Professor Pinch was a precious resource for East Asian STS. Before serving as an advisory editor to EASTS, a role he took on at our inception, Trevor had traveled to East Asia and lectured to STS communities in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. These connections also led to his supervising several East Asian graduate students at Cornell, the university where he worked for over thirty years. Being a researcher who was not an East Asia specialist, EASTS benefitted greatly from Trevor’s generous and straightforward sharing of his views on STS. This memorial essay was initiated by three of Professor Pinch’s students—EASTS editor Honghong Tinn, Eunjeong Ma, and Hannah Rogers, who contributes the major part of this review of his career. He will be remembered not only for his ground-breaking work but also his enthusiasm for living a meaningful STS life, which he so amply demonstrated to us.— EASTS Editorial Office
Trevor J. Pinch, eminent Science & Technology Studies scholar—a field he was instrumental in founding and shaping—musician, long-time chair of the influential Cornell University STS Department, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, and beloved teacher, passed away on December 17, 2021. Pinch trained in Physics and later Sociology in Britain before relocating with his wife, the STS scholar Christine Leuenberger, to the United States. Pinch is also survived by his daughters Annika and Benika.
