Justin Kehoe
Acquisitions Editor, Science, Technology, and Society; MIT & Regional Interest

Justin acquires books in STS (Science, Technology, and Society), sound studies, as well as regional and MIT related projects for the MIT Press. He is interested in theoretically and historically grounded works in the social sciences, particularly in history of science, history of technology, the sociology of science, the sociology of knowledge, critical data studies, material and knowledge infrastructure studies, labor studies, sound studies, and works at the intersection of culture and technology. He acquires projects for several series, including Acting with Technology, Engineering Studies, Global South Cosmologies and Epistemologies, History of Computing, Infrastructures, Inside Technology, Labor and Technology, Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation, and Transformations. He can be reached at jkehoe@mit.edu. He can also be found lurking on Bluesky @justinkehoe.bsky.social
Notable recent acquisitions:
Analog (Essential Knowledge) by Robert Hassan; Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood; Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly by Emily West; Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files edited by JPat Brown, B. C. D. Lipton, and Michael Morisy; Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums by Michael John Gorman; Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators by Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta; Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil by David Nemer, The SuperCollider Book, second edition edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle, and Nick Collin; The Secret Life of Data by Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert.
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