Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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David Alan Grier
Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs
Office: 1957 E Street, NW Suite 403
Phone: (202) 994-7292
Fax: (202) 994-1639
E-mail: grier@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington
Expertise:
Globalization and international standardization, scientific institutions, history of science
Background:
David Alan Grier teaches the cornerstone course in the International Science & Technology Policy Program. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published extensively on the development of computation and the institutions that support computation in publications ranging from the American Mathematical Monthly to The Washington Post. He has been the Joseph Henry Lecturer at the Washington Philosophical Society. He currently writes the column and blog "The Known World" for IEEE Computer and has served as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Selected Publications:
- Too Soon to Tell (2009, John Wiley)
- When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press, 2005)