Alumni

CHSS and Fishbein Center alumni (who received their degrees in the History of Science through the History Department, or Philosophy of Science degree through the Philosophy Department)

Format: Name, year of Ph.D., committee, dissertation title, and current position (if known)

AGATHA KIM, 2022
Robert J. Richards (chair), John Goldsmith
Natural Science and “National Science”: Reception of Goethe’s Morphology in Nineteenth-Century France

BIYING LING, 2022
Robert J. Richards (chair), Thomas Pashby, David Cahan
How “Quantity” Disappeared from Philosophies of Measurement: Perspectives from 19th century Experimental Sciences
Applied Data Fellow; The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago

ERIC M. GUREVITCH, 2022
Whitney Cox (co-chair), Adrian DS Johns (co-chair), Lorraine Daston, Gary Tubb
“Everyday Sciences in Southwest India”
Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University

STEVEN B. SERVER, 2022
Robert J. Richards (co-chair), Emilio Kourí (co-chair), Brodwyn Fischer
“A Test of Conscience: Navigating Mexico’s servicio-médico social (1934-1940)”

KRISTINE PALMIERI, 2022
Robert J. Richards (co-chair), Lorraine Daston (co-chair), John Boyer, Suzanne Marchand
“Philology as a Way of Knowing: Classical Philology in the Reformed German Universities, 1730-1830”
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor 2022-24, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago

LILY HUANG, 2021
Robert J. Richards (chair), Lorraine Daston, Jan E. Goldstein, Rosanna Warren
Metaphor and Metaphysic: The Materials of Henri Bergson’s Philosophy, 1880-1903
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2021–23)

ZACHARY BARR, 2021
John Boyer (chair), Robert J. Richards, Tara Zahra
Wissen, um zu leben: Popularization as Epistemic Practice in Austrian Natural Science, 1865-1916
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2021–23)

EMILY WEBSTER, 2021
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (chair), Michael Rossi, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Microbial Empires: Changing Ecologies and Multispecies Epidemics In British Imperial Cities, 1837-1910
Assistant Professor of the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine at Durham University

DEVIN GOUVÊA, 2020
Robert J. Richards (Chair), William Wimsatt, Karl Matlin, Alan Love
“Essentially Dynamic Concepts and the Case of Homology.”
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross

PARYSA MOSTAJIR, 2020
Richards (Chair), Rossi, Kitcher
“Volunteering Away Humanity: A Pragmatist Critique of Scientism.”
Research Scholar in Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University

RYAN W. DAHN, 2019
Richards (Chair), Daston, Glaeser, Olesko
“The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan, 1902–1980.”
Books Editor at Physics Today

WILLIAM STERNER, 2018
Richards (Chair), Wimsatt, Sloan
“The Science of Poetics and The Poetics of Science.”
Independent Scholar

CARMINE GRIMALDI, 2018
Johns (chair), Hoffman, Auslander
Structuring Vision: A History of Videotape
Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Arts, Vanderbilt University

JUSTIN NIERMEIER-DOHONEY, 2018
Johns (chair), Albritton Jonsson, Richards
“Information Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral: Immanent Vitalism and Alchemical Cornucopianism in Early Modern English and Colonial Projects, c. 1620-1700.”
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

ADAM BAIM, 2018
Farquhar and Masco (co-chairs), Rossi
“Eye to Eye: Visuality and the Work of Vision in Ophthalmology.”
Neuro-Ophthalmologist at University of Minnesota Physicians

DANIELE MACUGLIA, 2016
Richards (chair), Stigler, Bertoloni Meli
“Calculus & Newtonianism in Italy, 1689-1742  People, Ideas, Institutions.”
Assistant Professor, Peking University

FRANCIS MCKAY, 2016
Farquhar (co-chair), Richards (co-chair), Masco, Raikhel
“Homo-Eudaimonicus: Affects, Biopower and Practical Reason.”
Research Fellow in Ethics and Social Implications of Digital Health, University of Oxford

MARCIA HOLMES, 2014
Winter (chair), Richards, Sparrow
“Performing Proficiency: Applied Experimental Psychology and the Human Engineering of Air Defense, 1940-1965.”
Honorary research fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London.

ZOE NYSSA, 2014
Knorr and Masco (chairs), Evans, Wimsatt, Richards.
“Endangered Logics: Conservation Science in the American Academy.”
Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Purdue University

DANA M. ROVANG, 2013
Johns (chair), Richards, Gilman
“Conjuring Science: Performance Magicians, Natural Philosophy, and the Audience in Eighteenth-Century England, 1763-1800.”
President, Obscure Histories.

