Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Department of History

129 Dickinson Hall

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544-1017

(609) 258-1680; 258-5326 (fax)

 

Education   Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley, May 1991. Advisor: Howard K. Schachman.

                        B.A. in Biochemistry and English, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 1985. Degree awarded magna cum laude; inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Appointments   Associate Professor, 2001-present, Assistant Professor, 1994-2001, Department of History; Director of Graduate Studies, 2001-2002, Program in History of Science, Princeton University.

                        Visiting Scholar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 1996-97.

                        Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Science, Technology, and Society Program, MIT, Project on Comparative Perspectives on the History and Social Study of Modern Life Sciences, 1993-94.

                        Postdoctoral Research Associate and Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 1991-93. Sponsor: Everett Mendelsohn.

Awards   National Science Foundation CAREER Award, “Life Science in the Atomic Age: The Radioactive Revolution of Biomedical Research,” Program in Science & Technology Studies, 1999-2003, SBE 98-75012.

                        President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 1998.

                        Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptorship for 1998-2001, Princeton University.

                        National Science Foundation Scholars’ Award, “The Biography of a Virus: Laboratory Practice and Disciplinary Transformation in Postwar California,” Program in Science & Technology Studies, 1994-98, SBE 94-12291.

                        National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Award, Program in Science & Technology Studies, 1991-93, SBE 90-03042.

Current   Advisory Editor, Isis, 2000-2002.

Professional                                 History of Women in Science Prize Committee, History of Science Society,

Activities                                      2000-2002.

                           Council on Science and Technology, Princeton University, 1999-2003.

                        Program Committee, Women’s Studies, Princeton University, 1996-2003.

Books

 

The Life of a Virus: TMV as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

 

Edited Volumes

 

            Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine, edited with Londa Schiebinger and Elizabeth A. Lunbeck, University of Chicago Press, 2001.

 

            Identity and Alterity: Essays on the Human/Animal Boundary, edited with William Chester Jordan, Rochester University Press, forthcoming.

 

Research Publications

 

1.            Gretchen A. Rice, Nancy A. Touchette, Angela N. H. Creager, Jonathon Goldberg, and R. David Cole, “A High Melting Structure in DNA Distinguishes Phases of the Cell Cycle.” Experimental Cell Research 177 (1988): 221-231.

 

2.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Effects of Amino Acid Substitutions at the Interchain Interface on the Stability of the Catalytic Subunit of ATCase.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley (University Microfilms, 1991).

 

3.         Cynthia B. Peterson, Bin-Bing Zhou, Durwynne Hsieh, Angela N. H. Creager, and H.K. Schachman, “Association of the Catalytic Subunit of Aspartate Transcarbamoylase with a Polypeptide Fragment of the Regulatory Chair Leads to Increases in Thermal Stability,” Protein Science 3 (1994): 960-966.

 

4.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Wendell Stanley’s Dream of a Free-Standing Biochemistry Department at the University of California, Berkeley,” Journal of the History of Biology 29 (1996): 331-360.

 

5.         Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, “Meanings in Search of Experiments and Vice-Versa: The Invention of Allosteric Regulation in Paris and Berkeley, 1959-1968,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27:1 (1996): 1-89.

 

6.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Producing Molecular Therapeutics from Human Blood: Edwin Cohn’s Wartime Enterprise,” Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1910s-1970s, edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association for Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998), pp. 107-138.

 

7.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Biotechnology and Blood: Edwin Cohn’s Plasma Fractionation Project, 1940-1953,” Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences, edited by Arnold Thackray (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. 39-62.

 

8.         Angela N. H. Creager, “‘What Blood Told Dr. Cohn’: World War II, Plasma Fractionation, and the Growth of Human Blood Research,” published in a special collection of papers on “Materials,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30C (1999): 377-405.

