Notes on Contributors
2011; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 102; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/661631
ISSN1545-6994
ResumoPrevious article FreeNotes on ContributorsNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAmir Alexander is the author most recently, of Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a book on the cultural history of infinitesimals.Robert G. W. Anderson is Chairman of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. For most of his career he worked in museums, being Director of the British Museum from 1992 to 2002. He is now a Fellow and Vice‐President of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.Peder Anker is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and in the Environmental Studies Program at New York University. His works include Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895–1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), and From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).David W. Bates teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. His States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, and he is now working on the long history of Artificial Intelligence.Riccardo Bellé works with a research grant in the Department of Mathematics at Pisa University. His main research interests are optical sciences from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and Renaissance mathematics. After obtaining a degree in mathematics, he got his Ph.D. in history of science with a dissertation on Della Porta's De refractione. He is also a paleographer and archivist and a member of the Maurolico Project: www.maurolico.unipi.it.Richard Bellon teaches history of science and science policy at Michigan State University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Lyman Briggs College of Science and the Department of History. He has published extensively on the social and cultural place of natural history in Victorian Britain.Robert M. Brain joined the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in 2004. He is the coeditor, most recently, of Hans Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices (Springer, 2007).Marco Bresadola is a research fellow at the University of Ferrara, where he teaches the history of science and directs the M.A. in science communication. He is working on a biography of Luigi Galvani.William Clark has written Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (2006) and coedited, with Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer, The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (1999), both published by the University of Chicago Press; he is also the coeditor, with Peter Becker, of Little Tools of Knowledge: Historical Essays in Academic and Bureaucratic Practices, published by the University of Michigan Press (2001). He now teaches history at the University of California, San Diego.J. T. H. Connor is John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada; he also holds an appointment in the Department of History. He has published widely on science, technology, and medicine in North America, as well on as aspects of medical museums.Benno van Dalen is a historian of Islamic astronomy who is particularly interested in transmission between the Islamic world and China, India, and Europe. From 2008 to 2010 he was a researcher in the program LMUexcellent at the Chair for History of Science at the University of Munich.Stephanie Dick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is currently working on a dissertation on the history of automated theorem proving and computational proof assistants in the United States.Finis Dunaway is an associate professor of history at Trent University, where he teaches courses in modern U.S. history, visual culture, and environmental studies. He is the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (2005) and is now working on a book about visual culture and the environmental crisis.Nathan Ensmenger is an assistant professor in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (MIT Press, 2010).Moritz Epple teaches history of science at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His research concerns the history of the mathematical sciences since the 18th century, in relation with technological, political, and philosophical issues. A recent publication co‐edited with Claus Zittel is: Science as Cultural Practice, Vol. I: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010).Paul Erickson is Assistant Professor of History and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. His research focuses on exploring the transfer of models and methods between the natural and social sciences, between nature's economy and political economy. He is completing a book on the history of game theory and related models of rational choice in Cold War America.Alette Fleischer is a historian of science. She has published several articles that tie the rise of natural history and inquiry to gardens in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. One of these articles focused on the circulation of nature and knowledge at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century.Donald R. Forsdyke is Professor of Biochemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has published numerous articles and books on bioinformatics, molecular biology, and the history of biology, including Evolutionary Bioinformatics (2006) and “Treasure Your Exceptions”: The Science and Life of William Bateson (2008).Hannah Gay is retired. An honorary associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Imperial College London, she is writing a book on a group of twentieth‐century British ecologists.Klaus Geus is an ancient historian and geographer. In 2009 he was appointed professor for ancient geography at the Free University in Berlin. He works in the areas of ancient sciences (especially geography and astronomy), historiography, and East Africa, and he is now writing a book on common‐sense geography in antiquity.Sander Gliboff is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism (MIT Press, 2008), and he is working on a history of evolutionary theory from the 1870s through the 1920s.André Goddu teaches the history of science in the Department of Physics at Stonehill College. In 2010 Brill published his book, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism. He is now translating Ludwik Birkenmajer's principal results from his major works on Copernicus.Christoph Gradmann is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Oslo, where