Notes on Contributors
2016; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 107; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/686266
ISSN1545-6994
ResumoPrevious article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLeena Akhtar is a doctoral student in history of science at Harvard University. Her scholarly interests focus on the history of medicine and twentieth-century psychiatry, trauma psychiatry in particular. Her dissertation is about the impact of Second Wave feminist activism on psychiatric treatment of survivors of sexual violence.Jenny Bangham is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her current book project is about the intersecting histories of human genetics, anthropology, and blood transfusion in the mid-twentieth century.Delphine Bellis is a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy and physics, especially on Descartes and Gassendi. In 2013 she was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to work on Gassendi’s theory of space.Michel Blay, a historian and philosopher of science, is Emeritus Director of Research and President of the Committee for History at CNRS. He has recently published L’existence au risqué de l’innovation (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2014) and Dieu, la nature et l’homme: L’originalité de l’Occident (Paris: Armand Colin, 2013).Luciano Boschiero is Senior Lecturer in History at Campion College in Australia. He has written numerous journal articles about scientific academies and is the author of Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007). He is also Coeditor of Metascience.Genevieve Carlton is an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2015).Hasok Chang is Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Is Water H2O? (2012) and Inventing Temperature (2004) and a cofounder of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) and the International Committee for Integrated HPS.Harold J. (Hal) Cook is the John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University. He works mainly on early modern science and medicine and has published award-winning books, most recently Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2007).Gowan Dawson is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Darwin, Literature, and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and coauthor of Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). A new book, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.Brian Dolan is Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Among a number of other books on Enlightenment science and culture, he edited Malthus, Medicine, and Morality: Malthusianism after 1798 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000).Heather Edelblute is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research primarily focuses on the role of transnational social networks in the health of populations impacted by international migration.Piero Falchetta is a historian of cartography, voyages, and navigation. He is the curator of the map department of the Marciana National Library in Venice.Patricia Fara is the Senior Tutor of Clare College, Cambridge, and lectures in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. She has published extensively on the Enlightenment period; her most recent books are Science: A Four Thousand Year History and Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity (both from Oxford University Press).Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Chair of the Department of History at Stanford University. Her recent publications include Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500–1800 (Routledge, 2013). She has recently completed a collaborative study of the role of natural history in Cassiano dal Pozzo’s Paper Museum.Emma Gee studied classics in Sydney and Cambridge. She has worked in Departments of Classics in Exeter and Sydney. Since 2007 she has lectured at the University of St. Andrews. Her research interests include ancient astronomical writings, Renaissance didactic poetry, including George Buchanan, and the classical afterlife. She also writes and translates verse.Joanna Geyer-Kordesch is Professor Emerita for the History of Medicine and European Natural History at Glasgow University. She was head of the Wellcome Unit there until her retirement. She continues to be active and has published on Georg Ernst Stahl, the eighteenth-century champion of body-soul unity, Pietism, women entering medicine, and landscape gardens and is now concentrating on her creative work under her married name, Joanna Paterson.Tal Golan is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Laws of Man and Laws of Nature (2004); he has been working on a book about science and Israel, which he hopes will be published soon.Erling Haagensen is an independent Danish author and researcher, specializing in medieval history and history of science. Since 1993 he has published nine books on the subject, the latest in 2014.Klaus Hentschel is Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. He published an analysis of popular and philosophical (mis)interpretations of the theory of relativity in 1990; it is available online at http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2010/5175/.Sarah Hutton studied at New Hall, University of Cambridge, and at the Warburg Institute, London. She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, having previously taught at Aberystwyth University in Wales. She works on early modern intellectual history, with special interests in the Cambridge Platonists and in women in science and philosophy.Kathryn James is the Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts and the Osborn Collection at Yale’s Beinecke Library and a Lecturer in the Department of History. She received her doctorate in early modern British history from Oxford University and her master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. She is now the Munby Fellow at Cambridge University Library.Adrian Johns is Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He has taught and published widely in the histories of science, the book, and information. He is the author of The Nature of the Book (1998), Piracy (2009), and Death of a Pirate (2010).Shaul Katzir is a senior lecturer at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. His research and publications focus on the history of physics and technology and their interactions, circa 1830 to 1950.Ashley Kerr is Assistant Professor of Spanish/Latin American Studies at the University of Idaho. Her current research focuses on the intersections of politics, gender, and racial science in cultural representations of indigenous peoples in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.Sharon Kingsland is a professor in the Department of History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. She primarily works on the history of modern life sciences, especially the history of ecology, on which she has published two books. She is now working on the history of physiological ecology and its relation to agricultural improvement and to debates about biodiversity and ecosystem function in the twentieth century.Jan Marten Ivo Klaver is the author of Geology and Religious Sentiment (1997), The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley (2006), and Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World, 1761–1881 (2009). He teaches at the University of Urbino.Joshua Klose is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. His thesis draws on Philip Gosse’s Omphalos (1857) in examining the role of miracles in young-earth creationism.Timothy W. Kneeland is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Nazareth College. He teaches and writes on American history, politics, and psychiatry. His works include Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electroshock in America (Left Coast Press, 2008), written with Carol Warren.William Knight is Curator of Agriculture and Food with the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation in Ottawa. