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The European Society for History The European Society for History of Science’s (ESHS) Recent Meeting: of Science’s (ESHS) Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons Reflections and Lessons for HSS Members for HSS Members 1 To “See the Suffering” 6 Dr. Pnina G. Abir-Am, Resident Scholar, WSRC, Brandeis University. ([email protected]) Dreams of Diversity for HSS 8 The 8th biennial ESHS www.eshs.org( ) meeting was depend on interaction with European colleagues and on held in London on 14-17 September 2018, with the archival resources. At the same time, the “Group Travel Member News 10 Institute of Education at University College, London Grant” requires a PI (principal investigator) who cares HSS News 19 serving as its main venue. Half a dozen members of enough for the public good to assume its administration. the History of Science Society (HSS) benefitted from As someone who almost missed a crucial conference in News from the Profession 23 a “Group Travel Grant” awarded by the NSF-STS Tokyo,3 precisely because such a PI was not available, Program,1 in line with its prior sponsorship of similar I wish to emphasize the key role played by those who groups of scholars to ESHS-2016 in Prague, among graciously agreed to serve as PIs of these “Group Travel other international conferences.2 These grants are Grants” for ESHS-2018 & ESHS-2016, namely Marsha particularly useful for US-based HSS members who Richmond and Donald Opitz, respectively (see their work on European or transatlantic topics, and who thus details in Note 1). Various scholarly and professional benefits deriving from participation at the ESHS- 1 The “Group Travel Grant”, authorized by the NSF-STS Program Director 4 Frederick Kronz, was administered by Professor Marsha Richmond, 2018 Meeting, will also be mentioned below, before President of ISHPSSB, via her home institution, Wayne State University. In addition to her and me, those travelling to ESHS-London under this concluding with some suggestions for improving the use “Group Travel Grant” also included Donald Opitz, Assoc. Dean, DePaul Univ. of the “Group Travel Grant” instrument. and Secretary of the Intl. Comm. for the History of Women in STEM; Tina Gianquitto, Colorado School of Mines, Co-Chair, HSS Women’s Caucus; Richard Kremer, Dartmouth College; and Anna Amramina, grad student, ESHS-2018’s theme of “Unity and Disunity,” was Univ. of Minn. It sought to enable the ESHS participation of US-based scholars who cannot count on institutional support for such international selected to resonate with Brexit, which continues travel, most notably graduate students, post-docs, independent scholars, to plague both the hosting country of UK and the and those affiliated with small institutions. The “Group Travel Grant” mechanism covers all allowable expenses, in contrast with individual travel 3 See “IWHC-Tokyo-2015 - An Enchanted Conference I almost Missed,” grants distributed by scientific societies, including HSS, which cover partial http://hssonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/July2015-Newsletter. expenses only. pdf. 2 For a description of this Program’s sponsorship of travel by US-based 4 I wish to thank Marsha Richmond, Richard Kremer, (see Note 1 for both) scholars to an international meeting in Prague in 2015 see “Women and and Anne-Sophie Godfroy of Republique des Savoirs, joint center of Men Making Knowledge: Reflections on the Prague conference of June Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) and Centre National pour La Recherche 2015,” https://hssonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Jan-2016- Scientififique, (CNRS) in Paris for sharing many examples of benefits they newsletter.pdf. experienced. Continued on Page 2 History of Science Society Newsletter History of Science Society ESHS Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons, cont. Executive Office European Union (EU), the parent supranational Vogt. The symposium focused on the balance of History of Science Society framework of ESHS. 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ESHS Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons, cont. by (in alphabetical order) Matthew Adamson, Fara of Cambridge University, UK; Donald foreign. Speaker Anne-Sophie Godfroy of the (Central European University in Budapest) Opitz & Marsha Richmond of USA, (see note University of Paris, explored the reasons for the Roberto Cantoni, (University of Strasbourg) 1); Maria Rentetzi of the Technical University of different visibility of scientists versus humanists, Ronald Doel, (Florida State University) Athens, Greece; Ana Romero de Pablos, Maria as well as women versus men, among the elite Doubravka Olsakova, (Masarik University, Santesmases, and Marta Velasco Martin, all of ENS university’s (Ecole Normale Superieure) Prague) Maria Rentetzi, (Technical University U. Madrid, Spain; Ida Stamhuis of the Free famous alumni and alumnae. She also charted of Athens) Ana Simões, (University of Lisbon) University of Amsterdam; and Anna Tunlid of new ground into the impact of co-education and Geert Somsen. (Columbia University, USA) the University of Uppsala, Sweden. and institution merging on such in/visibility, I use “nostalgia” because this symposium had both in France and cross-nationally. The session A related symposium “Shadows Illuminated: a predecessor at ESHS- 2016 in Prague, which raised the key issue of epistemic in/justice for Invisibilities of Science and its Dis/unities” included the above-mentioned Turchetti & certain categories of scientists, such as foreigners (#52) focused on the challenging topic of the Olsakova, (as co-organizers) and which I was and women. This is a key issue with which I “invisibility of actors, spaces, and projects” while excited to take part in with a talk on US science also grapple in my current research on epistemic calling attention to the type of sources required attachés in London and Paris, in the 1950s.8 injustice for women, junior, and foreign scientists to retrieve what has been ignored, forgotten, or involved in the discovery of RNA splicing.9 Yet, another rich and interesting symposium kept away from the historiography. The session focused on “Circulating Gender in alluded to lab assistants, museum staff, tourist A stand-alone session, which not only tackled Contemporary Science: Women Scientists in guides, publishers, among other categories which the key topic of “Science Criticism from Within: the 20th Century” (#25). The emphasis was on remain obfuscated or missing from papers, end What’s the Price of Self-reflexivity?” (#54) but the permanent movement and travels of women notes, and bibliographies. The session aimed also served as a reunion of veteran colleagues and gendered objects in the history of 20th to understand the reasons of such obfuscation, and friends, featured Helga Satzinger, a pioneer century science. The session featured about a while advocating new combinations of primary of gendered work in German genetics, recently dozen speakers, commentators, and chairpersons, and secondary sources, social theories such as retired from University College, London among them well-known colleagues with superb actor network theory and social network analysis, and relocated to her native Berlin; Jonathan case studies, such as (in alphabetical order) Ana as well as comparative and cross-disciplinary Harwood, recently retired from the University of Barahona of UNAM in Mexico City; Patricia methods. For example, organizers Ana Cristina Manchester, UK and relocated to the University 8 For the Program and abstracts of ESHS Meetings see the Martins (New University of Lisbon) and Joao of Sussex, who did a great job as commentator; archived section of its website. (www.eshs.org) My extended activities at ESHS-2016-Prague (In addition to speaking in the Carlos de Sena-Martinez (University of Lisbon) and Alexander Schwerin of the University of symposium on the history of science diplomacy at ESHS-2016 in Prague, I also co-organized a session on “History of Science interrogated the role played by foreign researchers Berlin. The session deftly addressed the impact and Theatre” together with Robert Marc Friedman of Oslo in the rise of archeology in Portugal, while University. This symposium format was an organizational feature 9 “RNA Splicing at 40: Reflections on Scientific Progress, that provided coherence to the program, while also reflecting unearthing the role of women, both local and Policy, and Social Justice” https://hssonline.org/wp-content/ prevalent patterns of long term intra-European collaborations. uploads/2014/07/Apr-2017-newsletter.pdf 3 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

ESHS Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons, cont. of self-reflexivity in science on the scientific between Giuseppe Levi, Viktor Hamburger, which also included Alessandra Passarielo of culture in general, on the careers of the science Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Joseph Needham,” the Universities of Rome and Ben Gurion, who critics, and on the parallel issue of scientific which was organized by Ariane Droscher of the focused on Joseph Needham’s contributions to responsibility. University of Verona, Italy. The session focused chemical embryology, included a lively Q&A, on the relationships between these scientists because its level of attendance was likely affected Another notable session was “The Fabulous and their respective contributions to the rise of by the ESHS organizers shifting its time slot 1930s in the History of Science & Technology” neuroembryology. Ariane Droscher examined twice. (#57), whose seven participants included Kathryn Giuseppe Levi’s interest in phenomena of life Olesko of Georgetown University, USA and We much enjoyed the superb keynote lecture and death, senescence and immortality, at the Ana Simões. The session explored how thinkers (held in the impressive auditorium of the Royal University of Turin in the inter-war period. of the 1930s, such as Boris Hessen, Robert Institution) by Ana Simões and the incoming Lijing Jiang of Colby College, Maine, USA Merton, Michael Polanyi, Edgar Zilsel, Ludwick ESHS President, who brought to life and (paper read by Marsha Richmond, see Note Fleck, and Antonio Gramsci, among others, current significance a relatively obscure but 1, who also served as this session’s resourceful anticipated many of the main historiographical entrepreneurial Portuguese scientist of the commentator) focused on Viktor Hamburger’s trends shaping the field of science and technology 18th and 19th centuries, someone who also pursuit of the concept of the “organizer” at since the 1980s, such as historicism, social anticipated today’s European dream of career Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, constructivism, and cultural studies of science. mobility across countries. I could not avoid in the 1930s and beyond. In my turn, I focused The session advocated a fresh look at their reflecting on ESHS as a forum of opportunity on Rita Levi-Montalcini, (1909-2012) a mentee forgotten contributions. As a speaker at the 75th for all Europeans, but especially for scholars of Giuseppe Levi and Viktor Hamburger, best anniversary of the 2nd Congress for the History from small countries in the European periphery. known as co-discoverer of the nerve growth of Science of 1931, which was held in London Colleagues such as Ana Simões and Efthymios factor (NGF) for which she shared the 1986 under combined BJHS & HSS auspices at the Nicolaides from Greece were among the most Nobel Prize. (Two other students of Giuseppe Science Museum where the 1931 Congress was dedicated and distinguished ESHS members Levi also became Nobel co-laureates, Salvador also held, I regretted not being involved with this at this conference. Some of them, like Laure Luria in 1969 and Renato Dulbecco in 1975). “fabulous” flashback on the 1930s. That unique Miolo, a historian of astronomy from Paris, even Entitled “Marie Curie or Maria Callas: Rita decade featured repeatedly in papers from my became a friend. Various opportunities created by Levi-Montalcini’s Most Remarkable Career in early days, so it was gratifying to see that the ESHS, such as the splendid banquet at the Royal the US and Europe,” my talk focused on her charm of this decade persists. Institution, the communal lunches and coffee/tea integration of her two famed mentors’ legacies, breaks, enabled endless reunions with colleagues Last but not least, a few words about our as well as her rise as a cultural icon in Europe, from one’s remote past; it helped, if one already session, (#37) “Uniting and Disuniting Research after she retired from her scientific career in the had some European past! Threads: The Collaborative Relationships US. We were very fortunate that our session, 4 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

