Funded Researchers
Kate Brown
- Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science
- Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Kate Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT. She is the author of several prize-winning histories, including Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Her latest book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, won the Marshall Shulman and Reginald Zelnik Prizes for best book in East European History and the Silver Medal for Laura Shannon Book Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushkin House Award, and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage.
J-WAFS-funded projects
News
- J-WAFS PI leads immersive course in sustainability practices in Barcelona
- J-WAFS PI argues governments should pave the way for urban farming
- J-WAFS PI Kate Brown releases book on the history of urban farming
- J-WAFS PI connects students to agriculture through urban farming
- MIT Anthropology publishes a video featuring two J-WAFS PIs
- J-WAFS awards seed grants to seven MIT projects in water and food