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on nineteenth-century Canadian fisheries exhibitions and museums.Alexei Kojevnikov teaches history of science and Soviet history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (2004), coeditor of Intelligentsia Science (2008) and Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics (2011), and a regular contributor to Isis and other history of science periodicals.Susan Lanzoni is a historian of the mind sciences of the modern period and a lecturer at the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University. She has received two NSF grants and a Fulbright; has published numerous articles on the history of psychiatry, psychology, and aesthetics; and has taught courses in her field at Yale and Harvard. She is in the process of publishing her book on the “art and science of empathy,” a historical look at empathy and emotion in the mind sciences of the twentieth century.Niels Lind is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. He is the coauthor of five books and more than a hundred articles about structural safety, management of risks to the public, and future energy supply.Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914–1960 (Palgrave, 2011), and Destigmatising Mental Illness? Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870–1970 (Manchester, 2014).Flavia Marcacci teaches history of science at the Lateran University in Rome. Her main interest is the history of astronomy at the time of the Scientific Revolution, and she is now writing a book on Giovanni Battista Riccioli, the most important Italian astronomer of the seventeenth century.José Ramón Marcaida is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, working on the “Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science” research project. His areas of interest include the history of early modern science and art, with an emphasis on the Iberian context. He is the author of Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español: Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultural visual (2014), which won the Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez “Baroque Art” International Award in 2014.Dániel Margócsy is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College–CUNY and the author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).Michael McVaugh is William Smith Wells Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of North Carolina. His research interests center on the transmission of Greco-Arabic knowledge to medieval Europe and its role in the creation of a learned (especially university-based) European medical culture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.Anuj Misra is Marsden Research Scholar with the History of Astronomical and Mathematical Science (HAMSI) Research Group at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research looks at the transmission, cognition, and adaptation of mathematical and astronomical ideas across various scientific cultures of antiquity, in particular the Greco-Islamic and Indian (Sanskrit) traditions.Robert Morrison is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College. His new book, The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus, appeared from the University of California Press in 2015. He is now working on scholarly exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean.Henriette Müller-Ahrndt is a Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She studies how draftsmen, engravers, printers, and naturalists cooperated in the eighteenth century, concentrating on the epistemic character of images.Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His most recent books are The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes (Princeton, 2013) and (as editor) Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge, 2014).Roel Nicolai is Principal Geodesist for Shell, the global technical authority on geodetic matters within the company. He is also associated with the University of Utrecht; in 2014 he was awarded a Ph.D. for his research on portolan charts, conducted during the past eleven years in addition to his daytime duties for Shell. He has been active in the oil and gas industry since 1984, in particular in the definition of geodetic standards.Sander Nicolai is an undergraduate student in the Department of History, University of Leiden.Joseph November is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (2012). He is writing a history of distributed computing and a biography of the computer pioneer Robert Ledley.Brian Ogilvie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. His current research focuses on insects in early modern European art, science, and religion.Robert Olby has worked primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century biology. He taught at the University of Leeds and subsequently at the University of Pittsburgh. Now in retirement, he contributes short articles and reviews. His last book was Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets (2009).Pietro Daniel Omodeo, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is a member of the Collective Research Center “Episteme in Bewegung” (Freie Universität, Berlin). His research focuses on science, philosophy, and literature in the early modern period, as well as on historical epistemology. He is the author of Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Leiden, 2014).Richard J. Oosterhoff is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he is involved with the “Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science” project.Jacob Orrje is a historian of science at Uppsala University. He has recently presented his doctoral thesis, “Mechanicus: Performing an Early Modern Persona,” in which he studies mechanics and mathematics as exercises of virtue that formed an obedient subject of the eighteenth-century Swedish state.Laura Otis is Professor of English at Emory University. With an M.A. in neuroscience and a Ph.D. in comparative literature, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. She