Biographies of 2008 Officers Elect
Council (Serving 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2011)
The Council is the responsible agent of the Society and has general charge of the affairs of the HSS. Council convenes once a year, at the annual meeting, and handles ad interim business via e-mail. Council elects the Treasurer and Secretary, approves Society budgets, and endorses Society policy.
Pamela Henson, Director, Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives; Historian in Residence, American University. Ph.D., University of Maryland (USA), 1990. HSS and Professional Activities: Co-chair, Women’s Caucus, 2003-2005; History of Women in Science Prize Committee, 1994-1996; Women's Committee representative to the Federation of Organizations of Professional Women, 1987-1992; Isis Editorial Board, 2000-2003. Journal of the History of Biology, Editorial Board, 2003-2008. Awards: Forrest C. Pogue Award for outstanding contributions to the field of oral history from Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1995. Selected Publications: “Le mouvement d’étude de nature (Nature Study) aux Etats-Unis. Citoyens et Science vers la fin du 19ème siècle. Le rôle d’Anna Botsford Comstock,” in F. Charvolin, A. Micoud and L. Nyhart, eds., Des Sciences Citoyennes? La Question de L’amateur dans les Sciences Naturalistes. Ed. de l’Aube, La Tour d’Aigues, 2007; With R. E. Doel, “Reading Photographs: Photographs as Evidence in Writing the History of Modern Science,” in R. E. Doel and T. Söderqvist, eds., Writing Recent Science: New Directions in the History of Science. London: Routledge, 2007; “A National Science and A National Museum.” In Museums and Other Institutions of Natural History: Past, Present, and Future, A. E. Leviton and M. L. Aldrich, eds. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 2004.
Judy Johns Schloegel, Independent Scholar. Ph.D., Indiana University, 2006. HSS and Professional Activities: Member, HSS Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize Committee, 2006-2008, Chair, 2008; Co-chair HSS Women’s Caucus, 2002-2004; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Program Committee, 2007-2009; ISHPSSB Marjorie Grene Prize Committee, 2003-2005. Awards: NSF Scholar’s Award for “Intimate Biology: Epistemic Strategies, Research Organisms, and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics,” 2007-2009; post-doctoral fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, 2005-2006; research fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, 1997-1998; ISHPSSB Marjorie Grene Prize, 1997. Selected Publications: “Ecology, Environment, and ‘Big Science’: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources on Environmental Research at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955-1985,” with Karen A. Rader, published as ANL/HIST-4, Argonne National Laboratory, 2005; “General Physiology, Experimental Psychology, and Evolutionism: Unicellular Organisms as Objects of Psycho-physiological Research, 1877-1918,” with Henning Schmidgen, Isis 93 (2002):614-645; “From Anomaly to Unification: Tracy Sonneborn and the Species Problem in Protozoa, 1954-1957,” Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1999):93-132.
Karen Reeds, Independent Scholar, curator, and museum consultant; Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. HSS and Professional Activities: Member and chair of Publications Committee, 1998-2003; chaired search for HSS Bibliographer,); Council Member, 1998-2000; Member,Price-Webster Prize Committee 2003-2006, American Association for the History of Medicine; Vice-President (incoming President, 2008), Medical History Society of New Jersey; Grants Committee Chair, Princeton Research Forum; Program Committee, National Coalition of Independent Scholars; New Jersey Forum Advisory Board, New Jersey Historical Commission, 2008. Awards: David L. Cowen Award, Medical History Society of New Jersey, 2003. Selected Publications and Exhibitions: “Leonardo da Vinci and Botanical Illustration: Nature Prints, Drawings, and Woodcuts ca. 1500,” 205-237, in Jean Givens, Karen Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, (Ashgate, 2006); A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage (Rutgers University Press, 2001); Judith P. Swazey and Karen Reeds, Today's Medicine, Tomorrow's Science: Essays on Paths of Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences (Government Printing Office: US DHEW Publication No. (NIH)-78-244, 1978 (Web edition:http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/swazey_reeds_1978/default.htm; Guest curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America, American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 2008; guest curator, A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage, Rutgers University and UMDNJ Libraries, traveling exhibition, 1999-2005.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Honorary Professor, Technical University, Berlin; Dr. rer. nat., Free University of Berlin, 1982; Habilitation (molecular biology), Free University of Berlin, 1987. HSS Activities: Member of Isis Editorial Board. Awards: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, 1993-1994; Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, since 1998; Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum Zurich, 2000; Member of the Academy Leopoldina, since 2002; Dr. h.c. ETH Zurich, 2006; Prize for Interdisciplinary Research of the Cogito Foundation Zurich, 2006. Selected Publications: Toward a History of Epistemic Things (1997); The Mapping Cultures of 20th Century Genetics (2 vols., ed. with Jean-Paul Gaudillière, 2004); Studien zur Geschichte der modernen Biologie (2006); Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung (2007); Heredity Produced (ed. With Staffan Müller-Wille, 2007).
