The façade of the museum in late 2013 [Editor’s Note: After the tragic loss of the museum, the I find it difficult to write about the Museu Nacional HSS Executive Committee asked me to reach out to our of Rio de Janeiro in this moment of profound grief Brazilian members to see how we could help. Carlos for science and culture in Brazil. However, I think this Filgueiras sent this article and gave permission to publish it. must be done. I spent twelve years as a professor at the Some suggestions for helping can be found below, through Chemistry Institute of UFRJ, the university to which the auspices of the American Anthropological Association. the museum is affiliated. In addition to being a chemist The American Historical Association is working on a I am also a historian of science and during that time statement that the Society may sign.] I could develop a series of cultural activities thanks to Continued on Page 2 History of Science Society Newsletter Requiem for the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, cont. History of Science Society Executive Office the many notable institutions located in Rio collections were those with which my connection History of Science Society de Janeiro and the consequent opportunity to was closest, for many reasons. One of them was 440 Geddes Hall University of Notre Dame absorb much of what those unique entities put the elaboration of a calendar book that was to be Notre Dame, IN 46556 at one’s disposal. Such an environment, with distributed by the Chemistry Institute in early Phone: 574-631-1194; Fax: 574-631-1533 E-mail: [email protected] many first-rate intellectuals present, contributed 2008. The Director of the Institute asked me to Web site: http://www.hssonline.org/ decisively to many fruitful projects. work on the project with ample liberty. I chose Subscription Inquiries to use as a theme the bicentennial of the arrival University of Chicago Press Among those entities, I had closer links to at least Phone: 877-705-1878; Fax 877-705-1879 of the Portuguese Royal Family and the court in four: the Museu Nacional; the Museu Imperial; E-mail: [email protected] Rio de Janeiro in 1808, as a consequence of the Or write: University of Chicago Press, the National Library, one of the largest in the Subscription Fulfillment Manager, PO Box Napoleonic wars. world; and the Brazilian Historic and Geographic 37005, Chicago, IL 60637-7363 Moving? Institute. I shall however limit this short text The Royal Family settled in a mansion which Please notify both the HSS Executive Office and to the Museu Nacional. This is an institution with time became the palace where the King the University of Chicago Press. with which I have been intimately acquainted, of Portugal and the Emperors of Brazil lived Editorial Policies, Advertising and Submissions in dozens and dozens of visits to the Boa Vista until 1889. King John VI founded the Museu The History of Science Society Newsletter is published in January, April, July, and October, Park, where it is located. The archeological Nacional in 1818. It is a sad coincidence that and sent to all individual members of the Society. The Newsletter is edited and published in the Executive Office. The format and editorial policies Precious are determined by the Executive Director in consultation with the Society Editor. All advertising objects copy must be submitted in electronic form. Advertisements are accepted on a space-available Left: the Battle basis only, and the Society reserves the right not of Constantine to print a submission. The rates are as follows: Full page (10 x 7”), $625; Horizontal or Vertical Half vase, Silver gilt page (5 x 7”), $375; Quarter page (5 x 3.5”), $225. and coral, given to The deadline for insertion orders is six weeks prior the museum at its to the month of publication and should be sent to founding in 1818 by [email protected]. Please send photographs in a Pre-Columbian jpeg format, with a maximum size of 1024 pixels and archeology King John VI file size of 1 MB to maintain quality during sizing and printing. The deadline for news, announcements, Above: Andean gold artifacts and job/fellowship/prize listings is firm: four weeks prior to the month of publication. Long items Top Right: Ceramic bowl (feature stories) should be submitted eight weeks prior to the month of publication. Please send all from Yucatán material to the attention of the Executive Office: [email protected]. Bottom Right: Bronze llamas Continued on Page 3 © 2018 by the History of Science Society 2 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Requiem Museu Nacional, cont. the recent tragedy occurred shortly after the civilizations in the production of the most diverse who were unable to develop any sense of empathy celebration of the museum’s bicentennial this past objects, of a utilitarian, artistic, or decorative for such an institution and who ignored its June. After Brazil became a republic in 1889, the nature. I had the help of photographers and meaning and importance. The museum has a very government moved the museum’s headquarters to during that project my admiration and intimacy competent and dedicated staff, as I could witness the old Imperial Palace. with the museum grew considerably. countless times, but this staff was powerless to remedy so many problems, which were in many In my work on the calendar book, I used the After this personal introduction, I would like cases of a political nature. archeological collections to showcase for the to give a short overview of what the museum general public the museum’s countless scientific represented and of its importance, not only to Among the items destroyed one can mention and cultural possibilities. The plan which was Brazil but to the world. the large Egyptian collections amassed by the then devised consisted in showing the enormous Brazilian Emperors Pedro I and Pedro II, with The Museu Nacional housed 20 million precious variety of chemical compounds and materials hundreds of objects, including human and objects, which were destroyed mostly by the employed along the centuries in different animal mummies, sarcophagi, statues, etc.; the neglect and ignorance of succeeding authorities

Egyptian collection

Left: Sarcophagus of a lady Pompeian collection of the XXIII dynasty; Hellenistic collection Above: Pompeian frescoes Center: Necklace, ceramics with marine animals and Left: Marble kore birds Right : Bronze Statuette of Osiris, Isis and the infant Right: Alabaster Right: Pompeian glass — Horus Aphrodite Flasks of paste glass

3 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Requiem Museu Nacional, cont. large Greek, Etruscan, and Roman collections, Anthropology Library and AAA’s publisher is Those who wish to send materials must remember most of them brought by Empress Teresa making the entire Wiley Humanities and Social that the museum has storage issues, so it is important Cristina, who was a Neapolitan princess and Sciences journal catalog available to people from to contact them ahead of time as you contemplate who directed excavations in Italy in the XIXth University IP addresses for the indefinite future. shipping materials. century; countless fossils, including the oldest human fossil in Brazil; an enormous collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, both from Brazil and from Spanish America, with many Andean mummies; thousands of Andean textiles from different civilizations; the unique royal cloak of the King of Hawaii, given by the King to Emperor Pedro I in the 1820’s; in addition to many zoological, botanical, and mineralogical collections. Since the museum had been a royal residence it still contained many important items related to the history of the monarchy in Brazil, although most such items are housed in other institutions today. Even so, many paintings, furniture and other irreplaceable objects were Why not consider Notes and Records lost. for your next history of science article? I hope this report contributes to a greater international awareness of the calamity, which We offer our authors: Notes and Records also publishes befell not only the museum but the whole world. • Fast, high quality, double-blind themed issues. Recent issues include: peer review Expectations and utility in 18th century ………… • Excellent author service and fast knowledge economies, organised and publication times edited by Larry Stewart and Kelly J Whitmer. N.B. The American Anthropological Association • International visibility and readership History of hypnotism, organised and edited by Andreas-Holger Maehle and (AAA) has published on its web site some Heather Wolffram. information on how individuals can help. For further information and to submit, AAA will announce a coordinated effort with visit rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org the Smithsonian on collecting materials for the

4 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News Lindsay Alberts (Savannah College of Art and Rima D. Apple (University of Wisconsin- Foundations of Chemistry. Special issue for the Design) is delighted to join Savannah College of Madison), Professor Emerita presented the 20th annual symposium of the International Art and Design as Professor of Art History. She keynote lecture at the Postponement of Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (Part will teach introductory and early modern courses, Parenthood Conference, Villa Vigoni, Lake II), Vol. 19, No. 3. and looks forward to discovering the charms of Como, 3-6 September 2018. The title of her ………… this new city. paper was "Why delayed motherhood? Women's Ana Barahona (Universidad Nacional ………… decisions, 1910s-2010s.” Autónoma de México) recently published ………… Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney and La Evolución Biológica en los Libros de Texto Harvard University (2018-19)) will publish the Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino (Florida Mexicanos (Mexico City: UNAM/Centro following: Atlantic University) has been appointed as a Lombardo Toledano, 2017), with Erica member of the Executive Committee of the Torrens. Anderson, Warwick, and Roque, Ricardo, International Society for the Philosophy of eds. “Imagined Laboratories: Comparative Barahona has also been appointed a member of Chemistry. She also presented an invited lecture Racializations in Island Southeast Asia.” the International Advisory Board of the British titled “Robert Boyle and the Relational and Special Issue of Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Society for the History of Science. She started her Dispositional Nature of Chemical Properties” at 49, no. 3 (October 2018). 3-year term on 1 September 2017. the Seminar on the History and Philosophy of ………… Anderson, Warwick, Johnson, Chemistry (Laboratoire Sphère - Université de Miranda, and Brookes, Paris Diderot), on 7 March 2018. Joe Bassi (University of Texas, El Paso) will be Barbara, ed. Pacific Futures: spending the fall term as a visiting scholar in the She recently published the following article: Past and Present (Honolulu: Department of the History and Philosophy of “Il neoplatonismo nell'ontologia chimica di University of Hawaii Press, Science at Cambridge University. Jan Baptista van Helmont.” In Platone nel 2018). Release set for 30 ………… pensiero moderno e contemporaneo, Volume 10, November 2018. edited by Andrea Muni. 1-26. Milano: Limina Harold Burstyn (retired) has moved to a Anderson, Warwick, Roque, Ricardo, and Mentis, 2017. CCRC in Madison, WI. He continues to Ventura Santos, Ricardo, ed. Lusotropicalism spend summers in Woods Hole, MA, where She also served as guest editor of the following and its Discontents: The Making and he is a member of the Society (formerly two journal volumes: Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism (New the Corporation) of the Marine Biological Foundations of Chemistry. Special issue for the York: Berghahn, 2019). Release set for February Laboratory, now part of the University of 20th annual symposium of the International Chicago. 2019. Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (Part ………… ………… I), Vol. 19, No. 1. 5 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News, cont. Stephen Case (Olivet Surekha Davies (John Carter Brown Library, by the CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group) Nazarene University) recently Brown University) was shortlisted for the in the USA and Routledge in the U.K. published Making Stars Pickstone Prize, awarded biennially by the ………… Physical: The Astronomy of British Society for History of Science for the best Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham University) Sir John Herschel (Pittsburgh: scholarly book in the history of science. Davies has been promoted to a full professorship in the University of Pittsburgh Press, will be an InterAmericas Fellow at the John history of science. 