Notes on Contributors

Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSamuel J. M. M. Alberti is Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (which houses the Hunterian Museum) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow in History at King's College London. His books include Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future (2013) and War, Art, and Surgery (2014).Warwick Anderson is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. His books include The Cultivation of Whiteness (2002), Colonial Pathologies (2006), The Collectors of Lost Souls (2008), and an edited collection (with Deborah Jenson and Richard C. Keller), Unconscious Dominions (2011). His latest publication (with Ian R. Mackay) is Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins, 2014).David B. Baker is the Margaret Clark Morgan Executive Director of the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology and Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.Somaditya Banerjee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Idaho. He is completing a book manuscript that examines the making of modern science in twentieth-century colonial India. His recent publications include “C. V. Raman and Colonial Physics,” in Physics in Perspective.Richard Bellon teaches history of science and science policy at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on the reception of Darwin's Origin of Species. His “Inspiration in the Harness of Daily Labor: Darwin, Botany, and the Triumph of Evolution, 1859–1868,” published in Isis, received the HSS 2013 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize.Klaas van Berkel is Rudolph Agricola Professor of History at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making (Johns Hopkins, 2013). He is now writing a history of the University of Groningen from 1614 to the present.Jordan Bimm is a Ph.D. candidate in Science and Technology Studies at York University. His dissertation examines the construction of the astronaut in early American space medicine. He is the recipient of the 2014–2015 HSS/NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Science and the 2013 Sacknoff Prize for Space History.Victor D. Boantza, Assistant Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, works on the early modern physical sciences, in particular chemistry and experimental physics in the long eighteenth century. His recent book is Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order (Ashgate, 2013).Ingo Brigandt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. His research on explanation in molecular, developmental, and evolutionary biology centers on how scientists' standards, aims, and values guide their practice, in particular concept (trans)formation and interdisciplinarity.Robert Bud is Keeper of Science and Medicine at the Science Museum in London. His publications on the history of biotechnology include The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology. At present he is at work on a history of the concept of applied science from 1789 to 1989.Michael C. Carhart is the author of The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard University Press, 2007) and an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. He is now at work on Leibniz Discovers Asia: Comparative Linguistics in the Early Enlightenment Republic of Letters.Soraya de Chadarevian is a professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She has published widely on the history of twentieth-century biological and biomedical sciences, and she is now at work on a history of human chromosome research.Isabelle Charmantier is Manuscripts Specialist at the Linnean Society, London, where she is cataloguing Linnaeus's manuscript collection.Yuehtsen Juliette Chung is Associate Professor of Chinese History at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and focuses in her research on gender, science, and borderlands in modern and contemporary China and Taiwan. She has published monographs and articles, including Struggle for National Survival: Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Context, 1896–1945 (Routledge, 2002).Deirdre Coleman holds the Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (2005), the editor of the Australia volume of Women Writing Home, 1700–1920: Female Correspondence across the British Empire (2006), and the coeditor (with Hilary Fraser) of Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770–1930 (2011).Brock Cutler is a historian at Radford University, where he teaches courses on the modern Middle East, North Africa, and environmental history. His scholarly work focuses on the relationship between the environment and the modern colonial state in Algeria.Joseph W. Dauben is Distinguished Professor of History and History of Science at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York. Together with Christoph J. Scriba, he edited the book Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development (2002). He is also the author of biographies of the mathematicians Georg Cantor (1979) and Abraham Robinson (1995). His most recent publication is a three-volume critical edition and translation of the ancient Chinese classic text of the Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics (2013), written in collaboration with his Chinese colleagues Guo Shuchun and Xu Yibao.Steven J. Dick is the 2014 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library's Kluge Center. He has written extensively on the history of astrobiology and in 2013 testified on the subject before the U.S. Congress. His most recent book is Discovery and Classification in Astronomy: Controversy and Consensus (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Minor planet 6544 stevendick is named in his honor.Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is an associate professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Twente. He works on the cultural history of the early modern mathematical sciences, studying networks of knowledge across disciplinary and geographical divides, in particular those relating to matters of light, color, and vision.Bruce Doern is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter.Donald Fisher is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (CHET) at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on philanthropy, university education, the social sciences, and academic–industry relations.Craig Fraser is a faculty member at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of mathematics and astronomy. He is the author of The Cosmos: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Publishers, 2006).Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings increasingly intersect. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton, 2011). She is now finishing her second book, which deals with the embrace of race in the genomic era: Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science.Owen Gingerich is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has written particularly on the astronomical revolution, and he has built the preeminent collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ephemerides. His God's Planet will be published by Harvard University Press in Fall 2014.Matthew Goodrum is a professor of the history of science at Virginia Tech. His research examines the history of paleoanthropology, prehistoric archaeology, and theories of human origins from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.Niccolò Guicciardini holds a degree in physics and a degree in philosophy from the University of Milan. He now teaches history and philosophy of science at the University of Bergamo. He is the author of Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (MIT Press, 2009).S. Irfan Habib holds the Maulana Azad Chair at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. His latest book is Jihad or Ijtihad: Religious Orthodoxy and Modern Science in Contemporary Islam.Anne Hardy was on the academic staff of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and its successor, the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. She is now Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Nick Hopwood teaches in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he runs a Wellcome Trust–funded research program on “Generation to Reproduction.” The University of Chicago Press will publish Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud in early 2015.Brandon Konoval is on the faculty at the University of British Columbia, where he is cross-appointed in the Arts One Program and the School of Music. He has written most recently on Nietzsche and the Scopes trial, for Perspectives on Science, and on the relationship between Nietzsche and Foucault, for Nietzsche-Studien.Maria Kronfeldner is Junior Professor for Philosophy of Science at Bielefeld University. Her main area of research is the philosophy of the life sciences, with an increasing focus on the medical, social, and human sciences. Her current research is on issues related to nature/nurture debates.Paul Lucier, a historian of the earth and environmental sciences and their interplay with mining, is the author of Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting and Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (Johns Hopkins, 2008). He is completing a second book, entitled “Exploration and Industry: The Science and Technology of Gold Mining in the American West, 1849–1914.”Michael R. Lynn is a professor of history at Purdue University North Central. His most recent book is The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820 (Pickering & Chatto, 2010).Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor, President's Professor, and Parents Association Professor at Arizona State University, where she directs the Center for Biology and Society. She is also Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Embryos under the Microscope: Diverging Meanings of Life (Harvard, 2014).Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Librarian of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is an editorial director of the Newton Project and codirector of an ERC-funded project on the Bible and antiquity in nineteenth-century culture. His publications focus on early modern intellectual history and include Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (4 vols.; ed. with Jitse van der Meer).Michiel Meeusen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) and is currently employed at KU Leuven, where he obtained his Ph.D. in literature with a dissertation on Plutarch's Causes of Natural Phenomena. His research interests include the Pseudo-Aristotelian Natural Problems and ancient scientific/technical literature more generally.Erika Lorraine Milam is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (2010) and is working with Bob Nye on an edited collection on masculinities and science.B. D. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of King's College, as well as a Ph.D. candidate in science and technology studies at York University. His thesis explores the influence of physiological research on the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.Benjamin B. Olshin is Associate Professor of Philosophy, History of Science and Technology, and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His research areas include the history of cartography and exploration, ancient science and engineering, the philosophy of modern physics, and traditional modes of knowledge transmission.Christopher Preston is a British botanist who has worked at the Biological Records Centre since 1980. His research interests include the past and present distribution of plants in Britain and Europe. He lives in Cambridge and, with his colleague Philip Oswald, wrote John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660), published in 2011.Alex Roland is Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University. From 1973 to 1981 he was a historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he wrote a history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.Anna Marie Roos is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln and an associate member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Society of Antiquaries in London.Rachael Rosner is an independent scholar, actress, and singer. Her scholarship explores the history of psychotherapy, especially post–World War II. She has published on the histories of psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy, and cognitive therapy, and she is now writing the first authorized biography of Aaron T. Beck.Dan Royles is a historian of the United States whose research focuses on African-American AIDS activism. He received his Ph.D. in history from Temple University in January 2014. He has held fellowships at Ohio State University and at the Center for the Humanities at Temple.David Sepkoski is Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His last book was Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline (Chicago, 2012). He is coeditor of the forthcoming “Histories of Data” volume of Osiris (2017) and is writing a book about extinction.Richard Serjeantson is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the University of Cambridge. His study of a newly discovered manuscript of Francis Bacon's Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature was published in the Historical Journal last year.Suman Seth is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 (MIT, 2010), and the editor of a special issue of Postcolonial Studies (2009) on “Science, Colonialism, Postcoloniality.” He is at work on a book entitled Difference and Disease: Locality and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire.Jonathan Smith is William E. Stirton Professor of English at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, the author of Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (Cambridge, 2006), and the coeditor of Negotiating Boundaries, Volume 1 in the “Victorian Science and Literature” series (Pickering & Chatto, 2011).Robert W. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Alberta. His most recent book is Hubble: Imaging Space and Time (coauthored with David DeVorkin). He is completing a book on the history of large-scale science and coediting a special issue of Victorian Review on Alfred Russel Wallace.John Stachel is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Director of the Center for Einstein Studies at Boston University. He was the founding editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton) and is a coeditor of the “Einstein Studies” series (Springer) and the author of its Volume 9, Einstein from “B” to “Z.”Joan Steigerwald is an associate professor in the Science and Technology Studies Program and the Department of Humanities, and the Graduate Programs in STS, Humanities, and Social and Political Thought, at York University. She is completing a book entitled Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800.Jürgen Teichmann is Professor of History of Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He has retired as Director of Education at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. He publishes on history of physics, history of astronomy, history of the interrelations between physics and technology, and the use of history of science in science education.Dario Tessicini is Senior Lecturer at Durham University, where he works on the history of natural philosophy, astronomy, and cosmology. His publications have focused on Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, the reception of Ptolemy's Geography, and the celestial novelties of the late sixteenth century.Helen Tilley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University, where she currently directs the Science in Human Culture Program and serves on the executive committee of the Program in African Studies.Sarah W. Tracy is an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Honors College and College of Medicine. She is the author of Alcoholism in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and is now completing a biography of Ancel Keys, a physiologist, epidemiologist, and champion of the Mediterranean diet.Annemieke Verboon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS) in Paris, funded by the European Commission. She works on the history of the brain, cognition, and the soul at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and medicine, focusing on the textual and material culture of medieval and early modern Europe.Byron E. Wall is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Science and Technology Studies Program at York University, Toronto. His current research is on formal conceptions of chance and uncertainty in theories of probability and statistics in the nineteenth century.Sven Widmalm is Professor of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. He has worked on the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of astronomy, physics, and biochemistry from the eighteenth century. He is now working on pro-German science in Sweden during the Nazi era and on postwar biochemistry and policy; the latter project will be expanded to include the recent turn to Big Science in Swedish bioscience. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 105, Number 4December 2014 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/679433 © 2014 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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