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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMichael D. Bailey is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University, where he specializes in late medieval European religion and culture. He is the author of Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present.Daniela Barberis is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and History of Science at Shimer College. Her current research focuses on the development of the philosophy of science in France at the beginning of the twentieth century. She has published on the history of sociology and of psychology in late nineteenth-century France.Mark V. Barrow, Jr., is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. The author of A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon (1998) and Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (2009), he is now working on an environmental and cultural history of the American alligator.Marco Beretta is Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna and Vice Director of the Museo Galileo in Florence. Since 2004 he has been Editor of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. He has recently published The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking (2009).Victor D. Boantza is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney, where he is working on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science, especially alchemy and chemistry. He has published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Annals of Science, the British Journal for the History of Science, and edited collections. His book, Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution, will appear in 2012.Cornelius Borck is Professor for History, Theory, and Ethics of Science and Medicine and Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck. He has published on the history of the neurosciences and the epistemology of experimentation in art, science, and media.Mark E. Borrello is an associate professor in the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. His book, Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.Sonja Brentjes is currently a researcher in a “project of excellence” sponsored by the Junta of Andalusia at the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science of the University of Seville. She publishes on three major topics: Arabic and Persian versions of Euclid's Elements, the mathematical sciences at madrasas in Islamic societies before 1700, and cross-cultural exchange of knowledge in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean.Thomas Broman is professor of history of science and history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820 (1996), and together with Lynn Nyhart he was editor of the Osiris volume Science and Civil Society (2002). He is currently finishing a book on the sciences in the Enlightenment.Joshua Blu Buhs, an independent scholar, published Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend in 2009. He is now at work on a history of the Forteans.Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, writes on the history of evolutionary theory and the study of animal behavior. His current project is a history of the first new zoo of the modern era, the menagerie of the Paris Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.David Cahan is Charles Bessey Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of Letters of Hermann von Helmholtz to His Parents: The Medical Education of a German Scientist, 1837–1846 (Steiner, 1993); Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (California, 1994); and Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays (Chicago, 1995). He is writing a biography of Helmholtz.Marta Cavazza is an associate professor of history of science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. Her research concentrates primarily on early modern Italian scientific institutions, on the participation of women in those of eighteenth-century Bologna, and on the Enlightenment debate on gender, culture, and society.Tobias Cheung is Heisenberg Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research interests range from history of science and cultural studies to philosophy, anthropology, and Japanese studies. He is the author of various books and articles; his most recent book is Res vivens: Regulatorische Theorien und Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600–1800 (2008).Dane T. Daniel is an associate professor of history at Wright State University, Lake Campus. His research focuses on early modern religion and science, especially the natural philosophical and theological writings of Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, or Paracelsus (1493/1494–1541).John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, at the University of Exeter. He is President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Clark A. Elliott was formerly associated with the Harvard University Archives and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. His works include Biographical Dictionary of American Science and Thaddeus William Harris (1795–1856): Nature, Science, and Society in the Life of an American Naturalist.Eric J. Engstrom is a research associate in the Department of History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has published extensively on the history of psychiatry and is now researching a monograph on the history of forensic cultures in Berlin before 1914.Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen is Associate Professor of History of Science at Roskilde University in Denmark. His research focuses on German intellectual history and the history of human sciences.Andrea Falcon is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. He is a specialist in Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition. His current research concentrates on Aristotle's physics and its reception in antiquity and beyond.Craig Fraser is a professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto. He teaches courses there on the history of mathematics and the history of astronomy. He and Sandro Caparinni have written an article on the history of eighteenth-century mechanics for the Oxford Handbook to the History of Physics (forthcoming).Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. His Identity in Physics, coauthored with Décio Krause (Oxford University Press), attempts to bring together historical and philosophical themes on this topic and offers a formal analysis that draws directly on Schrödinger's work.Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the CNRS in Paris and Professor at the University of Geneva. His books include Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance (Oxford, 1995), Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, 2005), and the edited volumes Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Leiden, 1992), Studies on Steinschneider (with R. Leicht) (Leiden, 2011), and Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge, 2011). He is the Editor of Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, established in 2001.Steve Fuller holds the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick. His latest book is Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present, and Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Stephen Gaukroger is Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Among his recent publications are The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210 to 1685 (Oxford University Press, 2005), and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680 to 1760 (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is now at work on the third volume in this series: The Naturalization of the Human and the Humanization of Nature: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1750 to 1825.Delia Gavrus is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. She did her graduate work at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, where she completed a dissertation on the professional identity of neurosurgeons in the first half of the twentieth century.Yves Gingras is Professor in the Department of History and Canada Research Chair in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal. His research covers the mathematization of the sciences, the transformation of the universities, and the dynamic of scientific disciplines. His most recent book is Propos sur les sciences (Paris: Raisons d'Agir, 2010).Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (2005) and British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (2007), both published by the University of Chicago Press.Michael D. Gordin is professor of history at Princeton University, specializing in modern science. He is the author of Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (FSG, 2009), and The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (Chicago, forthcoming 2012).Bert S. Hall is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He specializes in medieval and Renaissance technology and is now working on the ecological/environmental response to the fifteenth-century German silver mining boom.Kristine C. Harper, Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, focuses on the history of the physical environmental sciences. Her book Weather by the Numbers was published by MIT Press in 2008. She is finishing a book manuscript on the history of weather control as a state tool.Martha Harris (martha.[email protected]ca) is a Faculty Liaison with the Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation at the University of Toronto.John Henry is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely. His Short History of Scientific Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) has just appeared.Danian Hu is an associate professor of history at the City College of the City University of New York and the author of China and Albert Einstein (Harvard, 2005). He is now completing a project on a British physicist working in China during the 1930s and the early 1940s.Yi-Long Huang obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985, writing on radio astronomy. In 2006 he was elected an Academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is now the Chair Professor of History at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His research interests include the history of astronomy in traditional China.Ann Johnson is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on the history of engineering.David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor and Department Head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Senior Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. His historical research focuses on physics in the twentieth century, looking especially at changes in scientists' training. His books include Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (W. W. Norton, 2011).Mark E. Kidwell is Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy.Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is Curator of Mathematics at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Her most recent book, coauthored with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, is Tools of American Mathematics Teaching. She is now studying the history of mathematical recreations in the United States.Stefan Kirschner is Professor of History of Science at the University of Hamburg. His current research focuses on medieval natural philosophy, especially Nicole Oresme. Further research interests concern the early debates on Copernicus's cosmology and astronomy in the second half of the sixteenth century.Angela Ki Che Leung is Director and Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications include Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2009) and Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia in the Long Twentieth Century, coedited with Charlotte Furth (Duke University Press, 2010). Her present research focus is on medical culture in South China in the global and colonial context.Charles E. McClelland is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas (Medical Branch), Galveston. His most recent work is Volume 1 of the six-volume Geschichte der Universität Unter Den Linden, 1810–2010, edited by Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2010–2011).Cyrus C. M. Mody is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Rice University. His research focuses on the engineering sciences, especially fields related to microelectronics and instrumentation. His first book, Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology, appeared in 2011 from MIT Press.James Moore is a historian of science at the Open University in England. He has taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Notre Dame and McMaster universities. His latest book, with Adrian Desmond, is Darwin's Sacred Cause (2009). Moore is working on a biographical study of Alfred Russel Wallace.Iwan Rhys Morus is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University and Editor of History of Science. He works on nineteenth-century science and popular culture and is the author, most recently, of Shocking Bodies (History Press, 2011).Chandra Mukerji is Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (Cambridge, 1997) and Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton, 2009). She is now studying the agential properties of scientific/engineering objects.Ian Nicholson is Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. A graduate of the History and Theory of Psychology Program at York University, he is the editor of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.Sebastian Normandin is Visiting Instructor in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University. His upcoming book, Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800–2010, coedited with Charles T. Wolfe, will be published by Springer in 2011.Harry Paul is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida; when not reading Proust, he continues to scribble away in French history. His latest book is Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947: Medicine and Theater (Ashgate, 2011; in the series “The History of Medicine in Context”). He is now working on the history of the professional woman doctor.Anne Pollock is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Culture at Georgia Tech. Her forthcoming book, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference, tracks discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States from the founding of cardiology to the commercial failure of BiDil.Theodore M. Porter is Professor of History at UCLA. His most recent book is Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton University Press, 2004). In an earlier era he wrote The Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986) and Trust in Numbers (1995). Just now he is exploring the investigation of human heredity in Europe and America from about 1820 to 1920 through the use of statistical recording practices and fieldwork at insane asylums. On the side, he has some recent papers on issues of science and public reason, such as “How Science Became Technical” (Isis, 2009).Stephen Push is a graduate student in history at American Public University. His research interests are in the history of biology and behavioral sciences.Nicolas Rasmussen is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). He is the author of Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America (Stanford, 1997), On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (NYU, 