ALEX WELLERSTEIN
Program in Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Letters
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
Office: (201) 216-8534 | E-mail: awellers@stevens.edu
Employment
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2014–)
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Letters (2021-present)
Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies (2020-present).
Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters, 2014-2021
David and GG Farber Fellow in Science and Technology Studies (2017-2020)
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.
Click here for Alex Wellerstein’s full Curriculum Vitae (last updated December 2022).