2018). Carter Brown Library at Brown University ………… ………… (Sept 2018-March 2019). Davies will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Descartes Centre for Yulia Frumer (Johns Hopkins) has recently Jonathan Coopersmith (Texas A&M the History and Philosophy of Science and the published the following: University) will be a Visiting Research Fellow Humanities at Utrecht University (May-July at King's College, London this fall to research Frumer, Yulia. Making 2019). his “Creative Construction: The Importance of Time: Astronomical Time ………… Fraud and Froth in Emerging Technologies.” Measurement in Tokugawa He was also involved in a recent conference Krishna Dronamraju (Foundation for Japan. Chicago: University of hosted by the American Institute of Physics: Genetic Research) is set to release A Century Chicago Press, 2018. “To Boldly Preserve: Archiving the Next Half- of Geneticists: Mutation to Medicine (Boca Frumer, Yulia. “Translating Century of Space Flight.” Funded by NSF, Raton: CRC Press, 2018) in October. The book Words, Building Worlds: the conference attracted nearly 100 historians, is a collection of biographies of the leading Meteorology in Japanese, Chinese, and archivists, curators, and other people interested geneticists of the twentieth century, such as Dutch.” Isis 109, no. 2 (June 2018): 326-332. in actively promoting the collection and Hugo de Vries, William Bateson, Francis preservation of space history. The conference was Galton, T.H. Morgan, H.J. Muller, J.B.S. Frumer, Yulia. “Japanese Reverse Compasses: organized by Angel Callahan (Naval Research Haldane, Ronald Fisher, Sewall Wright, Oswald Grounding Cognition in History and Society.” Laboratory), Coopersmith, and Greg Good Avery, Erwin Schrödinger, Barbara McClintock, Science in Context 31, no. 2. (June 2018): 155-187. (AIP). For more information, read “Archiving Francis Crick, James Watson, George W. ………… the Final Frontier: Preserving Space History Beadle, Norman Borlaug, M.S. Swaminathan, Amanda Golbeck (University of Arkansas for for the Future” on Perspectives on History, Victor McKusick and others. The lives and Medical Sciences) wants to bring the American listen to The Museum of Flight’s “Preserving contributions of these scientists are presented Statistical Association (ASA) to your attention, the Future History of Space,” or visit within the context of their times and social because you don't have to be a member to join! toboldpreserve.space. circumstances. Both hardback and paperback ………… versions are being published in October 2018 The ASA has a brand new History of Statistics Interest Group (HoSIG). 6 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News, cont. The objectives of HoSIG are to: the first American Nobel Prize winner in published interview can be found at “The 1. Bring together individuals and groups who physics (1907). While writing this biography Sociology of Early Modern Science.” have an active interest in the history of over a period of more than ten years she was in ………… statistics. contact with famous scientists and engineers Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University) was 2. Promote and support research into the history to revisit the Michelson experiments that were elected as a Councilor for the Teaching Division of statistics at all levels. the subject of two conferences, one held in of the American Historical Association. Her 3. Further the use of the history of statistics in 1981 (Astronomische Nachrichten 303 (1982)1- service will begin on 1 January 2019. education. 96, Potsdam, Germany) and one held in 1987 ………… 4. Encourage the historical perspective among (American Institute of Physics 169 and 179, statisticians and related professionals. Cleveland, USA). Margaret Jacob’s (UCLA) new book The 5. Contribute to the program of the annual Secular Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton The project wishes to recover Joint Statistical Meetings and selected University Press, 2018) will appear soon. documentary evidence on ………… meetings of the ASA and other professional Dorothy's restless efforts organizations. to reconstruct Michelson's Henk Kubbinga (University of Groningen) Please let her know if you have any questions. scientific work and his is glad to report on the latest developments Here is a link to the instructions about how intellectual environment: concerning Planck’s constant, h. In a paper titled to join. Amanda L. Golbeck, Chair-Elect of “A Tribute to Max Planck,” Europhysics News 49, Advice and support from the HoSIG, [email protected]. no. 4 (July-August 2018): 27-30, he succeeded in international community are ………… further refining Planck's own 1899 calculations welcome. ab initio, that is, from first principles. The context Kristine Harper (Florida State University) has B. Haubold, H.J. Haubold, and L. Pyenson, of those calculations sheds an entirely new light been promoted to Professor of History at Florida “Michelson's first ether-drift experiment in upon the so-called “quantum revolution.” In fact, State University. Berlin and Potsdam.” The Michelson Era in there was, from a molecular point of view, far ………… American Science, 1870-1930, Eds. S. Goldberg more continuity than generally acknowledged. In Hans Haubold (United Nations) and Barbara and R.H. Stuewer, AIP Conference Proceedings this Newsletter of our most-distinguished History Haubold (International Atomic Energy Agency) Vol. 179 (1988) 42-54, American Institute of of Science Society, it is a pleasure to stress that initiated a project to Search for Memorabilia Physics, New York, 1988. the final elucidation of Planck’s mathematics, in of Dorothy Michelson-Livingston (1906-1994): ………… 2015, was an obvious “tale of two Continents,” as Charles Dickens would have called it playfully. It Dorothy is the author of the only existing Toby Huff(Harvard University) was recently all started on the Old Continent, in Paris, with a biography of her father Albert A. Michelson, interviewed by Mohammed Alrushoodi. The

7 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News, cont. PhD (1983) and habilitation (1996) on the history Pamela O. Long (independent Oosterhoff will publish of the (atomic and) molecular theory (Ecole des scholar) has recently published Making Mathematical Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), continued Engineering the Eternal City: Culture: University and with papers read at annual meetings of the HSS Infrastructure, Topography, Print in the Circle of Lefèvre (1996, Atlanta, GA: “Max Planck: Molecularism and the Culture of Knowledge d'Étaples (Oxford: Oxford and Quantum Theory;” 1999, Pittsburgh, PA: in Late Sixteenth-Century University Press, 2018) “Laplace and the Rise of Molecularism”), and Rome (Chicago: University of and Logodaedalus: Word subsequently as a guest of the German Physical Chicago Press, 2018). Histories of Ingenuity in Society at the Quantum Centenary Congress ………… Early Modern Europe (Pittsburgh: University (2000, Berlin: “'Planck’s Quanta as Molecules of of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), both set for release Paige Madison (Arizona State University) has Energy”) and, later, of the American Institute of in October. Logodaedalus is co-authored with received a Fulbright Study/Research Award Physics (2006, College Park, MD; study of US- Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, and José to spend a year at Universitas Indonesia and Englished source materials), to conclude now with Ramón Marcaida. Indonesia's National Archaeological Research the publication of Planck’s calculation of h under ………… Center conducting language study and pursuing the wings of the European Physical Society. the project "Homo floresiensis and the History of Don Opitz (DePaul University) was appointed ………… Anthropology in Indonesia." Interim Dean of the School for New Learning, Philipp Lehmann (UC Riverside) recently ………… DePaul University, for the 2018-19 academic published: year. Previously he served as the School's Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University) was Camprubí, Lino, and Philipp Lehmann, eds. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and recently awarded the Berggruen Fellow at the “Experiencing the Global Environment.” Enrollment Management. He continues to hold Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Special issue, Studies in History and Philosophy of Associate Professor status on DePaul’s faculty. Sciences, Stanford for 2018-19. Science Part A, 70 (2018). ………… He also published “Emergence ………… of LGBTQ Studies” in Living Richard Oosterhoff For her next book project, Slouch: The Forgotten Out Loud: An Introduction to (University of Edinburgh) History of America's Poor Posture Epidemic, LGBTQ History, Society, and recently moved from a research Beth Linker (University of Pennsylvania) has Culture, edited by Michael post at CRASSH, University won grants from the American Council of J. Murphy and Brytton of Cambridge, to a permanent Learned Societies, the National Endowment Bjorngaard, 195-96. New York: post as Lecturer in Early Routledge, 2019. for the Humanities, and the National Library of Modern History at the Medicine for the 2018-2019 year. ………… University of Edinburgh. 8 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News, cont. Hans Pols (University of States (Cambridge: Harvard University and subscribe to our newsletter (tinyletter.com/ Sydney) has recently published Press, 2018). For more information, visit ladyscience) and podcast (ladyscience.com/ a monograph, Nurturing www.joyrankin.com. podcast). Lady Science is fully reader supported Indonesia: Medicine and ………… (patreon.com/ladyscience) and will always be Decolonisation in the Dutch completely free to access. Anna Reser would like to announce that Lady East Indies (Cambridge: ………… Science is celebrating its fourth birthday in Cambridge University Press, October 2018! Lady Science is an independent Andrew S. Reynolds (Cape 2018). magazine and podcast focused on women and Breton University) has recently ………… gender in the history and popular culture of published The Third Lens: Pedro Raposo (Adler Planetarium) is now science. Founded in 2014 as a small newsletter, Metaphor and the Creation of Curator and Director of Collections at the Adler Lady Science now publishes researched historical Modern Cell Biology (Chicago Planetarium in Chicago. The new role expands essays each month, essays on higher education, and London: University of on his previous position as Adler's Curator and pop culture, current events, and special series on Chicago Press, 2018). entails higher responsibilities in steering the topics such as fascism and science, gender and ………… Planetarium's history and collections department pain in the medical establishment, Star Trek, and John L. Rudolph (University of Wisconsin- (aka the Webster Institute), working closely with sports and science. Madison) will publish How We Teach Science: the Adler's VP of Astronomy and Collections. The Lady Science Podcast archive includes What's Changed and Why It Matters Pedro and his team will continue to pursue interviews with scholars and writers like Dr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019) varied initiatives and projects in order to make Marie Hicks, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, and Dr. in the spring. The book recounts the way in the Adler's world-class collections of scientific Susan Stryker. The podcast has covered topics which science and its methods have been taught instruments, rare books, and archival materials like historical myths about the female body, in American schools from the middle of the ever more accessible to the research community, queer histories of science, gender and technology, eighteenth century to the present with an eye to while exploring innovative and engaging ways of and the history of scientific racism. understanding the consequences of that teaching using this remarkable resource for the relationship between science and the in Adler exhibitions and The editors and staff would like to thank our public. programs. readers for their support and enthusiasm over ………… the last four years, and invite HSS members who Rudolph has also recently begun his second term are not familiar with the magazine to browse as chair of the Department of Curriculum & Joy Lisi Rankin recently our archive (ladyscience.com/archive), follow Instruction at Wisconsin. published A People's History ………… of Computing in the United us on Twitter and Instagram (@ladyxscience),

