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Edward Hackett

Edward Hackett

Vice Provost for Research and Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

ehackett@asu.edu

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Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
415 South St
Waltham, MA 02453

Titles

  • Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Vice Provost for Research and Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
  • Emeritus Professor, School of HUman Evoluation and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Edward J. Hackett is vice provost for research and a professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He is responsible for the Office of Research Administration, the Office of Technology Licensing, the Foster Lab (which cares for animal subjects used in research), and Sponsored Program Accounting. From 1997-2015, he was a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, with appointments in the School of Sustainability, School of Life Sciences, and Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes. He was a founding member of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1984-98). As a rotator, he directed the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences (2006-08), and the Science and Technology Studies program (1996-98). His research, supported by various NSF grants, has mainly focused on the social organization and dynamics of science, peer review and environmental justice. He has published in American Sociological Review, Minerva, Research Policy, Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology & Human Values, and other journals. He was lead editor of the “Handbook of Science and Technology Studies” (MIT Press, 2008), and has been editor of Science, Technology & Human Values since 2012. Ed holds a BA from Colgate University, and an MA and PhD from Cornell University, all in sociology.

Education

  • PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, 1979
  • BA, Social Relation, Colgate University, 1973

Expertise

Journal Articles

2015

Kintigh, K. W., J. H. Altschul, A. P. Kinzig, F. W. Limp, W. K. Michener, J. A. Sabloff, E. J. Hackett, T. A. Kohler, B. Ludascher and C. A. Lynch. 2015. Cultural dynamics, deep time, and data. Advances in Archaeological Practice 3(1):1-15. DOI: 10.7183/2326-3768.3.1.1.

2012

Parker, J. N. and E. J. Hackett. 2012. Hot spots and hot moments in scientific collaborations and social movements. American Sociological Review 77(1):21-44.

2011

Hackett, E. J. and D. R. Rhoten. 2011. Engaged, embedded, enjoined: Science and technology studies in the National Science Foundation. Science and Engineering Ethics 17(4):823-838. (link )

2009

Carpenter, S. R., E. V. Armbrust, P. W. Arzberger, F. S. Chapin III, J. J. Elser, E. J. Hackett, P. M. Kareiva, M. A. Leibold, P. Lundberg, M. Mangel, N. Merchant, W. W. Murdoch, M. A. Palmer, D. P. Peters, S. T. Pickett, K. K. Smith, D. H. Wall and A. S. Zimmerman. 2009. Accelerate synthesis in ecology and environmental sciences. BioScience 59(8):699-701. (link )

Hackett, E. J. and D. R. Rhoten. 2009. The Snowbird Charrette: Interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research design. Minerva 47(4):407-440.

Rhoten, D. R., E. Oconnor and E. J. Hackett. 2009. The act of collaborative creation and the art of integrative creativity: Originality, disciplinarity, and interdisciplinarity. Thesis Eleven 96(Feb):83-108.

2008

Yin, R. K., E. J. Hackett and D. E. Chubin. 2008. Discovering 'what's innovative': The challenge of evaulating education research and development efforts. Peabody Journal of Education 83(4):674-690. DOI: DOI: 10.1080/01619560802418693. (link )

2006

Kirby, A. M., S. L. Harlan, L. Larsen, E. J. Hackett, B. Bolin, A. L. Nelson, T. R. Rex and S. Wolf. 2006. Examining the significance of housing enclaves in the metropolitan United States of America. Housing, Theory and Society 23(1):19-33. DOI: 10.1080/14036090500435995. (link )

2005

Hackett, E. J. 2005. Essential tensions: Identity, control, and risk in research. Social Studies of Science 35(5):787-826. DOI: 10.1177/0306312705056045. (link )

Hackett, E. J. 2005. Scientific Collaboration. Special Issue of Social Studies of Science 35(5):.

