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About the Author Ghamari-Tabrizi is an independent scholar living in Champaign Illinois. She earned a doctorate in 1993 from the History of Consciousness Program, University of California at Santa Cruz with a specialization in the social studies of science and technology. From 1993 through 2005 she was an itinerant scholar. Ghamari-Tabrizi was a post-doctoral fellow in the History of Science at Northwestern University, (1993-1994); a post-doctoral fellow at the Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture at the College of William and Mary, (1994-96); a post-doctoral fellow in the history of cold war science and technology in the history department at Carnegie Mellon University, (1996-98); concurrently a post-doctoral fellow in cultural studies at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University (1997-98); a senior research fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, (1998-99); a fellow at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa for its seminar on digital culture, (June 2000); a fellow in the summer intensive course in military history at the United States Military Academy at Westpoint, (June 4-27, 2002); a visiting scholar at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University for its Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict, (November 2002), and a participant in the U.S. Institute for Peace’s “Teaching Nonproliferation Summer Institute: Integrating Science and Politics in the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” at Washington and Lee University, (June 27–July 2, 2005). She has delivered lectures at Air Force University, Cambridge University, Carnegie Mellon, Claremone Graduate University, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, The National Air and Space Museum, The National Museum of American History, The Naval Post-Graduate School, New York University, Old Diminion University, University of Central Florida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Pennsylania, University of Southern California, The Washington State Historical Society, Wesleyan University. Her work has appeared in Social Studies of Science and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In February 2003 the National Science Foundation awarded Ghamari-Tabrizi a grant to underwrite two years of ethnographic field work at several sites in the United States where the military and sectors of the entertainment industry are collaboratively producing wargames, interactive training simulations, virtual environments, and narrative films visualizing future technologies, tactics, and scenarios. Her new research explores the cultural and social meanings of the production of military simulations and wargames against the background of America’s media-saturated society. The Worlds of Herman Kahn; The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press, 2005) is her first book. She is currently working on her second book on the military's use of entertainment technologies such as multiplayer video games, narrative films, interactive movies, gameboys, and immersive environments to train soldiers for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For review copies, please contact:
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