Susan Silbey
Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
at time of fellowship
2014 to 2015
Silbey will employ ten years of ethnographic research to write a book that examines the growing tension between federal law and laboratory science. She finds that new federal lab regulations and audits, often implemented in the name of safety, threaten the autonomy of scientific practice and establish precedents for the legal surveillance of similar innovation-based professions.