2004

Hackett, E. J., D. Conz, J. Parker, J. Bashford and S. DeLay. 2004. Tokamaks and turbulence: Research ensembles, policy and technoscientific work. Research Policy 33(5):747-767. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2003.12.002. (link )

Larsen, L., S. L. Harlan, B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, D. Hope, A. M. Kirby, A. L. Nelson, T. R. Rex and S. Wolf. 2004. Bonding and bridging: Understanding the relationship between social capital and civic action. Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(1):64-77. (link )

2002

Bolin, B., A. L. Nelson, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, C. S. Smith, D. Sicotte, E. K. Sadalla, E. Matranga and M. O'Donnell. 2002. The ecology of technological risk in a Sunbelt city. Environment and Planning A 34(2):317-339. DOI: 10.1068/a3494. (link )

2000

Bolin, B., E. Matranga, E. J. Hackett, E. K. Sadalla, K. Pijawka, D. Brewer and D. Sicotte. 2000. Environmental equity in a Sunbelt city: The spatial distribution of toxic hazards in Phoenix, Arizona. Environmental Hazards 2(1):11-24. DOI: 10.1016/S1464-2867(00)00010-3. (link )

1996

Solomon, S. and E. J. Hackett. 1996. Setting boundaries between science and law: Lesson from Daubert vs. Merrill-Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Science, Technology and Human Values 21(2):131-156. DOI: 10.1177/016224399602100201. (link )

1995

Chubin, D. E., E. J. Hackett and S. M. Solomon. 1995. Peer review and the courts, or when scientists get 'real'. Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance 4(1):1-8. DOI: 10.1080/08989629508573863. (link )

1994

Hackett, E. J. 1994. A social control perspective on scientific misconduct. Journal of Higher Education 65(3):242-260. (link )

1993

Hackett, E. J. 1993. A new perspective on scientific misconduct. Academic Medicine 68(9):S72-A76. (link )

1992

Hackett, E. J., J. Croissant and B. Schneider. 1992. Industry, academe, and the value of undergraduate engineers. Research in Higher Education 33(3):275-295. (link )

1991

Hackett, E. J., P. H. Mirvis and A. L. Sales. 1991. Women's and men's perspectives about the effects of new technology at work. Group and Organization Studies 16(1):60-85. (link )

Mirvis, P. H., A. L. Sales and E. J. Hackett. 1991. The implementation and adoption of new technology in organizations: The impact on work, people, and culture. Human Resource Management 30(1):113-139. (link )

1990

Hackett, E. J. 1990. Science as a vocation in the 1990s: The organizational culture of academic science. Journal of Higher Education 61(3):241-279. (link )

1988

Hackett, E. J. 1988. Funding and academic research in the life sciences: Results of an exploratory study. Science and Technology Studies 5(3/4):134-137. (link )

1987

Markham, W. T., S. L. Harlan and E. J. Hackett. 1987. Promotion opportunity in organizations: Causes and consequences. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management 5:223-287.

1986

Marks, M. L., P. H. Mirvis, E. J. Hackett and J. Grady. 1986. Employee participation in a Quality Circle program: Impact on quality of work life, productivity and absenteeism. Journal of Applied Psychology 71(1):61-69. (link )

1985

Harlan, S. L. and E. J. Hackett. 1985. Federal job training programs and employment outcomes: Effects by sex and race of participants. Population Research and Policy Review 4:235-265. (link )

1983

Mirvis, P. H. and E. J. Hackett. 1983. Work and work force characteristics in the nonprofit sector. Monthly Labor Review 106(4):3-12. (link )

Books

2008

Hackett, E. J., O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman eds. 2008. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. MIT Press.

1990

Chubin, D. E. and E. J. Hackett. 1990. Peerless Science: Peer Review and U.S. Science Policy. State University of New York.