ESHS Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons, cont. Benefits accruing from participating in ESHS, the Royal Institution, was an enriching Richmond) c) advancing the planning of can be classified into six categories: experience because it is the site of a great the international meeting of ISHPSB in deal of history of science since the 19th Oslo in July 2019 with European officers; 1. Presenting the research of US based scholars century. It was encouraging to see there not (Marsha Richmond, as ISHPSB President) in the main European forum for the history only the portrait of Faraday but also that of of science enabled them to obtain pertinent d) participating in the local tradition of Frank James, long time editor of Faraday’s feedback from European colleagues, who professional British “clubs” such as the Collected Works, curator of his instruments, constituted the vast majority of the ESHS- “Equinox Society,” thus getting better and resident historian. 2018 conference attendees. For example, acquainted with UK museum curators and in my talk on Rita Levi-Montalcini’s 2nd 3. Specific professional benefits related to benefitting from their tips and experience; career as a cultural icon in Italy and Europe, publication accrued to those who serve as (Richard Kremer) and obtaining tips on as a life senator, as a policy adviser, and as a journal co-editors, as they were able to use archives in Sweden from a Swedish colleague leader in civic engagements, especially after their presence at ESHS for advertising their I met for the first time at ESHS in London. the Nobel Prize, European colleagues posed journals, recruiting potential authors from 5. Participation in the business meeting of questions on the significance of her life as among younger scholars, or dealing with the International Commission on Women an embodiment of 20th century European actual authors; (e.g. Marsha Richmond for in the History of STEM, enabled those of history. By contrast, a US-based colleague J.Hist. Biol. and Richard Kremer for J. Hist. us who were unable to attend ICHST in asserted, without offering any justification, Astronomy). Similarly, other US scholars were Brazil in 2017 to receive updates on the that she did not belong in a volume on also able to discuss publication options with Commission’s upcoming activities, most innovative biologists.10 European press exhibitors at ESHS. notably its biennial meeting, on 17-20 2. Participating in ESHS-2018 offered benefits 4. Opportunities for professional networking June 2019 at Tel Aviv University/Open beyond direct feedback on one’s research. were numerous, including: a) business University in Ra’anana. For example, those who attended multi- meetings with European collaborators and/ national symposia, and especially those 6. Spin off activities beyond ESHS, resulting or actual or potential co-authors or partners who served as commentators expanded from one’s presence for ESHS in Greater in special issues of journals; b) interaction as their horizons through exposure to new London, such as conducting archival research both a scholar and a delegate of US-based national traditions. Becoming acquainted in nearby repositories, and opportunities for with the hosting institutions, especially professional organization) with members guest lecturing in European Programs for the of a UK-based consortium in digitalizing History of Science. 10 This argument was made in response to my suggestion that Rita Levi-Montalcini was a great example of a biological innovator 19th century correspondence, including who experienced outsider status, see ISIS, vol. 106, no. 2, (June the discussion of future plans; (Marsha 2015) 492-494, or https://doi.org/10.1086/682814 5 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

ESHS Recent Meeting: Reflections and Lessons, cont. Suggestions for Improving the Use of two academic years in Paris on funds from held a day prior to ESHS, and should be the “Group Travel Grant” the French CNRS to work on French or considered as allowable expenses. Along these 1. It might be a good idea to stabilize the comparative, French & American, subjects.11 lines, such a scheme should strive to cover “Group Travel Grant” mechanism into a New archives have meanwhile opened, but all allowable expenses for those qualifying to scheme that includes spin off activities, (e.g. such schemes no longer exist on the French participate in it, while also including clear such as those in 6 above) especially since side, where the focus remains on intra- priorities for consideration. travel within Europe is much cheaper than European projects. To sum up, these grants 2. The timing of applying for the Group transatlantic travel. Current funding of support well documented and significant Travel Grant can be advanced, so that US- collaboration follows intra-European science spin-off activities such as archival research, based scholars are better able to plan well in policy schemes inspired by the EU, to the guest lectures, or participation at a parallel, advance for the wider uses of the precious detriment of former bi-lateral agreements relevant conference (e.g. the Royal Society stay in Europe, afforded by such a scheme. between the US and various European conference on the centennial of WW1, countries. It is thus much more difficult for Let’s hope that more US-based scholars 11 Some of this research was consolidated in the volume La Mise US-based scholars to collaborate in Europe en Memoire de la Science, (Paris: Editions de la Decouverte, 1998) will attend ESHS in 2020, to be held at the sponsored by the French Ministry of Research via Maison Suger/ or spend extended, or even a short time Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, as proceedings of a conference University of Bologna, in Italy. in Paris, which included speakers from both the US and several there. For example, I was able to spend European countries. This French Language volume led to Osiris 14.

To “See the Suffering” by Scott Jaschik (https://www.insidehighered.com/users/scott-jaschik)

[The following article, based on the annual Jefferson importance of the humanities, especially in government bestows in the humanities, and this Lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for comparison with science fields. year that honor went to Rita Charon, a pioneer the Humanities, appeared in Inside Higher Ed in the field of narrative medicine. Charon, a (Oct 16, 2018) and is reproduced with permission.] The 2018 Jefferson Lecture featured an argument Harvard University-trained physician with a PhD that the humanities are needed more than ever, in English literature, is the founding chair and Many humanities professors these days feel and in particular in medicine. professor of medical humanities and ethics and besieged. Departments are being eliminated professor of medicine at the Columbia University on some campuses. The job market is terrible. Being selected to give the Jefferson Lecture Irving Medical Center. Politicians and pundits regularly question the is considered the highest honor the federal 6 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter To “See the Suffering,” cont.

“I am here to suggest that there is much beyond One of the paintings she discussed is “Sea medicine is so vital, and why medicine needs the the fixable that doctors must learn to see,” and Rain: Variations in Violet and Green,” a humanities. Charon said, according to her prepared text. small 1865 painting by James Abbott McNeill “Whistler gives us a body to contemplate. “Beyond the bleeding and the seizing, we need Whistler: “The palette and the scale seem at Medicine treats bodies, and bodies are not to see the complex lived experience of the person odds with one another—one soft, the other things,” she said. “Well, they are things and facing a health problem. If we don’t, we miss grand. Notice what reaches you, what you they are also more than things. In committing the very reasons that persons visit us—their find yourself wondering about,” Charon said. a Jefferson Lecture to medicine and the symptoms, their fears, their awareness of fragility. “Does it have plot and characters? What is the humanities, the endowment is making a I am convinced—with evidence to support mood of the painting, and what mood do you powerful statement about the centrality to my conviction—that study and practice in the find surfacing in you as you look at it?” Her the culture, not just to medicine or science, humanities is the most direct means to enable answer: “I imagine that some of the words that of the problem and the gift of the body. We doctors to see the suffering that surrounds them.” come to mind are vastness, solitude, loneliness, in the humanities are, in a subversive way, maybe independence, autonomy, or mastery. Charon argued that the skills of a doctor are reappropriating the body from the sciences. Not I hope some of you noticed that the human in some ways similar to those of a humanities only is the human body a piece of biological figure is translucent—it is a quite striking scholar. “We critique and analyze the work at equipment, fixable when it breaks down, detail in the original. You can see through the the same time that we are summoned into its and to be discarded when it reaches the end figure, especially the legs. As I stood in front of world and moved by its meanings. How similar of its functional lifespan… it is the singular this painting, I had two conflicting senses: all this is to my medical work: I pay attention as an expression of the time/space coordinates of one this sea and sky and sand is here for this one internist to signs and symptoms of disease, ruling being, whose very identity exhales with each guy—the profusion, the bounty, the surfeit, in or out their possible causes and deciding what breath.” the delicacy of the planet. On the other hand, to do,” she said. “At the same time, I open myself the human figure is just an afterthought, barely to behold the patient’s singular situation, to hear there, expendable, maybe in the process of being the story, to imagine the world being described. erased.” This is what allows patients to feel heard, to feel recognized, to enter whole into care.” Charon was so taken with the painting that she hired a painter to copy it, and the reproduction To illustrate the point about how the humanities now hangs in her home. Her interpretations of allow doctors to “see the suffering” of patents and the painting change from day to day, she said. to understand them, Charon interspersed lessons “The body in the painting is important,” Charon from art. said, and illustrates her view of why narrative

7 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter Dreams of Diversity for HSS by Jay Malone [My deep thanks to Kate Sheppard for her help in revising this piece. Wooden phrasing and other infelicities remain my own.]

I am writing this on International Women’s Day to that session, over 90% of them women. I 2. Many of the questions in the workshop (and (8 March), a time when the world consciously learned that science communication is dominated Tarana Burke asked the most questions) came marks the impact of women. The day celebrates by women, which explained in part the gender from a place of injury. the creative power of women, from my classical disparity in the audience, but I think it went music station playing pieces composed and deeper than that, that there are many other 3. Any kind of movement requires enormous performed by women, to my morning news factors at play in that disparity, such as the amounts of work (Tarana Burke had begun feed offering tips on empowerment. IWD also hierarchical nature of scholarly approaches to #MeToo with girls in Alabama over 10 years includes practical tips for women. On a morning science and technology. Being a distinct minority, ago and she was as surprised as anyone when television show, a life coach shared active I was self conscious, wondering if I should say it caught fire.) strategies women can use to feel empowered, with anything, how any shared thought would be But the recurrent theme was the amount of an emphasis on silencing their inner critic, a voice perceived, and whether or not any comment bandwidth harassment occupies in a person’s that tells them that their ideas are not worth would be helpful. I tried to just listen, and I was mind. Mental energy that should be focused on sharing. She said that the first thing women need conscious of my role as an outsider, as someone scholarship, on the history of science, is diverted to tell themselves is “It’s okay,” that your thoughts who could be perceived as part of the problem. to trying to interpret a gas-lighting episode, or should be shared, that you should speak up. on trying to process a subtle gesture or comment, And that you should be kind to yourself. These A few weeks after AAAS, Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, came to Notre Dame or on wondering if one’s ideas are being filtered suggestions led me to reflect on those times when due to appearance. Experiences such as these I had been a gendered minority. and led a workshop. Of the 50 attendees, 5 were men. Again, I had many questions that I wanted attenuate scholarly inquiry and diminish our Because the HSS annual meeting consumes so to ask but ended up just listening. And, again, field in many ways, from lost time in dealing much of my time, I have been thinking about I was self conscious about being a cis man in a with harassment to losing scholars from the field what women (and others) have experienced at the room of women. Several things struck me from because they are tired of being treated this way. conferences and have tried to gain a better sense that workshop: So I asked myself, what can we do? of a gendered experience in our conference. seems 1. It was the most diverse set of individuals The goal straightforward: Rooms filled with At the American Association for the (gender aside) that I had seen on Notre a diverse array of individuals who are focusing Advancement of Science conference this past Dame’s campus, (and I realize that looking solely on the history of science. But these two February, I attended an 8:00 am session titled “A around a room gives only a superficial idea of elements—diversity and respectful behavior—are Feminist Agenda for Science Communication: diversity, especially when it comes to gender.) incredibly hard to achieve. We are working to Necessary and Timely.” Some 100 attendees came ensure that HSS is moving in the right direction.

