Mary X. Mitchell

I am an assistant professor in the federated department of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark, and graduate faculty at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. My work centers on the intersections of science and technology with law and environmental social movements in the nuclear era. I am trained both as a lawyer and as a historian of science and technology. Before earning my PhD, I worked in intellectual property management and law and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. My first book--a sociolegal history of US nuclear weapons blasting in the Marshall Islands--is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

Photo: M.X. Mitchell, 2015, Beach at Laura Village, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands