Research Interests

Professor Lubrano has conducted extensive research in European and international affairs with specialization on Russia and Italy. She brought the field of naukovedenie into US academic discourse, thereby bridging Soviet and American scholarship in the social studies of science. Her work on informal networks in the Russian scientific community documented the social roots of political change before Gorbachev came to power.  She is currently writing a book on the intellectual and social history of scientists during the Soviet period.  Continuing her focus on government outside the state, she has also conducted research on marginalized populations in Italy and the ethical politics of local communities throughout Europe.  Strongly influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose, her most recent research focuses on the mind-body-machine interface in political ideologies of medical practice.

Selected Publications

• "Governmentality through Science Communities," The International Journal of Science in Society 2, no. 4 (2011): 33-48.   
• "Clinics, Prisons, and Practices of Freedom: Innovations in European Social Welfare," The Discourse of Sociological Practice 8, no.2 (Fall 2009): 59-73.   
• "Scholars Steer Their Ships Through the Turbulent Seas of History,"in Academia in Upheaval, eds. Michael David-Fox and Gyorgy Peacuteteri, Greenwood Publishing, 2000.&   
• "Politicheskie granitsy meditsinskoi praktiki," in Problemy deiatel'nosti uchenogo i nauchnykh kollektivov, XII, ed. S.A. Kugel', Sankt-Peterburg GTU, 1998.
• "The Hidden Structure of Soviet Science,"Science, Technology, and Human Values 1, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 147-175   
• "New Initiatives and Old Bureaucrats: The Future Challenges the Past in Academic Science," Technology in Society 13, no. 1/2 (1991): 91-108.   
• "The Attentive Public for Soviet Science and Technology," in Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR, ed. James Millar, Cambridge University Press, 1987.   
• "The Political Web of Scientific Cooperation Between the USA and USSR," in Sectors of Mutual Benefit in US-Soviet Relations, ed. Nish Jamgotch, Jr., Duke University Press, 1985.   
• "Survey Research as a Source of Information for Soviet Science Policy,"Soviet Union/Union Sovietique 9, part 1 (1982): 55-81.   
• The Social Context of Soviet Science, co-edited with Susan Gross Solomon, Westview Press, 1980.   
• Soviet Sociology of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1976.

Professional Presentations

• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Pennsylvania
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley
• Chicago Academy of Sciences
• International School for Sociology of Science and Technique (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Institute of the History of Science and Technology, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
• Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Rome, Italy)
• Università degli Studi di Trento (Trento, Italy)

Executive Experience

• Director, Graduate Research Center on Europe, American University—Università degli Studi di Trento, 1999-2004.
• Director, Division of Comparative and Regional Studies, School of International Studies, American University, 1994-1999. 
• Director, Italian Seminar Series, Center for Mediterranean and Gulf Studies, 1982-1984.