Updated: 21 February 2018 CURRICULUM VITAE: DONALD ANGUS MACKENZIE Born Inverness, Scotland British Citizen Degrees BSc Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, 1972 (First Class Honours; Newton Undergraduate Scholarship in Natural Philosophy; Napier Medal in Mathematics; Carnegie Scholarship) PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1978 Thesis: “The Development of Statistical Theory in Britain, 1865- 1925: A Historical and Sociological Perspective.” Supervisor: Barry Barnes. Posts Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, 1975-1988 Reader in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, 1988-1992 Professor of Sociology (personal chair), University of Edinburgh, 1992 - present Visiting Drapers’ Company Visiting Lecturer, Deakin University, positions Australia, August-December 1981 Lecturer in Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh, October 1983 - September 1984 Visiting Scholar (unpaid), Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT, September - December 1984 Chargé de Recherche Associé, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, July - August 1987 Visiting Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, July 1997 - January 1998 Freier Mitarbeiter, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin), July 2003 Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Durham, October-December 2008. Visiting Fellow, Max Po (Sciences Po, Paris), March 2014. 2 Professional Awards and Memberships Abbott Payson Usher Prize of Society for the History of Technology, 1986: for article 10 below. U.S. Navy Prize in Naval History, 1989: for article 17 below. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, 1992: for article 24 below. co-winner, Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association, 1993: for Inventing Accuracy (see below). Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, 1993: for Inventing Accuracy (see below). Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association, 2003: for Mechanizing Proof (see below). K. William Kapp Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, 2003: for article 53 below. Viviana A. Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association, 2005: for article 53 below. John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science and Institute for Scientific Information, 2005. Chancellor’s [i.e. Duke of Edinburgh’s] Award for Research, University of Edinburgh, 2006. British International Studies Association, International Political Economy Group Book Prize, 2007: for An Engine, not a Camera. Viviana A. Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association, 2008: for An Engine, not a Camera. Granovetter Award of the American Sociological Association, 2012, for the best article in economic sociology over the previous two years, for article 77 below. Clarendon Lecturer in Management Studies, University of Oxford, 2007. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2001, Fellow of the British Academy, 2004, and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011. Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association, 2015. Elected Honorary Fellow, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, 2017. Member of Editorial Advisory Boards of Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology, & Human Values; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Cultural Economy; Journal of 3 Sustainable Finance and Investment; Philosophy and Technology; Review of International Political Economy; NatureCulture; Valuation Studies; Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies; Risk Finance; Research in International Business and Finance and, formerly: Economy and Society; Technology and Culture; Sociology; History and Technology; Knowledge and Society; Research in Technology Studies; Social Intelligence; Capital and Class; and Comité de Lecture, Revue d’Histoire des Mathématiques. Member, Comité d’Orientation, Observatory for Responsible Innovation, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. UK Economic and Social Research Council: member of Society and Politics Research Development Group (1990-91); ad hoc committee on Science Policy Support Group (1990-91); commissioning panel of Virtual Society Initiative (1996-97); commissioning panel of World Economy and Finance Programme (2004-5). Society for the History of Technology: member, Usher Prize Committee (1987 and 1988); Chair, Usher Prize Committee (1989); Chair, Awards Committee (1990). Scientific Advisory Board, Sciences Po (2009-2014). ESRC Professorial Fellowships Panel (2012). Society for Social Studies of Science, Bernal Prize Committee (2013-14). Research Grants UK Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Documentary Research in Karl Pearson Archive [HR 5258] December 1977-September 1978 £275 Nuffield Foundation The Development of Strategic Missile Guidance Technology September 1984 - August 1985 [SOC/181(1201)] £2,972 September 1985 - March 1987 [SOC/442] £19,416 The Development of Inertial Guidance and Navigation in the Soviet Union May 