Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Political Science

David H. Guston, Professor
Office: Lattie Coor Hall 6778
Phone: 480-965-9321
E-mail: David.Guston@asu.edu
David H. Guston will be joining the faculty of Arizona State University as Professor of Political Science in January 2005. He will also be affiliated with ASU's Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. His current research includes a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation on the public value of social policy research (with Jocelyn Crowley of Rutgers, co-PI). His book, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research (Cambridge U. Press, 2000), was awarded the 2002 Don K. Price Prize by the American Political Science Association for best book in science and technology policy. He has also co-authored Informed Legislatures: Coping with Science in a Democracy (with Megan Jones and Lewis M. Branscomb, University Press of America, 1996) and co-edited The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government (with Ken Keniston, MIT Press, 1994). He has published numerous articles and book chapters and made more than seventy research presentations on research and development policy, scientific integrity and responsibility, public participation in technical decision making, peer review, and the politics of science policy. He is the North American editor of the peer-reviewed journal Science and Public Policy, and he serves on the editorial boards of SciPolicy: The Journal of Science and Health Policy and VEST: Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. Professor Guston has served on the National Science Foundation's review panel on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology (2000-2002) and on the National Academy of Engineering's Steering Committee on Engineering Ethics and Society (2002). In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and he is now the chair-elect of the AAAS Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering. He holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT, and he performed post-doctoral training at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Guston's Curriculum Vitae (PDF)