9 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter Member News, cont. Neeraja Sankaran (Ashoka University) is now Western Culture, by Roslynn D. Haynes. The in the development, and control, of nuclear a Visiting Associate Professor, as she was invited British Society for Literature and Science, July weapons. to reprise her former role of Associate Professor 2018 (Online only) ………… to teach the foundation undergraduate course in ………… Roger H. Stuewer (University scientific literacy (Principles of Science) at Ashoka Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachusetts of Minnesota) recently University, India. She was also selected as a 2018- Amherst) has been working on a number of published The Age of 2019 Research Fellow at the Consortium for projects related to activism and the history of Innocence: Nuclear Physics History of Science, Technology and Medicine, science. In January, UMass Press published between the First and Second to use the collections at: American Philosophical a volume she co-edited with Dan Chard and World Wars (Oxford and New Society, Columbia University, Cold Spring Alyssa Botelho titled Science for the People: York: Oxford University Press, Harbor Laboratory, Rockefeller Archive Center, Documents from America's Movement of Radical 2018). and Science History Institute. Scientists. Meanwhile, she has been active in the ………… Sankaran has recently published: reconstitution of Science for the People itself (in Alison Wylie (University its former incarnation, it lasted roughly from Sankaran, Neeraja. “On the Historical of British Columbia), who 1969 to 1989). They held their first national Significance of Beijerinck and His Contagium is a Professor of Philosophy convention in February and released the first Vivum Fluidum for Modern Virology.” History and Canada Research Chair issue of the revitalized magazine in July. and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40, no. 3 in Philosophy of the Social Inspired by these developments, Schmalzer (September 2018): 41 (25 pages) and Historical Sciences, is launching a new book series with UMass will give the Forum for the Helvoort, Ton van, and Neeraja Sankaran. “How Press called Activist Studies of Science and History of Human Science Seeing Became Knowing: The Role of the Technology. She hopes HSS members will distinguished lecture at the Electron Microscope in Shaping the Modern consider the series for their activism-related book 2018 HSS conference. Her primary interest is in Definition of Viruses.” Journal of the History of projects. understanding how we know what (we think) Biology, (online 20 June 2018), 1-36. ………… we know under non-ideal circumstances, and Sankaran, Neeraja. Book Review of Immunity: David Schwartz was a guest speaker at Los in addressing issues of accountability that arise the Evolution of an Idea, by Alfred I. Tauber. Alamos National Laboratory's 75th Anniversary in research practice. She publishes on evidential History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40, no. Event, “Past, Present, and Future,” on August reasoning, ideals of objectivity, feminist 2 (June 2018): 32 (3 pages) 6 at the Lab. He spoke about the nuclear legacy standpoint theory and on normative issues raised Sankaran, Neeraja. Book Review of From of Enrico Fermi, the history of the nuclear arms by an ethic of stewardship and collaborative Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in race and nuclear anxiety, and the role of scientists practice in archaeology. 10 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News HSS Newsletter Editors Land Acknowledgement everyone. Accordingly, the Society deplores all Wanted Ceremony in Seattle harassment and is sensitive to the harm suffered by persons who experience it. We expect speakers The HSS Newsletter first appeared in 1972, edited During the 2017 HSS meeting in Toronto, we and questioners at our meetings to demonstrate by Roger Stuewer and his team of volunteers formed a committee to expand the Society's self-control and civility, even in the midst of (the Newsletter archive can be found here). 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The Secretary of • Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied person must describe the incident in a non- the Council will report the outcome to all parties Sciences 12 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News, cont. • Science Progress and Physics at Harvard University, built on downtown Atlanta at a historically black church, • Science, Technology, & Human Values his ground-breaking work in Einstein’s Clocks, featured footage of a 1920s scientific expedition Poincaré’s Maps. Professor Galison examined the to Liberia and the ripples it created that are felt JSTOR adds new titles to JPASS every month so quest for “pure time” and the impact this had even today. you’ll have a growing collection of the world’s on daily life, especially railroad travel. Galison leading scholarly journals only a click away. The 2017 conference in Toronto highlighted also incorporated into his Paris talk some of Sign up here. the work of Alice Dreger, whose talk “Moral the collaborative results with the artist William Witnessing in the History of Science” drew the Kentridge, providing an exciting balance of HSS’s Elizabeth Paris largest audience to date. Using her work as a science and art. This talk, co-sponsored by the champion of those born with atypical anatomies Endowment Achieves 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival, sold out as a springboard, Dr. Dreger explored how $100,000 Goal within a few weeks. history can serve as a type of moral witnessing The Elizabeth Paris Endowment for socially For 2015, HSS drew on the expertise of one and how history can provide a powerful engaged history and philosophy of science was of its members and invited Eric Conway, co- explanation for events as it warns against established in 2013 in celebration of the life and author of the book Merchants of Doubt, to simplistic stories of good and evil. values of Elizabeth. A passionate and generous host a screening of the movie by the same title. scholar who was committed to integrating the Dr. Conway provided valuable insights into HSS and PSA: “He Says He’s intellectual side of the history and philosophy of how scientific expertise can be intentionally Not Dead” science with their social, institutional, and policy twisted to create doubt in the public forum. For By Jay Malone, HSS Executive Director aspects, Elizabeth excelled in bringing people example, scientists who created doubt about the together and the endowment was formed with that harmful effects of tobacco also had a hand in “In “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” John in mind. We are pleased that we have now reached manufacturing doubt about acid rain and climate Cleese’s character brings an older man to the the $100,000 goal and plan to build on this change. This story is particularly important “dead cart,” which is being pushed through the amount. This is a permanent fund, the proceeds for democratic societies that rely on scientific mud in a bleak village to the sing song chant of which will be used to pursue the endowment’s expertise in making decisions. of “bring out your dead.” The old man protests central goal: to carry the history and philosophy that he’s not dead, which prompts the captain of science to the public. In pursuit of this goal, At the Atlanta meeting in 2016, the Society of the detail to exclaim, “He says he’s not dead,” the HSS sponsors the Elizabeth Paris social invited Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin) one of the funnier lines in cinema. Some people engagement events at its annual meetings. and Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University) are discussing the demise of the HSS/PSA to speak about their expertise on science in Africa In the first-Paris event in 2014, Peter Galison, relationship but it is not yet dead. Here’s the and among minorities in the United States, background of the co-located meetings. the Pellegrino Professor in History of Science respectively. The event, which took place in

13 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News, cont. In the mid 1990s, PSA faced a bit of a crisis As part of the strategic plan, HSS’s Council science without the history of science is empty with its biennial meeting, i.e. finding someone expressed a desire to meet with other societies on and history of science without the philosophy of to organize it. HSS’s Executive Secretary, Keith a more regular basis, especially the Society for the science is blind. Benson, stepped into the breach and pulled History of Technology (SHOT). Accordingly, together the 1996 meeting in Cleveland. Keith we are planning meetings with SHOT in 2020 Sponsor-a-Scholar Program did such a fine job that PSA asked that this and 2021. HSS Council also expressed a desire relationship continue. Because it is doubly to meet outside of North America, which is the The History of Science Society (HSS) is calling difficult to organize two separate meeting, it was impetus for our Utrecht meeting next year in July for applications to its Sponsor-a-Scholar decided that HSS and PSA would meet together, (our first annual meeting in July). A combination program. This program aims to help scholars preferably in the same hotel. The 1998 meeting of meeting more frequently with SHOT and who live in countries that are not party to the in Kansas City marked the beginning of that outside of North America makes it increasingly Convention on the Organization for the experiment and it worked fairly well for many difficult to coordinate meetings with PSA. Economic Co-operation and Development years but change was inevitable. (OECD) become active members of the HSS. We will meet with PSA in Seattle but we will When HSS began this relationship, a typical miss PSA in 2020 as we work towards a co- Selected by a subcommittee of the HSS PSA meetings featured 5 parallel sessions spread located meeting with SHOT. But this does not Committee on Membership, sponsored scholars over 2.5 days and about 325 attendees. HSS mean that we have ruled out future meetings receive a free electronic membership in HSS conferences would see over 700 delegates and with PSA and, in fact, we are looking at a (renewable up to three years), which includes 10 to 12 parallel sessions. Finding a hotel to possible co-located meeting in Pittsburgh in subscriptions to Isis, Osiris, and the HSTM fit both groups was always a challenge. Now 2022. And cooperation between the history and Database, along with other benefits. In return, some 20 years later, for the Seattle meeting, philosophy of science will be evident at the 2019 sponsored members are expected to help further PSA is expecting over 700 attendees, with 10 Congress of the Division of Logic, Methodology, the HSS’s international outreach efforts. parallel sessions spread over 4 days. This growth and Philosophy of Science and Technology in Interested applicants, please send: prompted the PSA governing board to find a Prague. HSS included the DLMPST Congress new way to organize its biennial conferences, and in its NSF travel grants and will provide vital • 2-page application letter stating your this decision actually meshed nicely with HSS’s support for that meeting (the CFP for Prague is experiences, interests in the history of science, strategic plan where we were looking to invest now live: http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/). and your proposal to publicize HSS in your more in programs outside of the annual meeting. region. We recognize the benefits of combining the PSA reconstituted its administration, appointing history and philosophy of science and will keep • 2-page CV Jessica Pfeifer as their new Executive Director, our eyes on the future of that relationship, Please submit all materials to Zuoyue Wang. and Jessica has done a fabulous job. aware of Imre Lakatos’s belief that philosophy of

14 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News, cont. Why Isis? v.44, Sept. 1953, p. 232) Sarton then goes on in mathematics, who cared little about the to admit that he does not exactly remember humanities, especially the “oriental humanities” A few years ago, the HSS Executive Office, which when the idea of founding a journal devoted to gradually, through “eastern dreams and velleities” is based at the University of Notre Dame, sent the history of science (he called it a “review’ of (p. 235) settled on the title Isis. a request to the University’s financial office to the history of science) occurred to him. He was wire funds to Utrecht University. The funds Members have access to the full run of Isis. The sure, though, that the idea came shortly after he were intended for the editorial team stationed Sarton article can be found here. received his doctor’s degree in mathematics from at the Descartes Center, and “under reason for the University of Ghent on 11 May 1911 (his payment” we listed “publication of Isis.” Shortly GECC Activities Update undergraduate degree, also from Ghent, was in after the request, we received a note of alarm chemistry). (October 2018) from the financial department stating that we The Graduate and Early Career Caucus is He writes that he liked the title Isis because cannot send money to that group. Even though thrilled to announce that our search for it was brief, requiring no abbreviations and the terrorist group, commonly referred to as ISIS, diversity officers was a great success. We ask representing a contrast to the growing number has waned in the headlines, when people learn the HSS community to join us in welcoming of wordy science journal titles. And though of the title of the flagship journal in the history Ellen Abrams (Cornell) and Charlotte Coull he thought that the names of people, journals, of science, they are startled, and typically ask (Manchester) to our team. They are currently and institutions should be as brief as possible when the HSS will change the title. There are no developing a diversity survey and would (his daughter’s name was May), he encouraged plans to make any such alteration, and it is worth welcome any input. Are there questions that elaboration through a subtitle (presumably remembering why George Sarton chose that title you think should be asked of the HSS/GECC just for journals) and so Isis is rendered, as “An and to recall that the HSS was formed in 1924 community? Please send ideas, suggestions, International Review Devoted to the History of specifically to support Isis. or questions to our diversity officers at gecc. Science and Its Cultural Influences.” In the September 1953 Isis, Sarton published [email protected]. The survey will be the article “Why Isis?” in order to give readers But brevity does not provide a sufficient answer made available online on the GECC website his reasoning for choosing the Egyptian goddess to why Isis? and he admits it, albeit stubbornly: during and immediately following this year’s as the title for the journal, which he established “The gestation of Isis lasted more than a year, but conference in Seattle. I do not remember having ever had the slightest in 1912. He began the article thus: “During The GECC Communications officers have been hesitation about the name, or having ever the last forty years, I have often been asked hard at work on the redesign of the GECC thought of an alternative one. The query—"Why “Why is your journal called Isis? I answered website. In addition to providing information Isis?"