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Anique  Hommels a.hommels@tss.unimaas University of Maastricht Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences P.O. Box 616 6200 MB Maastricht THE NETHERLANDS phone: +31 43 3883483

Biographical Sketch

Anique Hommels is assistant professor at the Department of Technology & Society Studies, University of Maastricht (since 2003). She was trained in the interdisciplinary Arts and Science programme of the University of Maastricht (1991-1995). In her PhD thesis she concentrated on the resistance to change (‘obduracy’) in urban sociotechnical transformation processes. A book (Unbuilding Cities. Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change), based on her thesis, has been published by MIT Press in 2005. In 2003, she was awarded the Brooke Hindle Fellowship from the American Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Together with Dr. T.M. Egyedi and Prof.dr.ir W.E. Bijker she received an NWO-grant for the project "Complex interactions between international standardization and national innovation projects" (2007). This project focuses on the tensions involved in the mutual shaping of a European standard for radio communication (TETRA) and a Dutch national radio communication project (C2000). Hommels is also involved in the ESF-funded project on Europe’s critical infrastructures (Eurocrit).