8 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter Dreams of Diversity for HSS, cont. JSTOR for HSS Members In its strategic plan, HSS identified We established a Diversity Committee this in the US are dramatically different from what professional development as one of our six past November that will be looking at ways to is considered diverse in, say, Mexico. But, at the goals. Specifically, the Society is focusing on supporting the “professional development of improve diversity in the Society, and the latter very least, we must have data. emerging history of science scholars in and objective is being addressed with our respectful outside the academy.” One of the ways in behavior policy, which all conference attendees And as difficult as attaining diversity will be, the second goal, that of minds that are fully which the HSS can help our members advance must agree to when registering for HSS. But their research and teaching is to facilitate these mark just a beginning, a beginning upon occupied with the history of science, will be even harder. The interactions between genders at a access to the literature, and we are pleased to which we must build. Here are two requests. work with JSTOR to offer a conference (a foreign environment that features 50% savings on a one-year JPASS subscription for members For diversity, we need members to answer our alcohol, weariness, and fear) can be fraught. It’s (regularly $199). JPASS, available as monthly questions about gender and race when renewing also important that everyone (especially men) or yearly plans, allows you to read whatever their membership. If we truly care about speak up when we see something questionable. journal article you like and enjoy up to 120 PDF diversity, then we need to see where we are so We, as a tribe, can come together to take care of downloads a year from the JSTOR archive, that we can measure our progress toward our our own… and as a byproduct, we can bring new an archive with over 7 million articles from 2 goals, which should entail more than a quick scan energy into the history of science. thousand journals (including Isis and Osiris), of a room. Diversity will not be easy because we representing some 50 academic disciplines. are an international society and ideas of diversity In addition to past issues of Isis and Osiris, members may find the following journals of particular interest: • The British Journal for the History of Science • Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences • Science Progress • Science, Technology, & Human Values

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9 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News Marina Banchetti (Florida Atlantic University) University of Newfoundland) won the Editor’s disadvantaged setting. published “The Function of Microstructure in Choice Award, Genome. The award recognizes Paula K. Clarke was also the recipient of the Boyle’s Chemical Philosophy: ‘Chymical Atoms’ the paper as scientifically significant, topical, and American Anthropological Association/Oxford and Structural Explanation” in Foundations of of broad interest. The paper is also made free of University Press Award for Excellence in the Chemistry (December 2018), “Il neoplatonismo charge at the journal website. Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology, 2008. nell’ontologia chimica di Jan Baptista van He was also awarded the National Geographic Helmont” in Platone nel pensiero moderno e W. “Ted” Hamilton was the recipient of the Society Exploration Grant in association with contemporaneo, Volume X, edited by Andrea CASE-Carnegie California Professor of the Year the Miawpukek First Nation and Terra Nova Muni, 1-26 (Milano: Limina Mentis, 2016), and award in 2004. Genomics, Inc. The Miawpukek (Mi’maq) “Il minimo, l’unità, e l’universo infinito nella ………… First Nation in the Bay D’Espoir region of cosmologia vitalistica di Giordano Bruno” in Newfoundland, in partnership with Terra Nova Tara Coffin (University of Washington) Platone nel pensiero moderno e contemporaneo, Genomics, Inc., has been award the first National successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on Volume XV, edited by Andrea Muni, 1-12 Geographic Society Exploration Grant given “Social Media as a Health Communication Tool” (Milano: Limina Mentis, 2018). to a team in Newfoundland & Labrador. The this past December. (We hope that she takes ………… grant will support a combined genealogical/ advantage of the free HSS e-membership being Ian Burney (University of Manchester) has been DNA investigation of relationships among the offered to all newly minted PhDs). awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Miawpukek First Nation and other ancient and ………… for 2019. He will be working on a project that modern Native- and Euro-American groups. Erik Conway (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and seeks to place our present-day understandings ………… Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) co- of the forensic pursuit of innocence in historical Paula Clarke (Columbia College) and W. Ted authored an opinion piece in the New York Times perspective. Hamilton published “When Management in October 2018 titled “Fixing the Climate ………… Defines Leadership: High Demand x High Requires More than Technology.” Hugh Cago (University of Support in a Rural Community College” in the ………… Utah) published Assembling Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Camille Croteau (Western University) received the Tropics: Science and Studies 7, no. 2 (December 2018): 41-65. Medicine in Portugal’s a PhD Students and Early Career Academics The article represents the first of a series of . The PhD Students and Empire, 1450-1700 (New Research Grant 2019 planned publications about the authors’ efforts Early Career Academics Grant Programme York: Cambridge University across many decades devoted to designing, is one of the research programs that has been Press, 2018). implementing, and studying the impact of a High organized by the Olympic Studies Centre since Steve Carr (Memorial Demand x High Support teaching pedagogy in a 1999, aiming to support academic research 10 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. related to Olympism, the Olympic Movement impacts to humanity of discovering life beyond by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and and the Olympic Games. The OSC has decided Earth. Lauren Kassell, 129-140 (Cambridge: Cambridge to support her candidature to conduct research ………… University Press, 2018). at the OSC library in Lausanne, Switzerland to Thomas Drucker (University of Wisconsin— “Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs” in analyze the medical discourse around women Whitewater) won the Distinguished Teaching Brill’s Companion to the in sport. Her working title is “A genealogical Award, Wisconsin Section of the Mathematical Reception of Galen, edited analysis of the female testing discourse in sports Association of America. by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos medical literature.” ………… and Barbara Zipser, 263-278 ………… (Leiden: Brill, 2019). James Evans (University of Puget Sound) has Jane Davidson (University of Nevada Reno) and been spending the year on Sabbatical to work on “Anatomy,” in 1001 Cures: Michael J. Everhart published “The Mystery of a project titled “On the Role of Hypothesis in Contributions in Medicine Elasmosaurus Platyurus Cope 1868, Where is Science.” and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation, ed. the Rest of the Type Specimen?” in Transactions ………… Peter Pormann, 42-51 (Foundation for Science, of the Kansas Academy of Science 121, no. 3-4 Technology and Civilisation, 2018). (2018): 335-345. Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University) and Justin ………… ………… Stearns (New York University, Abu Dhabi) received a New York University, Abu Dhabi Boris Farber (Noigel, LLC; TRIZ Biopharma The Association of American Institute Workshop Grant for conducting a International, Corp; Farber’s Center for Academic Publishers has named Steven workshop, tentatively titled “Current Trends Success, Inc.) won Top Biotechnologist and J. Dick’s (former NASA in the History of Science in Muslim Societies: Top Educator of the Year for 2018 from the Chief Historian) book International Association of Top Professionals Astrobiology, Discovery, and Debates, Approaches and Stakes.” The workshop will take place in New York City in December (IAOTP) and was featured in a spotlight in Societal Impact (Cambridge: 2019. Marquis Who’s Who Magazine Millennium. Cambridge University Press, He has also received the Da Vinci Diploma and 2018) as the PROSE winner Fancy has also published Medal (2018, Hannover, Germany) and the for 2019 in the category of articles in the following edited Nicola Tesla Diploma and Gold Medal (2018, Cosmology and Astronomy. collections: Energy). The PROSE (Professional and Scholarly “Generation in Medieval Excellence) Awards are considered the Oscars of Farber, Artur Martynov, and Ilya Kleyn Islamic Medicine” in academic publishing. Dick’s book uses history, published “Creation of New Medical Drugs Reproduction: Antiquity discovery, and analogy to analyze the possible Based on TRIZ and Computer Mathematical to the Present Day, edited 11 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. Modeling” in Annals of Mechnikov Institute visiting professor and scholar, including Harvard Huffington Post. She is a popular speaker and 4 (December 2018): 15-34. The article was University, Stanford, Radcliffe College, Mount often leads higher-ed workshops on how to nominated for the Winner Diploma of the Holyoke College, MIT, and The University integrate feminist scholarship into the science European Academy of Sciences in February 2019. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). She is currently curriculum. a Fellow of the American Association for the ………… Since November 2018, Farber has served as CEO Advancement of Science. of TRIZ Biopharma International, Corp at 225 Amy Fisher (University of Puget Sound) has Broadway, Suite 1420, New York, NY, USA Fausto-Sterling is a leader in the field of biology been officially recommended for tenure by the 10007, which specializes in R&D of new medical and gender development. Her research explores Science, Technology and Society Program and drugs. Since January 2019, Farber has served as gender, sexuality, race, and technology, with the Faculty Advancement Committee. Vice President of European Academy Natural a particular focus on dynamic systems theory, ………… Sciences, Chairman of USA Division. which explores how cultural difference becomes Michael Gordin ………… physiological difference. Her dynamic systems (Princeton University) approach to human development examines the Anne Fausto-Sterling (Brown gave a lecture on longstanding nature versus nurture debate and University), renowned biologist, the periodic table highlights the flaws inherent in that debate. was named the 2019 winner (“D. I. Mendeleev’s of the Ireland Distinguished She is the author of more than 60 scholarly Periodic Table: What Visiting Scholar Award. articles and three influential books that have each Happened in February been translated into multiple languages: Myths of 1869?”) on the Fausto-Sterling is the Nancy Gender: Biological Theories about Women and occasion of its 150th anniversary at the Feb 2019 Duke Lewis Professor Emerita Men (1985), Sexing the Body: Gender Politics annual meeting of the American Association for of Biology and Gender Studies and the Construction of Sexuality (2000), and the Advancement of Science. at Brown University, where she is also the founder Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World (2012). ………… and former director of the Science & Technology She also contributed a chapter to Critical Terms Studies Program. Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University) gave a for the Study of Gender (2014). keynote lecture, “Giants, Fossils, and the Origins Fausto-Sterling graduated with her BA in zoology Fausto-Sterling appears widely in major media of Nationalism” at the Boerhaave Museum in from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and outlets, including The New York Times and PBS, Leiden on March 28. This public lecture was received her PhD in developmental genetics from both as a commentator and as an expert reference part of the Lorentz Center workshop “Types of Brown University in 1970. Over the course of for journalists. She is a frequent contributor to Knowledge: Towards a New History of Concepts her influential career, she has taught at Brown the Boston Review, Psychology Today, and the and Practices,” which took place from March and at a number of other institutions as a

