University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Visit USC USC Dornsife HomepageAbout
About
|
Andrew LakoffAssociate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and CommunicationContact Information E-mail: lakoff@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-7029 Office: KAP 348 D LINKS Curriculum Vitae Research Cluster in Science, Technology and Society |
Education |
|
 B.A. History, University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|
Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
|
|
Postdoctoral Training |
|
|
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Anthropology, Harvard University, 2000-2002
|
|
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
|
Tenure Track Appointments |
|
|
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Communication, University of Southern California, 2009-
|
|
|
Associate Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2006-2009
|
|
|
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2002-2006
|
|
Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
|
|
Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, 2008-2009
|
|
Description of Research |
|
Summary Statement of Research Interests |
|
| Andrew Lakoff holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology and Communication. He was trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, and has conducted research in Argentina, France and the United States. His areas of interest include globalization processes, the history of the human sciences, and the implications of biomedical innovations. Lakoff’s first book, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2005), examines the role of the global circulation of pharmaceuticals in the spread of biological models of human behavior. He has also co-edited a book entitled Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practice (Duke, 2006), and has published articles on visual technology and the behavioral sciences, on the history of attention deficit disorder, on antidepressants and the placebo effect, and on forms of expertise in global health. Lakoff’s current research concerns the recent articulation of public health and security, and his most recent book publications are the co-edited volume, Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (Columbia University Press, 2008), and the edited volume Disaster and the Politics of Intervention (Columbia University Press, 2010). | |
Funded Research |
|
Contracts and Grants Awarded |
|
|
The Global Biopolitics of Security (National Science Foundation), Paul Rabinow, Andrew Lakoff, Stephen Collier, $288,000, 2006-2007
|
|
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
|
|
Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), Codirector,http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/
|
|
|
USC Research Cluster in Science, Technology and Society, Director,http://college.usc.edu/sts
|
|
Publications |
|
Book |
|
|
Lakoff, Andrew (Ed.).
(2010).
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention. New York: Columbia University Press.
|
|
|
Lakoff, Andrew; Collier, Stephen J. (Ed.).
(2008).
Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. New York: Columbia University Press.
|
|
|
Petryna, Adriana; Lakoff, Andrew; Kleinman, Arthur (Ed.).
(2006).
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2005).
Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
|
|
Book Chapter |
|
|
Collier, S. J., Lakoff, A.
(2010).
Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise. IN: Handbook of Medical Sociology. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
|
|
|
Mallard, G., Lakoff, A.
(2010).
How Claims to Know the Future Are Used to Understand the Present: Techniques of Prospection in the Field of National Security. Social Knowledge in the Making University of Chicago Press.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A., Collier, S. J.
(2010).
Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness. Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Pu University of Minnesota Press.
|
|
|
Collier, S. J., Lakoff, A.
(2008).
The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How Critical Infrastructure Became a Security Problem. IN: The Politics of Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk and Securitization. New York: Routledge.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2007).
The Right Patients for the Drug: Pharmaceutical Circuits and the Codification of Illness. IN: Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2005).
The Private Life of Numbers: Database firms and the Government of Expertise in Argentina. IN: Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell.
|
|
Journal Article |
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2010).
Two Regimes of Global Health. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.
Vol. 1 (1), pp. 59-79.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A., Klinenberg, E.
(2010).
Of Risk and Pork: Urban Security and the Politics of Calculation. Theory and Society.
Vol. 39, pp. 503-525.
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2008).
The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared. Cultural Anthropology.
Vol. 23 (3)
|
|
|
Collier, S. J., Lakoff, A.
(2008).
Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Vol. 26 (1)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2007).
Preparing for the Next Emergency. Public Culture.
Vol. 19 (2)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2007).
The Right Patients for the Drug: Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Trials. BioSocieties.
Vol. 2 (1)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2005).
The Simulation of Madness: Buenos Aires, 1903. Critical Inquiry.
Vol. 31 (4)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2005).
Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA. Theory and Society.
Vol. 34 (1)
|
|
|
Collier, S. J., Lakoff, A., Rabinow, P.
(2004).
Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Anthropology Today.
Vol. 20 (5)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A., Collier, S. J.
(2004).
Ethics and the Anthropology of Modern Reason. Anthropological Theory.
Vol. 4 (4)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2004).
The Anxieties of Globalization: Antidepressant Sales and Economic Crisis in Argentina. Social Studies of Science.
Vol. 34 (2)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2003).
The Lacan Ward: Pharmacology and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires. Social Analysis.
Vol. 47 (2)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(2000).
Adaptive Will: The Evolution of Attention Deficit Disorder. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.
Vol. 36 (2)
|
|
|
Lakoff, A.
(1996).
Freezing Time: Margaret Mead's Diagnostic Photography. Visual Anthropology.
Vol. 12 (1)
|
|
| Faculty may update their profile by visiting https://mydornsife.usc.edu. | |