Grace Kim-Butler

Grace studies the intersection of materials, science, and aesthetics. Her projects include an ethnography of laboratory practices behind technologies for art and heritage conservation. Grace’s archival research at the Science History Institute will examine how biotechnology and synthetic chemistry were used to improve how stuff flowed through continuous process manufacturing in the 20th century. She received a PhD in history, anthropology, and science, technology, and society (HASTS) from MIT.

Image from our digital collections:
Employee using extruder at Hercules Parlin plant, January 1949