 

9.                  Angela N. H. Creager, “From Blood Fractions to Antibody Structure: Gamma Globulin Research Growing Out of World War II,” in Immunology: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates, eds. Anne-Marie Moulin and Alberto Cambrosio (Elsevier Press, 2000), pp. 140-154.

10.              Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, “Experimental Arrangements and Technologies of Visualization: Cancer as a Viral Epidemic (1930-1960),” Transmission: Human Pathologies Between Heredity and Infection. Historical Approaches, eds. Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy, (Harwood Academic Press, 2001), pp. 203-241.

11.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Tracing the Politics of Changing Postwar Research Practices: The Export of ‘American’ Radioisotopes to European Biologists,” Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, forthcoming (fall 2002).

 

Reviews and Other Publications

 

1.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of A Documentary History of Biochemistry, 1770-1940, by MikuláTeich,” Journal of the History of Biology 26 (1993): 162-163.

 

2.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of A Skeptical Biochemist by Joseph Fruton,” Journal of the History of Biology 28 (1995): 174-176.

 

3.         Angela N. H. Creager, “In the Fly Room (Essay Review of Lords of the Fly by Robert E. Kohler),” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25 (1995): 357-360.

4.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology, by Robert Bud,” Isis 86 (1995): 685-687.

 

5.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Biochemistry,” keyword entry, Dictionary of American History Supplement, ed. Robert H. Ferrell and Joan Hoff (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, 1996), pp. 76-79.

 

6.         Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology, by Bonnie B. Spanier,” Journal of the History of Biology 30 (1997): 142-144.

 

7.                  Manfred D. Laubichler and Angela N. H. Creager, “How Constructive is Deconstruction? A Review Essay of Toward a History of Epistemic Things, by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30C (1999): 129-142.

 

8.                  Angela N. H. Creager, Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, Vitaly Citovsky, and Herman Scholthof, “Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Pioneering Research for a Century,” The Plant Cell 11 (1999): 301-308.

9.                  Gerald L. Geison and Angela N. H. Creager, “Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences,” introduction to a special collection of papers on “Materials,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30C (1999): 315-318.

10.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of Errol C. Friedberg, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 541-543.

11.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Review of Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, John G. Shaw, and Milton Zaitlin, eds., Tobacco Mosaic Virus: One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology,” Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2000): 604-606.

 

12.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Hershey Heaven [Review of We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology, ed. Franklin W. Stahl],” Nature Structural Biology 8 (2001): 18-19.

 

13.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Contraception from Contraband to Rx [Review of Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America and Lara V. Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill],” American Scientist 90 (2002): 88-90.

 

14.              Angela N. H. Creager, “Rosalind E. Franklin,” entry for Encyclopedia of Evolution, ed. Mark Pagel (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming [February 2002].

 

 

Courses Taught at Princeton University

 

Women’s Studies 393, Undergraduate Seminar on Gender and Science, 1994-2002.

History of Science 793, Graduate Readings in Gender and Science, 1994-99.

History of Science 599, Special Topics Graduate Seminar on the History of Molecular Biology, 1995; Model Systems, co-taught with Norton Wise, 2000.

History 400, “Darwin’s Century,” Junior Research Seminar, 1995.

History 396, History of Biology Lecture Course, 1996, 1998, 2000 (redesigned with laboratory).

History of Science 598, “Computers and Organisms,” Graduate Seminar on the History of Technology, co-taught with Michael Mahoney, 1997.

History of Science 796, Graduate Readings in the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1998; Graduate Readings in the History of Biology, spring 2000, fall 2001, spring 2002.

Freshman Seminar 124, “Life as We Know It: A History of Biology,” seminar with weekly laboratory, spring 2001.

History of Science 595, “Introductory Colloquium in the History of Science from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century,” graduate historiography seminar, fall 2001.

 

Personal

 

Born September 17, 1963 in Texas City, Texas. Husband, William N. Creager, sons Elliot N. Creager (March 7, 1990) and Jameson M. Creager (May 21, 1993); daughter Georgia N. Creager (August 25, 2000).