1988 - September 1989 [SOC/181(1705)] £1,432 Fungible Carbon (Mentor on New Career Development Fellowship, Heather Lovell) October 2008 – August 2012 [NCF/35037] £166,553 UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) The Management of Technical Uncertainty January 1987 - March 1987 [F24250027] £2,000 Programme in Information and Communication Technologies (PICT): 4 Phase One (with F. Bechhofer, M. Fransman, D. Edge, J. Fleck and R. Williams) October 1987 - March 1991 [A35250006] £234,198 (supplemented by c. £70,000 per annum from Universities Funding Council) Phase Two (with E. Peláez, M. Tierney and R. Williams): April 1991 - March 1994 [WA35250006] £132,000 (supplemented by c. £50,000 per annum from UFC) National Laboratories, Arms Dynamics and Civil Science and Technology [Y307253006] April 1989 - December 1991 £59,372 The Environmental Impact of Military Activity: Low Flying and Public Opinion (with C. Bell and M. Spaven) [R00231980] November 1989 - October 1991 £49,440 Studies in the Sociology of Proof (with A. Bundy) [R000234031] July 1993 - February 1995 £48,500 From Invention to Innovation: Technology Transfer and the British Technology Group (with G. Spinardi, W. Faulkner and R. Williams) [R000236784] October 1996 - September 1999 £205,888 Military and Civil Innovation and the Defence Technology Base: UK Radar, 1945-2000 (with G. Spinardi) [R000238555] November 2000 – October 2003 £253,684 Rolling through the Twentieth Century: A Historical Sociology of the Wheelchair (with B. Woods and N. Watson) [L218252007] January 2001 – December 2003 £160,350 INNOGEN: ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (with J. Tait et al.) Phase 1, October 2002 - September 2007: £2,137,831 [RES-145-28-1004] Phase 2, October 2007 - March 2014: £5,153,508 [RES-145-28-0002] Professorial Fellowship in Social Studies of Finance April 2004 – March 2007 £382,128 [RES-051-27-0062] Technical Knowledge and Arms Dynamics: A Sociology of Ballistic Missile Defence (with G. Spinardi) September 2005 – August 2008 £298,938 [RES-051-27-0062] Understanding and Governing Complex Financial Instruments: A "Social Studies of Finance" Investigation of Multi-Name Credit Derivatives (with I. Hardie) September 2009 – May 2013 £282,497 [RES-062-23-1958] Revolution in the Sky? Commercial Airliner Technology and the Greening of Air Travel (with G. Spinardi) April 2010 – March 2013 £241,470 [RES-062-23-2379] A Material Sociology of High-Frequency Trading (with I. Hardie and J.P. Pardo- Guerra) 5 Jan 2018 – Dec 2021 £411,398 [ES/R003173/1] UK Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC)/ UK Safety Critical Systems Research Programme Communication in Safety Cases: A Semantic Approach (with S. Anderson, G. Cleland, A. Bundy, D. Robertson, K. Stenning) [GR/J58619] July 1993 - June 1996 £572,447 ESRC/SERC Joint Committee Social Processes in the Development of High-Integrity Computer Systems (with S. Anderson, B. Carré, M. Tierney) [GR/H74452] October 1992 - September 1995 £139,118 As part of the reorganisation of the Research Councils, Joint Committee projects were transferred to ESRC in 1994. The remaining part of this project became ESRC grant R000290008 January 1994 - December 1996 £88,534 UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Understanding Software Architecture (with S. Anderson and K. Stenning) [GR/L 37953] June 1997 - May 2000 £158,755 DIRC: Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on the Dependability of Computer-Based Systems (with C. Jones, S. Anderson, R. Williams, et al.) [GR/N13999] July 2000 – June 2006 £7,800,000 (of which c. £1 million to Edinburgh) INDEED: Interdisciplinary Design and Evaluation of Dependability (with S. Anderson et al.) [EP/E001297/1] July 2006 – June 2010 £392,988 Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Scottish Universities Policy Research and Advice Network: Science, Technology and Environment (with R. Williams, J. Tait et al.) October 1998 – September 2001 £200,000 October 2001 – September 2002 £59,327 Ove Arup Foundation/Royal Academy of Engineering Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire Safety Engineering Expertise (ITSAFE) (with R. Williams et al.) September 2012 – August 2016 £400,000 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant: Evaluation Practices in Financial Markets (EPIFM) [FP7-291733] September 2012 – August 2017 € 2,175,252 6 Teaching Experience (University of Edinburgh unless otherwise stated.) Current Introductory: Sociology 1a, unit 1 (“No Such Thing as Society?”) and unit 4 (“Transnationalism, Culture, and Global Society”) Sociology 2b (“Researching the Global”) Digital Markets and Society Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries Past Pre-Honours: Sociology 3; Technology and Society 2; Science Studies 2B (Sociology of Science). Honours: Doing Survey Research, Sociology of Knowledge and Culture, Marxist Social Theory, Sociology of Mathematics, Nuclear Weapons and Society, Armed Force and Society, Technology and Society, Cultures and Politics of Financial Markets, Sociology of the Environment and Risk. The Sociology of Technology and Science (University of Pennsylvania graduate option, 1985). Nature and Human Nature (Deakin University extension course, course consultant, 1981). History of Science 188v: Technology, History, and Society (Harvard University, 1997). History of Science 287v: Technology, Mathematics, and the Sociology of Knowledge (Harvard University, 1997). 