Prof Hallam Stevens ~ Associate Dean, Research
College of Arts, Society & Education
- About
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- Teaching
- Interests
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- Research
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- history of life sciences
- history of information technology
- science, technology and society (STS)
- Teaching
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- history of science
- history of technology
- Experience
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- 2016 to 2022 - Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- 2017 - Visiting Scholar, Shenzhen University (Shenzhen, China)
- 2011 to 2016 - Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- 2014 - Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
- 2010 to 2011 - Lecturer, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Research Disciplines
- Socio-Economic Objectives
I am an historian of science and technology specializing in the history of the life sciences and the history of information technology. My first book, Life out of sequence: a data driven history of bioinformatics (Chicago, 2013), examined the transformational role of computers and databases in recent biology. I am also the author of Biotechnology and society: an introduction (Chicago, 2016) and the co-editor (with Sarah Richardson) of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome (Duke, 2015).
My work crosses between history and anthropology and more recently I have written about the political and social impacts of artificial intelligence, big data, and surveillance technologies, particularly in an Asian context. I am currently completing a book about the rise of the life sciences in China.
For more details about my current projects, interests, and publications see: http://hallamstevens.org
- Honours
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- Awards
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- 2022 - John A. Lent Prize (AAS)
- 2020 - "Stories of a Pandemic" Best commentary award (June)
- Publications
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These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.
- Journal Articles
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- Stevens H (2023) Code and Critique: Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu and the Politics of New Media. Osiris, 38 (1). pp. 245-264
- Stevens H and Ruperti Y (in press) Smart food: novel foods, food security, and the Smart Nation in Singapore. Food, Culture and Society,
- Addison C and Stevens H (2022) Crowdfunding Conservation Science: Tracing the Participatory Dynamics of Native Parrot Genome Sequencing. Science, Technology & Human Values, 47 (3). pp. 568-596
- Stevens H (2022) The business machine in biology: the commercialization of AI in the life science. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 44 (1). pp. 8-19
- Jasanoff S, McGonigle I and Stevens H (2021) Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore. East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 15 (1). pp. 68-78
- Ratan R, Earle K, Rosenthal S, Hua Chen V, Gambino A, Goggin G, Stevens H, Li B and Lee K (2021) The (digital) medium of mobility is the message: examining the influence of e-scooter mobile app perceptions on e-scooter use intent. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 3.
- Stevens H (2021) From RangKoM and JARING to the Internet: visions and practices of electronic networking in Malaysia, 1983–1996. Internet Histories, 5 (3-4). pp. 230-247
- Stevens H and Haines M (2020) Trace together: Pandemic response, democracy, and technology. East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 14 (3). pp. 523-532
- Stevens H (2019) Open data, closed government: Unpacking data.gov.sg. First Monday, 24 (4).
- Book Chapters
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- Stevens H (2023) Teleview and the aspirations of the infrastructural state in Singapore. In: Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI, USA, pp. 134-154
- Stevens H and Chan J (2022) Computing Nanyang: information technology in a developing Singapore, 1965-85. In: Abstractions and Embodiments New Histories of Computing and Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 299-319
- Stevens H (2020) Transfish: The multiple origins of transgenic salmon. In: Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in risk analysis and governance. Risk, Systems and Decisions. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 51-64
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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 25+ research outputs authored by Prof Hallam Stevens from 2016 onwards.
- Supervision
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Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.
These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.
- Current
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- Kelso Field Uprising: African-Americans in North Queensland 1942-1945. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Palliative Medicine Pioneers: A Window into the History and Development of Palliative Care in Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor)
- Contemporary Kalkatungu Art, Kuathuat the Rainbow Serpent and Relational Cultural Integrity (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Collaboration
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The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
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- Indicates the Tropics (Torrid Zone)
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