A note on the title…

You might be saying to yourself, "Exactly what is an epistemographer, anyways?" To give credit where credit is due, I picked up the term from Peter Dear, a historian of science in my department at Cornell and a damned fine person in his own right. He argued that "Science & Technology Studies" is a misleading name for our field, and he's been trying to coin the alternate label "Epistemography", which would basically translate to the mapping of knowledge. Hence, like a cartographer of old, I see myself as charting the hills and valleys of knowledge, tracing its shorelines and venturing guesses as to the forces that helped to produce it. In short, an epistemographer.

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