—never occurred to me. It was to be Isis or briefly and sometimes impatiently. The present about us and our activities, the new website nothing.” (p. 234) Members owe it to themselves article is written for the sake of providing my features several new initiatives. Our mental to read this article, how someone trained successors with a more complete answer.” (Isis, health resources page is available and provides 15 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News, cont. links to specific articles and studies on Graduate will take place on Friday from 12:00-1:15 Update on the May Sarton Student mental health as well as information p.m. We are also continuing our one-on-one Fellowship in the History of on more general resources. We also have pages mentorship program, which pairs graduate providing information on alt-ac careers and how students and early careerists with more senior Science to apply for post-doctoral positions. In October scholars. The goal of this program is to facilitate Members may be aware that the American we will be debuting the GECC Advice column, conversations that would not otherwise Academy of Arts and Sciences approached the “Ask a Grad Student.” This collaborative effort have occurred. If our participants develop a HSS earlier this year to help secure nominations features answers from many GECC officers rapport that continues beyond their initial for a fellowship in the history of science, a in order to provide different perspectives on a conversation we are, of course, thrilled, but it program with a somewhat lengthy history. May given question. Please leave a comment, or reach is not required. We at GECC have a relaxed Sarton, the daughter and only child of George out to us directly at [email protected] with and inclusive understanding of mentorship. We and Mabel Sarton and a renowned poet, had feedback. believe in sharing information and encouraging endowed a fellowship program in 1991, which conversations amongst academics at all career GECC is offering a wide array of programming was intended to support an emerging poet and stages. We identify mentors as those with this year in Seattle. In addition to our annual an emerging historian of science on a three- information to share and mentees as those that events, such as the CV review (Saturday 1:30- year cycle. The fellowship was to alternate can benefit from the experiences and expertise of 3:45 p.m.) and the GECC Mixer (Friday between a poet and a historian. Challenges others. We are always seeking mentors to serve 8:00-10:00 p.m.), we will be debuting a new plagued the establishment of the program during the HSS Meetings. If you are interested Mentorship Mixer immediately following the and the first fellowship was not awarded until in participating please contact our mentorship general reception on Thursday night. This 1999, to Cristina Chimisso. The second award officers at [email protected]. event will be hosted by HSS President Bernie did not come until 2012 and went to Melinda Lightman and will provide attendees with the For more information about GECC and all of Baldwin but the Academy has been able to opportunity to “pick the brains” of established our programming, visit our website: stabilize the process with the full intent that a scholars in a casual and convivial environment. https://hssgecc.wordpress.com. fellowship will go to an early-career historian of Space is limited and interested parties should science every six years. After being approached RSVP to [email protected] to guarantee by the Academy, the HSS agreed to help their place. solicit nominations with an expressed goal in expanding the field of nominees. Although It should be emphasized that this mixer accommodating the Academy’s timeline is scheduled in addition to other ongoing required a much-too-short nomination period, mentorship programs. The Women’s Mentorship we received over 60 nomination letters. An Event will be a brown-bag-lunch format and ad hoc committee from the HSS Executive 16 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter HSS News, cont. Committee ranked these nominations and Copies of Isis and Osiris sent the top five to the Academy, which will Wanted make the final decision. Here is the proposed timeline: This summer my departmental office was flooded 18 September 2018: Committee finalizes after a tarp blew off an unfinished roof during recommendations for the a heavy rainstorm. Among the casualties of the Sarton Award for History flooding were my print runs of Isis and Osiris of Science. from 2004-2018. Since I am a fan of printed 5 October 2018: Committee’s journals, but know many members are not, I am recommendations are appealing to anyone who has been considering presented to the Board of getting rid of their print copies of Isis and Osiris Just earned your PhD in Directors for approval. and has just been waiting for an opportunity to the history of science? November 2018: Recipient is notified. do so. You would have a grateful recipient. I am able to reimburse postage and shipping costs to Communication and press Congratulations! Here’s a Canada. Email Elizabeth Neswald. release announcing the awards. free e-membership to HSS. 11 April 2019: Formal Award Program at Leaving the student world the Academy. can present challenges. The HSS has been in contact with the Academy and has offered a number of suggestions on the The HSS would like to recognize your process. It is our hope that the 2024 prize will Plan Ahead signal achievement by providing a reflect these suggestions. Future HSS Meetings free electronic membership (one year) Seattle, WA: to those who graduated in 2017 or in 2018. 1-4 Nov. 2018 Joint meeting with PSA Please go to https://subfill.uchicago.edu/ Utrecht, The Netherlands: JournalPUBS/HSSpromotion.aspx for 23-27 July 2019 details.

17 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession 2018 HIST Award Professor Lewis earned tenure and the rank Chemists and Their Legacy has been hailed as the of Associate at Baylor University in 1988, but most important contribution to this previously The History of Chemistry Division of the moved on to South Dakota State University, understudied area. American Chemical Society is pleased to where he became a Full Professor in 1993. He announce that Professor David E. Lewis of the was called to The University of Wisconsin- David Lewis has been one of the most frequent University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire is the Eau Claire in 1997 as Chair of the Chemistry speakers at American Chemical Society meetings winner of the 2018 HIST Award for Outstanding Department, where he continues a very active in the Division of the History of Chemistry Lifetime Achievement in the History of program in synthetic organic chemistry. over the last 25 years, and has contributed to Chemistry. This international award has been many notable symposia (especially Characters granted since 1956 under sequential sponsorships Chemists like Lewis, with his interests well in Chemistry). His work was recognized in by the Dexter Chemical Company, the Edelstein outside the realm of chemistry (narrowly defined) 2012 with a DSc. Degree from the University Foundation, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, do not always stick to the main road, and David of Adelaide, and he was elected a Fellow of the and the History of Chemistry Division. The gained an interest in the history of organic Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015. event includes presentation of a monetary prize chemistry. He also joined the Division of the and a plaque, a symposium honoring the work History of Chemistry and started publishing STEM Education Advisory of Professor Lewis, and a lecture by the awardee, in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (now which was scheduled to take place on 21 August 15 papers, including two Best Paper Awards in Panel 2018, at the American Chemical Society’s annual 1997 and 2010). He served as the Chair of the The National Science Foundation (NSF), Fall meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Division from 2003-2005. in consultation with the Department of Education, NASA and the National Oceanic David Lewis is a product of the borderline The area of interest for Professor Lewis has been and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) bush area around Adelaide, South Australia. organic chemistry in Russia, especially at Kazan announced on 11 July 2018 the appointment He moved into the suburbs in fourth grade, Chemistry School. Not only has he become of 18 members to a new advisory panel created and stayed there throughout his education. the leading scholar in this area, he is recognized to encourage U.S. scientific and technological He matriculated from Salisbury High School, by the Russians as the author of “a wonderful innovations in education, as authorized by the and moved on to the University of Adelaide, series of works devoted to the history of Russian American Innovation and Competitiveness Act. where he graduated with Honors in Organic chemistry.” His collected works were translated Chemistry in 1973. He continued with graduate and published in Russian in 2016. He has been Gabriela Gonzalez, deputy director of the Intel research in natural products until he was invited several times to give major lectures at Foundation, Intel Corporation, will chair the new STEM Education Advisory Panel. David beckoned to the United States and the state of Kazan and other cities in Russia. This September, Evans, executive director of the National Science Arkansas in 1977. he will, for the first time, deliver his talks in Teachers Association, will serve as vice chair. Russian. His 2012 book, Early Russian Organic 18 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. Congress authorized creation of the STEM new group of STEM leaders to ensure we are Learning and Literacy, and professor, Education Advisory Panel to advise a group constantly rethinking what education means for University of Denver of federal organizations called the Committee America's students." • Lizanne DeStefano, executive director, on Science, Technology, Engineering and "STEM is vital for NOAA to protect lives Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics Education (CoSTEM) on matters Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), related to STEM education. and property, enhance the economy, and conserve natural resources," said NOAA acting Georgia Institute of Technology In particular, Congress authorized the panel to undersecretary of commerce for oceans and • Arthur Eisenkraft, distinguished professor help identify opportunities to update the 2013- atmosphere, retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim of science education and director of 2018 Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Gallaudet. "As a member of CoSTEM, I look the Center of Science and Math in Plan, which CoSTEM developed to improve the forward to working with this distinguished panel Context (COSMIC), the University of efficiency, coordination and impact of federally and hearing their recommendations that will help Massachusetts, Boston supported STEM education investments. advance these efforts." • David Evans, executive director, National In addition, the panel will assess CoSTEM's "NASA is proud of the many ways that its Science Teachers Association progress in carrying out responsibilities mandated missions inspire the next generation of STEM • Gabriela González, deputy director of the by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act. leaders. Across the spectrum of our work, Intel Foundation, Intel Corporation students and educators have many opportunities • Jacqueline Huntoon, provost and vice "This new panel has an opportunity to bring to learn from and engage with our work," said fresh eyes and novel approaches to CoSTEM's president for Academic Affairs, Michigan NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who co- Technological University next five-year strategic plan, which will help chairs CoSTEM. "We're going back to the moon Aimee Kennedy enhance the nation's entire STEM