Research Assistant Professor, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Tufts University
Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology & Society, Harvard University
Research Affiliate, Program on Emerging Technology, MIT
Sam studies the way research and technology become "of security concern" for states. He draws on and contributes to the literature on classification, boundary work, international political/technological institutions, and the co-production of social and technological systems.
From 2011-2014, Sam was the Associate Director of Research for CSTMS.
From 2009-2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, jointly with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Program on Science, Technology, & Society (STS), located within the Kennedy School of Government. He completed his doctoral research in 2009 within the Institute for Science, Innovation, & Society at the University of Oxford.