Peter Sachs Collopy

I’m a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where I study the roles of science and technology in political thought and action. My research is on the relationship between communications technologies and democratic participation, and particularly the synthesis of technological utopianism, cybernetics, and participatory democracy in the American counterculture’s embrace of portable video cameras around 1970. I also work on the political and religious history of evolutionary biology, focusing on theistic evolutionism and scientific ideas about race.

Outside of academia, I’m the convener of Mariposa Food Co-op in West Philadelphia.