Charles Thorpe, Associate Professor
Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego (Sociology), 2001

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Social Theory

Email Address:  cthorpe@ucsd.edu

Phone number:    858-534-0953
Office location:  497 Social Science Building

Personal Web Address: http://dss.ucsd.edu/~cthorpe/

Office Hours

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Winter 2008

SocG 288 - Knowledge of Capitalism
SocC168T - Sociology of Technology

Spring 2008
SocC 167 - Science and War

Book:
Thorpe, Charles Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. University of Chicago Press. 2006.

Through a sociological biography of atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, this book examines the transformation of the social and political role of American scientists during World War Two and the Cold War.

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