• Social dimensions and politics of contemporary and emerging science and technology, especially in the life sciences
• Situations in which scientific knowledge is implicated in establishing, contesting, and maintaining social order
• Social studies of biology, biotechnology, and medicine
• Science as property
• Ethnographic studies of science & technology
• Genomics & society
• Risk

Selected Publications:

Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama, Stanford University Press, 2000.
http://www.sup.org/

"Intellectual Property and the Politics of Emerging Technology: Inventors, Citizens, and Powers to Shape the Future." Chicago-Kent Law Review (2009), 84(1): 197-224. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1654445

"Las dimensiones sociales del conocimiento experto del riesgo" ("The Social Dimensions of Expert Knowledge about Risk"), in Moreno Castro, Carolina, ed., Comunicar Los Riesgos (Spain: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009).

"The Anticipatory State: Making Policy-Relevant Knowledge about the Future," a special issue, N. Nelson, A. Geltzer, and S. Hilgartner, eds., Science & Public Policy, volume 8, no. 8, October 2008, pp. 546-606.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/

"Making the Bioeconomy Measurable: Politics of an Emerging Anticipatory Machinery" (Comment). BioSocieties 2(3): 382-6, 2007.
http://journals.cambridge.org/

"Overflow and Containment in the Aftermath of Disaster" (Comment). Social Studies of Science, 37(1):153-58, 2007.
http://www.hurricanearchive.org

"Voting Machinery, Counting, and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election." Michael Lynch, Stephen Hilgartner, and Carin Berkowitz, in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. MIT Press, 2005.

"Making Maps and Making Social Order: Governing American Genome Centers, 1988-1993." In From Genetics to Genomics: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics, edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Routledge, 2004.

"Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories." In States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order, edited by Sheila Jasanoff, Routledge, 2004.

"Biotechnology." In Smelser, Neil J. and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2:1235-40, Elsevier, 2002.

"Acceptable Intellectual Property." Journal of Molecular Biology, 319(4): 943-46, 2002.

"Data Withholding in Academic Genetics: Evidence From a National Survey." Eric G. Campbell, Brian R. Clarridge, Manjusha Gokhale, Lauren Birenbaum, Stephen Hilgartner, Neil A. Holtzman, David Blumenthal, Journal of the American Medical Association 287(4):473-80, 2002.

"Data Access Policy in Genome Research." Pp. 202-18 in Arnold Thackray, ed., Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

"Access to Data and Intellectual Property: Scientific Exchange in Genome Research." Pp. 28-39 in National Academy of Sciences, Intellectual Property and Research Tools in Molecular Biology: Report of a Workshop, National Academy Press, 1997.
http://www.nap.edu/books/

"The Sokal Affair in Context." Science, Technology & Human Values 24(2): 506-22, 1997

"Biomolecular Databases: New Communication Regimes for Biology?" Science Communication 17(2): 506-22, 1997.

"The Dominant View of Popularization: Conceptual Problems, Political Uses," Social Studies of Science, 1990.

The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model," Stephen Hilgartner and Charles L. Bosk, American Journal of Sociology, 1988.