BRAD FIDLER BA, MA, MA
PROJECT DIRECTOR / CURATOR
Making the early history of the Internet available through physical preservation and open digital access.
PH.D. CANDIDATE
The Information Economy of Everyday Suffering: Epidemiology and Profitability in American Pharmaceuticals, 1960-2010 (dissertation; ±2011).
On the use of information technology by pharmaceutical firms in their search of durable profitability. Committee:
- Sharon Traweek, Department of Women's Studies
- Leonard Kleinrock, Department of Computer Science
- Joel Braslow, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Department of History
- Robert Brenner, Department of History
- Stuart Schweitzer, Department of Public Health
GS RESEARCHER
- NSF OCI / UCLA Women's Studies: Women and Minority Astronomers Strategic Engagement with Distributed, Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations and Large Scale Databases (2009-)
- UCLA Information Studies / NSF: DataNet (2009-10)
- UCLA Biomedical Libraries archives: American College of Neuropsychopharmacology collection (2008)
- NIMH / UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute: The California MHS Act: Impact on Practice and Organizational Culture in Public Clinics (NIMH: R-01 MH08067; 2007-09)
RECENT INVITED TALKS, LECTURES, &C.
- Popular Culture panel moderator and discussant, The 40th Internet Anniversary of the Internet (UCLA/IEEE hosted)
- Research methods for studies of twentieth century gender and science (lecture for WS180B)
- Business Week Interviewee: Why Social Media Should Welcome Location-Based Services; Growing Pains for Online Video Chat
- The Socioeconomic History of Late Imperial China, at the York Center for Asian Research
BONUS
- Fellowships: Beijing University, UCLA, SSHRC, Taiwan Ministry of Education
- Teaching Associate: Social Knowledge and Social Power (Hist2B), Introduction to Western Civilization: Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843 (Hist1A), The History of Medicine: from Newton to Darwin (Hist3D)
- Professional Service: Co-Chair, UCLA Internet Anniversary Organizing Committee; Graduate Student Representative, York Center For Asian Research; Reviewer, Editor, Graphic Designer: Problematique; Co-Founding Editor, Publisher Liaison: Dashiye Publications
- Theses: Credit Markets and Economic Development in England and Southern China, c. 1750-1900 (MA, York University Department of Politics, A+); Hegemony in America? Rethinking Alexis de Tocqueville (BA, University of Victoria Department of Political Science, Awarded with Honors and Distinction)
- Languages: Mandarin Chinese
Fax: 310-206-7833
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