he researches the history of infectious disease from the eighteenth century to the present. He is the author of Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).Jeremy Gray is Professor of the History of Mathematics at the Open University. In 2009 he was awarded the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his work in the history of mathematics. He is finishing a scientific biography of Henri Poincaré.Mott Greene is John Magee Professor of Science and Values at the University of Puget Sound and Affiliate Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. His biography of Alfred Wegener will appear in Spring 2012, on the centennial of Wegener's first paper on continental drift. He is now working on a study of the structural anthropology of Claude Lévi‐Strauss.Klaus Hentschel is Head of the Section for History of Science and Technology at Stuttgart University. He has just edited an anthology of essays on analogies in science, medicine, and technology (Acta Historica Leopoldina, 56) and a series of papers on the history of materials science (special issue of NTM, 2011); he is working on a comparative history of visual science cultures.Jane Jenkins is Associate Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies Program at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Her current research project examines the social, political, and scientific aspects of eradicating bovine tuberculosis in early twentieth‐century Canada.Wendy Kline is the author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001). She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.Jeff Kochan is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz. His recent publications include “Latour's Heidegger” (Social Studies of Science, 2010, 40[4]) and, with Hans Bernhard Schmid, “The Philosophy of Science” (in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard [Routledge, 2011]).Ann La Berge teaches history of science and medicine in the Department of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on weight in America since 1980. She is working on a book manuscript in which she challenges the dominant public health discourse on weight gain and loss.Cherilyn Lacy is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Hartwick College. She specializes in the history of women and medicine in nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century France.Daryn Lehoux is Professor of Classics at Queen's University. He is the author of Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2007), What Did the Romans Know? (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), and Ancient Science (Blackwell, forthcoming).Mariska Leunissen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests are in ancient philosophy, ancient medicine, and history and philosophy of biology. She is the author of Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2010).Jeff Loveland is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context (2001) and An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon's Universal History (2010), as well as articles on eighteenth‐century encyclopedias.Paul Lucier studies the earth and environmental sciences and their interplay with the mining industry. He surveyed the fraught relations among scientific truth, commercial profit, public good, and private gain in Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (Johns Hopkins, 2008), and he is currently exploring the gold and silver discoveries of the late nineteenth‐century American West.Peter Machamer is a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Recently, with J. E. McGuire, he published Descartes's Changing Mind (Princeton University Press, 2009).Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Sub‐Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. With Jitse van der Meer, he recently edited the four volumes of Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008).Tony Mann teaches in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich in London. He is currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.Thomas F. Mayer, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the American Academy in Rome, is Professor of History at Augustana College. Among his books is Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet (Cambridge, 2000). He is now working on Galileo's trial, on which he has published a number of articles.Philip E. Mirowski is Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and the History of Science and a Fellow of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent books are The Effortless Economy of Science (Duke, 2004), winner of the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Machine Dreams (Cambridge, 2001), and ScienceMart (Harvard, 2011).Benjamin Mitchell is in the second year of his Ph.D. work in Science and Technology Studies at York University. He studies the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in the context of nineteenth‐century science, as well as the intersections between science and the occult.Robert G. Morrison is Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nīẓām al‐Dīn al‐Nīsābūrī (Routledge, 2007).Peter Neushul is a visiting researcher in the Department of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He specializes in the history of U.S. science and technology.William R. Newman is professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His most recent books are Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), and Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).Michael A. Osborne is Professor of History of Science at Oregon State University and a former colleague of both Larry Badash and Peter Neushul. He would like to thank both of them for many years of generosity and scholarly assistance.Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician‐in‐Residence at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His books include Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2000), Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature (2002), Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability (2003), and Sky in a Bottle (2005), all published by MIT Press. He has received the Peano Prize (2005) and a Guggenheim fellowship.Camilo Quintero holds a Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. His research focuses on the history of scientific and environmental interactions between the United States and Latin America.Eileen Reeves is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and her area of specialization is early modern scientific literature. Her recent books include Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror (2008) and Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots, 1611–1613 (2010), coauthored with Albert Van Helden.Joan Richards teaches the history of science as a professor in the History Department of Brown University. Her first book—Mathematical Visions: Non‐Euclidean Geometry in Victorian England—focused on the reception of a geometrical theory in the wider culture of nineteenth century England. Her second book—Angles of Reflection—was at once a memoir and an exploration of the logical work and family life of Augustus De Morgan. She is currently writing a multi‐generational family history focusing on changing views of rationality in the Frend/De Morgan family. All of these projects—as well as her many mathematical historical articles—are linked by an abiding interest in the ways that mathematics has served as a model of thinking that has developed in interaction with other approaches to the human mind, be they psychological, spiritual, physical, or even phrenological.Marsha L. Richmond is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research focuses on heredity, genetics, evolution, and cell theory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on the entry of women into academic biology. She is finalizing a book manuscript on Richard Goldschmidt and physiological genetics and collaborating with Ida Stamhuis on a book project on American and European women who worked in early genetics, 1900–1940.Leon Antonio Rocha is D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.Jutta Schickore is an associate professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. She works on methodological aspects of scientific experimentation and the problem of error in science. Her publications include Going Amiss in Experimental Research, coedited with Giora Hon and Friedrich Steinle (Springer, 2009), and The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870 (Chicago, 2007).Nathan Sidoli focuses in his research on the transmission of Greek mathematical sciences as found in Arabic sources. He has published, with J. L. Berggren, an edition and translation of the Arabic version of Ptolemy's Planisphere; he is now working, with Ken Saito, on Greek geometrical analysis in Greek and Arabic sources.Myles Standish spent most of his career at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing accurate planetary positions to spacecraft navigation teams and to national almanac offices. He received the American Astronomical Society's Brouwer Award in 2000 and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal in 2008. “Asteroid 3420 Standish” was named in his honor.Wesley M. Stevens has published fourteen books and seventy‐five articles on early medieval mathematics and astronomy, notably an edition of the Computus of Hrabanus and the Jarrow Lecture for 1985: Bede's Scientific Achievement. He is now preparing a Lexica Latina of mathematical and scientific terminology before a.d. 1200.William Thomas is a junior research fellow at Imperial College London. He created the Array of Contemporary American Physicists Web resource for the American Institute of Physics, and he is now undertaking a survey of expertise in the post–World War II British state.Dominique A. Tobbell is an assistant professor in the Program in the History of Medicine at the University of Minnesota and the author of “Charitable Innovations: The Political Economy of Thalassemia Research and Drug Development in the United States, 1960–2000,” in Perspectives on Twentieth‐Century Pharmaceuticals, edited by Judy Slinn and Vivianne Quirke (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010).David R. Topper is Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg and the author of Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy (Springer, 2007).Laurence Totelin is Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Her publications include Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Recipes in Fifth‐ and Fourth‐Century Greece (Brill, 2009).Alain Touwaide is Historian of Sciences at the Smithsonian and the Scientific Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions. He investigates Greek botany and medical literature (with a special focus on therapeutics and medicinal plants) and the transmission of ancient knowledge through the Mediterranean world.Scott Trigg is working on his dissertation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is pursuing a joint Ph.D. in history and history of science. His research focuses on late medieval Arabic astronomy; his broader interests include the social and institutional contexts of Arabic science and the transmission of scientific knowledge.William Tucker, originally trained in psychometrics, later became more interested in exploring the ways in which psychometric research has been used to support particular political ideologies. His most recent book is The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology (University of Illinois Press).Steven Vanden Broecke is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science in the Department of History of Ghent University. His research focuses on the early modern relation between religion, magic, and science. He has published on the history of astrology and astronomy and is now preparing work on early modern demonology and on the problematic of naming disease.Adelheid Voskuhl is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where she teaches and researches the history and philosophy of technology. She is at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Mechanics of Sentiment: Androids, Industrialism, and Selfhood in the European Enlightenment.”Doogab Yi is a Stetten postdoctoral fellow at the office of history, National Institutes of Health. He is preparing his first book, The Recombinant University, in which he analyzes how research patronage, market forces, and legal developments in the l970s and 1980s influenced the evolution of recombinant DNA technology and reshaped the moral and scientific life of biomedical researchers in the coming of te age of biotechnology. He received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, and from the 2011 academic year he will be a fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 102, Number 3September 2011 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/661631 © 2011 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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