CAITJAN GAINTY, 2012
Winter, Sparrow, Goldstein, Igo, Johns
“The Pursuit of “Happiness Minutes”: Medical Efficiency in the United States, 1910-1940.”
Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King’s College London.

BECKETT STERNER, 2012
Richards and Wimsatt (co-chairs), Waters
“The Practice of Theorizing in Computational Biology: Function Information, and Mechanism.”
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

JENNIFER KARLIN, 2012
Farquhar, Winter, Sunder Rajan, Carr
“Respacializing ‘The Clinic’: Constructing Communities and Transforming Chicago’s Southsiders into Healthy Subjects.”
Assistant Professor, University of California-Davis Medical Center

ALESSANDRO PAJEWSKI, 2012
Richards, Johns, Sloan
“The face of nature: Hume and Darwin on analogy and emotion.”
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group.

VINCENT WAN, 2012
Wimsatt, Matlin, Perlman
“Causes, Maps, and Biology.”

SHIRLEY A. MARTIN, 2012
Richards, Stigler, Gigerenzer
“Grounding Tools that Travel: Ideology, Research Style, and Imagined Community, in the Circulation of Inferential Statistics, 1918-1966.”

CECELIA WATSON, 2011
Richards, Daston, Leary
“William James and John La Farge: The search for truth in 19th century art, science and philosophy.”
Scholar-in-Residence at Bard College

CHRISTOPHER DITERESI, 2010
“Taming Variation:  Typological Thinking and Scientific Practice in Developmental Biology.”
Wimsatt and Richards (co-chairs), Griesemer
Assistant Professor in Philosophy, George Mason University.

TREVOR R. PEARCE, 2010
“’A Perfect Chaos’: Organism-Environment Interaction and the Causal Factors of Evolution.”
Richards and Wimsatt (co-chairs), Jablonski
Chair and Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

JONATHAN TSOU, 2008
“The Reality and Classification of Mental Disorders”
Richards and Wimsatt (co-chairs), Hacking
Professor of Philosophy and the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science at University of Texas at Dallas

CHRISTINA FRADELOS, 2008
Richards, Wimsatt, Gere
“The Last Desperate Cure: Electrical Brain Stimulation and its Controversial Beginnings.”

J. ROMAN ARGUELLO, AM 2008
Richards and Wimsatt, Advisors
“Bateson and the Refusal of the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance.”
Richard Benton Lab, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne.

ADAM SHAPIRO2007
Richards, Johns, Numbers
“Losing the Word: the Scopes Trial, Biology Textbooks, and the Rise of Literalism.”
Lecturer in Intellectual and Cultural History, Birbeck – University of London

MICHAEL FRAMPTON, M.D., 2007
Richards, Johns, Asmis
“The Study of Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to The Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C.-A.D. 1325”
Practicing physican, Michael Frampton, M.D. & Associates

DEBRA DAUGHERTY, 2007
Kadanoff, Stigler
“Elaborating The Crystal Concept: Scientific Modeling and Ordered States of Matter.”

PAUL MUELLER, S.J., 2006
Garber, Swerdlow, McMullan
“Marin Mersenne’s Questions Théologiques, Physiques, Morales et Mathematiques: Agenda and Structure, with an Annotated Translation.”
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.

JESSICA HEINEMAN-PIEPER, 2005
Richards, Wimsatt, Woodward
“A Science of Persons: New Foundations for Human Agency” (Jointly with Psychology)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University.

CLAUDIA WASSMANN, 2005
Richards, Guyer, Cacioppo
“The Science of Emotion: Studying Emotions in Germany, France and the US, 1860-1920
Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

PATRICK SINGY, 2004
Davidson, Goldstein, Richards
“Experiencing Medicine: An Epistemological History of Medical Practice and Sex in French Speaking Europe, 1700-1850.”

MATTHEW FRANK, 2004
Tait, Geroch, Weinberger
“Aesthetics and Axioms in Constructive Mathematics and Differential Geometry.”
Founder, Aqueous Advisors; formerly Associate at Goldman Sachs.

JOHN HUSS, 2004
Richards, Wimsatt, Foote
“Experimental Reasoning in Non-Experimental Science: Case Studies from Paleobiology.”
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Akron, Ohio.

SCOTT ROLSTON, 2003
Richards, Stocking, Wimsatt
“Kroeber on Archeological Theory.”
Working in the American Embassy (State Department), Thailand.

KU-MING (KEVIN) CHANG, 2002
Debus, Richards, Fasolt, Weintraub
“The Matter of Life: Ernst Georg Stahl, 1659-1734.”
Permanent research fellow, Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

DANIELA BARBERIS2002
Richards, Stocking, Jones
“The Annee Sociologique and Neo-Kantian Philosophy in France.”
Assistant Professor of History of Science and Social Sciences, Shimer College.

