People
Faculty Research Interests
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 and early 20th century physics, astronomy and philosophy of science. Epistemological and psychological aspects of the modernphysical sciences. Relations between physics, art, architecture and film.
Peter L. Galison
History of the modern physical sciences. Philosophy and physics in the 20th century. The relation between science and representation, war, secrecy, material culture, and the environment. Filming science
Owen Gingerich
Astronomy; antiquity to Renaissance and modern; instruments; astrology; Copernicus; Kepler; Tycho; Galileo; Ptolemy; Shapley.
Jeremy Greene
History of medicine and public health, the history of disease, the history of therapeutics, with focus on the history of the pharmaceutical industry and its interactions with biomedical research, clinical practice, and global public health.
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.
Rebecca Lemov
History of the human and social sciences; universal data-gathering projects in the Twentieth Century, social and self-experimentation; coercive interrogation techniques; brainwashing.
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
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
Sophia Roosth
20th and 21st century life sciences; history and anthropology of biotechnology and bioengineering; science, technology, and society; ethnographic methods; sensory studies
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.
Sarah Richardson
Race and gender in the biosciences; social dimensions of scientific knowledge; history of molecular biology and genetics, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, and feminist science studies. Current focus on history of human sexchromosome genetics
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.