ecosystem," and on to Mars, and we're going to keep doing • , senior vice president said NSF Director France Córdova, who co- the amazing things that will help fill the pipeline for education, STEM Learning and Battelle chairs CoSTEM. "NSF continues to generate of new explorers and create a bright future." Philanthropy, benefits for society through STEM research. To • Laurie Leshin, president, Worcester fulfill that mission, we and our federal partners The panel is composed of individuals from Polytechnic Institute need to make strategic investments to create new nonprofit, business, academic and informal Robert Mathieu generations of discoverers." education organizations. The members are: • , Albert E. Whitford Professor of Astronomy, director of the "This advisory panel is another strong step taken • Vince Bertram, president and CEO, Project Wisconsin Center for Education Research, by this administration to advance educational Lead The Way, Inc. University of Wisconsin-Madison options in the STEM fields," said Secretary of • Douglas Clements, Kennedy Endowed • Ray Mellado, chairman of the board and Education Betsy DeVos, a CoSTEM member. Chair in Early Childhood Learning, executive founder, Great Minds in STEM "I look forward to working with this exceptional director of the Marsico Institute for Early 19 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. • Ioannis Yannis Miaoulis, president and introduction to its central ideas, can be found Contents director, Museum of Science, Boston here: www.narrative-science.org • Introduction • 2019 IUHPST Essay Prize in History and • K. Renae Pullen, K-6 science curriculum Each seminar will include two speakers. They will Philosophy of Science. instructional specialist, Caddo Parish Public take place between 17:00 and 19:00 on the LSE Schools campus in London, building KSW and room • 2018 British Society for History of Science, • Larry Robinson, president, Florida G.01. A sample of the seminars appears below. Pickstone Prize Shortlist Agricultural and Mechanical University • The Cavendish Laboratory 6 Nov 2018 (FAMU), and director of NOAA's Center for • PhilPeople Directory Coastal and Marine Ecosystems at FAMU Julia Sánchez-Dorado (UCL) and Claudia • Opinion Page: Mario Bunge’s 99th Birthday Cristalli (UCL) • PhD Theses in HPS&ST Domain • Kimberly Scott, executive director of the Colligation in Model Analysis: From Whewell’s • Recent HPS&ST Research Articles Center for Gender Equity in Science and Tides to the San Francisco Bay Model • Recent HPS&ST Related Books Technology, Arizona State University Veronika Lipphardt (University College Freiburg) • Coming HPS&ST Related Conferences • Robert Semper, associate executive director, TBA Exploratorium 20 Nov 2018 The website for the IHPST 2019 Conference in Thessaloniki, July 15-19, is now open. More • William Yslas Velez, emeritus professor of Caitlin Donahue Wylie (University of Virginia) conference news in a subsequent Note. Mathematics, The University of Arizona Narrating Disaster: A Method of Socialization in • Bruce Wellman, Chemistry, Engineering and Engineering Laboratories This HPS&ST monthly Note is sent to about Robotics teacher, Olathe Northwest High Sigrid Leyssen (University of Bucharest) 7,500 individuals who directly or indirectly have School TBA an interest in the connections of history and For more information on the STEM Education 4 Dec 2018 philosophy of science with theoretical, curricular, Advisory Panel, please visit its website. Lukas Engelman (University of Edinburgh) and pedagogical issues in science teaching, and/or Epidemiology as Narrative Science: Outbreak interests in the promotion of more engaging and Reports of the Third Plague Pandemic from 1894 effective teaching of the history and philosophy Narrative Science Project to 1952 of science. The Note is also sent to different The Narrative Science project is pleased to Sabine Baier (LSE and ETH Zürich) HPS lists and to science education lists. It is an announce the launch of its website, and the TBA information list, not a discussion list. start of a seminar series that will run in London The September HPS&ST Note The Note serves the diverse international throughout the rest of 2018 and to the end of community of HPS&ST scholars and teachers summer in 2019. The website, which contains The September HPS&ST Note is on the web at by disseminating information about events and further information about the project and an https://www.hpsst.com/hpsst-note.html. publications that connect to HPS&ST concerns. 20 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. Contributions to the Note (publications, thematic on the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Information about becoming a member on an issues, conferences, Opinion Page, etc.) are Committee, Office of Science, Center for Tobacco FDA advisory committee can also be obtained welcome and should be sent direct to the editor: Products. FDA seeks to include the views of by visiting FDA’s website. Michael R. Matthews, UNSW, m.matthews@ women and men, members of all racial and unsw.edu.au. ethnic groups, and individuals with and without Supplementary Information: disabilities on its advisory committees and, FDA is requesting nominations for voting therefore encourages nominations of appropriately members on the Tobacco Products Scientific In Memoriam: Jeff Hughes qualified candidates from these groups. Advisory Committee. It is with deep sadness that we announce the death Nominations received on or before 13 November I. General Description of the Committee of our esteemed former colleague Dr. Jeff Hughes. 2018 will be given first consideration for Duties From his appointment as one of CHSTM’s membership on the Tobacco Products Scientific The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory first permanent members of staff in 1993 to his Advisory Committee. Nominations received Committee (the Committee) advises the retirement in 2017, Jeff made huge contributions after 13 November 2018 will be considered for Commissioner of Food and Drugs (the to the Centre as an inspirational teacher, scholar nomination to the committee as later vacancies Commissioner) or designee in discharging and colleague. Jeff was known and respected occur. responsibilities related to the regulation of worldwide as a leading figure in the history of All nominations for membership should be sent tobacco products. The Committee reviews science, and we join his many friends in the electronically by logging into the FDA Advisory and evaluates safety, dependence, and health academy and beyond in expressing our sincere Nomination Portal online or by mail to issues relating to tobacco products and condolences to his family. Advisory Committee Oversight and Management provides appropriate advice, information, and Staff, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 recommendations to the Commissioner. — Ian Burney, on behalf of the Centre for the New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 32, Rm. 5103, Silver History of Science, Technology and Medicine, II. Criteria for Voting Members Spring, MD 20993-0002. University of Manchester The Committee consists of 12 members For Further Information Contact: including the Chair. Members and the Chair Request for Nominations Regarding all nomination questions for membership, are selected by the Commissioner or designee the primary contact is: Caryn Cohen, Office of from among individuals knowledgeable in for Voting Members on the Science, Center for Tobacco Products, Food the fields of medicine, medical ethics, science, Tobacco Products Scientific and Drug Administration, Document Control or technology involving the manufacture, Advisory Committee Center, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, evaluation, or use of tobacco products. Almost Rm. G335, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, all non-Federal members of this committee The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is 1-877-287-1373 (choose option 5), email: serve as Special Government Employees. The requesting nominations for members to serve [email protected]. 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Any interested person may nominate one or Barbara Osimani (UnivPM Ancona) more qualified individuals for membership on the advisory committee. Self-nominations are Current political, social and even scientific Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/ debates all hinge upon whether data, inferences also accepted. Nominations must include a Library of Congress Chair in current, complete résumé or curriculum vitae and/or belief forming processes are reliable (the for each nominee and a signed copy of the replication crisis and fake news are just tips of Astrobiology Acknowledgement and Consent form available the iceberg). We are calling for philosophical/ The Kluge Center at the Library of Congress at the FDA Advisory Nomination Portal (see methodological contributions which help us invites applications to the Baruch S. Blumberg ADDRESSES). Nominations must also specify through these difficult circumstances. NASA/Library of Congress Chair in the advisory committee for which the nominee Given the variety of intertwined problems we are Astrobiology. is recommended. Nominations must also calling for contributions addressing the notion of acknowledge that the nominee is aware of the A partnership between NASA’s Astrobiology reliability [broadly construed]. In particular, we Program and the Library of Congress, the nomination unless self-nominated. FDA will are calling for contributions to ask potential candidates to provide detailed Blumberg Chair, an annually selected position, • reliability, its uses and models in the supports a senior scholar in the sciences or the information concerning such matters related to sciences and methodologies (e.g., empirical, financial holdings, employment, and research humanities to take up residence in the Library’s theoretical, social); John W. 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American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) today announced that President Pauline Yu Pauline Yu became president of the American Dissertation Abstracts will retire on 30 June 2019 and a search for her Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, successor has been launched. having served as dean of humanities in the Issues 78-07 A and B College of Letters and Science at the University The latest batch of recent doctoral dissertations ACLS Board Chair, Bill Kirby, expressed of California, Los Angeles and professor of harvested from the issues 78-07 A and B of the Council’s profound appreciation for East Asian languages and cultures from 1994- Dissertation Abstracts can be found in the Pauline Yu’s 16 years of service: “Pauline is 2003. Prior to that appointment, she was links below. ProQuest has altered how they put a true Scholar-Official. She has promoted founding chair of the Department of East Asian out their individual issues. No longer do they scholarship at the highest level across fields and Languages and Literatures at the University of correlate to one month, so the dating is more national boundaries, while reinvigorating our California, Irvine (1989-94) and on the faculty random. Thus titles will range from 2018—yes nation’s leading organization in support of the of Columbia University (1985-89) and the they have some 2018 dates—back into the 1930s humanities. During Pauline’s tenure, ACLS more University of Minnesota (1976-85). She received for certain subject areas. than doubled the number of research fellowships her BA in history and literature from Harvard There is one additional aspect to point out it awards, tripled the dollar value of awards to University and her MA and PhD in comparative about this latest batch of dissertations. ProQuest scholars, and increased its endowment by 110 literature from Stanford University. She is the has begun adding numerous titles from many percent. Under Pauline’s leadership, ACLS author or editor of five books and dozens of universities dating back into the 1930s. Not all initiated programs that reach scholars around articles on classical Chinese poetry, literary of these earlier titles come with abstracts, but the world and across the realms of academic theory, comparative poetics, and issues in the the entire dissertation should be available for disciplines, deepened the public’s engagement humanities and has received fellowships from downloading. Also you may find some duplicate with scholarship, and established directions for the Guggenheim Foundation, the American titles—ProQuest now has around 30 percent its next century of service to the academy and Council of Learned Societies, and the National duplicate titles in each issue. society. She has presented to audiences at home Endowment for the Humanities. She was awarded and abroad on the dynamism of the humanities JHMdiss78-07-4444 the Modern Language Association’s William Riley in addressing contemporary issues. “We on Parker Prize for best PMLA article of 2007. ISISdiss78-07-4444-ONLY the ACLS Board are deeply grateful for her leadership, and we thank her above all on behalf Yu is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the American 23 