Jessica Riskin, Associate Professor, History Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995; BA, Harvard University, 1988. HSS and Professional Activities: member, Leo Gershoy Award Committee of the American Historical Association, 2004–2007; member, Program Committee, Society for French Historical Studies annual meeting, 2005; President, West Coast History of Science Society, 2001-2002; ongoing member, History of Science Society, American Historical Association, Society for French Historical Studies, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Awards: J.Russell Major Award of the American Historical Association (best book in French history), 2004; National Science Foundation Scholar's Award, 2003; Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2003. Selected Publications: Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (2002); “The Defecating Duck; or, The Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life,” in Critical Inquiry (2003); “The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod,” in Science in Context (1999); Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (2007) [edited volume].
Nominating Committee (At Large) (Serving 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009)
The Nominating Committee, consisting of two members of the Council and three other members of the Society (at large), prepares the election ballot sent to each member of the Society. Their job is to identify the future leaders of the HSS. The Committee meets during the annual meeting.
Katharine Anderson, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Humanities, York University. Ph.D. History, Northwestern, 1994. HSS and Professional Activities: Book review editor, Isis, 2004-06; member executive Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, 2001-2004; NAVSA Victorian Frontiers 2004 organizing committee. Selected Publications: Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology (Chicago, 2005); “Mapping Meteorology” in Coen, Fleming, Jankovic eds. Intimate Universality (Science History, 2006)69-92; “Does History Count? History of Marine Animals Population” Endeavour 30 (December 2006) 150-55.
Pamela H. Smith, Professor, Department of History, Columbia University, NY. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1991. HSS and Professional Activities: President, West Coast History of Science Society, 1997; Isis Editorial Board; HSS Committee on Education, 2000-02, Chair 2001-02; HSS Nominating Committee 2000-01; HSS Executive Council 2000-02; Osiris Editorial Board; AHA Executive Council 2004-06. Selected Publications: The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1994 (HSS Pfizer Prize 1995). The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, 2004 (AHA Gershoy Prize 2005). Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, co-edited with Paula Findlen, 2002; and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800, co-edited with Benjamin Schmidt, 2008.
M. Norton Wise, Distinguished Professor of History; Co-director, Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA; PhD, Princeton University, 1976. HSS and Professional Activities: Member of Council, 1999-2001; Derek Price Award Committee, 1991-1994; Isis Editorial Board, 1991-1994. Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for History of Science. Elected Fellowships: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, AAAS, American Physical Society. Selected Publications: “What can Local Circulation Explain?” HoST (Journal of the History of Science and Technology), 1 (2007), 15-73; with Angela N.H. Creager and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds.), Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, and Exemplary Narratives (Duke University Press, 2007); “The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain,” in Jessica Riskin (ed.), Genesis Redux (University of Chicago Press, 2007), 163-195; “Making Visible,” Isis, 97 (2006), 75-82; with Elaine Wise, “Staging an Empire,” in Lorraine Daston (ed.), Things that Talk (Zone Books, 2003), 101-145, 391-399.
Nominating Committee from Council (Serving 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009)
David Kaiser, Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, and Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000. HSS and Professional Activities: HSS Council, 2007-; Isis Advisory Board, 2005-; Associate Editor, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (successor to HSPS), 2007-; HSS Committee on Meetings and Programs, 2002-2004 (local organizer for annual meeting, 2003). Selected Awards: HSS Pfizer Award (2007); Forum for History of Science in America Book Prize (2006) and Article Prize (2005); BSHS Ivan Slade Prize runner-up (2000); American Physical Society Leroy Apker Award (1993). Selected Publications: Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (University of Chicago Press, 2005); (editor), Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press, 2005); “The physics of spin: Sputnik politics and American physicists in the 1950s,” Social Research 73 (2006): 1225-1252; “Whose mass is it anyway? Particle cosmology and the objects of theory,” Social Studies of Science 36 (2006): 533-564.
Thomas Söderqvist, Professor of History of Medicine and Director, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. Ph.D., University of Gothenburg, 1986; Habilitation, Roskilde University, 1998. HSS and Professional Activities: Chairman of Danish National Science Foundation’s Committee for Science Studies, 1994-1995; Director of Danish Humanities Research Council’s Network for History and Philosophy of Science, 1994-1999; Member of the Danish Rector’s Conference Committee for the establishment of a national science studies curriculum, 2000-2001; Member of the Danish National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science, 1994-2009; Board member, Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science, 2001-; Editor, Bibliotek for Læger, 1999-2006; Editorial Board, H-SCI-TECH-MED, 2007- ; Member of Council, History of Science Society, 2008-2010. Selected Publications: “Existential projects and existential choice in science: Science biography as an edifying genre”, in R. Yeo and M. Shortland (eds), Telling lives: Studies of scientific biography. (Cambridge, 1996); The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology (Harwood, 1997; ed.); Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne (Yale, 2003); “Wissenschaftsgeschichte á la Plutarch: Biographie über Wissenschaftler als tugendethische Gattung”, in H. E. Bödeker (ed.), Biographie schreiben (Göttingen, 2003); The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine (Routledge, 2006, co-ed.); The Poetics of Biography in Science, Technology and Medicine (Ashgate, 2007, ed.).