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Member News, cont. 25-29. Anita is in residence at the Camargo just one author, indeed one who, with Friedrich Culture in the Civil War Era, Foundation in Cassis, France, from February 26 Schiller, was among the most universally revered: edited by Joan Cashin, 123-150 until May 15 and then at the Descartes Center Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.” Holton refers (Chapel Hill: University of at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, from to Friedrich Herneck’s book Einstein privat: North Carolina Press, 2018). May 15 until July 31. Herta W. erinnert sich an die Jahre 1927 bis He also edited Civil War 1933 (Berlin: Buchverlag Der Morgen, 1987, She officially retired from Oregon State on 1 Jan Medicine: A Surgeon’s 47-48) which states that Einstein kept sculptured 2019. Diary (Bloomington: Indiana busts of both Goethe and Schiller in his Berlin ………… University Press, 2019). apartment in the Haberlandstrasse 5. The house It features a narrative of Vivien Hamilton (Harvey was destroyed during World War II, but what the experience of an army Mudd College), Brinda Sarathy, was not known in detail until recently is that regimental surgeon during and Janet Brodie published Einstein had presented the two busts to a relative the Civil War based on the Inevitably Toxic: Historical of his house maid, Herta W., on the occasion hitherto unpublished diary of Perspectives on Contamination, of a visit to Einstein in the Haberlandstrasse James Fulton, MD, Assistant Exposure and Expertise apartment. Surgeon, 143rd Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh: University of Unexpectedly, on 1 Feb 2019, the two busts Volunteer Infantry. The volume Pittsburgh Press, 2018). together with a personal letter from Einstein, includes contextual essays by Shauna Devine, ………… dated 22 March 1929, stating that he presented Guy R. Hasegawa, Barbra Mann Wall, Margaret Hans Haubold (United Nations, Vienna and the two busts to Herta W.’s youngest brother, Humphreys, Randall M. Miller, and James M. New York) reports a follow-up to a lecture that were unearthed at an auction broadcast on Edmonson. Gerald Holton (Harvard University) gave in German television and thus were made visible to ………… 1997 and was later published: the Robert and a wide audience. Brigitte Hoppe (LMUniversity Maurine Rothschild Distinguished Lecture, TheYouTube video (in German) shows in detail of Munich) published which was titled “Einstein and the Cultural the expert’s evaluation of the Goethe and Schiller “Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Roots of Modern Science” (Daedalus, Journal busts and the accompanying Einstein letter. den Naturhistorikern und of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ………… Forschungsreisenden Chamisso “Science in Culture” 127, no. 1, Proceedings of the und Martius” in Forster - American Academy of Arts and Sciences, (Winter Robert D. Hicks (College of Physicians of Humboldt - Chamisso, edited 1998): 1-44), on 8 April 1997. Holton wrote that Philadelphia/Mütter Museum) published by Julian Drews, et al., 297-313 “from the list of icons of high culture at the time “Scabrous Matter: Spurious Vaccination in (Goettingen: V&R unipress, 2017). who greatly impressed Einstein, I must focus on the Confederacy” in War Matters: Material 13 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. She also published “Die vergleichende Methode nineteenth-century Leiden—a science, and this paper offers a detailed analysis in der Naturforschung im Wandel” in Virchow- story featuring a struggling and judgement. Forschung als Lebensaufgabe. Festschrift zum medical student, more than ………… 80. Geburtstag von Christian Andree, edited by one disappointed anatomist, a Christine Keiner (Rochester Institute of Ingo Wirth, 213-30. (Hildesheim, Zuerich, New monstrous child, and a glorious Technology) won the 2019 Everett Mendelsohn York: Georg Olms, 2018). past. Huistra blends historical Prize for her article “A Two-Ocean Bouillabaisse: ………… analysis, morbid anecdotes, Science, Politics, and the Central American and humor to show how Kathleen L. Housley Sea-Level Canal Controversy,” in the Journal of anatomical preparations moved into the hands (independent scholar) published the History of Biology 50, no. 4 (2017), 835-887. of students and researchers, and out of the reach The Scientific World of Karl- The Mendelsohn Prize was instituted in 2016 to of lay audiences. In the process, she reveals what Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The honor the founding editor of JHB, and is awarded a centuries-old collection can teach us about the Entanglement of Science, annually to the author of an article published future fate of the biobanks we build today. Religion, and Politics in Nazi in the journal during the previous 3 years. The ………… Germany (Cham: Palgrave article will be freely available on the Journal of Macmillan, 2019). Roland Jackson (The Royal the History of Biology website during 2019. ………… Institution of Great Britain) ………… published The Ascent of John Danian Hu (The City College of New York) John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) Tyndall (Oxford: Oxford published“文革”中的”无产阶级科学革命” — 中国科学院”相对论批判 won the Francis Bacon Award in the History University Press, 2018). It 组”再考 [“The Proletarian Scientific Revolution” in and Philosophy of Science and Technology. was published in the US in the Cultural Revolution: The CAS “Relativity He will spend Fall 2019 in the Department July 2018. It is the first full Criticism Group” Reexamined] in《自然科学史研究》 of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech biography of John Tyndall in [Studies in the History of Natural Sciences] 37, no. and will organize a conference on transnational more than 70 years. 3 (2018): 327-363. approaches to the history of science and ………… He also published “Eunice technology for spring 2020. Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University) published Foote, John Tyndall and a question of priority” ………… in Notes and Records (February 2019). The journal The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Mark Largent (Michigan State University) article is online, prior to print publication later Collections: Hands On, Hands Off (New York: is serving as Interim Associate Provost for this year. The topic (Eunice Foote and John Routledge, 2019). It starts where most histories Undergraduate Education. Tyndall) is becoming a bit of a cause celebré end: after death. It tells the story of thousands ………… of body parts kept in bottles and boxes in in relation to the marginalization of women in 14 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. Pierre Laszlo edited an issue, abundantly Eric L. Mills (Dalhousie and expansive phase of their research careers. The illustrated and in press, of the Bulletin of the University) edited and winners of the ICREA Academia award, all of Sabix (Société des amis de la Bibliothèque de l’École annotated Audubon in Nova them professors at Catalonia’s public universities, polytechnique), devoted to the late Alfred Sauvy, Scotia: An Excerpt from receive a substantial research grant for a period of an alumnus of the École. He authored or co- the Journals of John James five years. authored several articles in the issue, including Audubon (Kentville: Gaspereau ………… Repères biographiques; Liste chronologique des Press, 2018). Tara Nummedal (Brown livres publiés par Alfred Sauvy; Les fiches de ………… University) published Anna lecture d’Alfred Sauvy (co authored with Pierre William Newman (Indiana University) published Zieglerin and the Lion’s Couveinhes); Recension du livre d’Alfred Sauvy Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and Blood: Alchemy and End « Aux sources de l’humour »; and Sauvy et la the Quest for Nature’s “Secret Fire” (Princeton: Times in Reformation langue française. Princeton University Press, 2018). Newton Germany (Philadelphia: ………… the Alchemist is the first scholarly monograph University of Pennsylvania Michael R. McVaugh (University of North book on Isaac Newton’s alchemy to appear in Press, 2019). a generation. The work uses a combination of Carolina) edited Arnau de Vilanova, Speculum, Nummedal, Janice Neri, and laboratory replication of Newton’s experiments Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia, vol. John V. Calhoun published XIII (Barcelona: Fundació Noguera-Universitat and critical reading of the million-plus words he John Abbot and William de Barcelona, 2018). wrote on the subject to come to a radically new Swainson: Art, Science, and ………… understanding of the role that alchemy played Commerce in Nineteenth- in his life and work. Newton the Alchemist also Erika Milam (Princeton Century Natural History contains four appendices in which a number of Illustration (Tuscaloosa: University) published Newton’s alchemical treatises are edited for the Creatures of Cain: The Hunt University of Alabama Press, 2019). first time. for Human Nature in Cold ………… ………… War America (Princeton: Donald Optiz (DePaul University) began serving Princeton University Press, Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autònoma de as Editor-in-Chief of Endeavour, a leading 2019). Barcelona) won the ICREA Acadèmia Prize journal for the history and philosophy of science ………… (2018). The ICREA Academia program was published by Elsevier, on 1 Jan 2019. (While launched in 2008 with the aim of contributing serving, he continues as Associate Professor and to the intensification of the research carried out Interim Dean in the School for New Learning at by university professors who are in a fully active DePaul.) 15 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. María M. Portuondo (Johns on this project at the Huntington Library in San La dimensión bioética en la historia de la guerra Hopkins University) published Marino, California, where he will be the Dibner (Medellín: Universidad CES, 2018) Distinguished Fellow in the History of Science The Spanish Disquiet: the “Leonardo da Vinci: El Tony Stark del and Technology. Biblical Natural Philosophy Renacimiento” in Agenda Cultural Alma Mater ………… of Benito Arias Montano (Universidad de Antioquia), no. 262 (March (Chicago: University of Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen) 2019): 4-8 Chicago Press, 2019). published “Natural History Values and “Energía y equidad: La luctuosa transformación Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Chile” in ………… del fuego” in Revista Universidad de Notes and Records 73, no. 1 (March 2019): 101- Antioquia, no. 332 (April-June 2018): 9-12 Megan Raby (University of 124. Texas) has published American ………… “La infausta transmutación del agua” in Revista Tropics: The Caribbean Roots Universidad de Antioquia, no. 331 (January- Timothy Schultz (U.S. Naval of Biodiversity Science (The March 2018): 13-16 War College) published The University of North Carolina Problem with Pilots: How “La dimensión ética en filmes y series Press, 2017). Physicians, Engineers, de televisión” in Revista de Bioética ………… and Airpower Enthusiasts Latinoamericana 22, no. 1 (September Michael Ruse (Florida State Redefined Flight (Baltimore: 2018-February 2019): 171-198 University) published A Johns Hopkins University ………… Press, 2018). Meaning to Life (New York: ………… Dean Keith Simonton Oxford University Press, 2019). (University of California, Angela Shaffer (American Public University Davis) published The Genius System) began a master’s certificate program in ………… Checklist (Cambridge: MIT European History, February 2019. Press, 2018). Edmund Russell (Carnegie Mellon University) ………… has received a John Simon Guggenheim Carlos Sierra (Universidad Nacional de Fellowship for 2019. He is writing the first ………… Colombia) is now an Associate Professor with scholarly book on the transcontinental telegraph, tenure, granted recognition under the new statute Pamela Smith (Columbia University), Seth Low which crossed the American West in 1861. He for teaching staff. Professor of History and Founding Director of will spend the academic year 2019-2020 working the Center for Science and Society, is thrilled He also published: 16 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