Book Chapters

2018

Hackett, E. J., J. N. Parker, N. Vermeulen and B. Penders. 2018. The social and epistemic organization of scientific work. Pp. 733-764 In: Felt, U., R. Fouche, C. A. Miller and L. Smith-Doerr eds., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Fourth Edition. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262035682.

2013

Bolin, B., S. E. Grineski and E. J. Hackett. 2013. Environmental injustice in the urban Southwest: A case study of Phoenix, Arizona. In: Malloy, R., F. Brock, A. Floyd, E. Livingston and R. Webb eds., Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development. Taylor and Frances.

2011

Hackett, E. J. 2011. Possible dreams: Research technologies and the transformation of the human sciences. In: Hesse-Biber, S. ed., The Handbook of Emergent Technolgies in Social Research. Oxford University Press. New York.

Hackett, E. J. and J. N. Parker. 2011. Leadership of scientific research groups. In: Bainbridge, W. S. ed., Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

2010

Hackett, E. J. 2010. Peer review and the social sciences. World Social Science Report, 2009-2010. UNESCO. Paris.

2008

Hackett, E. J., J. N. Parker, D. Conz, D. R. Rhoten and A. Parker. 2008. Ecology transformed: NCEAS and the changing patterns of ecological research. In: Olson, G., A. Zimmerman and N. D. Bos eds., Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. MiT Press.

2003

Chubin, D. E. and E. J. Hackett. 2003. Incrementare la 'peer review': Il posto della valutazione della ricera. Pp. 89-124 In: Viale, R. and A. Ceroni eds., Valutare la Scienza. Rubbetino.

Chubin, D. E. and E. J. Hackett. 2003. La peer review nella teoria e nella pratica. Pp. 355-390 In: Viale, R. and A. Ceroni eds., Valutare la Scienza. Rubbetino.

2000

Hackett, E. J. 2000. Interdisciplinary initiatives at the National Science Foundation. Pp. 248-259 In: Weingart, P. and N. Stehr eds., Practising Interdisciplinarity. University of Toronto Press.

Hackett, E. J. 2000. Organizational perspectives on university-industry research relations. In: Croissant, J. and S. Restivo eds., Degrees of Compromise. SUNY Press.

Hackett, E. J. 2000. Trends and opportunities in science and technology studies. In: Kumar, D. D. and D. E. Chubin eds., Science, Technology, and Society: A Sourcebook on Research and Practice. Plenum. New York.

1997

Hackett, E. J. 1997. The place of peer review in science and science policy. In: Frankel, M. and J. Cave eds., Evaluating Science and Scientists. Central European University Press. Budapest.

Posters

2003

Bolin, B., J. Smith, E. J. Hackett, S. E. Grineski, T. W. Collins, N. Vuppaladadium and J. J. Kronenfeld. 2003. Toxic tracts: A historical geography of environmental inequality in Phoenix, Arizona. Presented at February 19, 2003, CAP LTER Fifth Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Harlan, S. L., B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, D. Hope, A. M. Kirby, L. Larsen, A. L. Nelson, T. R. Rex, S. Wolf and T. Jones. 2003. Community and environment in a desert metropolis. Presented at February 19, 2003, CAP LTER Fifth Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

2002

Bolin, B., A. J. Brazel, T. W. Collins, S. E. Grineski, E. J. Hackett and M. O'Donnell. 2002. Community-based research: Environmental conditions, human health, and the quality of life. Poster presented at the January 17, 2002, CAP LTER Fourth Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Nelson, A. L., B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, J. Smith and S. E. Grineski. 2002. Sunbelt toxics: Industrial polluters in Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at January 17, 2002, CAP LTER Fourth Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Nelson, A. L., B. Bolin, J. Smith, M. O'Donnell and E. J. Hackett. 2002. The development of environmental injustices in Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at January 17, 2002, CAP LTER Fourth Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

2001

Bolin, B., A. L. Nelson, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, M. O'Donnell, J. Smith, D. Sicotte and E. Sadalla. 2001. South Phoenix assessment of community and environment. Poster presented at the January 19, 2001, CAP LTER Third Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. (link )

