Publications

Books

  • (2025) [edited with Angela Ki Che Leung] Crafting everyday food: technology, tradition, and transformation in East Asia. University of Hawaii Press.
  • (2016) Biotechnology and society: an introduction. University of Chicago Press.
  • (2015) [edited with Sarah S. Richardson] Postgenomics: Perspectives on Life After the Genome. Duke University Press.
  • (2013) Life out of sequence: a data-driven history of bioinformatics. University of Chicago Press.

Publications in academic journals:

Chapters in Books:

  • (2026) “AlphaFold and the protein-folding problem” in Biotechnology and AI: technological convergence and information hazards. Christopher L. Cummings, Benjamin D. Trump, Valentina Prado, Beth Ellinport, and Igor Linkov, eds. Springer, pp. 259-273. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-05246-9_10
  • (2025) [with Angela Ki Che Leung] “Introduction: Making everyday food in East Asia: Industrialization, mobility, and novelty” in Crafting everyday food: technology, tradition, and transformation in modern East Asia. Hallam Stevens and Angela Ki Che Leungs, eds. University of Hawaii Press, pp. 1-20.
  • (2025) “From industralization to heritage food: soy sauce in Singapore, 1938-2018” in Crafting everyday food: technology, tradition, and transformation in modern East Asia. Hallam Stevens and Angela Ki Che Leungs, eds. University of Hawaii Press, pp. 115-144.
  • (2025) [with Manoj Harjani] “Smart cities and informatic governance: the management of people and information in postcolonial Singapore” in The Routledge Handbook of Information History, Toni Weller, Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak, Laura Skouvig, eds. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Information-History/Weller-Black-Mak-Skouvig/p/book/9781032316079
  • (2025) “Science as speculation: state capitalism, real estate, and Singapore’s Jurong Town Corporation” in Greedy Science: creating knowledge, making money, and being famous in the 1980s, edited by Michael Gordin and W. Patrick McCray. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • (2022) “Teleview and the aspirations of the infrastructural state in Singapore” in Infrastructure and the remaking of Asia, edited by Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky. University of Hawai’i Press. https://infrastructureasia.net 
  • (2022) [with Jiahui Chan] “Computing Nanyang: information technology in a developing Singapore, 1965-85” in Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12637/abstractions-and-embodiments 
  • (2019) Transfish: the multiple origins of transgenic salmon. In: Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in Risk Analysis and Governance. B.D. Trump, C. Cummings, C. Kuzma, and J. Linkov, eds. Springer. pp.51-63.
  • (2019) “How biotechnologies are shaping society” In: (Bio)Ethics, Science, & Society: Challenges for Biopolitics. Luso-American Development Foundation.
  • (2015) “Networks: Representations and Tools in Postgenomics” in Postgenomics edited volume.
  • (2015) [with Sarah Richardson] “Beyond the Genome” in Postgenomics edited volume.
  • (2015) [with Sarah Richardson] “Approaching Postgenomics” in Postgenomics edited volume.
  • (2013) “From Bomb to Bank: Walter Goad and the introduction of computers into biology” in Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology, Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Commentaries & newspaper articles:

Preprints, Reports, and Open Access works:

Publications in the Natural Sciences:

  • Laura Gonzalez, Jaehong Park, Lihua Zou, Yanhui Hu, Zahra Moradpour, Joseph Pearlberg, Jacqui Sawyer, Hallam Stevens, Ed Harlow, Joshua LaBaer (2011) “High Throughput Ectopic Expression Screen for Tamoxifen Resistance Identifies an Atypical Kinase that Blocks Autophagy” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108(5): 2058-2063 [Journal] [Full text]
  • Hallam Stevens, Robert F. Considine, Calum J. Drummond, Robert A. Hayes, and Phil Attard (2005) “Effects of Degassing on the Long-Range Attractive Force Between Hydrophobic Surfaces in Water” Langmuir 21, 6399-6405. [Journal] [Archived]

Book Reviews:

  • (2024) “Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.” Journal of the History of Biology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-024-09764-w
  • (2021) “Colin Koopman: How we became our data: a genealogy of the informational person” American Historical Review [6 August 2021] https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab205
  • (2020) “Imperial environments” Biosocieties 15: 470-499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41292-020-00199-0#Sec44
  • (2020) Review of: Bronwyn Parry and Beth Greenhough. Bioinformation (Polity). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26: 188-189.
  • (2016) Review of: Christine L. Borgman. Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Press, 2015). Technology and Culture.
  • (2016) “Seeing Data” [Essay Review] Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 2 (April): 252-259.
  • (2015) Review of: Aaron Panofsky. Misbehaving science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Journal of the History of Biology 48: 353-355.
  • (2014) Review of: Angela Creager. Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. (Chicago University Press, 2013). Journal of the History of Biology 47: 177-179.
  • (2013) Review of: Miguel Garcia-Sancho (2013) Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Social History of Medicine (Published online 14 Jan 2013).
  • (2011) Review of: Joseph November. Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (Johns Hopkins University Press). Isis 104, no. 1 (2011): 186-187.