Anthropology Visiting Faculty

Hélène Mialet
Anthropology
119 Kroeber Hall
mialet@berkeley.edu

Hélène Mialet is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She has held positions in the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and at Oxford University and post-doctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Her interests are in sociology, history and anthropology of science, continental philosophy and philosophy of science. Themes of interest include: cognition, innovation, discovery and creativity in science and industry, and the sociology of technology and techniques, subjectivity, self-fashioning, relations between humans and machines, disability studies, leadership and organizations. She has just completed a book entitled L’Entreprise Créatrice, an ethnographic study of practices and processes of invention in an applied research laboratory in a multinational corporation; it is forthcoming with Hermes-Lavoisier. She is also currently finishing a book on Stephen Hawking, entitled Hawking Incorporated, which is under contract with The University of Chicago Press.

 

 

Books:

Hawking Incorporated (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
L’Entreprise Créatrice: le rôle des récits, des objets et de l’acteur dans l’invention (Paris: Hermès-Lavoisier, 2008)
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Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
“Do Angels Have Bodies: Two Stories About Subjectivity in Science, The Cases of William X and Mr. H,” in E. Selinger and R. P. Crease (eds), The Philosophy of Expertise (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006): 246-279.
“The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre Bourdieu,” Essay Review of Pierre Bourdieu’s Science de la science et réflexivité, Social Studies of Science 33/4 (2003): 613-621.
“Reading Hawking’s Presence: An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man,” Critical Inquiry 29/4 (Summer, 2003): 571-598.
“Is the End in Sight for the Lucasian Chair? Stephen Hawking as Millenium Professor,” in K. Knox and R. Noakes (eds), From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorships of Mathematics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 425-459.
“We Have Always Been Mixed Up: Aristotle at the Heart of the Composite Age,” Essay Review of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent’s Eloge du mixte: Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32/1 (2001): 193-202.
“A Propos d'Invention: Reconfiguration d'un Sujet Philosophique Saisi dans ses Pratiques?” Rue Descartes, Official Journal of The Collège International de Philosophie, Special Issue: “Rationalités de la Science” 31 (Paris: PUF, Mars 2001): 87-103.

“Do Angels Have Bodies? Two Stories about Subjectivity in Science: The Cases of
William X and Mister H,” Social Studies of Science, 29/4 (1999): 551-581.

“Les Pratiques de l'Invention,” in Robert Prost (ed), Concevoir, Créer, Inventer (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995), 283-300.

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