History of Science

The research of Brad Bolman, Founders' Circle Member in the School of Historical Studies, focuses on the history of knowledge about organisms since the nineteenth century. "I study how scientists and other interested parties come to know what an organism is, whether it’s a beagle, a rose, or a truffle," he explains.

On April 2, 2019, Projit Bihari Mukharji, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a public lecture titled "Race by Numbers: Statistics and Race in Inter-War British India" as part of the...

On March 5, 2019, Yulia Frumer, Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professor of East Asian Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University, gave a public lecture titled "Robocon is Zazen: Psychology and Buddhism in Mori Masahiro's Robotics" as part of...

On February 26, 2019, Stephanie Dick, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a public lecture titled "After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in the Postwar United States" as part of the...

My work in the history of science probes the porous boundaries between science and culture over the past two centuries. Much of it gestures toward the role of history in public policy. I am interested in having the historian at the table while a...