People
Faculty Research Interests
Mario Biagioli
Cultural histories of early modern science and the Scientific Revolution; science and intellectual property; scientific authorship; science and literature
Allan M. Brandt
History of American medicine and science; health and public policy; medical ethics
Janet Browne History of biology and natural history; Darwin and evolutionism; travel and exploration; scientific biography.
Jimena Canales
19th century physics, astronomy, and philosophy of science; epistemological and psychological aspects of the modern physical sciences; science and modernity; science and representation.
Marwa Elshakry
History of modern Arabic sciences; science and empire; Darwin and Darwinism.
Peter L. Galison
History and philosophy of 20th-century physics; instrumentation; relationship of physics to engineering
Owen Gingerich
Astronomy; antiquity to Renaissance and modern; instruments; astrology; Copernicus; Kepler; Tycho; Galileo; Ptolemy; Shapley.
Evelynn Hammonds
History of American science and medicine; race and gender in science, medicine, and public health; medical technologies; African American history
Anne Harrington
History of psychology and the brain sciences, 18th through 20th centuries
Erwin N. Hiebert
Physics and chemical physics, 1850-1950; European intellectual history; philosophy of science; atomic and nuclear science; science and religion, science and Marxism.
Gerald Holton
Physics, 19th- through the early 20-th century; contemporary science and technology; social and humanistic relations of science; philosophy of science; thematic analysis; history of science in education; nationalized science.
Sarah Jansen
History and epistemology of the life sciences; environmental history; history of biopolitics; history of science policies; history of formalization; science and gender.
Everett I. Mendelsohn
History of the biological sciences; sociological history of science; development of physiology in the 19th century and its relationship to the physical sciences; comparative institutionalization of science within Europe and non-European societies
John E. Murdoch
History of ancient and medieval science, philosophy, and logic
Katherine Park
History of science in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance; history of medicine and the life sciences; history of gender, sexuality, and the body
Charles E. Rosenberg
History of medicine and disease in the 19th and 20th centuries
Barbara G. Rosenkrantz
Medical and public health science, practice and institutions; history of disease.
A.I. Sabra
Philosophy of science; mathematics; astronomy; physics; Islam, Middle and Near East to 1600; history of logic; Islamic science and philosophy; history of optics.
Steven Shapin
Sociology of scientific knowledge; early modern science; the social role of the scientist in 20th- and 21st-century America; science and entrepreneurship; the history and sociology of dietetics.
Adelheid Voskuhl
Early Modern and Modern History and Philosophy of Technology, Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology, Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, Technology and Literary Criticism.
