SUSANNAH GLICKMAN
Assistant Professor (on leave until Fall 2026) |
PhD, Columbia University, 2023 |
Office: Social Behavioral Sciences - Level 3 Room N - 329 |
Read Dr. Susannah Glickman's CV |
Interests: Computing, Political Economy, 20th century US and the World, Histories of Science
Bio:
My research and teaching focus on the history and political economy of computation and information through the transformations in global American science that occurred at the end of the Cold War. I also write about risk and uncertainty in other fields (for example, in the history of economics). My current book project examines the infrastructures which make ever-improving semiconductors and quantum technologies possible historically, with particular attention to how ideology and other kinds of narratives get translated into policy and granular practices, and how reciprocally those material practices get translated back into ideology. I have a background in mathematics and anthropology and work between the fields of science and technology studies and history, mixing archival and oral history methods. Specifically, I am broadly interested in how institutions deal with the category of the future and the origins of the category “tech.”
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Select Works:
"Chips on the Table," The American Prospect (January 2025). Read the article.
"Runaway Short-termism: a conversation with Susannah Glickman and Nic Johnson ," The New York Review of Books (November 21, 2024).Read the article.
"The War Over Defense Tech ," The New York Review of Books (October 4, 2025). Read the article.
"AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization," AI Now (March 2024). Read the article.
"Corporate Capture in California," The American Prospect (September 2023). Read the article.
"Semi-Politics: Intel and the future of US chipmaking," Phenomenal World (June 2023). Read the article.
"The History of Technoscientific Promises and the Promises of Technoscientific History," European Association for the Study of Science & Technology, 41:2 (October 2022). Read the article.
"The Gulf States' Tech Play," The American Prospect (March 2022). Read the article.
In Conversation with Doug Pugliese, Novembermag.com (January 28, 2026). Read the interview transcript.
Behind the News: Best of 2025, Jacobin Radio podcast (January 2, 2026). Listen to the episode.
Behind the News: Trump's Militaristic Master Plan with Antol Lieven, Jacobin Radio podcast (December 15, 2025). Listen to the episode.
Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox with Susannah Glickman, The Lawfare Podcast (December 10, 2025). Listen to the episode.
Behind the News: Big-Tech War Profiteers with Susannah Glickman, Jacobin Radio podcast (October 27, 2025). Listen to the episode.
“Philosophy is too Important to be Left to the Philosophers": On Cold War Crises and Quantum Technologies, Institute for Advanced Study youtube channel (October 2024). Watch the video.