged as a global...

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