PINCH, Trevor (John)

PINCH, Trevor (John). British (born Ireland), b. 1952. Genres: Music, Sciences, Technology. Career: University of Bath, England, research officer in humanities and social sciences, 1975-77, research fellow, 1980-82; University of York, England, lecturer in sociology, 1983-90, assistant director of Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 1987-90; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, associate professor of science and technology, 1990-94. University of Twente, visiting research fellow, 1982-83; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Mullins Distinguished Lecturer, 1991; Cambridge University, visiting scholar, 1994-95. Publications: (with H.M. Collins) Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, 1982; Confronting Nature: The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection, 1986; (with M. Ash- more and M. Mulkay) Health and Efficiency: A Sociology of Health Economics, 1989; (with H.M. Collins) The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science, 1994; (with C. Clark) The Hard Sell, 1995; (with H.M. Collins) The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology, 2002; (with F. Trocco) Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, 2002. EDITOR: (with T.P. Hughes and W.E. Bijker) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, 1987; (with D. Gooding and S. Schaffer) The Uses of Experiment, 1989; (with J. Hutton, S. Hutton, and A. Shiell, and contrib.) Dependency to Enterprise, 1991; (with S. Jasanoff, G. Markle, and J. Petersen) The STS Handbook, 1994. Address: Department of Science and Technology Studies, 632 Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]