Member News, cont. to announce that the Center for Science and published Collecting Society has been awarded a grant from the Experiments: Making Big Andrew Mellon Foundation to continue Data Biology (Chicago: building the activities of the Center’s Research University of Chicago Press, Clusters, its curriculum development and seed 2019). grants, and its public outreach programming. ………… She also published a new paperback edition of Aristotle Tympas (National The Body of the Artisan: and Kapodistrian University of Art and Experience in Athens) published Calculation the Scientific Revolution and Computation in the (Chicago: University of Pre-electronic Era: The Just earned your PhD in Chicago Press, 2018). Mechanical and Electrical ………… Ages (London: Springer, 2017). the history of science? ………… Miriam Solomon (Temple Congratulations! Here’s a University) has received a John Simon Norton M. Wise (UCLA) has Guggenheim Fellowship for 2019. She will be published Aesthetics, Industry, free e-membership to HSS. a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Science: Hermann von and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Helmholtz and the Berlin Leaving the student world History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge Physical Society (Chicago: can present challenges. University. Her project, Evidence and Values University of Chicago Press, in the DSM 5.x, uses tools from recent 2018). The HSS would like to recognize your philosophy of science, science studies, and social ………… signal achievement by providing a epistemology to make recommendations for Rega Wood (Indiana free electronic membership (one year) how to improve the ongoing process of revision University, Bloomington), et to those who graduated in 2017 or in 2018. of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of al. edited Richard Rufus of Psychiatric Disorders of the American Psychiatric Cornwall: Sententia cum Please go to https://subfill.uchicago.edu/ Association (DSM). quaestionibus in libros de JournalPUBS/HSSpromotion.aspx for ………… anima Aristotelis (Oxford: details. Bruno J. Strasser (University of Geneva) Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Member News, cont. Richard Yeo (Griffith University) published Karen Rader Delivers 2019 “Hippocrates’ Complaint and the Scientific Sarton Lecture at AAAS Ethos in early Modern England” in Annals of Science 75, no. 2 (2018), 73-96. For the 2019 George Sarton Memorial Lecture He also published “The in the History and Philosophy of Science, Individual and the ‘Intellectual Karen Rader (Virginia Commonwealth Globe’: Francis Bacon, John University) provided a powerful exposé on Locke, and Vannevar Bush” in the historical significance of science education Conceptualizing the World: An in various media in the 20th century. Titled Exploration across Disciplines, “Science for Grownups: Assessing Past and (Left to Right: John Powers (dashing historian of edited by Helge Jordheim and Present Adult STEM Education in the United chemistry), Karen Rader (Sarton Lecturer), Betty Smocovitis (Chair of AAAS Section L) Erling Sandmo, 311-324 (New States” the lecture asked the question “What if York and Oxford: Berghahn we focus on adults, rather than children, when Frank Capra, which contained veins of religious Books, 2019). looking at post-Sputnik science education and themes that her students have found surprising pause to look at successes and failures?” in their frequency (AAAS Director, Rush Holt, In collaboration with Brandon who attended the lecture, reported that he Using sources that ranged from Benjamin Chua, Geoff Kemp, David remembers “Hemo,” that it influenced him, Gruenberg’s “Science and the Public Mind,” McInnis, and John Spurr, he also and that he did not think twice at the time John Locke: Literary which urged policy makers in the Eisenhower published about its religious themes.). She urged us to and Historical Writings, Administration to establish goals for adult think about how re-telling these stories has the populations, to Catherine Mackenzie edited by J. R. Milton (Oxford: potential to re-shape STEM education, and that (Bierstadt), who was employed by Alexander Clarendon Press, 2019). by knowing more about the landscape we will Graham Bell and wrote a weekly column for ………… better understand the identities of learners and the New York Times Magazine with a focus on teachers who occupied these spaces, and what Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University, mental health, Professor Rader, touched on worked best. Montreal) and Molly Warsh will be co-editors of how various popular media wielded significant the new book series “New/Old Natures: Histories influence on science literacy. of the Environment” with Routledge. What gave her lecture particular power was her ability to show the hidden assumptions in popular media, such as the made-for-tv movie “Hemo the Magnificent” (1957) directed by 18 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the HSS 2019 Osiris Call for Proposals construed. For an example of a successful Suman Seth proposal, see https://www.journals.uchicago. 321 Morrill Hall The Editorial Board of Osiris solicits proposals for edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/Osiris-30- Department of Science and Technology Studies Volume 38 which will appear in 2022 or 2023. Sample-Proposal.pdf Cornell University Osiris is an international research journal devoted Ithaca, NY 14853 to the history of science and its cultural influences 2. A list of 12 to 15 contributors and essay title [email protected] and is a publication of the History of Science + succint description (~ 150 words) of each Society and the University of Chicago Press. contributor’s individual essay 3. A one-page c.v. of the guest editor(s) HSS Statement on Digital Osiris aims to connect the history of science with other areas of historical scholarship. Volumes of The guest editor(s) and their contributors must Scholarship the journal are designed to explore how, where, be prepared to meet the Osiris publication The History of Science Society supports digital and why science draws upon and contributes to schedule. Volume 38 (2023) will go to press— scholarship in its myriad forms and has created society, culture, and politics. The journal’s editors after refereeing, authors’ revisions, and copy- a digital site as a forum for all things digital in and board members strongly encourage proposals editing—in 2021. The guest editor(s) must history of science. We take the phrase digital that engage with and examine broad themes therefore choose contributors who are able to scholarship in its broadest form to mean anything while aiming for diversity across time and space. submit their completed essays by early 2021. that involves electronic or digital tools, resources, The journal is also very interested in receiving or texts. Therefore, the premise of this site is that Proposals are typically reviewed by the Osiris proposals that assess the state of the history of we are all digital scholars in some form or fashion. Editorial Board at the annual meeting of the science as a field, broadly construed, in both Digital tools and platforms are clearly shifting History of Science Society. The announcement of established and emerging areas of scholarship. the ways in which we do history: from research the next volume of Osiris will be made in January Forthcoming volumes are concerned with the to presentation and publication. We now have 2020. history of science and science fiction; science, people curating digital exhibits with multimedia, technology, and food; and global medical cultures Proposals and all supporting material should be building web interfaces for traditional scholarly and laws. sent in paper or electronic copy by 15 October resources, doing computational analytics that 2019 to both: reveal patterns in the historical data, using popular Proposals should include the following items: social media platforms to foster community and W. Patrick McCray 1. A description of the topic and its significance scholarship around the globe, teaching gamified Department of History (approximately 1500 words), especially classes, and more. 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News from the HSS, cont. tools used in the service of history of science Dear Governor Dunleavy, Representative continue to reside in the state ten years after scholarship. This is an arena for showcasing some Edgmon, Senator Giessel, Representative Foster, graduation, while the vast majority of those who of the most interesting recent work in digital Representative Wilson, Senator Stedman, and left the state for higher education did not return. history of science, for discussing the future Senator von Imhof, A healthy local system ensures that many of the of digital history of science, and for pointing economic benefits of higher education remain people to resources. You will find our current As professional societies representing tens of local. Further, higher education helps to ensure (but not exhaustive) collection of resources at thousands of faculty members and students a local workforce with the capacity to respond to Digital Projects. These include correspondence, from humanistic and social scientific disciplines, rapidly changing economic, political, and social databases, libraries, mash-ups, primary source including many in Alaska, we express deep contexts. full-texts, repositories, and blogs. As we build concern about Governor Dunleavy’s proposed this site, we encourage people looking for funding cuts for higher education. While we The proposed budget cuts would shift the costs of information to respond to us and tell us where we understand that Alaska is currently facing higher education in Alaska even more heavily to need to provide more resources. If you think you financial constraints, a $134 million reduction students and their families. Data from the State are doing digital scholarship and you don’t see in state support for the University of Alaska will Higher Education Executive Officers show that yourself here, then talk to us. undoubtedly have devastating consequences to between 2008 and 2017, net tuition revenue per the well-being of the state for generations to student at Alaska’s public institutions increased Digital Scholarship Statement approved by HSS come. 26 percent. The proposed 41 percent budget cut Council on 1 Nov 2018 would necessitate additional and more significant Higher education is a critical engine for tuition increases and still require the elimination individual economic well-being and for local, HSS Joins Academic of programs and services. University President state, and national economies. College graduates James Johnsen has estimated that more than Societies in Protesting earn more, are less likely to be poor, and are less 1,000 faculty and staff would have to be laid off Cuts to Higher Education in likely to rely on public assistance than others. to accommodate such big cuts. Undoubtedly, According to the 2017 American Community Alaska this would significantly lower enrollments, with a Survey, Alaskans with a bachelor’s degree earn corresponding decline in tuition revenue, and put The HSS Council voted this past March to add the an average of $56,914 per year, compared to the system in an untenable situation with respect HSS’s name to a letter addressed to the governor of $41,758 for those with an associate degree or to retaining high quality faculty. Alaska and other officials, which objects to proposed some college, and $35,868 for high school cuts to higher education in the state. graduates. Moreover, according to a study of high Investment in a robust system of higher school graduates by the Alaskan Department education is an investment in the public good March 4, 2019 of Labor and Workforce Development, the vast that extends beyond economics. The university’s majority of those who attended college in Alaska mission is to inspire learning and to advance 20 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the HSS, cont. and disseminate knowledge through teaching, American Historical Association HSS@Work: A Personal research, and public service, emphasizing the American Musicological Society Appeal North and its diverse peoples. If Alaska’s higher American Philosophical Association education system is decimated, it will have American Political Science Association By Jay Malone not only negative economic consequences, but American Schools of Oriental Research Shortly after receiving my PhD, I worked as a negative consequences on the broader social American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies freelancer, unable to land the tenure-track job well-being of individuals and communities in that had been my goal during my graduate life. Alaska. We know you face difficult choices in American Society for Environmental History Having a supportive spouse helped tremendously developing a responsible and responsive budget American Society of Comparative Law but with our second child on her way, I knew that meets the complex needs of Alaska’s citizens. American Sociological Association that I needed work that promised more stability. I As you make these choices, we urge you to American Studies Association was on the cusp of dropping out of the history of consider the value of higher education, the many Association for Slavic, East European, and science altogether, when my advisor encouraged contributions higher education makes to the Eurasian Studies me to apply for the new position of HSS well-being of Alaska, and the severe negative Association of College and Research Libraries Executive Director. Somehow, I landed that job, consequences to reducing investment in higher College Art Association and I have had the ridiculous privilege of working education. Dance Studies Association with some of the most talented people on the If you would like to follow up with questions or History of Science Society planet these past 20 plus years. I was lucky, but I comments on any of these issues, please contact Latin American Studies Association still remember the despair those many years ago, that after having given myself to the history of Teresa Ciabattari, PhD, Director of Research, Linguistic Society of America Professional Development, and Academic Affairs science, that there would be nothing to show for Middle East Studies Association at the American Sociological Association. She it (which would have offered some relief in that Modern Language Association can be reached at [email protected] or I would no longer have to explain to my mother 202.247.9840. National Communication Association what a historian of science actually does). National Council on Public History I wish that there had been a group to which I Sincerely, Organization of American Historians American Academy of Religion could have turned during those times and so was Sixteenth Century Society and Conference American Anthropological Association delighted when Tania Munz and Carin Berkowitz Society for Ethnomusicology American Association of Geographers helped us launch HSS@Work in 2013, our Society of Architectural Historians caucus devoted to those who had fully embraced American Dialect Society Society for Cinema and Media Studies the history of science but who then faced the American Folklore Society World History Association prospect of doing something outside of academia. 21 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the HSS, cont. After a successful initial run, HSS@Work is now Guidelines: Elaine Leong at a crossroads. We have been unable to find We welcome submission of unpublished Jaipreet Virdi individuals who are willing to lead the caucus manuscripts in English on any aspect of the Heidi Morefield and organize events at the annual meeting. If this history of health, medicine and life sciences disinterest continues, we will have to close the written by students registered part-time or full- HSS 2018: Post-Meeting caucus, and that saddens me. So, if you believe time in a graduate degree or completing their that we still need HSS@Work, please volunteer degree in 2019. Submissions should bridge the Survey Raffle Winners your time to help it succeed. I can guarantee you histories of science, medicine and/or technology. After meeting in Seattle, the HSS asked that it will pay dividends to the HSS and to the for feedback in a post-meeting survey. profession. Please contact me at jay@hssonline. Submissions should be no more than 10,000 Two respondents were randomly selected. org. words in length (inclusive of footnotes and all Congratulations to William Vogel and Geoff Bil references). Entries should be accompanied by a for winning American Express gift cards! one-page cover letter detailing how the research FHHMLS/CUP Graduate fosters new conversations between the histories of Student Essay Award medicine, science and/or technology. IsisCB Survey on Digital Research in History of The Forum for the History of Health, Medicine The deadline for submissions is30 April 2019. and Life Sciences and Cambridge University Entries should be sent to fhhmls.hss@gmail. Science Raffle Winners Press invite submissions for our inaugural com. Please submit cover letters and essays as two From a total of 526 respondents to the Survey Graduate Student Essay Award. The award will separate files. The essay file should only include on Digital Research in the History of Science, be given for the best original, unpublished essay the title, with all author information removed. 252 entered the drawing for the raffle (146 HSS in the history of health, medicine and the life members and 106 non-members). Two winners The winning submission will be announced at sciences submitted to the competition as judged were randomly drawn from both the member the 2019 HSS meeting in Utrecht (23-27 July). by the FHHMLS’s assessment panel. This award pool and the non-member pool. Congratulations Authors do not need to be members of HSS at advances the FHHMLS mission of encouraging to the winners on their gift cards or on their free the time of submission. scholarship that addresses conversations occurring year-long HSS membership! across and between the histories of science, We are grateful to Cambridge University Press for medicine, and technology broadly conceived. The • Kenneth Caneva (member) their generous sponsorship of this prize. author of the winning essay will receive 5 books • Gabriel Finkelstein (member) of their choosing from the current book list of FHHMLS Steering Committee: • Scott Keir (non-member) the Cambridge University Press. Elizabeth Neswald • Janusz Skoczylas (non-member) Robin Scheffler 22 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession Congratulations to the New O. Theodor Benfey Wins chapters (mostly on the history of chemistry) in Fellows from Section L Chemical History Prize monographs, and has published 89 articles and reviews in chemistry and the history of science. The following three scholars were elected to The recipient of the 2019 HIST Award of AAAS Fellowships from Section L (History and the Division of the History of Chemistry of In addition to his work as a historian, Ted Benfey Philosophy of Science) and were recognized at the American Chemical Society is Prof. Otto was and continues to be a frequent editor. He the AAAS annual meeting this past February: Theodor (Ted) Benfey, Emeritus Professor of was the editor of the ACS magazine Chemistry Chemistry and History of Science, Guilford from 1963-1978. He also edited many books, Helen E. Longino, Stanford University College, Greensboro NC, and a former editor including Classics in the Theory of Chemical For distinguished contributions to understanding at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now Combination (1963) and The Kekulé Centennial the social structure of science and nature Science History Institute). (1966). And he served as Chair of the Division of objectivity and how different scientific of the History of Chemistry of the ACS in 1966, approaches produce unique descriptive and causal The HIST Award is an international prize for now over 50 years ago. knowledge. outstanding achievements in the history of chemistry and is administered by the Division The HIST Award consists of an engraved plaque Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the of the History of Chemistry (HIST) of the and a check for $1500 and will be presented to History of Science (Germany) American Chemical Society. Professsor Benfey at the fall national meeting of For distinguished contributions to the fields of the American Chemical Society in San Diego history and philosophy of science, particularly Professor Benfey got his baptism into the history in August 2019. Additional information about the history of the physical sciences, and of science in 1949 during a Harvard Summer the award can be found on the HIST website outstanding efforts to communicate science to a school on “Case Histories in Experimental at http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/awards/hist_ broad public. Science” run by Harvard President James B. award.php Conant. His first published paper on history James Francis Woodward, University of of chemistry and chemical education was on Pittsburgh (William) Prout’s Hypothesis in the Journal of CFP: The Bulletin of the For distinguished contributions to understanding Chemical Education in 1952. He has written History of Archaeology scientific reasoning, especially the characterization seven books on chemistry and the history of The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (BHA) of causal inference and explanation in terms chemistry, including From Vital Force to Structural is accepting submissions for publication in 2019. of identifying relations of invariance under Formulas (1964) and The Names and Structures The journal publishes research not only on the intervention. of Organic Compounds (1966). He has also histories of archaeology strictly defined, but edited or co-edited six books on the history of also on the subject as it intersects with related chemistry and on chemical education, written 14 histories like those of collecting, colonialism, 23 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. exploration, fieldwork, heritage, and museums. If your paper is accepted for publication, you will at [email protected], or At the same time, BHA is particularly focused be asked to pay an Article Publication Charge Christopher Donahue at christopher.donahue@ on building interdisciplinary collaborations, and (APC) of £300, which can normally be sourced nih.gov. publishes work that takes its methodological from your funder or institution. APCs cover cues from fields including anthropology and all publication costs and ensure that all of the HPS&ST March Note historical anthropology, archaeology, art history, content is fully Open Access. colonial and postcolonial studies, gender studies, The March HPS&ST Note is on the web here. We accept online submissions here. See Author global history, and the history, philosophy, and Contents sociology of science. Guidelines for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editors if you are unsure as to • Introduction The BHA is published online. Articles are made whether your research is suitable for submission • International Congress on the History of available Open Access as soon as they are ready. to the journal. Science in Education, May 30–June 1, 2019, Research shows that Open Access publications Vila Real, Portugal are viewed and cited more often and for a longer Model Organisms in the • 15th International History, Philosophy and period than publications in subscription journals. 20th Century: Historical, Science Teaching Group (IHPST) Biennial Some studies report three times more views and Conference, Thessaloniki, July 15-19, 2019 others 89% more downloads. Philosophic and Scientific • Springer Lecture at IHPST Thessaloniki Authors remain the copyright holders and Questions Conference grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, Two talks, delivered 19 Feb 2019 at the National • New Editor of Science & Education Journal and share the article according to the Creative Institutes of Health as part of the 9th NHGRI Commons license agreement. History of Genomics Program History of • Opinion Page: Beware the Greeks: Sources Molecular Biology and Genomics Lecture Series, for the History of Gravity in Science The BHA is indexed by the Web of Science have been published online. Listen to “Capturing Teaching, Thomas J.J. McCloughlin, Dublin (Emerging Sources Citation Index), the the influence of model organisms through City University, Ireland Norwegian Scientific Database, the European large-scale integration of biology, literature, and • PhD Theses in HPS&ST Domain Reference Index for Humanities and Social scientific workforce” by Thomas Stoeger and • Recent HPS&ST Research Articles Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Directory of Open “The Fly Room” by William deJong-Lambert. Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCOHost, Google • Recent HPS&ST Related Books Scholar, CrossRef, JISC KB+, and SHERPA For further details on the talks or lecture series, • Coming HPS&ST Related Conferences RoMEO. contact William deJong-Lambert at william. [email protected], Thomas Stoeger

