Michael E. Lynch
Born	(1948-10-17) 17 October 1948 (age 75)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Irvine ( PhD)
Influences	Harold Garfinkel
Academic work
Main interests	Ethnomethodological approaches in science studies

Michael E. Lynch (born 17 October 1948), ^[1] is an emeritus professor at the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. ^[2] His works are particularly concerned with ethnomethodological approaches in science studies. Much of his research has addressed the role of visual representation in scientific practice.

From 2002-2012 he was the editor of Social Studies of Science. ^[3] In 2016, he won the Society for Social Studies of Science's J. D. Bernal Prize for distinguished contributions to the field. ^[4]

Awards

• 1995 Robert K. Merton Professional award, Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association
• 2011 Distinguished Publication Award, Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association
• 2016 John Desmond Bernal Prize
• 2020 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association

Selected bibliography

Books

• Lynch, Michael (1985). Art and artifact in laboratory science: a study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory. London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN  9780710097538.
• Lynch, Michael; Woolgar, Steve (1990). Representation in scientific practice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN  9780262620765.
• Lynch, Michael (1993). Scientific practice and ordinary action: ethnomethodology and social studies of science. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  9780521431521.
• Lynch, Michael; Sharrock, Wes (2003). Harold Garfinkel (4 volume set). London Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE. ISBN  9780761974598.
• Lynch, Michael; Wajcman, Judy; Hackett, Edward J.; Amsterdamska, Olga (2008). The handbook of science and technology studies (3rd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press Published in cooperation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science. ISBN  9781435605046.
• Lynch, Michael; Cole, Simon; McNally, Ruth; Jordan, Kathleen (2008). Truth machine the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN  9780226498089.
• Lynch, Michael; Sharrock, Wes (2011). Ethnomethodology (4 volume set). Benchmarks in Research Methods. Los Angeles: Sage. ISBN  9781848604414.
• Lynch, Michael (2012). Science and technology studies: critical concepts in the social sciences (4 volume set). Oxon New York: Routledge. ISBN  9780415581820.
• Lynch, Michael; Woolgar, Steve; Coopmans, Catelijne; Vertesi, Janet (2014). Representation in scientific practice revisited. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN  9780262525381.

Book chapters

• Lynch, Michael (1992), "Extending Wittgensteinian: the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science", in Pickering, Andrew (ed.), Science as practice and culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 215–265, ISBN  9780226668017.
• Lynch, Michael (1992), "From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A reply to Bloor's "Left and Right Wittgensteinians"", in Pickering, Andrew (ed.), Science as practice and culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 283–300, ISBN  9780226668017.

Journal articles

• Lynch, Michael; Garfinkel, Harold; Livingston, Eric (June 1981). "The work of a discovering science construed with materials from the optically discovered pulsar". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 11 (2): 131–158. doi: 10.1177/004839318101100202. S2CID  143072970.
• Lynch, Michael (April 1988). "The externalized retina: Selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences". Human Studies. 2–3 (11): 201–234. doi: 10.1007/BF00177304. S2CID  59776975.
• Lynch, Michael; Woolgar, Steve (April 1988). "Introduction: Sociological orientations to representational practice in science". Human Studies. 2–3 (11): 99–116. doi: 10.1007/BF00177300. S2CID  143536396.
• Lynch, Michael (Winter 1994). "Representation is overrated: some critical remarks about the use of the concept of representation in science studies". Configurations. 2 (1): 137–149. doi: 10.1353/con.1994.0015.
• Lynch, Michael (August 2002). "From naturally occurring data to naturally organized ordinary activities: comment on Speer". Discourse Studies. 4 (4): 531–537. doi: 10.1177/14614456020040040801. S2CID  144475763.
• Lynch, Michael (December 2006). "From Ruse to Farce". Social Studies of Science. 36 (6): 819–826. doi: 10.1177/0306312706067897. S2CID  143851225.
• Lynch, Michael; Cody, Cyrus C.M. (September 2010). "Test objects and other epistemic things: a history of a nanoscale object". The British Journal for the History of Science. 43 (3): 423–458. doi: 10.1017/S0007087409990689. S2CID  13342372.
• Lynch, Michael (February 2011). "Still emerging after all these years". Social Studies of Science. 41 (1): 3–4. doi: 10.1177/0306312710396569. S2CID  146494689.
• Lynch, Michael (December 2011). "Editorial". Social Studies of Science. 41 (6): 767–768. doi: 10.1177/0306312711427368. S2CID  220719334.
• Lynch, Michael (December 2011). "Ad hoc special section on ethnomethodological studies of science, mathematics, and technical activity: Introduction". Social Studies of Science. 41 (6): 835–837. doi: 10.1177/0306312711427369. S2CID  147128507.
• Lynch, Michael (December 2011). "Harold Garfinkel (29 October 1917 – 21 April 2011): A remembrance and reminder". Social Studies of Science. 41 (6): 927–942. doi: 10.1177/0306312711423434. S2CID  144144921.
• Lynch, Michael (March 2013). "Science, truth, and forensic cultures: The exceptional legal status of DNA evidence". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C. 44 (1): 60–70. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.09.008. PMID  23117027.

References

External links

• Lynch's Cornell profile page
• Radical Ethnomethodology workshop organized by Lynch