Mary X. Mitchell

Mitchell's work centers on the intersections of science and technology with law and environmental social movements in the nuclear era. Focusing on radiological risk, her research examines the production of environmental inequality in the United States and transnationally.

Pronouns: she/her

Publications

• “The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness after Three Mile Island,” Journal of the History of Biology 54 (2021): 7-29.
• “Mapping Three Mile Island: Nuclear Liability & Compensation in the United States,” in Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima, ed. Hirokazu Miyazaki (Chicago: Northwestern University Library, 2021).
• “Compensation for Transboundary Claims in Nuclear Accidents,” in Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima, ed. Hirokazu Miyazaki (Chicago: Northwestern University Library, 2021) (with Annelise Riles & Dai Yokomizo).
• “Offshoring American Environmental Law: Land, Culture, and Marshall Islanders’ Struggles for Self-Determination During the 1970s,” Environmental History 22 (2017): 209-234.
• “History, Ethics, and the Environmental Archive,” Somatosphere (2017), available at: http://somatosphere.net/2017/10/history-ethics-and-the-environmental-archive.html
• “Screening Out Controversy: Human Genetics, Emerging Techniques of Diagnosis, and the Origins of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics, 1964-1973,” Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017): 425-456.
• “Storyscapes and Emplacement, Layer by Layer,” Change over Time 3 (2013): 162-173 (with David Barnes).