TRACY TESLOW, 2002
Richards, Stocking, Harris
“Representing Race to the Public: Physical Anthropology in Interwar American Natural History Museums.”
Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati.

JOHN SIMMONS CECCATTI, 2001
Richards, Wimsatt, Kohler
“Science in the Brewery: Pure Yeast Culture and the Transformation of Brewing Practices in Germany at the End of the 19th Century.” Currently assistant dean, University of Pennsylvania.

MICHAEL MORSE, 1999
Stocking, Richards, Dietler
“Redefining the Celts: Rival Disciplinary Traditions and the Peopling of the British Isles”
Executive Director of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States

FLORENCE HSIA, 1999
Swerdlow, Garber, Alitto, Feingold
“French Jesuits and the Mission to China: Science, Religion, History.”
Professor of history of science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

DAVID MILLET, 1999
Richards, Wimsatt, Metz.
“Wiring the brain : from the excitable cortex to the EEG, 1870-1940.”
Director, Hoag Epilepsy Program.

HSIANG-LIN (SEAN) LEI, 1999
Richards, Stocking, Kelley
“When Chinese Medicine Encountered the State: 1900-1949.”
Assistant professor of history, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan.

ANDRE WAKEFIELD, 1999
Richards, Geyer, Goldstein, Clark
“The Apostles of Good Police: Cameralism and the Culture of Administration in Central Europe, 1656-1800.”
Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

LELAND GIOVANNELLI1999
Swerdlow, Richards, Mueller
“Aristotle’s Theory of Sexual Reproduction as it Emerges in HisOn the Generation of Animals .”
Teaching Professor Emeritus, Herbst Program of Humanities, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.

CHERYCE KRAMER, 1998
Daston, Richards, Goldstein
“A Fool’s Paradise: The Psychiatry of Gemuth in a Biedermeyer Asylum.”

FRANCESCA BORDOGNA, 1997
Davidson, Richards, Daston
“The Historical Contexts of William James’s Pragmatism.”
Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame

GREGORY MATTHEW MIKKELSON, 1997
Wimsatt, Richards, Leibold
“Other Things Being Equal: Counterfactuals, Natural Laws, and Scientific Models; with Case Studies from Ecology.”
Associate professor of philosophy, McGill University

BRIAN OGILVIE, 1997
Daston, Richards, Fasolt
“Observation and Experience in Early Modern Natural History.”
Department chair and professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

BERNA EDEN KILINC, 1997
Stigler, Daston, Garber, Gigerenzer
“The One and the Many of Frequentism.”
Department Chair, Philosophy, Boğaziçi Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

PAUL WHITE, 1996
Richards, Daston, Goldstein
“Thomas Henry Huxley: Making the Man of Science.”
Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Clinical Engineering,Cambridge University Hospitals NHS

GEORGE REISCH, 1994
Richards, Garber, Stein, Smigelskis
“A History of the International Encyclopedia of Science.”

DAVID VALONE, 1994
Stocking, Richards, Debus
“The Dark and Tangled Recesses of Knowledge: Theology and the Moral Sciences at Cambridge , 1812-1837.”
Chair and Professor of History, Quinnipiac College.

KATHY COOKE, 1994
Richards, Harris, Stocking
“An American Gospel of Social Evolution: Religion, Education, and Biology in the Thought of Edwin Grant Conklin.”
Founding Dean, Honors College, and Professor of History, University of South Alabama

CHRISTOPHER COSANS, 1993
Richards, Forster, Asmis, Wimsatt
“The Beginnings of Experimental Biology: Scientific Realism and Medicinein Antiquity.” Special education advocate and tutor in Richmond, Virginia

LOREN BUTLER, 1992
Richards, Wimsatt, Harris
“Mathematical Physics and the American Mathematical Community: Disciplinary Values, Professional Interests and the Place of Borderland Research, 1886-1940.”

LOUISE GOLLAND, 1991
Swerdlow, Richards, Schramm
“Leonhard Euler’s Contributions to the Method of the Variation of the Orbital Elements.”

DOUGLAS ALLCHIN, 1991
Wimsatt, Hull, Maull
“Resolving Disagreement in the Ox-Phos Controversy, “1961-1978”

KAREN WETMORE, 1991
Richards, Debus, Harris
“The Evolution of Psychology from Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth-century American College Curriculum.”

JEFFREY SCHANK, 1990
Wimsatt, Maull, Richards
“Computer Similation, Model Building and Experimental Design in Biology.”
Professor of psychology, University of California, Davis.

SHERRIE LYONS, 1990
Richards, Debus, Wimsatt
“The Evolution of Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evolutionary Views.”

