Faculty of the Program
Executive Committee
D. Graham Burnett (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1997[2001])
Department: History/Program in History of Science
Title: Professor of History
Area(s): History of Science
Field(s): Cartography, Oceanography, Exploration; Natural History and Environmental Science; Science, Technology, and the Arts
Angela N.H. Creager (Ph.D,. University of California, Berkeley, 1991)
Department: History/Program in History of Science
Title: Professor of History
Area(s): History of Science
Field(s): Modern Life Sciences
Michael D. Gordin (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001)
Department: History/Program in History of Science
Title: Professor of History; Director of Graduate Studies, Program in History of Science; Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Area(s): History of Science
Field(s): History of the Modern Physical Sciences; Russian History
Katja Guenther (M.D., University of Cologne, 2003; Ph.D., Harvard, 2009)
Department: History/Program in History of Science
Title: Assistant Professor of History
Area(s): History of Science
Field(s): History of Modern Medicine and the Mind Sciences
Keith Wailoo (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992)
Department: History/Program in History of Science; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Title: Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
Area(s): History of Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences
Field(s): History of Disease; Twentieth Century Medicine and U.S. Society; History and Health Policy
Associated Faculty
Edward Eigen (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Department: Architecture
Title: Assistant Professor of Architecture
Field: Intersections of the human and natural sciences with architecture in the 19th century
Benjamin A. Elman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980)
Department: History
Title: Professor of East Asian Studies and History; Director, Program in East Asian Studies
Area: Asia
Field: East Asian History; Science and Medicine in East Asia
Christiane Frey (Ph.D. University of Bonn, 2005)
Department: German
Title: Assistant Professor of German
Area: History of Knowledge
Field: Aesthetics, Anthropology, Pedagogy in Europe with a focus on 18th-Century Germany
Daniel Garber (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1975)
Department: Philosophy
Title: Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Area: Relations between Philosophy, Science, and Society in the Period of the Scientific Revolution
Charles Gillispie (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1949)
Title: Professor of History, Emeritus
Area: History of Science
Anthony T. Grafton (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1975)
Department: History
Title: Henry Putnam University Professor of History
Area: Early Modern Europe
Field: Renaissance and Reformation; Historiography
Susan Naquin (Ph.D. Yale University, 1974)
Department: History
Title: Professor of History and East Asian Studies
Area: China
Field: Early Modern Chinese History; Material Culture, Religion
Eileen Reeves (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987)
Department: Comparative Literature
Title: Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in European Cultural Studies
Area: Renaissance and Baroque Literature; Science and Literature
Field: Languages: Italian, French and Latin
Daniel T. Rodgers (Ph.D. Yale University, 1973)
Department: History
Title: Henry Charles Lea Professor of History; Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Area: U.S. History
Field: American Cultural and Intellectual History
Emily Thompson (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992)
Department: History
Title: Professor of History
Area: History; History of Science
Field: History of Technology, 19th and Early 20th Century U.S. History
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Department: History
Title: Professor of History
Area: History; History of Science
Field: History of Technology, 19th and Early 20th Century U.S. History
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