I study psychiatric epidemiological technologies: the methodological and technological practices through which mental illness is defined by symptoms/behavior, associated/contributing factors, and prevalence.

Today they are made possible by networked computing and large-scale data structures.

Psychiatric epidemiological technologies are central to important shifts in the way that psychiatric drugs have been sold, interacting with macro-economic trends, psychopharmaceutical policy, and market strategy.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE
university of california, los angeles PhD ± 2010

• history of technology
• cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine
• global political economies since c. 1945
• theories and practices of epidemiology
• information technologies in historical perspective
• further interests: privacy models + metadata, social media, general science, cloud computing, online community + collaboration

 

POLITICAL ECONOMY
york university PhD studies + MA 2004


• Economic history
• Global capital(isms)
• thesis: rural credit markets and socioeconomic change in late imperial china and early modern england

 

SOCIAL + POLITICAL THEORY
university of victoria BA (hons.) 2002


• thesis: hegemony in america? equality and intellectuals in the thought of alexis de tocqueville and antonio gramsci

• Joel Braslow Associate Professor in Residence, Department of History; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
• Sharon Traweek Associate Professor, Department of History; Department of Womens Studies

• Robert Brenner Professor, Department of History; Director, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
• Leonard Kleinrock Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Michael Gitlin Director, Adult Psychiatry, Outpatient Mood Disorders Program; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

• Theodore Porter Professor, Department of History
• Stuart Schweitzer Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health
• Jonathan Nitzan Associate Professor, York University (Toronto) Department of Politics

I am a Teaching Associate for the UCLA Department of History. Experience includes:

• hist2d Science, Magic, and Religion:
  1600 to the Present
• hist2b Social Knowledge and Social Power
• hist20 World History to A.D. 600
• hist3b History of Science:
  From Newton to Darwin
• hist3c The History of Medicine
• hist1c Introduction to Western Civilization,
  c. 1715-Present
• pols1000 Introduction to Politics
  (York University)

• Department of Neurobiology non-resident tuition scholarship
• UCLA Department of History fellowship
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Graduate Scholarship (Canada)
• York University Entrance Scholarship (Canada)
• China-Canada Scholars Exchange Program fellowship at Beijing University (Canada, The People's Republic of China)
• Taiwan Ministry of Education Mandarin Enrichment Fellowship (Taiwan)