Bradley Fidler

I research the social and economic dimensions of networked computing and psychopharmacology. I received my political science MA from York University in 2003 and my history MA and PhD from UCLA in 2009 and 2012, writing my dissertation on the introduction of atypical antipsychotics to US primary care.

Current Work

• Co-Principal Investigator for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant at the UCLA Computer Science Department, generating insights from DARPA program history
• Assistant Researcher with the UCLA Center for Health Services and Society, contributing to a National Institute of Mental Health evaluation of mental health care at the clinic level in Los Angeles County
• Director of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science's Kleinrock Internet History Center

Current Research/Writing

• "Lithium," in Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness (2013; with Joel Braslow)
• Sociohistorical Perspectives on ARPANET and NSFNET Traffic Patterns (2013; with Morten Bay)
• An Evaluation of Integrated Care in the Los Angeles County Departments of Mental Health and Health Services, 1972-78 (2014; with Howard Padwa)
• Client Empowerment and Biomedical Thinking in Los Angeles' Mental Health Services (2014; with Joel Braslow and John Brekke)

Contact

Via , at 310-825-2249, or by appointment at 3732L Boelter Hall.