Nate Greenslit
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-6560
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Nate Greenslit is an anthropologist of science looking at drugs and society. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has held postdoctoral appointments at the Media Lab and Harvard's History of Science Program, where he also has taught. Greenslit, an active musician, curates the Lost Marbles Salon, an experimental monthly art and science gathering at Cloud Club, the Boston art collective where he lives with his partner and three daughters.
Career Highlights
- Published "Dep®ession and Consum♀tion: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Practices" in the Pharmaceutical Studies Reader in 2015.
- Published "Facts, Fantasies, and New Online Social Interpassivities" in Fast Capitalism in 2015.
- Published "How Neuroscience Reinforces Racist Drug Policy" in the Atlantic Monthly in 2014.
- Published "Why YouTube Matters to the Science of Depression" in Wired in 2012.
- Published "Antidepressants and Advertising: Pharmaceuticals in Crisis" with Ted Kaptchuk in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine in 2012.
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