My research interests center on the interplay of the academic disciplines (especially the social sciences) with political thought and political culture in the United States. I am currently working on a pair of book manuscripts, entitled 'To make America Scientific: Science, Democracy, and the University Before the Cold War' (under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press) and 'Against the Technostructure: Critics of Scientism Since the New Deal.'

Selected Publications

• "Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons," in Universities in Translation: The Mental Labor of Globalization, ed. Brett de Bary (2009)
• "Science and the Promise of Democracy in America" in Daedalus (2003)

 

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Robinson Hall

Room 216

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

ajewett@fas.harvard.edu

617.496.0882

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Intellectual History at Harvard