is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, Müller’s Lab, and the forthcoming study Rethinking Thought.Dorinda Outram holds the Franklin I. and Gladys W. Clark Chair of History at the University of Rochester. She has written widely on the eighteenth century, with particular interests in exploration, history of science, women’s history, and the history of the body. She is now exploring the history of laughter.J. David Pleins is Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. He is the author of The Evolving God: Charles Darwin and the Naturalness of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2013) and In Praise of Darwin: George Romanes and the Evolution of a Darwinian Believer (Bloomsbury, 2014).Nicholas Popper is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2012). He is now working on a book examining how the proliferation of archives transformed epistemology in early modern Britain.Theodore M. Porter, Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, took his Ph.D. in 1981 at Princeton University. Charles Coulston Gillispie, his advisor, took a favorable view of his dissertation and first book, The Rise of Statistical Thinking; had clear reservations about the second, Trust in Numbers; and was effusive about the third, Karl Pearson. We will never know about book four, now in the mopping-up phase, tentatively titled The Unknown History of Human Heredity.María M. Portuondo is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the physical and natural sciences in the early modern Iberian and Latin American worlds. She is the author of Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (Chicago, 2009).Oded Rabinovitch teaches at Tel Aviv University. His work deals with the relations among science, literature, and social institutions in seventeenth-century France. He is now working on a study of the Perrault family.Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute. His books include The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (Chicago, 2007) and, as coeditor with Jonathan Hodge, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (Cambridge, 2009).Salvatore Ricciardo has held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bergamo. His research focuses on Robert Boyle and the early modern relation between science and religion. He has published on these topics and has recently completed a book on Boyle’s natural philosophy and physico-theological pursuits.Katharina Sabernig finished her studies in medicine and ethnomedicine in Vienna and is a lecturer on different fields of Tibetan medicine. She has done research on the history of Tibetan medical paintings, in particular on medical murals at Labrang Monastery. In her current project she examines historical and modern Tibetan anatomical terminology.Emilie Savage-Smith is semi-retired as Professor of the History of Islamic Science, University of Oxford. Her recent publications include A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, I: Medicine (Oxford, 2011) and (with Yossef Rapoport) An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The “Book of Curiosities” (Brill, 2014).Marc Schalenberg is the author of Humboldt auf Reisen? Die Rezeption des “deutschen Universitäts-models” in den französischen und britischen Reformdiskursen, 1810–1870 (Schwabe, 2002).Cornelis J. Schilt is a senior editor and transcription manager for the Newton Project and is completing his dissertation on Isaac Newton’s reading and writing practices with Rob lliffe at the University of Sussex. He has a number of forthcoming publications on Newton’s early optical writings and his chronological studies.Jim Secord is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. His most recent publication is “Communicating Reproduction,” a special issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2015, 89[3]) coedited with Nick Hopwood, Peter Murray Jones, and Lauren Kassell.Michael Segre is Professor of History of Science at the University of Chieti and the author of Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge: A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions (Routledge, 2015).Robert W. Seidel is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and has written several books and many articles on the history of modern physics and related technologies. He now divides his time and effort between New Mexico, where he once administered the Bradbury Science Museum at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Minneapolis.William R. Shea is the former holder of the Galileo Chair in History of Science at the University of Padua. He is now a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where he is doing research on Galileo’s influence on the English poet John Milton.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 University Press); he is also a coeditor of Springer’s Einstein Studies Series and the author of its ninth volume, Einstein from “B” to “Z.”Alexander Statman is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of science at Stanford University. His main area of research is the intellectual interaction and exchange between China and the West.Claudia Swan is Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565–1629) and coeditor, with Londa Schiebinger, of Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, Politics.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.Ciaran Toal is the Research Officer at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2012 from Queen’s University, Belfast; his dissertation was entitled “Space and Spectacle: Science and Religion at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1840–1890.”Conevery Bolton Valencius has recently published The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, about great mid-American tremors of 1811–1812. Her first book was The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. She writes and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Matteo Valleriani is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research focuses on the history of ancient and early modern mechanics and cosmology and on the interaction between practical and theoretical knowledge in the process of the emergence of new scientific knowledge.Jeremy Vetter is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Arizona. He works at the intersection of environmental history with the history of science and technology. The likely title of his first book will be Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era.Lindsay Wilson is Associate Professor of History at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Women and Medicine in the French Enlightenment: The Debate over “Maladies des Femmes” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). She is working on a book about women translators and science in France.Elizabeth Yale is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is the author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Her current research focuses on the posthumous lives of scientific and medical papers in early modern Britain. 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