Biography
Dr. Anthony R. Hatch
Professor and Chair
College of Science and Technology Studies
Wesleyan University
222 Church Street
Middletown, CT 06459
Term: 02/01/2025 – 01/30/2028
Anthony Ryan Hatch is director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor of Science and Technology Studies and African American Studies with affiliations in the Bailey College of the Environment and the Department of Sociology at Wesleyan University. His research interests lie at the intersection of science and technology, health and medical humanities, and social inequality and power. He received the 2022 Robin W. Williams Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and served as the 2023 William Allan Neilson Chair of Research at Smith College. At Wesleyan, Hatch is the founding director of Black Box Labs, an undergraduate laboratory that trains students in qualitative research methods aligned with science and technology studies.
His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, Wellcome Trust, and Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Hastings Center and has served on scientific advisory boards including the National Academy of Medicine's Committee on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation, the Greenwall Foundation's Faculty Scholars Program Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the National Advisory Committee of the Opioid Industry Documents Archive. He has served on the editorial boards of Science, Technology, and Human Values and the Social History of Drugs and Alcohol.