Authors

Brendan Hart

 

PhD candidate in sociomedical sciences at Columbia University in New York. He holds a B.A. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Michigan and an M.Phil and an M.A. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University. He is currently writing his dissertation based on two years of ethnographic research on autism activism and expertise in Morocco. His recent publications include “How parents of autistic children became ‘experts on their own children’: Notes towards a sociology of expertise” (with Gil Eyal, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 54, 3-17, 2010) and The autism matrix: The social origins of the autism epidemic (with Gil Eyal, Emine Onculer, Natasha Rossi, and Neta Oren, Polity Press, 2010). The Autism Matrix was awarded the 2012 Robert K. Merton book award by the Science, Knowledge and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.

ARTICLES BY Brendan Hart