ALEX WELLERSTEIN
Program in Science and Technology Studies
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
E-mail: awellers@stevens.edu
Employment
SCIENCES PO, PARIS (2025-2026)
Center for International Studies (CERI)
-Visiting Researcher.
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2014–)
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
-Associate Professor with tenure (2021-present).
-Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies (2020-2024).
-David and GG Farber Fellow in Science and Technology Studies (2017-2020)
-Assistant Professor (2014-2021).
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (2011–2014)
Associate Historian, Center for History of Physics / Niels Bohr Library & Archives.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Spring 2014)
Lecturer, Department of History.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Spring 2011)
Lecturer, Department of the History of Science.
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT (2010-2011)
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Education
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (2004-2010)
Ph.D., History of Science.
Dissertation: Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939-2008.
Committee: Peter Galison, Sheila Jasanoff, Mario Biagioli, David Kaiser (MIT).
Language qualifications: German, Russian.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (1999-2002)
B.A., High Honors, History (emphasis in History of Science).
Bachelor’s thesis: Compulsory Sterilization in California, 1909-1950. Spring 2002.
Honors thesis: Berkeley and the Bomb: Discourse, Nuclear Weapons, and the University of California. Fall 2002.
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award, Stevens Institute of Technology (2025) (Chosen by students)
Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize, History of Science Society (2022)
Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence, Stevens Institute of Technology (2022)
David & G.G. Farber Faculty Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology (2017-2019)
Stevens Institute of Technology Employee Excellence Award for “Strengthened Reputation, Increased Prestige” (2018-2019)
Finalist, National Science Foundation “Vizzies” Award for Data Visualization (2014)
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