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News from the Profession, cont. Cautery Device Dissertation Abstracts 78-10 and are free of tuition fees. The application period is from 1 Jan to 31 May 2019. Please Cauterization, first used in the 16th century, was A and B consider submitting your application as early as a method of burning body parts, such as a blood The latest batch of recent doctoral dissertations possible to ensure smooth procedures (aptitude vessels or open wounds to stop bleeding and close harvested from the issues 78-10 A and B of assessment, visa, travel, accommodation, etc.). amputations. It was thought to prevent infection. Dissertation Abstracts related to your subject In the modern era, doctors use electrocautery area can be found at JHMDiss78-10-4444 and Master of Arts: Science and Technol- devices, which are not heated by fire but instead IsisDis78-10-4444-ONLY ogy Studies (M.A. STS) by an electric current. The unit is powered by a M.A. STS is a unique Master’s program that puts Tesla coil, which produces the high-frequency ProQuest has altered how they put out their the relations and interactions between science, alternating current needed to make precise cuts individual issues. No longer do they correlate to technology, society and politics front and center. and sterilize the area. one month, so the dating is more random. Thus From bio-technology to energy transitions, from titles will range from 2018—yes they have some automated mobility to data security—the big This 1930s medical 2018 dates—back into the early 1900s. challenges society is facing today are inseparably instrument had a foot scientific, technical and social. In today’s highly pedal that allowed There is one additional aspect to point out technologized societies, STS tackles questions a surgeon to stop about this latest batch of dissertations. ProQuest such as: How can we understand scientific and start the electric has begun adding numerous titles from many and technological change? How do science, current. The actual universities world-wide dating back into the technology and society influence and shape each knife would have early 1900s. Not all these earlier titles come with other? Which inter- or transdisciplinary forms of been connected to the abstracts but should be available for downloading knowledge production are necessary? terminals on the front entire copies online. of the control unit. The program offers a research-oriented graduate education in the flourishing field of Science and Made in Los Angeles Two STS Master’s Programs at TU Munich Technology Studies for students interested in Made of wood, wires, plastic, and metal, 1930- a comprehensive social science perspective on 1940 The Munich Center for Technology in Society today’s highly technologized societies. Students (MCTS) at TU Munich welcomes applications gain in-depth exposure to interdisciplinary See more information here. for its two full-time Master’s programs: M.A. approaches to urgent questions about the ever- Science and Technology Studies and M.A. Photo courtesy of The Bakken Museum changing interplay between science, technology Responsibility in Science, Engineering, and and society. As a full-time study program, Technology. Both programs are offered in English M.A. STS offers empirical research methods 25 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. and analytical skills to study the conditions technological change? What is sustainable, international organizations, innovative firms and consequences of contemporary science and reflexive or democratic innovation? Which (both established companies and start-ups), technology. In addition, the program offers inter- or transdisciplinary forms of knowledge NGOs, think tanks, research and higher specializations in the Philosophy of Science production enable responsibility? How do education management, consulting, or they can and Technology or the History of Science and notions of responsibility differ across regulatory, pursue a career in academia. Technology. STS graduates are able to work in cultural and policy contexts? How should expert The RESET program is funded by the Elite a range of fields including academic research knowledge and technical possibilities shape Network of Bavaria which offers students a range (such as a PhD program) as well as careers in democracies, markets and societies? Conversely, of networking and support opportunities. science and technology policy, communication, how can we democratize expertise and technology journalism and management. development? For more information, please visit this website. If you have any questions, please email For more information, please visit this The program offers a practice-oriented graduate [email protected]. website. If you have any questions, please email education for students interested in both the [email protected]. technical and social aspects of responsibility in today’s highly technologized societies. Supported New Issue: Nazariyat Master of Arts: Responsibility in by mentors, students gain in-depth exposure to Science, Engineering, and Technology Journal for the History of areas of technical specialization in collaboration (M.A. RESET) with science and engineering departments at TU Islamic Philosophy and M.A. RESET is a unique Master’s program Munich. The program draws its interdisciplinary Sciences that puts questions of responsibility front and strength and symmetry from a diverse student Nazariyat Journal for the center in our thinking about science, technology, The new issue for body—with backgrounds in science, technology, History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences and innovation. Responsibility has become and engineering as well as social and life (4/3) has been released. Articles and reviews can a key concern in current discussions around sciences, economics, and the humanities—and be reached through this link, as the journal is governance, economic growth, sustainable specifically targets students with previous work open-access. development, and social progress—captured, or research experience. While a full-time study for example, by the frameworks of Responsible program, RESET offers a flexible program Sample Articles and Reviews Research and Innovation (RRI) or Corporate structure to accommodate candidates seeking to • Is it Possible to Speak of an Illuminationist Social Responsibility (CSR). In an environment combine graduate studies with part-time work, Circle in the Ottoman Scholarly World? of increasing economic and political uncertainty, internships, or parallel studies/research in science An Analysis of the Ottoman Scholarly RESET takes serious challenges such as: How and engineering. Graduates are able to work in a Conception of Illuminationism, Mustakim can we anticipate and govern the social, ethical range of fields including government institutions, Arıcı or environmental impacts of scientific and 26 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. • Mental Existence Debates in the Post- geographic, temporal, or methodological Classical Period: A Study in the Context of constraints. The AHS strives to build a discourse Plan Ahead the Essence and Category of Knowledge, that cuts across historical sub-disciplines and Murat Kaş draws in insights from the full range of social, Future HSS Meetings • Like a Swiss Clockwork in the Desert: A biological, and environmental sciences. The Review of Moshe M. Pavlov’s Books on Abū Society will officially celebrate its 100th at its al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Pauline Froissart meeting in Washington, DC 5-8 June. Further information can be found here. • The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition, Elias Journal of Energy History: Muhanna (by Duygu Yıldırım) 2019 • Varlık ve Akıl: Aristoteles ve Fârâbî’de Burhân Now Online Utrecht, The Netherlands: Teorisi [Being and Intellect: Demonstration The Journal of Energy History / Revue 23 July (Tues) to 27 July (Sat) Theory in Aristotle and al-Fārābī], Ali Tekin d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRHE) is a new online (by Fatma Karaismail) and open access academic journal dedicated to all • Klasik İslam Düşüncesinde Atomculuk aspects of energy history. Informed by scholarship Eleştirileri [Criticisms of Atomism in in the field to date, we aim to cultivate and Classical Islamic Thought], Mehmet Bulğen advance an ambitious, creative space for scholarly (by Zeynep Şeker) conversation and dissemination. Please join us—submit, read, teach, and share cutting-edge 2020 ideas in different sections Special( Issues, Varia, New Orleans, LA: Agricultural History Society 7-11 October Reviews, and more) and through original formats Co-located meeting with SHOT Turns 100 (Out of the Box Dialogue across disciplines 14 February 2019 marked the 100th anniversary and professions, Panorama, Sources) in either of the Agricultural History Society. The Society English or French. With JEHRHE, we intend to was founded in Washington, DC “to promote enrich our understanding and vision of energy the interest, study and research in the history of history, because we believe that historians can fuel agriculture.” The Society interprets this mission thinking about the present and future. 2021 broadly, as creating a conversation about the The Managing Editor of the journal is Leonard key political, economic, environmental, and Mérida, Mexico: Laborie. November (dates to be determined) social issues surrounding agriculture without Co-located meeting with SHOT 27 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. Casebooks Final Release The Casebooks Project is an immensely skilled from the Battery to Harlem, in two series: and dedicated team of scholars: Michael Hawkins “Strong-holds of poverty” and “Prevalence of Casebooks Project—Release 13 (Technical Director), Robert Ralley (Senior disease.” Colored dots on the first series indicate Simon Forman’s and Richard Napier’s Editor), John Young (Senior Editor), Joanne the number of families requesting charitable Casebooks Edge (Assistant Editor), Janet Yvonne Martin- assistance. On the second series, the dots The work of the Casebooks Project is complete. Portugues (Assistant Editor), and Natalie Kaoukji represent instances of tuberculosis, typhoid All 80,000 cases recorded by Simon Forman, (Research Fellow). fever, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. On both Richard Napier, and their associates between series, the population of each block is stamped Visit Casebook Project website for a history of 1596 and 1634, with some stray cases either at its center. the project, and a long list of acknowledgements side, can now be browsed and searched. Our new that begins with staff at the Wellcome Trust, In donating the 89 maps to the New-York website has an improved interface and additional our generous funders, and the Bodleian Library, Historical Society in 1920, Veiller wrote, “I hope pages about the astrologers, their patients, their which owns the manuscripts. that it may be possible to display these at some practices, the project, and how to use these time so that they may be available for persons records. The New-York Historical who may wish to study them and refer to them in The main casebooks website contains the digital future years.” edition and critical introduction, but one website Society Announces a Newly Thanks to the N-YHS digitization program, these was not enough. Our dataset is on GitHub. Digitized Collection of maps will now reach an audience far broader than Digital facsimiles of all sixty-six volumes are Unique Maps Veiller could have imagined. accessible through Cambridge Digital Library. The New-York Historical Society is pleased to For more information about this project, please To showcase the contents of full cases—the scope announce that 89 maps created for the Tenement contact Nina Nazionale, Director of Library of the project did not extend to transcribing the House Exhibition of 1900 are now available Operations and Curator of Printed Collections at judgments—we have prepared five hundred digitally through the Society’s website here. [email protected]. fully-transcribed cases and a selective index of interesting things from across the corpus. For The maps, hand-drawn and hand-colored, daily cases drawn from these collections, follow were created in 1899 under the leadership Ensia—News on the of Lawrence Veiller in conjunction with the us on twitter @hpscasebooks. For news about Environment Astrologaster, the computer game inspired by Charity Organization Society of New York for Forman’s casebooks (drawing on our historical display at the Tenement House Exhibition, Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media expertise but made by game developers) follow held in Manhattan in February 1900. They outlet reporting on environmental change and is @doctorforman. depict neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, supported in part by the University of Minnesota’s 28 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. Institute on the Environment. Interested As part of this program, in Fall 2019 the Library The program is based upon the Library’s extensive individuals can subscribe to Ensia’s weekly will launch three one-year predoctoral and holdings in the history of science. Well over half of newsletter with links to new content here. sabbatical fellowships for scholars working on the approximately 13 million pages of manuscript projects in the history of science, technology, and and archival material at the APS, is in the history In addition, Ensia is glad to consider submissions medicine. Each fellow will receive a stipend and of science. These materials run the gamut from for the (opinion) section and to take Voices work space at the APS, where they will join a rich A to Z—from astronomy to zoology—and are suggestions for future reported stories through intellectual community of staff and other fellows- particularly strong in genetics, evolutionary . They recognize the important Ensia Answers in-residence. Fellows also will be affiliated with biology, and the life sciences. Other notable contributions that historians can make in helping the Philadelphia-based Consortium for History collections document the history of science in readers understand our present and forge a better of Science, Technology, and Medicine. early America, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century future. natural history, physics and mathematics, and The history of science will be prominent in the For further information, contact Mary Hoff. the early history of computing. The Library has Library’s upcoming programming in 2019-2020. Editor in Chief | the papers and correspondence of notable early Ensia For example, in January, prize-winning author 612.625.3516 scientific figures including Benjamin Franklin, Nick Bunker will share accounts of Benjamin @mkhoff @ensiamedia William Bartram, and Charles Willson Peale, as Franklin’s early scientific experiments in a public well as those of seven Nobel Laureates, such as Young Benjamin Franklin: lecture on his book, the Philadelphia-based Baruch Blumberg and The Birth of Ingenuity Pilot Program in the History . On 6-5 June 2019, the the pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock. It of Science, American APS will host a symposium on “Networks: The contains the largest holding of Charles Darwin Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from manuscripts outside of England and among the Philosophical Society Franklin to Facebook.” The event is inspired Library largest collection of works by Darwin in the world. by the Society’s recent digitization of Benjamin More recently, many historians of science have also The APS Library is pleased to announce a one- Franklin’s postal records and by its involvement given their papers to the APS. year pilot program in the History of Science. The in “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A program encourages scholars to make greater History of Science and Technology Portal For further information about the program use of the Library’s holdings in the history of Project.” In the fall, the Library will hold an and to learn more about the Library’s history of science, technology, and medicine through new interdisciplinary conference exploring the power science collections, please visit our website here. fellowships, and to share their discoveries with and politics of maps and borders in shaping the Early Republic. The Library will also host Additional questions and contact regarding this the wider world through seminars, conferences, program may be directed to Adrianna Link, Head publications and other events. a history of science lunchtime seminar on the second Tuesday of the month. of Scholarly Programs at [email protected] or at 215-440-3415. 29 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. Circumscribere Journal— research means that we are moving into the Our Humanities lists will champion quality Center Simão Mathias Humanities for the first time, building new scholarship, fresh thinking and new approaches, lists primarily in three exciting and increasingly which have the potential to shape research and for Studies in History of important areas: practice beyond the academy. Science, São Paulo • Health and Medical Humanities—the list Please do get in touch with our Humanities Circumscribere is an international online open- will take a broad approach to include research Publisher (Ben Doyle) at bdoyle@emeraldgroup. access peer-reviewed journal edited by Center which links the arts and humanities with com if you have a book or series idea you’d like Simão Mathias for Studies in the History of health and social care, the application of arts discuss. Science since 2006. It appears biannually and and humanities to the education and training carries academic articles on the history of science, of medical professionals and practitioners, EASTM: New Issue #48 technology, and medicine. Searching to reach the history of medicine, narrative medicine, the international community of researchers in literature and medicine, philosophy of Published our area, Circumscribere Journal is published in a medicine, graphic medicine and bioethics The latest issue #48 of the Journal of EAST multilingual format. (amongst other areas). ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND The link to the journal is here. • Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures— MEDICINE, featuring a Focus on “Swarms, YouTube: Circumscribere Journal research that explores the intersection of Herds, and Peoples — Examinations of Facebook: @circumJHC humanities and scholarly communication Interspecies Dynamics in China,” is available Twitter: @CircumJHC with new digital tools, technologies and online at www.eastm.org. methods Sample Table of Contents For further information, contact: Luciana • Environmental Humanities—including Costa Lima Thomaz, Executive Editor, • Note from the Editor by Catherine Jami environmental literature, ecocriticism, [email protected] • Focus Introduction by David A. Bello and C. environmental history, environmental Michele Thompson philosophy and environmental anthropology CFP: New Health & Medical • “Hacking the Yak: The Chinese Effort to Humanities List We are developing new book series in each Improve a Tibetan Animal in the Early of these areas and actively commissioning Twentieth Century” by Mark E. Frank Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & stand-alone book projects (covering research • “The Use of Pain in Childbirth Recorded in Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to monographs and edited collections, short-form Chinese Medical Works” by Margaret Wee announce investment in a new Humanities book Emerald Points books, and reference works such Siang Ng program. Our commitment to interdisciplinary as handbooks and encyclopaedias).

