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2024
Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960s
Lee · Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden: Medicine, Politics, and Public Controversy, 1530-2020
2023
Ontological overflows and the politics of absence: Zika, disease surveillance, and mosquitos
Lee · Science as Culture
Detecting the unknown in a sea of knowns: Health surveillance, knowledge infrastructures, and the quest for classification egress
Lee · Science in Context
2021
Sensing Salmonella: Modes of Sensing and the Politics of Sensing Infrastructures
Lee · Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures
Enacting the Pandemic: Analyzing Agency, Opacity, and Power in Algorithmic Assemblages
Lee · Science & Technology Studies
2019
How should we theorize algorithms? Five ideal types in analyzing algorithmic normativities
Lee and Larsen · Big Data & Society
Algorithms as folding: Reframing the analytical focus
Lee et al. · Big Data & Society
Styles of Valuation: Algorithms and Agency in High-throughput Bioscience
Lee and Helgesson · Science, Technology, & Human Values
2016
Analyzing algorithms: some analytical tropes
Lee and Larsen · working paper
2014
A Sociology of Treason: The Construction of Weakness
Galis and Lee · Science, Technology, & Human Values
2011
Learning Object Standards in Education: Translating Economy into Epistemic Atomism
Lee · Science as Culture
Publications updated in Oct 2026.