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. Philosophical Society and The Committee of San Francisco (UCSF) Library is pleased to correspondence, notebooks, typed reports, and 100. She serves on the Board of Directors of the announce the award of a $99,325 “Pitch-An- agency records which represent a broad view of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Idea, Local” grant for the first year of a two- the lived experience of the epidemic, including Scholarly Exchange, The Robert H. N. Ho year project from the Institute of Museum and documentation from People with AIDS and Family Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, Library Services’ (IMLS) Library Services and their friends, families, and scientists and public and The Teagle Foundation. In addition, she is Technology Act funding administered through health officials working to slow the epidemic. a trustee of the American Academy of Arts and the California State Library. The Archives will All historical materials represented in this Sciences, the American Academy in Berlin, and take the nearly 200,000 pages of textual HIV/ dataset have been previously screened to address the National Humanities Center. Yu also served AIDS historical materials which have been privacy concerns. The resulting unstructured, on the Harvard University Board of Overseers digitized as part of various digitization projects— textual dataset will be deposited in the UC and the Scholars Council of the Library of including the National Historic Publications Dash datasharing repository for public access Congress’s Kluge Center. Yu holds five honorary and Records Commission (NHPRC)-funded and use by any interested parties, and will also degrees and is a senior research scholar at project, “Evolution of San Francisco’s Response be deposited in other similar data repositories Columbia University. to a Public Health Crisis;” and the National as appropriate. “During my tenure at UCSF,” Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)- says health sciences historian and professor in ACLS has engaged the search firm of Storbeck funded project, “The San Francisco Bay Area’s the Department of Anthropology, History, Pimental & Associates to aid in finding ACLS’s Response to the AIDS Epidemic”—and will and Social Medicine at UCSF, Dr. Aimee next president. For more information or to extract unstructured, textual data from these Medeiros, “I have been inspired by the library’s nominate candidates, please see the notice materials using Optical Character Recognition enthusiasm and dedication to public access and ACLS website under Employment on the (OCR) and related software. The project the use of practices in the digital humanities to Opportunities . team will prepare the text as a research-ready, help maximize access to HIV/AIDS material.” unstructured textual dataset to be used for digital This project will build on that legacy by bringing UCSF Archives & Special humanities, computationally driven cultural these valuable historical materials into the realm Collections Awarded $99,325 heritage, and machine learning research inquiries of digital humanities and scientific research and into the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. making them computationally actionable. LSTA Grant for Textual Data Extraction from Historical The 24-month project, entitled “No More Please find a full summary of the project on our Silence—Opening the Data of the HIV/ blog. We are always interested in hearing from Materials on HIV/AIDS AIDS Epidemic” has commenced as of 1 July colleagues involved in similar work. For inquiries, The Archives and Special Collections 2018. The digitized materials from which contact University Archivist Polina Ilieva or department of the University of California, text will be extracted include handwritten Digital Archivist Charlie Macquarie.

24 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. UVA Landscape Studies cultural landscape studies, environmental history, course context (aside subject and landscape- Platform: A Call for and design history—to assist the Initiative in specific tags). Students will be able to search expanding secondary sources and incorporating the platform’s resources through these curated Contemporary Bibliographies recent approaches. This includes books and and topical clusters as well as collate their own, and Reading Lists for articles that investigate landscape in light of the inquiry-driven materials. cultural and spatial turn, critical visual and media Teaching Landscape History Submission Details: studies, post-colonial and post-structural readings, The Project: and the enlarged socio-material intensities and Instructions for Contributors: The Landscape Studies Initiative (LSI), led by anthropocene networks theorized in political Reading list submissions will be accepted on Beth Meyer and Michael Lee at University of ecology and the history of science. an on-going basis. Contributors interested Virginia, is developing an open, public platform in submitting are encouraged to send an for the trans-disciplinary teaching of landscape For initial platform testing, the LSI team is email to the LSI Box account: Syllabi. history. The Mellon Foundation-funded LSI developing pilot courses focused on landscapes [email protected]. Please takes Elizabeth Barlow Rogers’ Landscape and modernization across the long 18th and note your topical/period focus in your email Design: A Cultural and Architectural History 19th centuries, examining the feedback between title, formatted as follows: ‘Landscape Studies (Abrams 2002) as an underlying armature and design and shifting cultural habits, socio-technical Bibliographic Updates: [your topical focus]. embraces the digital connection of fieldwork, systems, and territorial frameworks. This includes period documents, and enlarged secondary considering processes of professionalization, Attached to the email, please include your sources. As a teaching tool, the Landscape industrialization, urbanization, agricultural contact information and a short abstract (150 Studies platform will enable students’ discovery rationalization, and imperial expansion, as well as words max.) saved as a word doc. In the abstract, of novel trajectories, voices, and perspectives, as the rise of capitalist (labor) markets and nation- please describe the focus of the reading list, the manifest in the creation, maintenance, and lived states, with their broad bureaucratic and civic initial context of use (research, undergraduate experience of cultural landscapes. institutions. Reading lists that focus on this period or graduate teaching, etc.), and key methods or are welcome; we especially encourage submission approaches exemplified in the texts. All reading The Call: of bibliographies that develop a critical and lists should be attached as a second, separate At this early stage in a multi-year project, we seek reflective relationship between contemporary document, formatted (preferably) as a Zotero future collaborators and partners. In particular, crises and their longer genealogical manifestation export or a doc/pdf bibliography with Chicago- we invite contributors to submit reading lists and in designed and managed landscapes. style entries. See formatting notes below for more topical bibliographies that will expand and update information. the references of Landscape Design. We welcome All contributors will be credited on the reading lists from curses taught in a variety of LSI Platform, with their entries including Confirmation of receipt and incorporation (or disciplines—including cultural geography, STS, contributing researcher/educator and past redundancy) will be provided within six weeks. At 25 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. that point, contributors will be asked to confirm NEH Announces $43.1 and sustain the cultural life of our nation and its their role in collecting the initial materials and Million for 218 Humanities citizens,” said NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. their agreement to open posting, with citation of Infrastructure grants include funding to construct their curating role; availability of internally linked Projects Nationwide a new arts and culture hub in downtown Juneau, materials—article copies or book pdfs—will be Grant awards support cultural infrastructure, Alaska, and to provide conservation services subject to copyright restrictions. humanities research, exhibitions, documentaries, and training for staff of libraries at Historically education programs for teachers, and the Contributors will also be sent links to Black Colleges and Universities to strengthen preservation of historic collections. the Landscape Studies’ aggregated, digital stewardship of special collections documenting bibliography and incorporated in a mailing list, WASHINGTON, D.C. (8 August 2018) — The the African-American experience. for announcements on platform progress, launch National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) In addition to providing for construction and dates, beta testing and course development today announced $43.1 million in awards for capacity-building projects at museums, libraries, opportunities. 218 humanities projects across the country. and colleges, NEH grants support a wide range The grants include the first awards made under Preferred digital format for reading lists of public programs that bring humanities ideas, NEH’s new Infrastructure and Capacity- and bibliographies: experiences, and resources to communities Building Challenge Grant program, which Zotero collections, with notes and without large and small. Grants include funding for the will support infrastructure projects at 29 U.S. files, exported as ‘Zotero RDF’. Annotations reinstallation of a permanent gallery of early cultural institutions in 20 states and the District to reading lists can be submitted as notes on American art at the Philadelphia Museum of Columbia. applicable records. of Art, as well as support for feature-length This round of funding, NEH’s third and last documentaries on the life and civil rights legacy Secondary format (it is strongly encour- for fiscal year 2018, will support vital research, of singer Marian Anderson and on the literary aged to use preferred format): education, preservation, and public programs in career and cultural impact of Laura Ingalls Word documents (DOC or DOCX) or the humanities. These peer-reviewed grants were Wilder. Adobe acrobat files (PDF) with Chicago-style awarded in addition to $47 million in annual bibliography entries. Other grants announced today advance operating support provided to the national scholarship and discovery in the fields of network of state and local humanities councils Addresses for submissions: history, literature, linguistics, art history, and during fiscal year 2018. LSI Box: [email protected]. comparative religion. Archaeological excavation com “From nationally broadcast documentaries to of an abandoned settlement in Western Anatolia will answer important questions about the More general info and contacts for the project summer workshops for high school teachers, transition from Greek to Roman rule in the can be found here: Landscape Studies Initiative. the projects receiving funding today strengthen 26 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. ancient world. A project to develop software history, settlement, and development of local post about the collection describes the medical to identify and analyze archival materials in logging, mining, and tourism industries. illustrations of the early 19th century obstetrician multiple indigenous languages will enable Native Thomas Radford. American communities such as the Miami Tribe Forty-five institutions received grants to support professional development for K-12 and of Oklahoma to revitalize languages close to The Eugenics Crusade on PBS extinction. college teachers through summer workshops and institutes on humanities topics such as: by Dan Kevles NEH Public Scholar grants, which support the Great Sioux War and the Battle of Little Mark your calendars to tune into PBS on popular nonfiction books in the humanities, will Bighorn; American women’s experience of the Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 9 to 11 p.m., EST, enable publication of: a comprehensive biography Revolutionary War and Civil War; and the to see the premiere of “The Eugenics Crusade,” a of Teddy Roosevelt by Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the transcontinental railroad. riveting program in the American Experience series, author T. J. Stiles; a history of a clandestine Nazi A full list of grants by geographic location is written and directed by Michelle Ferrari whose resistance group that attempted to dismantle the available here. credits include much-admired documentaries Third Reich from within; and a book on a 1939 ………… on Rachel Carson, Margaret Sanger, and—an Picasso exhibition at the MoMA as a turning Emmy winner—Seabiscuit. I had the pleasure point in American culture. Grants for scholarly National Endowment for the Humanities: of working with Michelle as a consultant on editions and translations of significant humanities Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the project and to offer on-camera commentary texts include