Dan Affsprung is a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at Arizona State University. He is a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School and a research assistant for the Global Observatory for Genome Editing. Dan’s research examines the ways scientific and technical expertise are used to support and regulate social and political functioning by defining conditions that enable individuals to act with autonomy and produce collective benefit. He studies the history of Cold War social and interdisciplinary science and the regulation of emerging technology.

At Arizona State University, Dan worked with the Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab and the Beyond Secularization Project. He holds a master’s degree in Cultural Studies from Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s in English Literature from SUNY New Paltz.