JEFFRY LEE RAMSEY, 1990
Wimsatt, Berry, Garber
“Metastable States: The Justification of Approximative Procedures in Reaction Kinetics, 1923-1947.”
Associate professor of philosophy, Smith College

ROBERT DISALLE, 1988
Stein, Malamant, Richards
“Space, Time, and Inertia in the Foundations of Newtonian Physics, 1870-1905.” Professor of philosophy, Western Ontario University.

SARA JOAN MILES, 1988
Richards, Debus, Wimsatt
“Evolution and Natural Law in the Synthetic Science of Clemence Royer.”

MARTHA BALDWIN, 1987
“Athanasius Kircher and the Magnetic Philosophy”

ELIZABETH KNOLL, 1987
Richards, King, Kazazos, Stocking
“Mental Evolution and the Science of Language: Darwin, Müller,and Romanes on the Development of the Human Mind.”
Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments, Harvard University

REGIS CABRAL, 1986
Richards, Debus, Swerdlow
“The Interaction of Science and Diplomacy : Latin America, the United States and Nuclear Energy, 1945-1955.”
Director of FEPRO – Funding for European Projects, Piteå, Sverige

TERRA ZIPORYN, 1985
King, Mann, Stocking
“The Popularization of Medicine: Medical Science in Popular American Magazines, 1870-1920.”
Novelist, playwright, and science writer.

LELAND ESTES, 1985
Debus, Richards, King
“The Role of Medicine and Medical Theories in the Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in England.”

MICHAEL E. MYTILINAIOS, 1985
Tait, Slamen, Kurtz
“Priority Arguments and Models of Arithmetic.”
Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business

MARTIN SERENO, 1984
Wimsatt, Richards, Saddock
“‘DNA’ and Language: The Nature of the Symbolic- Representational Systemin Cellular Protein Synthesis and Human Language Comprehension.”
Professor of cognitive science, University of California, San Diego.

KATHLEEN WELLMAN, 1983
“Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Medicine in the Service of Philosophy.”
Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University

BRUCE STEPHENSON, 1983
Swerdlow, Richards, Debus
“Kepler’s Physical Astronomy.”
Curator and Director of the History of Astronomy Department at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum

BONNIE KAPLAN, PhD, FACMI; 1983
Richards, Harris, Wimsatt
“Computers in Medicine, 1950-1980: The Relationship between History and Policy.”
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale Bioethics Center Scholar, Yale Information Society Project Faculty Affiliated Fellow, Yale Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy Faculty Affiliate, Yale University

JAMES GRIESEMER, 1983
Wimsatt, Kiester, Lande, Mueller, Richards, Van Valen, Wade
“Communication and Scientific Change: An Analysis of Conceptual Maps in the Macroevolution Controversy.”
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis.

KAREN PARSHALL, 1982
Debus, MacLane, Richards
“The Contributions of J.H.M. Wedderburn to the Theory of Algebras, 1900-1910.” Commonwealth professor of mathematics and history, University of Virginia.

JON JARRETT, 1982
Malament, Mueller, Stein, Tait
“Bell’s Theorem and Local Realism.”
Associate professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago.

MARCY LAWTON, 1982
Kiester, Fitzpatrick, Mueller, Richards, Wade, Wimsatt
“Altruism and Sociobiology: A Critical Look at the Issue.”

GARY KAHN, 1982
Wimsatt, McNeill, Toulmin
“Theory and Reality in Cognitive Psychology.”

PAUL THEERMAN, 1980
Richards, Debus, Swerdlow
“James Clerk Maxwell: Physicist and Intellectual in Victorian Britain.”
Director, Library and Center for the History of Medicine & Public Health

ROBERT J. RICHARDS, 1978
Toulmin, Debus, King
“The Evolution of Behavior: Theories of Instinct in the Nineteenth Century with an essay on Animal Instinct and Intelligence Before Darwin.”
Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago.

DAVID LEARY, 1977
Toulmin, Bradbern, Debus
“The Reconstruction of Psychology in Germany, 1780-1850.”
University Professor Emeritus, Dean of Arts and Sciences Emeritus, University of Richmond

DAVID BANTZ, 1976
Wimsatt, Toulmin, Fine
“Does Physics Explain Chemistry.”

E. ROGER JONES, 1976
Geroch, Fine, Malament
“Causal Anomalies and the Completeness of Quantum Theory.”

LINDLEY DARDEN, 1974
Hull, Ravin, Wimsatt
“Reasoning in Scientific Change: The Field of Genetics at Its Beginnings.”
Professor of philosophy at University of Maryland

NANCY MAULL, 1974
Wimsatt, Toulmin, Ravin
“Progress in Modern Biology: An Alternative to Reduction.”

WILLIAM PROVINE, 1970
“The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics.”