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Acknowledgments

This book has been a project long in the making. The ideas for this book originally started in my PhD dissertation work at the Pennsylvania State University; I am grateful to my friends, my teachers, and my dissertation committee—Richard Doyle, Stuart Selber, Susan Squier, and Robert Yarber—for their inspiring and enlightening conversations, provocations, insights, and advice. I am also grateful for graduate fellowships from Penn State and from a National Science Foundation grant (Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture; Pennsylvania State University, 2002–2003; principal investigators: Londa Schiebinger, Robert Proctor, Richard Doyle, and Susan Squier) that gave me time to pursue these ideas.

The collegial and intellectual support I have received at Philadelphia University helped me continue this project. In particular, I want to thank Marion Roydhouse, Katharine Jones, John Eliason, and Julie Kimmel for their encouragement and conversation. A Philadelphia University Research and Design grant helped expand my research through funding interviews conducted with scientists using the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) during 2005 and 2006. I am deeply grateful for the generosity, time, and good will of those scientists who agreed to be interviewed for this project. Thanks also go to the members of the Philadelphia-area nano-studies reading group for their intellectual support, insights, and discussions of things nano and beyond, including a few of this book’s topics in earlier stages.

A slightly modified form of parts of Chapter 4 and the conclusion originally appeared in Science Communication (“Amidst Nanotechnology’s Molecular Landscapes: The Changing Trope of Subvisible Worlds,” Science Communication, 34.1 (2012): 57–83. Pre-published May 19, 2011 (DOI: 10.1177/1075547011401630)). I am grateful to the editor, Susanna Hornig Priest, and the anonymous reviewers for their guidance. An earlier version of the argument in Chapter 3 appeared in a different form in Augenblick (“Nature as Database? Microscope Images’ Impact on Visual Cultures of the Natural World,” Augenblick, 45 (2009): 9–25). I thank the guest editor, Angela Krewani, for inviting me to be part of that production. This book’s development also benefited from a fellowship as part of the ZiF Research Group, “Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation,” at Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Center for Interdisciplinary Research), and I thank the other fellows and organizers of that fellowship. A few ideas developed in Chapter 3 appear in a different, earlier form in in my contribution to Science Transformed? Debating Claims of an Epochal Break, edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder and Gregor Schiemann (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). Parts of this book’s arguments were also presented at conferences and other presentations, including those at the ZiF, the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conferences, Conferences on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs), and Imaging and Imagining NanoScience and Engineering: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference. I thank audience members for their feedback and responses. I also am deeply grateful to David Blakesley and Marguerite Helmers at Parlor Press for their feedback and support, and to the anonymous reviewer whose comments and suggestions markedly improved this book.

Other support, material and emotional, was provided by so many to whom I am so grateful: A tremendous thank you to all my family and friends for conversation, patience, love, understanding, and enthusiasm as this project developed.