Peter Sachs Collopy

I am a historian of science and technology and a graduate student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science. My research focuses on the roles of scientific and technical knowledge in political thought and action. I’m currently studying political ideologies of communications technology, and specifically the role of technological utopianism in the American countercultural video communities of the 1960s and 1970s. I am also pursuing research in the history of biology and anthropology on American theistic evolutionism and ideas about race and human evolution, among other subjects.

I’m also a board member of Mariposa Food Co-op in West Philadelphia, an administrator of the online writing community Everything2, an occasional computer programmer, a bicyclist, and a practitioner of Tae Kwon Do.