Born in 1947 in Beaune, Burgundy, from a wine grower family, Burno latour was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University. He is now professor at Sciences Po Paris where he is also the vice-president for research of that school. His books include: Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (Harvard University Press, 1987); We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993); Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-network theory (Oxford University Press, 2005); The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d’Etat (Polity Press).
Bruno Latour