Ryan O'Loughlin has accepted an Assistant Professor position
Congratulations to HPSC graduate, Ryan O'Loughlin, who accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Philosophy, at Queens College (CUNY) in the School of Social Sciences.
Congratulations to HPSC graduate, Lara Hu!
Xiaoqian (Lara) Hu has accepted a Lecturer position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Becca Jackson Announced as a 2022-23 Science History Institute Dissertation Fellow
Congratulations to Becca Jackson who received the Science History Institute 2022-2023 Beckman Center Dissertation Fellowhsip!
The 2022 Thoren Award Recipient is Ryan O'Loughlin!
Ryan O'Loughlin has been awarded this year's Victor E. Thoren Graduate Student Research Fellowship.
Professor Elisabeth Lloyd elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the United States, has elected Elisabeth A. Lloyd to its latest class of honorees.
Dan Li is this year's Sousa Award Recipient!
Congratulations to Dan Li, the recipient of this year's Mikal Lynn Sousa Award for Excellence in Graduate Scholarship!
Travel Awards for Two HPSC Graduate Students
Congratulations to Rebecca Jackson and Siyu Yao! Rebecca and Siyu have both been awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award. This award is intended to assist students with traveling to and presenting at major national and international conferences.
Renaissance Studies NOW, Co-Sponsored by History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
We will end the semester with a new instantiation of “Renaissance Studies NOW,” bringing together six of the best and brightest young scholars in Renaissance / early modern studies for intense workshops on teaching (11:00 a.m.) and scholarship (4:00 p.m.), followed by a festive reception.
Town and Country: Science in Urban and Rural Spaces, 2022 Graduate Student Conference
Urban and rural spaces both represent collections of people with distinct relationships to their natural and built environments and become formations of nature and culture that impact the science produced within these spaces or as objects of study. We wish to address how science and technology are produced in or for urban and rural environments and to address the divide, tension or continuity between these spaces of scientific research and knowledge production.
Spring 2022 Sawyer Seminar Conference
We are pleased to announce the program of the conference "Control in Historical and Systematic Perspectives," to be held March 2 - March 5, 2022 hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. The conference is part of a Sawyer Seminar, a year-long research institute funded by the USA-based Mellon Foundation.
Congratulations again to Meagan Allen!
Meagan Allen has won an international dissertation prize competition. It’s the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research, from the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance. It comes with a book contract, a conference invitation, a medal, and cash.
Fall 2021 Sawyer Seminar Conference
We are pleased to announce the program of the conference "Analysis and Synthesis in Historical and Systematic Perspectives," to be held September 29-October 2, 2021 at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). The conference is part of a Sawyer Seminar, a year-long research institute funded by the USA-based Mellon Foundation.
2021 ISHPSSB Interdisciplinary Organized Session Prize awarded to Becca Jackson and co-panelists for the session "Your genitals don’t lie!“ An escorted encounter with the history and philosophy of phallic and cervical measuring
Exploring the historical, philosophical, and social dimensions of phallometry and cervimetry, this session embodied the ISHPSSB ideal of integrative, dialogic, critical, cohesive, and convivial interdisciplinarity.
Rebecca Jackson named a 2021-2022 John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellow in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum announces its latest round of fellowship recipients.
The College of Arts