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News from the Profession, cont. Joy Connolly Appointed of Directors. “In Joy Connolly, we have found will coordinate and amplify the public-facing President of the American not only a scholar of the first rank who has led scholarship of GC students and faculty. She has important institutions of higher learning but served on the board of an ACLS member society Council of Learned Societies also someone—to use her words—’who grasps (the Society for Classical Studies) as well on the The Board of Directors of the American Council the complex processes involved in making the board of The Journal of the History of Ideas. of Learned Societies has named Joy Connolly as judgments we make as citizens.’ Her passion for “Research in the humanities and social sciences,” the Council’s 12th President, succeeding Pauline the wide and deep centrality of understanding noted Connolly, “sustains the knowledge and Yu, who will be retiring in June 2019 after 16 our cultures, our languages, our norms, and our capacities necessary to maintain a robust and ever years as president. The appointment is effective mores is evident in her active life as a teacher and more inclusive democracy. I am honored and July 1, 2019. as a leader.” thrilled at the prospect of leading the American Connolly currently serves as Interim President Nicola Courtright, vice chair of the ACLS Council of Learned Societies, which supports and Distinguished Professor of Classics at The board, added, “Joy Connolly, who cares deeply outstanding work in these fields. Building on Graduate Center, The City University of New about people engaged in learning from every Pauline Yu’s success, I look forward to advancing York (CUNY). She has served as Provost and background and station in life, brings the rich ACLS’s mission to advocate for the value of Senior Vice President of The Graduate Center capacity of the humanities to bear upon vital research among diverse publics, to make more and as Dean for the Humanities at New York educational issues of our time.” The Presidential resources available to scholars, and to work with University. An eminent scholar of Greek and Search Committee was co-chaired by Kirby ACLS’s over 70 member organizations on the Roman literature and political thought, she and Courtright and included ACLS Directors complex challenges that face us today as scholars, also studies their transformation in the modern James Grossman, Michele Moody-Adams, Carl teachers, and citizens.” era. At CUNY, Connolly has emphasized The Pforzheimer, Elaine Sisman, and ACLS Grants “It’s been an unbelievable privilege for me to be Graduate Center’s commitment to innovative Officer and Budget Analyst Kelly Buttermore. able to work with our superb staff and valuable education and the pursuit and circulation of Shelly Storbeck of Storbeck/Pimentel & partners over the past many years,” noted Pauline knowledge for the public good. Associates, LP assisted in the search. Yu, president of ACLS for 16 years, “and I’m “In choosing the president to lead ACLS into its Connolly has brought The Graduate Center to thrilled to welcome Joy to the presidency. She’s an second century, we sought a scholar and leader the forefront of innovation in graduate education accomplished scholar with an already impressive who would speak to how the humanities matter through a number of initiatives. Earlier this year, record of leadership. She’s deeply committed to urgently for humanity, linking our past with the she secured $2.27 million from The Andrew our mission of advancing humanistic studies and present, guiding us toward our shared future,” W. Mellon Foundation to transform doctoral possesses the energy, open mind, and creativity said William C. Kirby, chair of the ACLS Board education. One of the projects the grant is necessary to confront what lies ahead. She’s the funding is an ambitious PublicsLab, which perfect choice to take ACLS into its next century.” 31 History of Science Society Newsletter • April 2019 History of Science Society Newsletter

