JAMIE N. COHEN-COLE Department of the History of Science Harvard University One Oxford St Science Center 371 Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Program in History of Science, Princeton University, November 2003. M.A., History, Princeton University, 1999. A.B. Magna Cum Laude, History and Science, Harvard College, 1995.

POSITIONS

Harvard University. Lecturer and Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science, 2010- 2012. Yale University. Lecturer, Department of History and Program in History of Science and Medicine, 2008-2009. Wesleyan University. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Department of Psychology, and Science in Society Program, 2006-2008. University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, Fishbein Center for the History of Science, and Lecturer, Department of History, 2004-2006. Princeton University. Lecturer, Department of History, 2002-2004.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Fall 2011. Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Collaborative Grant, 2010-2013. Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 2006-2007. Postdoctoral Fellow, Fishbein Center for the History of Science, University of Chicago, 2004-2006. National Science Foundation, Dissertation Grant, 2000-2001. Spencer Foundation Mentor Grant for Research on Education, 1998-2000. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997-2000. Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid, 2000. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program Summer Stipend, 2000. Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Summer Research Grant, 1999. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Development Grant, 1998. National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Research Grant, 1994.

AWARDS

Forum for the History of Human Science, Prize for the Best Article of the Previous Three Years, 2011. Awarded for “The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society”, Isis, 100, no. 2 (2009): 219-62. Cohen-Cole

AWARDS (CONT)

Forum for the History of Human Science, Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation of the Previous Three Years, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Under contract and final review with University of Chicago Press. “The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society”, Isis, 100, no. 2 (2009): 219-62. Review of Margaret Boden, Mind as Machine: A History of , Isis. 99, no. 4 (2009): 811-812. “ and the Machinery of Rationality”. Invited essay review, British Journal for the History of Science 41, no. 1 (2008): 109-114. Books reviewed in this essay: Sonja Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism; Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of , the Father of Cybernetics; Roberto Cordeschi, The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics; Hunter Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America; Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science; Sharon Ghamari- Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War; David Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics; Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. “Instituting the Science of Mind: Intellectual Economies and Disciplinary Exchange at Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies”, British Journal for the History of Science 40, no. 4 (2007): 567-597. “The Reflexivity of Cognitive Science: The Scientist as Model of Human Nature”, History of the Human Sciences 18, no. 4 (2005): 107-39. Essay Review of David Engerman, Know Your Enemy, The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts, H- Diplo Roundtable, Vol II, no 11, June 29, 2011. “Making Minds and Social Relations for a Democratic America: The Politics of Thinking”. Under revision for Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED PAPERS

“Information Technology and Human Nature”, Invited paper, Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2012. “Autism and Historiographic Models of Changing Diagnostic Categories”, Invited review of Gil Eyal et al, The Autism Matrix, Social Science History Association, Boston, MA, November 2011.

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED PAPERS (CONT)

“Making People More Human: Science Education as Inoculation against Conservative Ideology.” Invited Paper, Seminar on the Production and Dissemination of Knowledge, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France, November 2011. “Disciplinary Proliferation, General Education, and Interdisciplinary Citizenship in Modern America.” Invited Paper, Research Group on Cross-Disciplinary Research in Postwar American Social Science, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France, June 2011. “Personifying Rationality: 1960s Social Science and the Problem of Objectivity”, Invited Paper, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard University, November 2010. “Computers, Cognitive Science, and Cold War Liberalism”. Invited Paper, Department of Science, Technology and Society, Penn State University, April, 2010. “Psychology, Linguistics, and Computers: From Psycholinguistics to Google”. Invited Paper, Conference on “The Sciences of Communication in the Twentieth Century”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, March 2010. “Smokers, Salons, and Small Groups: Modeling Society in Cold War America”. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Phoenix, AZ, November 2009. “American Social Science, Social Critique, and the Problem of Expertise”. Invited Paper, Workshop on the History of Postwar Social Science, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France, June 2009. “Cold War Salons: A Model for America and the Answer to Big Science”. Invited Paper, “The Cold War and the Social Sciences: Approaches and Arguments”, Center for International History and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, April 2009. “The Straitjacket of Conformity: Cold War Social Science and the Production of Consensus Liberalism”. Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 2009. “Small Groups, Cold War Salons, and the Reform of America”. Invited paper, Workshop in the History of the Human Sciences, University of Chicago, February 2009. “Cold War Liberalism and the Sciences of Human Nature”. Invited paper, Workshop in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, October 2008. “Psychology’s Double Consciousness”. Invited paper for “Making, Evaluating, and Using Social Scientific Knowledge: The Underground of Practice”, a conference sponsored by The Russell Sage Foundation, December 2007. “The Science and Politics of Autonomous Thought in Cold War America”. Invited lecture for the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2006; and The Program in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University, March 2006. “Interdisciplinarity and Anti-Boundary Work: Presentation of the Creative Scientific Self in 20th Century Social Science”. Invited lecture for the Mellon Workshop, “New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education”, at the Franke Center for the Humanities, University of Chicago, February 2006.

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED PAPERS (CONT)

“Experimental Psychology and The Professional Politics of Thinking About Thinking”. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Austin, Texas, November 2004. “Cognition, , and the Cold War”. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2003. “Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Cognitive Psychology, and the Struggle for Disciplinary Authority”. Invited lecture for the Workshop on Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Harvard University, October 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

History of Science Surveys Science and Society in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University, Spring 2011. Methods in History of Science and Medicine, Harvard University, Fall 2010; Yale University Fall 2008. The Scientific Revolution, Wesleyan University, Fall 2007. The History of Modern Science, University of Chicago, Spring 2006.

History of Science Topical Classes Graduate Course on Science and Modernity, Harvard University, Fall 2011. History of Computers and , Harvard University, Summer 2011, Spring 2011; Yale University, Spring 2009; University of Chicago, Winter 2005. History of Psychiatry and Psychology, Harvard University, Fall 2010, Spring 2011 and Spring 2012; Yale University, Fall 2008; Wesleyan University, Spring 2007; University of Chicago, Spring 2005. Bioethics and History of Neurology and Neuroscience, Wesleyan University, Spring 2008. The History of the Scientist’s Persona, 1650-2000, Yale University, Spring 2009.

Gender Studies Gender and Science, Wesleyan University, Fall 2007. The Psychology of Gender, Wesleyan University, Fall 2006; University of Chicago, Winter 2006.

U.S. History Cold War America, Wesleyan University, Spring 2008.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Workshop organizer for the History of Science Department, Harvard University, 2011-2012. Organizer of Symposium on “The Sciences of Human Nature and Mechanisms of Governance” for the Warren Center for American History, Spring 2012

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE (CONT)

Reviewer for Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and Isis Manuscript reviewer for University of Chicago Press. Member of Executive Committee, Forum for the History of Human Sciences, an interest group of the History of Science Society, 1999-2002, 2009-2012. Co-curator with Steven Pinker and Sara Schechner, “The Rediscovery of the Mind,” a permanent exhibit of scientific instruments from the history of cognitive psychology, Harvard University, 2007. Organizer of the Workshop in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, University of Chicago, 2005-2006. Co-organizer with Adrian Johns, John Tresch, and Alison Winter, “What is Science Studies”, an international conference held at the University of Chicago, November 2005. Session organizer, “Scientific Persona(e)”, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, November 2004. Session organizer, “Making and Educating People in Cold War America”, Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2002. Session organizer, “The Values of Interdisciplinarity,” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, November 2000.

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