Program in Science, Technology and Society

Kristen Iemma is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She earned her PhD in American Studies with a certificate in STS at Brown University. She also holds an MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and an MS in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. Her research addresses twentieth and twenty-first century state record keeping practices in the U.S. and contends with questions of epistemology, representation, empire, and historiography. She has worked as an archivist at a number of museums and cultural institutions.