Michael E. Gorman,
Professor, Engineering & Society, University of Virginia
At the McCormick
observatory, University of Virginia
Michael E. Gorman earned a
Masters (1978) and a PhD (1981) in Social Psychology at the University of New
Hampshire. He is a Professor in the Department of Science, Technology &
Society at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on ethics,
invention, psychology of science and communication. He worked for two years as
a Program Director in the Science, Technology & Society program at the
National Science Foundation and is President of the International Society for
Psychology of Science and Technology. His research interests include
experimental simulations of science, described in Simulating Science (Indiana University Press, 1992) and cognition, invention and
ethics, described in Transforming Nature (Kluwer Academic
Press, 1998). With support from the NSF, he conducted a multi-year cognitive
study of the invention of the telephone whose results appeared in Social Studies of Science and Thinking and Reasoning. NSF supported his work with Patricia Werhane on case studies that combined ethics, invention and
design, described in Ethical and
Environmental Challenges to Engineering (Prentice-Hall, 2000). NSF also
supported work that led to his edited volumes on Scientific and Technological Thinking (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2005), and Trading Zones and
Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration (MIT Press,
forthcoming) He edited a special issue on Cognition
in Science and Technology for the journal TopiCS in Cognitive Science. His current research is in the kind of
interdisciplinary trading zones that will be needed for scientists, engineers
and other stakeholders to collaborate on the development of new technologies.
Contact info:
Email: meg3c@virginia.edu
Phone: 434-825-9766 (cell)