CCHP Publications

Center for Contemporary History and Policy staff and fellows are engaged in ongoing research projects and related conferences; many of these projects result in publications such as the Studies in Sustainability or Studies in Materials Innovation white paper series.

White papers

Studies in Materials Innovation
Part of the Robert W. Gore Materials Innovation Project, this white paper series aims to illuminate the diverse contributions of materials innovation within the broader process of technological development in the contemporary age.

Patterning the World: The Rise of Chemically Amplified Photoresists by David C. Brock View | Download Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint by Jody A. Roberts View | Download Sun & Earth and the “Green Economy”: A Case Study in Small-Business Innovation by Kristoffer Whitney View | Download

Studies in Sustainability
The Studies in Sustainability series serves as a forum for discussion about the unique challenges and opportunities that exist in transforming chemistry into a tool for sustainability. The series, which highlights the intersecting roles played by emerging science, innovation, regulation, standards, and civil action, aims to publish dynamic new research examining the links between chemistry, sustainability, and pressing environmental and human health concerns.

Assessing Community Advisory Panels: A Case Study from Louisiana’s Industrial Corridor by Gwen Ottinger View | Download New Chemical Bodies: A Conversation on Human Biomonitoring and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals by Jody A. Roberts View | Download

Innovation Day
Innovation Day brings young innovators and industry leaders together to celebrate innovation in the chemical industry today and seek solutions for tomorrow’s challenges.

Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry: A Report on the Fifth Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day, Warren G. Schlinger Symposium View | Download | Purchase Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry: A Report on the Fourth Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day, Warren G. Schlinger Symposium View | Download | Purchase Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry: A Report on the Third Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day, Warren G. Schlinger Symposium View | Download | Purchase Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry: A Report on the Second Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day, Warren G. Schlinger Symposium View | Download | Purchase Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry: A Report on the First Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day, Warren G. Schlinger Symposium View | Download | Purchase

CCHP Research

Burning Biomass in Delaware? Energy Needs and Environmental Impacts by Allen A. Denio, Gwen Ottinger, and Jim Black View | Download Understanding Moore's Law: Four Decades of Innovation by David C. Brock View | Purchase The CHF Center for Contemporary History and Policy Research Report 2004–2006 View | Download

Conference Proceedings

Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of Nanotechnology by Hyungsub Choi, Sarah Kaplan, Cyrus C. M. Mody & Jody A. Roberts This document is a report on a joint Wharton-CHF symposium held 7–8 June 2007 in Philadelphia. View | Download

Articles

• Review of Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism, by Michael Egan. Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy, Spring 2010, v. 6, no. 1
  by Jody A. Roberts

• Drawing the Line Between Science and Politics? Review of The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies; Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation; and Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice, Chemical Heritage, Spring 2010
  by Gwen Ottinger
  

• Buckets of Resistance: Standards and the Effectiveness ofeview of Citizen Science, Science Technology Human Values, March 2010
  by Gwen Ottinger
  
  
• Reflections of an Unrepentant Plastiphobe: Plasticity and the STS Life, Science as Culture, March 2010
  by Jody A. Roberts
  
  
• "Epistemic Fencelines: Air Monitoring Instruments and Expert-Resident Boundaries," Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol 3, No 1 (2009)
  by Gwen Ottinger
  
  
• Review of Steven Shapin’s The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, Chemical Heritage, Fall 2009
  by Pei Koay
  
  
• Review of Leo B. Slater's War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the 20th Century, Chemical Heritage, Fall 2009
  by David Caruso
  
  
• "When the Clunker Is Greener" Washington Post, 3 August 2009
  by Gwen Ottinger
  
  
• "The Integrated Circut at Fifty" Chemical Heritage, Summer 2009
  by David C. Brock
  
  
• "Community Adjourned: Assessing Community Advisory Panels" Chemical Heritage, Summer 2009
  by Gwen Ottinger
  
  
• "Understanding Pharmaceutical Relations and the Limits of Regulatory Reform" Chemical Heritage, Spring 2009
  by Dominique Tobbell
  
  
• "Ask the Expert: Decoding Warning Labels" Chemical Heritage, Spring 2009
  by Jody A. Roberts
  
  
• "Sealed with a Wrap" Chemical Heritage, Winter 2008/9
  by Jennifer Dionisio
  
  
• Review of Kelly Moore’s Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975, Chemical Heritage, Winter 2008/9
  by Jody A. Roberts
  
  
• "Pittcon turns 60" Chemical & Engineering News, 23 February 2009
  by David C. Brock
  
  
• "The Long History of Molecular Electronics: Microelectronics Origins of Nanotechnology" Social Studies of Science, February 2009
  by Hyungsub Choi and Cyrus C. M. Mody
  
  
• "The Larger World of Nano" Physics Today, October 2008
  by Cyrus C. M. Mody
  
  
• "Technology Importation, Corporate Strategies, and the Rise of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry in the 1950s," Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, August 2008
  by Hyungsub Choi
  
  
• "Biotechnology Clustering: The Regional Dynamics of the Modern Biotechnology Industry" Chemical Heritage, Spring 2007
  by Ted Everson