continued NEH-supported work the National Endowment for the Humanities on its subject in the company of Adam Cohen, on the papers of Andrew Jackson, a documentary supports research and learning in history, literature, Nathaniel Comfort, Wendy Kline, Thomas C. history of the adoption of the Bill of Rights, and philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by Leonard, Paul Lombardo, Siddhartha Mukherjee, a digital edition of the complete correspondence funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from Alondra Nelson, Christine Rosen, Jonathan Spiro, of Willa Cather. around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and Alexandra Minna Stern, and Keith Wailoo. Several projects receiving grant awards will help its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov. preserve archival collections of historical and Help Graduate Students cultural importance. These include history of science collections at the American Institute of Thomas Radford Medical Attend the Annual AHA Physics’ Niels Bohr Library and Archives, objects Illustration Collection Meeting and art documenting the life of Emily Dickinson The John Rylands Library in Manchester recently The AHA is committed to making the 2019 at The Evergreens historic house museum, posted a blog about the completion of a project annual meeting in Chicago (January 3-6) and records from the Adirondack Historical to catalog its medical archives. A final blog both informative and affordable for graduate Association of the region’s Native American 27 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. students at all stages. The members of the AHA New Book Series: Activist Series Editor Council have pledged to match all donations Studies of Science and Sigrid Schmalzer to the Annual Meeting Travel Fund up to History $7,000. Please donate today. All contributions Technology University of Massachusetts Amherst received by November 1 will be counted toward Activist Studies of Science and [email protected] the matching challenge. Registration for the Technology Manuscript Submissions conference is now open. This series, from University of Massachusetts Please direct manuscript inquiries to the series Press, will publish accessible, engaging books on editor or to: 2018 AHA Election Results science and technology in support of movements Matt Becker, Executive Editor AHA members elected Mary Lindemann for justice and sustainability around the world. University of Massachusetts Press (University of Miami) as the next president-elect We seek submissions by scholars from a wide East Experiment Station in the 2018 balloting for officers and committee range of disciplines internationally and are 671 North Pleasant Street members of the American Historical Association. especially interested in publishing: Amherst, MA 01003 Visit Perspectives Daily to see the full list of • Historical and social science research on [email protected] historians who will begin serving in January 2019. social and political activism in science, 413-545-4989 technology, and/or medicine and on the Latest Issue of the impact of new technologies on activism Editorial Advisory Board • Michaelann Bewsee, Community Organizing, International Society for the • Critical histories of science, technology, or medicine that aid in understanding issues of Arise for Social Justice Springfield History of Medicine (ISHM) current political relevance • Sarah Bridger, History, Cal Poly San Luis Newsletter Now Available • Applications of STS (science and technology Obispo Besides news about members and affiliated studies) theory to support social movements • Hsin-hsing Chen, Social Transformation societies; lists of recent publications, forthcoming and/or to reconstruct technoscience along Studies, Shih-Hsin University activist lines conferences, and calls for papers; you will also • Giovanna Di Chiro, Environmental Studies, find updates and the program of the 46th ISHM • Critical studies in the political economy of Swarthmore Congress, which took place on 3-7 September science, technology, and/or medicine 2018 in Lisbon. You will find the current, as • Chris Dols, Publisher, Science for the People • Biographies, oral histories, and memoirs of well as past issues of the Newsletter, here. • Ron Eglash, Science and Technoloy Studies, activist scientists Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Emanuela Appetiti, Editor 28 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. • Steven Epstein, Sociology, Northwestern AAAS’ Next Steps After to attract and richly benefit from international University SCOTUS Travel Ban Warning scientific talent.” • Alan Goodman, Anthropology, Hampshire *Read the full article here. Since the Trump administration began its efforts College to implement a travel ban in early 2017, AAAS • Evelynn Hammonds, History of Science, By Mark Athitakis | 9 July 2018 had taken the lead in arguing how the travel ban Harvard University Following the Supreme Court’s decision to would stifle that flow of scientific ideas. Last • David Hess, Sociology, Vanderbilt University uphold the White House’s travel ban, the fall, it delivered a letter to the White House that American Association for the Advancement of was signed by more than 180 fellow scientific • Susan Lindee, History and Sociology of Science is focused on collaboration and data- associations. And, anecdotally, the travel ban has Science, University of Pennsylvania gathering. stifled travel among international scientists: Last • Brian Martin, Humanities and Social Inquiry, year, for instance, the Washington Post reported University of Wollongong On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Sudanese electrical engineer would not be that the White House’s ban on travel from • Clapperton Mavhunga, STS, MIT able to accept an award at an AAAS conference seven predominantly Muslim countries was as the ban made its way through the courts. • Philip Mirowski, Economics and Policy constitutional. The decision was a blow for the Studies and History and Philosophy of American Association for the Advancement of With the travel ban now ratified as constitutional, Science, University of Notre Dame Science, which had vocally opposed the multiple the organization’s new goal is to better quantify • Kelly Moore, Sociology, Loyola University versions of the ban that President Trump has the ban’s impact on the scientific community, according to AAAS Director of Government • Naomi Oreskes, History of Science, Harvard supported. Relations Joanne Padrón Carney. University “We are disappointed that the Supreme Court • Robert Proctor, History, Stanford University has decided to uphold the Trump administration’s “The first step is gathering the data,” Carney said. “We are a science organization, after all.” • Hilary Rose, Sociology, University of Bradford travel ban,” said AAAS CEO Rush Holt in a statement in response to last week’s ruling Conference attendance is one metric that • Steven Rose, Biology, Open University [PDF]. “Recent White House statements and AAAS will look at. Another is the number of • Banu Subramaniam, Women, Gender, visa policies are discouraging many of the best student visas for foreign students looking to Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst and brightest international students, scholars, attend American universities—a number that’s and scientists from choosing the United States to • Abha Sur, STS, MIT declining, according to a recent report in Nature. study and work. Scientific progress depends on • Alexis Takahashi, Activism, Free Rads openness, transparency, and the free flow of ideas; “Will we see further boycotts of conferences (www.freerads.org) these principles have helped the United States being held here in the United States, or just

29 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. boycotts of individuals choosing not to come to tenure-track jobs) for history PhDs and auguring the number of PhDs awarded. But we do believe the United States to attend a conference? We’ll ill for the discipline. Moreover, it’s long been that every person with a history PhD counts, no monitor that,” Carney said. “We will continue clear to the AHA that addressing the concerns matter what career path they follow. to monitor and gather data on the impacts in of new and recent PhDs is imperative for all of Where terms of applications and admissions at U.S. us, not just professionally but ethically. After Today, we’re releasing the final version of Historians Work universities. And then, with that information, years of graduate study, often accompanied , an interactive database that all we’ll look at our options. Are we able to develop by opportunity and financial costs, new PhDs shows current employment data for history a set of concrete recommendations that we may should not feel they must choose between the PhDs earned in 2004-13—more than 8,500 of be able to present to the Department of State or values that brought them to doctoral programs them—from every PhD-granting program in the Department of Homeland Security?” and reasonable compensation. United States. Where Historians Work allows users to see broad trends in PhD employment In the meantime, Carney said AAAS intends As historians, we know that context matters and to assess how such factors as gender, field of to keep collaborating with other associations to and that transparency in evidence lends nuance study, and degree-granting institution influence speak out collectively as the need arises. “We will to any conversation. And often transparency career outcomes. This tool helps answer long- continue to work with the broader scientific and requires data, publicly accessible and clearly standing questions about the discipline and, engineering community and speak with one voice presented. Until relatively recently, many we hope, will prompt new conversations about to the extent possible,” she said. “They are very graduate programs declined to track where their where historical work happens, what it means to eager to continue to be engaged on this matter. alumni ended up. Those that did often counted “do” history, and ultimately what it means to be a They are not walking away from this.” only those who secured academic employment, historian. compounding the invisibility of careers outside Where Historians Work is now the fullest picture Every Historian Counts: the professoriate and reinforcing the idea that PhDs who did not become professors were of PhD careers in any discipline and attests to the A New AHA Database failures. Though this perception is changing, wide variety of careers historians settle in to—on Analyzes Careers for PhDs it persists in our community, not only among and off the tenure track, within and beyond the professoriate. The database’s interactive features *Read the full article here. students but among faculty, who are responsible for making sure they earn their degrees in the allow users to talk about both the wide “diaspora” By Emily Swafford and Dylan Ruediger | 9 July 2018 first place. Keeping track only of those graduates of historians and the minute patterns that shape “placed” into academic careers is akin to saying individual stories. We hope to hear about users’ Worries about employment opportunities for the others don’t count. discoveries, but we also want to share a few of our history PhDs are not new. Much ink has been own findings. spilled, often in the AHA’s own publications, This is where the AHA is poised to help. We don’t bemoaning declining career prospects (read: control the number of academic jobs posted or 30 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. When You Earned Your Degree Is the broad employment outcomes of programs’ beyond the professoriate at a rate of 23.4 percent, Important graduates over time. It is no revelation on the tenure track at 50.8 percent, and in It’s well known that the onset of the Great that graduates of certain institutions stand non-tenure-track positions at 16.2 percent. For Recession in 2008 was disastrous for the a greater chance of finding tenure-track women, those rates were 24.4 percent, 50.6 academic job market, but its full effects on the positions, particularly at research universities, percent, and 15.3 percent, respectively. For men, career paths of history PhDs have been unclear. but employment rates across sectors vary by the rates were 22.7 percent, 50.9 percent, and The 10-year cohort represented in Where department, too. These findings confirm previous 16.8 percent. Additionally, gender seems to make Historians Work is split evenly by the Great research from the AHA (in The Many Careers a negligible impact on employment outside the Recession, which we can now see significantly of History PhDs) and additional studies. But professoriate. Employment rates in the nonprofit, changed the landscape of academic employment. Where Historians Work also lets users explore government, private, and higher education Before and after the recession, roughly the same the career paths of graduates of particular PhD administrative sectors show almost no variation percentage of PhDs found work as faculty, but programs. This level of detail is granular enough by gender. the academic jobs for those who graduated to let students and faculty in specific departments