Chandra Mukerji

Professor Mukerji received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is a professor in the Commmunications Department at UCSD and affiliated with both the Science Studies program and Critical Gender Studies. Her research is primarily concerned with the material aspects of human cultures and communication processes -- from built environments to popular cultural artifacts. She has studied garden history and military history, particularly in 17th-century France, as ways to understand engineering and state power. She has studied the culture of childhood, and the history of American film to try to make better sense of how categories and material life are connected (or not) through multiple cultural genealogies. She is also using theories of distributed cognition to connect the material world to cultural patterns of thought.

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