Harlan, S. L., A. L. Nelson, E. J. Hackett, A. M. Kirby, B. Bolin, K. Pijawka, T. R. Rex and D. Hope. 2001. Phoenix area social survey: Long-term monitoring of social interaction, and environmental change in urban neighborhoods. Poster presented at the January 19, 2001, CAP LTER Third Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. (link )

Nelson, A. L., B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, E. Sadalla, D. Sicotte, D. Brewer and E. Matranga. 2001. The ecology of risk in a Sunbelt city: A multi-hazard analysis. Poster presented at the January 19, 2001, CAP LTER Third Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. (link )

2000

Bolin, B., E. Matranga, E. J. Hackett, E. Sadalla, K. Pijawka, D. Brewer and D. Sicotte. 2000. Environmental equity in a Sunbelt city. Poster presented at August 2-4, 2000 Long-Term Ecological Research: Unifying Principles and Global Applications, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT.

Bolin, B., E. Matranga, A. L. Nelson, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, D. Brewer and D. Sicotte. 2000. The ecology of risk in a Sunbelt city: A multi-hazard spatial analysis. Poster presented at August 2-4, 2000 Long-Term Ecological Research: Unifying Principles and Global Applications, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT.

Harlan, S. L., A. L. Nelson, E. J. Hackett, B. Bolin, A. M. Kirby and K. Pijawka. 2000. Phoenix area social survey. Poster presented at 2-4 August 2000, Long-Term Ecological Research: Unifying Principles and Global Applications, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT.

Matranga, E., B. Bolin, D. Brewer, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka and E. Sadalla. 2000. Technological hazards in the Southwest: Environmental equity and the demographics of risk. Poster presented at 19 January 2000, CAP LTER Second Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Nelson, A. L., S. L. Harlan, T. D. Hogan, T. R. Rex, E. J. Hackett, B. Bolin, E. Sadalla, K. Pijawka, E. K. Burns and A. M. Kirby. 2000. Phoenix area social survey. Poster presented at 19 January 2000, CAP LTER Second Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Nelson, A. L., E. Matranga, B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, D. Brewer, K. Pijawka, D. Sicotte and E. Sadalla. 2000. The distribution of technological hazards in the greater Southwest, 1991 to 1996. Poster presented at August 2-4, 2000 Long-Term Ecological Research: Unifying Principles and Global Applications, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT.

Presentations

2012

Hackett, E. J. 2012. Science for a global society: Synthesis in research collaboration. Presentation at the 16-20 February 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

2003

Kirby, A. M., S. L. Harlan, B. Bolin, E. J. Hackett, L. Larsen, T. R. Rex and S. Wolf. 2003. Building walls, building community? A preliminary examination of common-interest neighborhoods in Phoenix. Presented at the June 2003 second annual Hawaiian International Conference in Social Sciences.

2001

Bolin, B., A. L. Nelson, C. S. Smith, E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, E. Sadalla, M. O'Donnell, S. E. Grineski, T. W. Collins and D. Sicotte. 2001. Environmental equity in Phoenix, Arizona: The spatial distributions of hazardous facilities and vulnerable populations. Paper presented at 29-31 October 2001 Annual Federal State Toxicology and Risk Analysis Committee Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.

2000

Bolin, B., E. J. Hackett, K. Pijawka, E. Sadalla, D. Brewer, E. Matranga and D. Sicotte. 2000. Environmental equity in a Sunbelt city. Poster presented at 19 January 2000, CAP LTER Second Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Reports

2003

Harlan, S. L., L. Larsen, T. R. Rex, S. Wolf, E. J. Hackett, A. M. Kirby, B. Bolin, A. L. Nelson and D. Hope. 2003. The Phoenix Area Social Survey: Community and environment in a desert metropolis. Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University.. Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Contribution Series 2. (link )