CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, E204
Stanford, CA 94305-6165

lynneden@stanford.edu
(650) 725-5369 (voice)
(650) 724-5683 (fax)

Expertise
Cold War and nuclear history; organizational approaches to security

Lynn Eden is the Associate Director for Research and a Senior Research Scholar at CISAC. She taught in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Stanford. In the area of international security, she has written on U.S. foreign and military policy, arms control, organizational issues, and the social construction of science and technology. She co-edited, with Steven E. Miller, Nuclear Arguments: Understanding the Strategic Nuclear Arms and Arms Control Debates (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989). She is an editor of The Oxford Companion to American Military History (Oxford University Press, 2000), which takes a social and cultural perspective on war and peace in U.S. history. Eden's recent book, Whole World on Fire (Cornell University Press, 2004), examines how and why for the past half century the U.S. government has seriously underestimated the damage caused by nuclear weapons. It won the American Sociological Association's 2004 Robert K. Merton Award for best book in science, knowledge, and technology.

Eden received a PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan, and has held fellowships at CISAC as well as the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.