Alex Wellerstein is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Science and Technology Studies program at the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
He received a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2010. He previously received a BA (High Honors) in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. Prior to starting his professorship at Stevens in 2014, he taught at Harvard, MIT, and Georgetown University.
He was the Edward Teller Graduate Fellow in Science and Security Studies for the Office of History and Heritage Resources at the U.S. Department of Energy (2007-2008), and postdoctoral fellow at the Managing the Atom Project and the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
From 2011-2014, he was Associate Historian (a postdoctoral position) at the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics, in College Park, Maryland.
For a full curriculum vitae (CV), click here.
Wellerstein grew up in the city of Stockton, California. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Boston Metro area, Washington, DC, and is now a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the greater New York City Metro area. He is married to Ellen Bales, an upper-school history teacher at an independent school in New York City. Their dog is named Lyndon.
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