This does not mean that gender plays no role after 2008 were more likely to be off the tenure define success by metrics appropriate to a in the professional experiences of women. track. In 2017, when we gathered our data, program’s purpose and goals, but it also creates Such issues as compensation, tenure decisions, about 55 percent of the 2004–08 cohort were a holistic picture of what history PhDs actually sexual harassment, parental leave policies, and working on the tenure track (at both 4-year and do. These data encourage transparency in our more subtle forms of discrimination held back 2-year schools), and about 12 percent were in discipline on many scales: among departments, women historians for years before #MeToo and non-tenure-track jobs. But for those earning within departments, even between students and certainly will continue to do so as long as the their degrees in 2009–13, about 46 percent advisers. status quo holds. But across sectors in our data were working on the tenure track, while about Women Have Achieved Parity—In set, men and women secured their positions at 20 percent were in non-tenure-track jobs. This Numbers approximately the same rates. Parity may yet long-term trend highlights the importance The data in Where Historians Work show that lead to equity. of advocating for stable, well-compensated gender has surprisingly little impact on broad employment for non-tenure-track historians in Field Specialization Matters patterns of career outcomes for historians with addition to pushing for the creation of tenure- PhDs. Anecdotal evidence has long posited that As the AHA encourages PhDs to consider a broad track lines. women are more likely to be shunted out of the range of careers, we often hear that there are But So Is Your Program professoriate or into non-tenure-track positions, fewer options beyond the academy for historians who don’t specialize in the United States (or a Where Historians Work allows users to select but Where Historians Work suggests otherwise. few other fields). Superficially, the data seem to single or multiple departments to compare In the entire data set, PhDs were employed indicate that there are many more jobs beyond 31 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. the professoriate for Americanists: 28 percent of to do—and to want. Where Historians Work, Conclusions US historians (and 26 percent of historians of however, shows that most faculty work at Where Historians Work tells many stories. In science) work outside the academy, compared institutions that have teaching, not research, addition to the clear decline of tenure-track job to just 10 percent of historians of the Middle as their core mission. If one purpose of history lines, it provides evidence that there are, in fact, East or Asia, and 13 percent of Africanists. These PhD programs is to prepare future generations of many doors open to historians. These stories are numbers, however, are closely tied to how many faculty, our data suggests that learning to teach familiar ones, but we can now see them in the tenure-track jobs are available in different fields: ought to be an essential component of graduate context of national data and in relation to the approximately 7 in 10 historians specializing in education; learning to think of oneself as being a smaller-scale stories that programs, people, and the Middle East, Asia, or Africa are employed teacher is important as well. professions have to tell. in tenure-track positions at 4-year institutions, PhDs Have Agency, Too compared to only 4 in 10 US historians. This Seeking quantitative data on the career suggests that field of study made a difference in Where Historians Work documents outcomes landscape of history PhDs signals a tenure-track prospects in 2004–13 and that far but nevertheless raises important questions about commitment to the importance of rigorous fewer historians in these fields decided to pursue the motivations of the 8,515 individuals who historical thinking. The AHA is dedicated to other opportunities. compose the data set. One of the best ways to the promotion of history and historical thinking see this is through the geographical dispersion in all areas of life, including the discipline in Faculty Jobs Vary of history PhDs. Nationally, history PhDs are all its forms and historians in all their variety. Job candidates are supposed to tailor cover distributed in roughly the same way as the rest of Now that we can enumerate a fuller array of letters to fit an institution, not just because the population. Yet graduates of many programs outcomes, we should be able to ask better institutions differ but because the jobs do, remain clustered in the cities or regions where questions about how all PhDs are prepared for too. In like fashion, Where Historians Work they earned their degree, while other programs’ the work they will do. emphasizes that jobs within the professoriate are graduates seem to scatter. Where Historians Work highly varied. Like all the other jobs cataloged cannot tell us why this is so, but it suggests that ………… in Where Historians Work, the graduates of students make decisions about which doctoral Emily Swafford is director of academic and different programs find jobs teaching at different programs to attend and which job markets to professional affairs at the AHA. Dylan Ruediger rates. enter based on factors that may include regional is the AHA’s coordinator, Career Diversity for or family ties. Geographical data may also Historians and institutional research. Despite ongoing erosions in academic hiring, indicate that today’s PhDs are not necessarily two-thirds of history PhDs become faculty at heeding the “be ready to move anywhere” dictum postsecondary institutions. Yet less than 20 and are instead making decisions based at least in percent of them work on the tenure track at R1 part on where they want to live. universities, the job most have been prepared 32 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. Father of Modern 1991), a pioneering researcher into, among other Wintroub, The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Oceanography subjects, anthropogenic global warming. Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Born in Austria in 1917, Walter Munk, has been Honored by UNESCO’s 2017). The book takes its readers on a French a physical oceanographer and geophysicist with Intergovernmental mission to carve out an empire in the Indies and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA) conducts them through the oceans of 16th- Oceanographic Commission since 1939. Over a long life of scientific inquiry, century thought. UNESCO Media Advisory No. 2018-28 Munk has made decisive contributions to our Paris, 28 June — Walter Munk, a giant of understanding of ocean currents, tides and deep- The second prize has been jointly awarded to modern oceanography, delivered the Roger ocean mixing, tsunamis and seismic waves, as Paola Bertucci for Artisanal Enlightenment: Revelle Memorial Lecture during the Executive well as the rotation of the Earth. Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime Council of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018) At Scripps, he was among the founders of the Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at and Rohan Deb Roy for Malarial Subjects: Institute of Geophysics in 1962 and in 2015 UNESCO’s Headquarters on 5 July. Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British he cofounded the Scripps Center for Marine India, 1820–1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeology with Damien Leloup. In his lecture, the 100-year-old scientist, University Press, 2017). described by the New York Times as “the Einstein Each year, the IOC’s Executive Council reviews of Oceanography,” shared his unique perspective These books were chosen from among five the Intergovernmental Commission’s work and on the evolution of oceanography over the past shortlisted books, which represent exciting new prepares the General Assembly of the IOC’s eight decades. advances in understanding and interpreting 149 Member States. This year, the Council will science’s past. They are: “It is an honour for UNESCO to receive notably focus on preparations for the UN Decade Professor Munk and benefit from his insights of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Bertucci’s Artisanal Enlightenment, which into the great progress of oceanography and (2021-2030). reconsiders the role of learned artisans, placing how much further it can go in contributing them at the heart of the French Enlightenment. to the safeguarding of our shared ocean and 2018 BSHS Pickstone Prize Surekha Davies, Renaissance Ethnography and the construction of a more sustainable world,” the Invention of Humans: New Worlds, Maps and said Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of The British Society for the History of Science Monsters (Cambridge: Cambridge University UNESCO. The IOC Executive Council will (BSHS) Pickstone Prize celebrates the best Press, 2016). Reveals how cannibalism was present Walter Munk with the UNESCO Roger scholarly work in the history of science and cooked up by Europeans as a way of defining the Revelle Medal, which, like the memorial lecture medicine in English. The BSHS is delighted ‘strangeness’ of people in Brazil. itself, is named after Roger Revelle (USA, 1909- to announce the 2018 winner is Michael

33 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018 History of Science Society Newsletter News from the Profession, cont. Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects, which ambitiously Prof. Michael Mizell the University of Chicago, who had attended the interweaves the histories of malaria and cinchona Remembered in Lecture Anderson School, recognized Woods Hole as an (used for quinine) to show how knowledge and outstanding location for collecting and studying practices became ‘global.’ Series a wide variety of marine flora and fauna. It was Garland E. Allen delivered the Second Annual this experience that brought Whitman to found Jutta Schickore, About Method: Experimenters, Michael Mizell Memorial Public History the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Lecture on May 18 at the Marine Biological Hole in 1888. Michael Mizell is the son of MBL Scientifically (Chicago: University of Chicago Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. The research scientist Merle Mizell and spent the Press, 2017). Uncovers the weird and wonderful topic was “Strange Bedfellows? Eugenics and summers growing up in Woods Hole; thus the experiments conducted to understand the power the Environmental Conservation Movements lecture series commemorates Michael’s special and action of snake venom. in Early Twentieth Century America.” Michael connection to the Laboratory and the larger The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every Mizell was an Associate Professor of History Woods Hole community. two years, and reflects the Society’s mission to at the University of New Orleans who, as a promote excellence in the history of science, public historian, sought to document and DHST Young Scholar Prize technology, and medicine. The prize was display histories of the lives of everyday people. established to honor the late historian of science Among other projects, he developed a website The International Union of the History and Professor John Pickstone (1944-2014). presenting the reaction of many New Orleans Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/ The judging panel for the 2018 Pickstone residents to the effects of Hurricane Katrina. At the time of his premature death from cancer, DHST) invites submissions for the DHST Prize Prize was chaired by Dr. Tim Boon (Head of for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2021. Research and Public History, Science Museum). he was starting to work with the MBL History Project documenting the public controversy Initiated at the 22nd International Congress of It included Dr. Patricia Fara (University History of Science in 2005 held in Beijing, the of Cambridge), Professor Charlotte Sleigh over development of a leper colony on Penikese DHST Young Scholar Prize is now awarded by (University of Kent and Editor of the British Island, off the coast of Woods Hole. Penikese had the IUHPST/DHST every two years. Journal for the History of Science) and Dr. been the site of Louis Agassiz’s Anderson School Elizabeth Haines (University of Bristol). of Biology in 1871-1873, an ambitious program Up to three awards for recent PhD historians to introduce high school biology teachers to of science and technology will be awarded to The value of the Pickstone Prize is £300. The direct experience with marine organisms and recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations winner will be asked to give a presentation, habitats. Cut short by Agassiz’s death in 1872, sponsored by the BSHS, on the subject of their completed and filed between 1 September 2016 the facility was eventually transformed into book. and 1 September 2018. See: http://dhstweb.org/ a Leper Colony. In the meantime, however, awards/youngscholarsprize The longlist can be read here. biologists such as Charles Otis Whitman from 34 History of Science Society Newsletter • October 2018