Humanities Futures Lab
AISCI Sponsored Projects
Sponsored | Faculty Research Fellowship (FRF)
AI, Science and Culture is proud to announce its sponsorship of Dr. Rebecca Falkoff who has been selected as the dedicated 2024-25 AI, Science and Culture Initiative (AISCI) Fellow,
We are honored to provide additional support and funding for her project.
Project Name: Manuscript-in-progress, Industrious Skies: Nitrogen Capture and the Atmosphere of Italian Fascism.
Brief Project Summary: This project is a cultural history of Italy’s interwar efforts to capture atmospheric nitrogen for use in fertilizers and explosives. It examines how the promise of these technologies influenced fascist strategies, including major initiatives like the Battle for Wheat, land reclamation, malaria eradication, pronatalism, autarky, and imperialism. Using various sources such as literary texts, science writing, and political propaganda, the project aims to provide a new understanding of fascist culture and its ideological atmospherics.
Dr. Rebecca Falkoff
Assistant Professor, French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin.
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Sponsored | Faculty & Student Research Project (FSRP):
UT Science and Technology Studies Bibliography Project
Faculty-Student Research Partnership Program for 2024-2025!!
The Humanities Institute proudly introduces the 2024-25 Faculty-Student Research Partnerships Program members.
The FSRP aims to foster partnerships between faculty and students, advance research, and enhance skills. Each faculty member selects students to work on mutually beneficial projects.
Dr. S. Scott Graham, Associate Professor,
Department of Rhetoric & Writing is paired with James Lifton, The LBJ School.
Project Name: UT STS - science and technology studies
Brief Project Summary: The primary aims of this project are (a) to curate a capacious bibliography of STS scholarship by UT faculty and (b) to develop a UT-focused AI-STS open syllabus.
This summer faculty-student research partnership is open to graduate students in history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, American studies, rhetoric, government, and related departments. Ideal candidates for this opportunity will have some prior grounding in STS or related inquiry traditions.
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AISCI Affiliate Projects
A Network Science Approach to Conflicts of Interest: Metrics, Policies, and Communication Design
The primary purpose of this project is to develop new metrics for the evaluation of conflicts of interest (COI) risks in the biomedical research enterprise. The project shifts away from the conceptualization of COI as a problem of individual researchers toward an understanding of COI as a network phenomena.
The pressing problems of COI and the bias it inculcates stem not from individuals but from the aggregation of COI across networks of researchers and funders. The research team is leveraging AI tools to (1) track the circulation of COI within biomedical decision networks, and (2) evaluate the extent to which certain conflict network profiles predict increased risks of patient harm.
Prinicipal Investigators (PIs): Professor Joshua B. Barbour, Dr. S. Scott Graham, Dr. Zoltan P. Majdik,
Dr. Justin Rousseau, M.D.
Supported funding by the National Institute for General Medical Sciences.