7 Publications Books 1. Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981). 306 + viii pp. ISBN: 0-85224-369-3 2. Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990). 464 + xiii pp. ISBN: 0-262- 13258-3. Edited version of chapter 7 reprinted as “Nuclear Missile Testing and the Social Construction of Accuracy,” in Mario Biagioli, ed., The Science Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1999), 342-57. 3. Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996). 338 + ix pp. ISBN: 0-262-13315-6. Includes articles 10, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 35 and 37. Part of introductory essay reprinted in Merritt Roe Smith and Gregory Clancey, eds, Major Problems in the History of American Technology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 13- 15. 4. Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001). 427 + xi pp. ISBN: 0-262-13393-8 5. An Engine, not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006). 377 + x pp. ISBN: 0-262-13460-8 6. Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). 228 + x pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-927815-2. Japanese translation as Kinyuu Shijo no Shakaigaku (Ryūgasaki: Ryutsu Keizai University Press, 2013). Co-authored Books/Edited Books 1. In and Against the State (London: Pluto Press, 1980). Co-authors Cynthia Cockburn, John Holloway, John MacDonald, Neil McInnes, Jeanette Mitchell, Nicola Murray and Kathy Polanshek. 2. The Social Shaping of Technology (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985; second edition 1999). Co-edited with Judy Wajcman. First edition: 327 pp. ISBN: 0- 335-15027-6. Second edition: 462 + xvii pp. ISBN: 0-335-19914-3. Part of introductory essay of first edition appeared in Greek translation as “E Koinonike Diaplaoss tes Technologias,” in A. Vlachou, ed., Politike Oikonomia toy Sygchronoy Kapitalismoy (Athens: Athens University of Economics and Business), pp. 1-41, and in Korean translation as “Muot I k’isul ul hyongsong hanun’ga?” in Seong-Su Song, ed., Uri eke k’isul iran muot inga? (Seoul: Nokt’u, 1995), 111-149. 3. Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). Co-edited with Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu. 8 4. (with Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Philip Grant, Iain Hardie and Ekaterina Svetlova) Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Journal Articles and Book Chapters 1. (with Barry Barnes) “Biometriker versus Mendelianer: Eine Kontroverse und ihre Erklärung,” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Sonderheft 18 (1975): 165-96. 2. “Eugenics in Britain,” Social Studies of Science 6 (1976): 499-532. 3. “Statistical Theory and Social Interests: a Case-Study,” Social Studies of Science 8 (1978): 35-83. French translation as “Comment faire une sociologie de la statistique,” in M. Callon and B. Latour (eds), Les scientifiques et leurs alliés (Paris: Pandore, 1985), 121-67. Further reprinted in Callon and Latour (eds), La Science telle qu’elle se fait: anthologie de la sociologie des sciences de langue anglaise (Paris: La Découverte, 1991), 200-261. Polish translation as “Teoria Statystyczna a Intersy Spoleczne: Studium Przypadku,” in Edmund Mokrzycki, ed., Mocny Program: Socjologii Wiedzy (Warsaw: Ifis, 1993), 177-236. 4. “Karl Pearson and the Professional Middle Class,” Annals of Science 36 (1979): 125-43. 5. “Eugenics and the Rise of Mathematical Statistics in Britain,” in J. Irvine, I. Miles and J. Evans (eds), Demystifying Social Statistics (London: Pluto Press, 1979), 39-50. German translation: “Rasse und Klasse: Eugenik und der Aufschwung mathematischer Statistik in Großbritannien,” Wechselwirkung: Technik, Naturwissenschaft, Gesellschaft No. 15 (November 1982): 28-30. Dutch translation: “De Eugenetika en de Oorsprung van de Mathematische Statistiek,” Revoluon: Naturweteschap Techniek en Maatschappij 6 (1981): 55-66. Japanese translation: “Igirisu ni okeru yuuseigaku, oyobi suuri tookeigaku no kooryu,” Kyokoo no tokei (trans. Yooichi Ito, Akiyoshi Tanaka and Masakatsu Nagaya) (Tokyo: Azusa), 29-43. Korean translation, Seoul: Rationality and Reality Press, 1990 (not seen). Revised English version in Ludi Simpson and Danny Dorling, eds., Statistics in Society: The Arithmetic of Politics (London: Arnold, 1998), 55-61. 6. (with Barry Barnes) “On the Role of Interests in Scientific Change,” in R. Wallis (ed.), On the Margins of Science: the Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge (Sociological Review Monograph No. 27, 1979), 49- 66. Japanese translation as “Paradaimutenkan ni okeru kanshin no yakuwari” (trans. Teruo Yokoyama), Haijo sareru chi (Tokyo: Seidosha, 1986), 272-304. 