Books Page

Articles in Refereed Journals

Lucena, Juan C. and Gary Lee Downey, eds 2006. “Building Bahrain, Egypt, and Turkey: Engineers and Engineering Education in the Middle East.” (Special issue of Technology and Society: Forthcoming March).

Downey, Gary Lee. 2005. “Are Engineers Losing Control of Technology?: From “Problem Solving” to “Problem Definition and Solution” in Engineering Education. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 83(A8):1-12(in press).

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan Lucena. 2005. “National Identities in Multinational Worlds: Engineers and ‘Engineering Cultures.’” International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning 15(3/4):252-260.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2004. “Knowledge and Professional Identity in Engineering.” History and Technology 20(December)4:393-420.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2003. “When Students Resist: Ethnography of a Senior Design Experience in Engineering.” International Journal of Engineering Education 19(1):168-176.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan D. Rogers. 1995. “On the Politics of Theorizing in a Postmodern Academy.” American Anthropologist 97(2):269-281.

Downey, Gary Lee, Joseph Dumit, and Sarah Williams. 1995. “Cyborg Anthropology.” Cultural Anthropology 10(2):264-269.

Lucena, Juan and Gary Lee Downey. 1995. “Haciendo Cientificos e Ingenieros para Propositos Nacionales en USA: Desde la Guerra Fria hasta la Competitividad Economica” [Making Scientists and Engineers for Nacional Purposes in the United Status: From the Cold War to Economic Competitiveness]. Historica Critica 10(Enero-Junio):29-36.

Riordan, Diane A., Michael P. Riordan, and Gary Lee Downey. 1994. “The Impact of Technology on the Evolution of the Tax Code.” Tax Notes 64(8):1093-1097. [journal also includes invited articles and opinions].

Downey, Gary Lee. 1992. “CAD/CAM Saves the Nation?: Toward an Anthropology of Technology.” Knowledge and Society 9:143-168.

Downey, Gary Lee. 1992. “Human Agency in CAD/CAM Technology.” Anthropology Today (October):6-10.

Downey, Gary L., Arthur Donovan, and Timothy J. Elliott. 1989. “The Invisible Engineer: How Engineering Ceased to be a Problem in Science and Technology Studies.” Knowledge and Society 8:189-216.

Downey, Gary L. 1988. “Reproducing Cultural Identity in Negotiating Nuclear Power: The Union of Concerned Scientists and Emergency Core-Cooling.” Social Studies of Science 18(2):231-264.

Downey, Gary L. 1988. “Structure and Practice in the Cultural Identities of Scientists: Negotiating Nuclear Wastes in New Mexico.” Anthropological Quarterly 61(1):26-38.

Downey, Gary L. 1986. “Risk in Culture: The American Conflict Over Nuclear Power.” Cultural Anthropology 1(4):388-412.

Downey, Gary L. 1986. “Ideology and Clamshell Identity: Organizational Dilemmas in the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement.” Social Problems 33(5):357-373.

Downey, Gary L. 1985. “Politics and Technology in Repository Sitting: Military versus Commercial Nuclear Wastes at WIPP 1972-1985.” Technology in Society 7(1):47-75.

Downey, Gary L. 1985. “Federalism and Nuclear Waste Disposal: The Struggle over Shared Decision Making.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 5(1):74-99.

Book Chapters +

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2005. “Engineering Cultures.” Pp. 124-129 in Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Sal Restivo. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2001. “When Students Resist: An Ethnography of Engineering Senior Design Education.” Pp. 281-292 in Mudd Design Workshop III: Social Dimensions of Engineering Design, edited by Clive L. Dym and Langdon Winner, Claremont, CA: Harvey Mudd College.

Downey, Gary Lee. 2001. “Anthropology of Science and Technology.” International Encyclopedia of the Behavorial and Social Sciences, 3rd Edition, Elsevier Ltd. (15pp ms.)

Downey, Gary Lee and Joseph Dumit. 1997. "Locating and Intervening." Pp. 5-30 in Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies, edited by Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit. Santa Fe, NM: The SAR Press.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 1997. "Engineering Selves: Hiring Into a Contested Field of Education." Pp. 117-142 in Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies, edited by Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit. Santa Fe, NM: The SAR Press.

Downey, Gary Lee. 1995. “Steering Technology through Computer-aided Design.” Pp. 83-110 in Constructive Technology Assessment, edited by Arie Rip, Thomas Misa, and John Schot. Academic Press.

Downey, Gary Lee. 1995. “The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America.” Pp 197-226 in Technoscientific Imaginaries, edited by George Marcus. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 1994. “Engineering Studies.” Pp. 167-188 in Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Sheila Jasanoff, Gerry Markle, James Petersen, and Trevor Pinch. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.

Downey, Gary Lee. 1992. “Agency and Structure in Negotiating Knowledge.” Pp. 69-98 in How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman Among the Social Scientists, edited by Mary Douglas and David Hull. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Downey, Gary L. 1985. “State Decision Making on High-Level Wastes: Critical Uncertainties in the Repository Sitting Process.” Pp. 119-124 in Waste Management: Waste Policies and Programs, High-Level Waste, edited by Roy G. Post and Morton E. Wacks. Tuscon: American Nuclear Society.