Madeleine Akrich

Madeleine Akrich
Born (1959-03-04) March 4, 1959 (age 65)
OccupationSociologist
OrganizationOffice parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques
Known forScience and technology studies, Actor-Network Theory
Notable work"The de-scription of technical objects" (1992)
AwardsMédaille d'argent du CNRS (2016) Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite(2017)

Madeleine Akrich (born 4 March 1959) is a French sociologist of technology. She served as the director of the Center for the Sociology of Innovation at Mines ParisTech from 2003 to 2013.[1] She is known for developing actor–network theory (ANT) with Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law and others.

  1. ^ "Madeleine Akrich". Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2021.