7. (with Barry Barnes) “Scientific Judgment: the Biometry-Mendelism Controversy,” in B. Barnes and S. Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture (Beverly Hills, Calif. and London: SAGE Publications, 1979), 191-210. 9 8. “Sociobiologies in Competition: the Biometrician-Mendelian Controversy,” in C. Webster (ed.), Biology, Medicine and Society 1840- 1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 243-288. 9. “Militarism and Socialist Theory,” Capital and Class, No. 19 (Spring 1983): 33-73. 10. “Marx and the Machine,” Technology and Culture 25 (1984): 473-502. Korean translation as “Marukus wa k’igye” in Seong-Su Song, ed., Uri eke k’isul iran muot inga? (Seoul: Nokt’u, 1995) 68-108. Persian translation in Falsafeye Teknolodgi, ed. and trans. Shapour Etemad (Tehran: Nashre Markaz, 1999), 216-258. 11. “Nuclear War Planning and Strategies of Coercion,” New Left Review No. 148 (November/December 1984): 31-56. 12. “Missile Accuracy - An Arms Control Opportunity,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 42/6 (June/July 1986): 11-16. 13. “Missile Accuracy: A Case Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change,” in W.E. Bijker, T.P. Hughes and T.J. Pinch (eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1987), 195-222. 25th anniversary edition reprint, June 2012. 14. “The Problem with ‘The Facts’: Nuclear Weapons Policy and the Social Negotiation of Data,” in R. Davidson and P. White (eds), Information and Government (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988), 232-51. 15. (with W. Rüdig and G. Spinardi) “Social Research on Technology and the Policy Agenda: An Example from the Strategic Arms Race,” in B. Elliott (ed.), Technology and Social Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988), 152-80. Reprinted in Rivista di Studie Epistemologici e Sociali sulla Sciencza e la Tecnologia 2 (1992) 167-95. 16. “The Soviet Union and Strategic Missile Guidance,” International Security 13(2) (Fall 1988): 5-54. Reprinted in S. M. Lynn-Jones, S. E. Miller and S. Van Evera (eds), Soviet Military Policy (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1989), 231-80. 17. (with G. Spinardi) “The Shaping of Nuclear Weapon System Technology: US Fleet Ballistic Missile Guidance and Navigation, I: From Polaris to Poseidon,” Social Studies of Science 18 (1988): 419-63; “II: ‘Going for Broke’ - The Path to Trident II,” Social Studies of Science 18 (1988): 581- 624. 18. “Stellar-Inertial Guidance: A Study in the Sociology of Military Technology,” in E. Mendelsohn, M. Roe Smith and P. Weingart (eds.), Science, Technology and the Military: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 12 (1988) (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1988), 187-241. 10 19. (with G. Spinardi) “Politics and Technology in the Arms Race: A Case- Study in the History of Nuclear Weapons Systems,” in R. P. W. Visser et al. (eds), New Trends in the History of Science (Amsterdam: Atlanta, 1989), 121-43. 20. “From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing and the Social Construction of Missile Accuracy,” in D. Gooding, T. Pinch and S. Schaffer (eds), The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 409-35. 21. “Towards an Historical Sociology of Nuclear Weapons Technologies,” in Nils Petter Gleditsch and Olav Njølstad (eds), Arms Races: Technological and Political Dynamics (London: SAGE, 1990), 121-39. 22. “Notes Towards a Sociology of Supercomputing,” in Todd R. La Porte (ed.), Social Responses to Large Technical Systems: Control or Anticipation (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), 159-75. 23. (with Boelie Elzen) “The Charismatic Engineer: Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputing,” Jaarboek voor de Geschiedenis van Bedrijf en Techniek 8 (1991): 248-77. 24. “The Influence of the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories on the Development of Supercomputing,” Annals of the History of Computing 13 (1991): 179-201. 25. “Formal Methods and the Sociology of Proof,” in J.M. Morris and R.C. Shaw, eds, Proceedings of the Fourth Refinement Workshop (London: Springer, 1991), 115-124. 26. “Economic and Sociological Explanation of Technological Change,” in R. Coombs, P. Saviotti and V. Walsh, eds., Technological Change and Company Strategies: Economic and Sociological Perspectives (London: Academic Press, 1992), 25-48. 27. “Computers, Formal Proof and the Law Courts,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 39 (1992): 1066-69. 28. “Negotiating Arithmetic, Constructing Proof: The Sociology of Mathematics and Information Technology,” Social Studies of Science 23 (1993): 37-65. 29. “From the Luminiferous Ether to the Boeing 757: A History of the Laser Gyroscope,” Technology and Culture 34 (1993): 475-515. 30. (with Boelie Elzen) “From Megaflops to Total Solutions: The Changing Dynamics of Competitiveness in Supercomputing,” in William Aspray (ed.), Technological Competitiveness: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on the Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries (New York: IEEE Press, 1993), 119-51.