2008), and numerous pieces on the history of academic–industrial collaborations in biomedical science.Jessica Ratcliff holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois and is the author of The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain (2008). Her latest article, forthcoming in Technology and Culture, examines negative representations of invention in early modern English satire. Her current project is about data and the archive in nineteenth-century science.Richard A. Richards is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. He writes on a variety of topics in the history and philosophy of biology, including Darwin's argument, taxonomy, species concepts, sexual selection, and value theory. His book, The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis, was just published by Cambridge University Press.Marc Rothenberg is the agency historian for the National Science Foundation. He is working on a history of the role of the NSF in the development of American astronomy.Alexandra Rutherford is Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Psychology and Science and Technology Studies Programs at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life and coauthor of A History of Modern Psychology in Context.Stéphane Schmitt works at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). He has written several books and essays on the history of the life sciences, especially evolution, embryology, and anatomy, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He is the editor of Buffon's Oeuvres complètes (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007–).Adam R. Shapiro completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2007 and is currently a NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book—on textbook publishing, biology education, and the 1920s antievolution movement in the United States—will be published by University of Chicago Press in 2013.Suzanne Le-May Sheffield is the Associate Director (Programs) for the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Revealing New Worlds: Three Victorian Women Naturalists (Routledge, 2001) and Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (ABC-Clio, 2004).Ann Shteir, Professor Emerita at York University, is the author of Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 (1996), and other publications in the cultural history of women and science. With Bernard Lightman, she coedited Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (2006).Phillip R. Sloan is Emeritus Professor in the Program, of Liberal Studies/ Program in History and Philosophy of Science. His most recent publication (with Brandon Fogel) is Creating a Biophysics of Life (2011). He is currently completing a book on the concept of life and its bioethical implications.Stephen D. Snobelen is a historian of science who teaches in the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He specializes in science and religion, the popularization of science, and Isaac Newton.Mark Solovey teaches at the University of Toronto and is a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center (AY 2011-12). His books: Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (Rutgers Univ. Press, forthcoming).Joan Steigerwald is an associate professor in Science and Technology Studies and Humanities at York University. She has published on Kant's teleology, Schelling, Goethe, and Humboldt as well as on galvanism and organic vitality around 1800. She is now working on a book entitled Instruments of Judgment: Figuring Organic Vitality in German Science, Idealism, and Romanticism.Edith Dudley Sylla is Professor of History Emerita at North Carolina State University. She specializes in the history of late medieval mathematics and physics. She has recently been working on Ibn al-Haytham's On the Configuration of the World and on Georg Peurbach's Theorica nova planetarum and its commentators as background to Copernicus's Commentariolus.Bert Theunissen is Professor of the History of Science at the Institute for History and Foundations of Science, which is affiliated with the Descartes Centre for the History of the Sciences and the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His current work focuses on the history of animal breeding, particularly on the interactions between scientific and practical workers in livestock breeding in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For his publications see http://www.descartescentre.com.Sara Tjossem is Senior Lecturer in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches and does research on environmental policy, the intersection of science and society, and the history of biology (particularly ecology).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).Sarah Tracy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. A business administration and honors history graduate, she researches the politics of food, life, and health/debility in North America through the lens of the food additive, alleged toxin, and transnational biotech phenomenon monosodium glutamate (MSG).Marga Vicedo is an associate professor at the IHPST at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on the history of genetics, evolution, and animal research. Recently, she published on Harry Harlow (JHBS, History of Psychiatry), Konrad Lorenz (ISIS), and John Bowlby's views on attachment (BJHS). Her book The Nature and Nurture of Mother Love: From Imprinting in Birds to Attachment in Infants is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.Alexei Volkov obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute for History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1989. In 2006 he joined the faculty at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His research interests include the history of exact sciences in traditional China and Vietnam.Andre Wakefield is Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. His books include The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice (Chicago, 2009) and (with Claudine Cohen) the first English translation of G. W. Leibniz's Protogaea (Chicago, 2008). He is working on a book about Leibniz in the Harz Mountains.Matthew Walker teaches architectural history at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis and recent publications are on the relationship between architecture and science in early modern London. He has recently been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor of history of health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives (1998) and The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007).Fraser Watts is Reader in Theology and Science in the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Queens' College, and Director of the Psychology and Religion Research Group. His research focuses on the interface between theology and psychology; his latest book is Spiritual Healing: Scientific and Religious Perspectives.Stephen P. Weldon is Assistant Professor of History of Science at the University of Oklahoma and the Editor of the Isis Current Bibliography. He is finishing a book on religious and secular humanism in modern America.Richard Yeo is a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Brisbane. His books include Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 1993) and Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge, 2001). His recent publications concern ideas about memory and information in early modern Europe.Anya Zilberstein is Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal, and in 2012 will be a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich. She is completing her first book, tentatively titled A Temperate Empire: Climate Change and Settler Colonialism in Early America. 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