News from the Profession, cont. “ACLS plays a central role in advancing Classical Studies. After serving as an assistant disciplines, deepened the public’s engagement the humanities in America, with its deep professor of classics at the University of with scholarship, and established directions for relationships with scholarly societies and its Washington in Seattle and at Stanford University, its next century of service to the academy and extraordinary network of scholars that support she joined the classics department at New York society. The ACLS board thanks her on behalf of the Council’s work, in the academy and beyond University, where she reached the rank of full the constellation of scholars, teachers, and—not university walls,” noted Mariet Westermann, professor. At NYU, she served as director of the the least—students who have benefited from her Executive Vice President of Program and College Core Curriculum, a comprehensive arts passion to champion and support innovation and Research at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and sciences program required for most NYU scholarship in the humanities.” “With great admiration for Joy’s vision and undergraduates, and then as dean for humanities, About ACLS determination, in her previous positions we have where she oversaw nearly 400 faculty members in supported her efforts to connect humanistic over 30 departments and research institutes. Formed a century ago, ACLS is a nonprofit scholarship with contemporary societal federation of 75 scholarly organizations. As challenges, and her advocacy of partnerships A holder of fellowships at the Center for Human the preeminent representative of American between community colleges and universities that Values at Princeton and the Netherlands Institute scholarship in the humanities and related social expand access to liberal arts education. We are of Advanced Study, Connolly is the author or sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge simply delighted that we will be able to continue editor of three books, over 30 articles, and nearly is a public good. As such, ACLS strives to to work with her as she leads ACLS into its 40 book reviews. She serves on multiple editorial promote the circulation of humanistic knowledge The Journal for the History of second century.” boards, including throughout society. In addition to stewarding Ideas, and she has written for The New York Times and representing its member organizations, James J. O’Donnell, University Librarian and Book Review, The Village Voice, The Times Literary ACLS employs its $140 million endowment Arizona State University and former chair of the Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and $35 million annual operating budget to ACLS board noted, “Joy Connolly has shown Bookforum and The Nation. support scholarship in the humanities and social that the best scholarship can be the foundation sciences and to advocate for the centrality of the for engaged, inclusive, and passionate leadership. Kirby, expressed the Council’s profound humanities in the modern world. With her at the helm, ACLS will further broaden appreciation for Pauline Yu’s 16 years of service: and strengthen its support for scholars while “During Pauline’s tenure, ACLS more than making scholars’ contributions heard and seen in doubled the number of research fellowships it the critical debates of our time.” awards, tripled the dollar value of awards to scholars, and increased its endowment by 110 Connolly earned an AB (magna cum laude) percent. 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