
Rebecca Slayton, PhD
Affiliated FacultyProgram in Science, Technology and Society
450 Serra Mall, Building 370
Stanford, CA 94305-2120
Research Interests
Cold War; missile defense; nuclear weapons; defense policy; ethics;
Rebecca Slayton's Curriculum Vitae (114.2KB, modified September 2008)
Rebecca Slayton is a lecturer in the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University and a CISAC affiliate. In 2004-2005 she was a CISAC science fellow. Her research examines how technical judgments are generated, taken up, and given significance in international security contexts. She is currently working on a book which uses the history of the U.S. ballistic missile defense program to study the relationships between and among technology, expertise, and the media. Portions of this work have been published in journals such as History and Technology and have been presented at academic conferences. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2004 she completed an NSF-funded project entitled Public Science: Discourse about the Strategic Defense Initiative, 1983-1988.
As a physical chemist, she developed ultrafast laser experiments in condensed matter systems and published several articles in physics journals. She also received the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship in 2000, and has worked as a science journalist for a daily paper and for Physical Review Focus. She earned her doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University in 2002.
Other affiliations
Program in Science, Technology and Society
Events & Presentations
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- Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
February 12, 2009 Social Science Seminar
Kelly Moore, Rebecca Slayton
paper available - Military Biodefense: A Casualty of Kinetic Warfare?
April 17, 2008 Social Science Seminar
Frank Smith, Rebecca Slayton - Showing off the Soviet State: How Public Representations of Nuclear Technologies Constructed Ideal Citizens
June 7, 2007 Social Science Seminar
Sonja Schmid, Rebecca Slayton - 2006-2007 CISAC Fellows Forum
May 16, 2007 Special Event
Scott D. Sagan, David S. Patel, Jacob N. Shapiro, Rebecca Slayton - Calculatated Risks? Computing and the Problem of Missile Defense, 1957--Today
May 31, 2005 Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Rebecca Slayton

