Prof. Christopher Bosso

Christopher J. Bosso is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and founding Associate Dean of Northeastern's School of Social Sciences, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs. He writes on environmental and food safety politics, the tactics and strategies pursued by environmental groups, the societal impacts of science and technology, and on public policymaking dynamics in general. His most recent major scholarly work is Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005), recently given the Lynton Caldwell Award for best book in environmental politics and public policy by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. An earlier scholarly book, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987) was given the Policy Studies Organization award for best book in public policy.

Bosso is also a senior researcher with the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern and director of the Nanotechnology and Society Research Group (www.nsrg.neu.edu), which conducts research on societal and regulatory dimensions of nanotechnology.