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We are a community of scholars including a dozen or so core and affiliated faculty members and about

The Program in History of Science at Princeton University trains students to analyze science, medicine, and technology in historical and cultural context. We are a community of scholars including roughly a dozen core and affiliated faculty members and about twenty graduate students, in addition to undergraduate concentrators and visiting fellows. Members of our group maintain vibrant intellectual

connections with a number of campus communities, including (but not limited to) philosophy, public policy, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, and digital humanities. History of Science at Princeton remains rooted in our tradition of analyzing the technical and conceptual dimensions of scientific knowledge, whether it is chemistry, psychoanalysis, or evolutionary theory. At the same time, students are encouraged to consider scientific ideas and practices in the widest possible context. The research interests of the active faculty range from Memphis to Moscow, Berlin to Beijing, and include, for example, medieval alchemy, cultural and legal battles over scientific claims, and the development of twentieth-century biomedicine. Through this diversity runs a strong thread of consensus that the best current history of science demands an expansive, integrated approach, one that never loses sight of the global dynamics of science, medicine, and technology. We invite you to browse our website for the most recent accounts of our research activities: http://www.princeton.edu/hos/

10/04/2023

We have merged our History of Science and History Department social media accounts. For information on the History of Science program, students, and faculty follow on Twitter/X.

04/20/2023

Monday, April 24

Can a Simple Test in Bacteria Identify Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Humans?
By Angela N. H. Creager with comments by Austen Van Burns

http://ow.ly/i2HR50NOl5m

04/13/2023

April 17, 2023

Building a Socialist Pharmaceutical Industry: The Transnational Making of Antibiotics in Mao’s China
By Yang Li with comments by Alice Hong

🔗http://ow.ly/yKQ450NIuqC

04/05/2023

April 10, 3:00pm

Dichotic Listening, the Cocktail Party Problem, and the Filter Theory of Attention
By D. Graham Burnett with comments by Anin Luo

http://ow.ly/RqJ250NBebs

03/30/2023

Congratulations to Kathryn Maxson Jones HOS '21! She is one of the 2023 winners of the Dissertation Prize from the Division of the History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

We are very happy to announce the 2023 laureates of the DHST disseration prize. Brad BOLMANN. “The Voyage of the Scientific Beagle: Dogs in the Physical and Biomedical Sciences.” (Harvard University, director: Peter L. Galison and David S. Jones) Jolien GIJBELS. “The Perils of Birth: Obstetric...

03/29/2023

April 3, 3:00pm

"Between Breath and Sea: Sea Women and the Transpacific Entanglements of Science and Gender, c. 1910s-1980s"
Prospectus by Alice Hong with comments by Jonathan Victor Baldoza
On Being the Wrong Size: Aftermaths of Soviet Science
Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin with comments by Julian Chehirian

"Between Breath and Sea: Sea Women and the Transpacific Entanglements of Science and Gender, c. 1910s-1980s" Prospectus by Alice Hong with comments by Jonathan Victor Baldoza On Being the Wrong Size: Aftermaths of Soviet Science Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin with comments by Julian Chehirian Co...

03/22/2023

March 27, 3:00pm

Marketing a Socio-Legal Imaginary:
Technology, Freedom, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1962

By Haris Durrani with comments by Jack Klempay

🔗http://ow.ly/HoeN50NpGzk

03/17/2023

March 20, 3:00pm

“Reagan Science Policy Versus the Atari Democrats”: Bipartisan Convergence Around Industrial Policy and Technology Policy, 1983-1984

By Julia Marino with comments by Beth Fricker

http://ow.ly/RCqO50NlnTM

03/03/2023

Justine Holzman, HOS graduate student, featured in the Princeton University article "Princeton on ice: Documenting climate change at the ends of the Earth" about Anne McClintock's research on melting glaciers.

Polar ice tells the story of climate change — over millions of years and right now. Climate scientist John Higgins, historian of science Justine Holzman, and environmentalist Anne McClintock are bringing that story to light through their work.

03/02/2023

March 6, 2023

Smallpox Inoculation in Slavery and Freedom: Toward an Atlantic History of the Jamaican Smallpox Epidemic of 1768

By Elise Mitchell with comments by Anna Speyart

🔗http://ow.ly/o3pz50N7Esx

02/24/2023

February 27, 2023

Matters of record: film, paper, and the “bureaucratic media” of radiation protection at nuclear test sites

By Jack Klempay with comments by Iason Stathatos

🔗http://ow.ly/Yw4950N2kon

02/23/2023

March 1 at 4:30pm
Jeremy Blatter joins us for his colloquium on"Re-Animating Experimental Psychology: Media Archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the 'Testing the Mind' Film Series"

🔗details & rsvp: http://ow.ly/aT5H50MGKZt

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