Hugh Gusterson

Hugh Gusterson is an anthropologist at George Mason University. His work focuses on nuclear culture, international security and the anthropology of science. His articles have appeared in American Scientist. He is a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Biography

Hugh Gusterson grew up in England. He has a B.A. in history from Cambridge University, a Master's degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (as a Thouron Scholar), and a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University. He taught at MIT from 1992-2006 before moving to George Mason University. One of the founders of the anthropology of science,^{[citation needed]} his early work was on the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. More recently he has written on counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]} A leading critic of attempts to recruit anthropologists for counterinsurgency work, he is one of the founders of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.^{[citation needed]}

He is married to Allison MacFarlane, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). They have two children.

Works

• Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, University of California Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-520-21373-9
• People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex, University of Minnesota Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8166-3860-4

Editor

• Why America's top pundits are wrong: anthropologists talk back, editors Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24356-9
• The insecure American: how we got here and what we should do about it, editors Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Lowe Besteman, University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25969-0
• Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, editors Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson, and Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
• The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing Anthropology, edited by Network of Concerned Anthropologists, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009

Chapters

• "Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory", Living with the bomb: American and Japanese cultural conflicts in the Nuclear Age, editors Laura Elizabeth Hein, Mark Selden,M.E. Sharpe, 1997, ISBN 978-1-56324-967-9
• "Nuclear Weapons Testing", Naked science: anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge, editor Laura Nader, Psychology Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-415-91465-9
• "Becoming a Weapons Scientist", Technoscientific imaginaries: conversations, profiles, and memoirs, editor George E. Marcus, University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 9780226504445
• "A Pedagogy of Diminishing Returns: Scientific Involution across Three Generations of Nuclear Weapons Science", Pedagogy and the practice of science: historical and contemporary perspectives, editor David Kaiser, MIT Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-262-11288-8
• "Missing the End of the Cold War in International Security", Cultures of insecurity: states, communities, and the production of danger, editor Jutta Weldes, U of Minnesota Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8166-3308-1