Andrew Buskell

I am in Assistant Professor in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. I research and teach in the history and philosophy of recent science, focusing on the evolution of human culture and cognition.

My current research focuses on the history and philosophy of anthropological and archaeological efforts to define and study human populations, and the distinctive kinds of risks and harms that this research can engender. This work extends past projects that focused on exploring the sciences of culture, and in particular, how scientific research uses the culture concept to define and measure human groups. As part of this research, I was the PI of the project "Culture as a Tool: Reckoning with Past and Future Use" (funded by the CES Transformation Fund) from 2023–2024 and co-PI of the project "Culture at the Macro-Scale: Boundaries, Barriers, and Endogenous Change" (funded by the University of Cambridge, PSL, and the Embassy of France) from 2021–2022.