- Angela N.H. Creager (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1991) specializes in the history of twentieth-century life sciences, with an emphasis on the significance of model systems and materials in biological experimentation. She has published articles on the history of biochemistry and molecular biology, and on the origin of human blood fractionation methods in the scientific mobilization for World War II. Her current book project takes up the experimental uses of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) in 20th century biomedical research. Her other research interests include the role of gender in scientific knowledge and the intersections between physical and biological sciences.
- Gerald L. Geison (Ph.D. Yale, 1970) has taught the history of science at Princeton since 1970 and currently serves as the Program's Director of Graduate Studies. His research interests include the history of biology, physiology, and medicine since 1750, Louis Pasteur, historiography, and the sociology of knowledge. He is author of Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology (1978) and The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (1995), and editor and contributor to Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940 (1987) and Research Schools: Historical Reappraisals (1993). He is currently working on national styles in science and the history of diseases.
- Charles C. Gillispie (Emeritus) (Ph.D. Harvard, 1949) founded undergraduate teaching in history of science at Princeton in 1956 and the Graduate Program in 1960. Now retired, he participates in the Program Seminar, in colloquia, and in consulting with students. He specializes in 18th and early 19th-century science, and particularly in the relation of science to political and intellectual developments in France during the Enlightenment and the revolutionary and Napoleonic era. His most widely read book is The Edge of Objectivity (1960; new edition 1992). He is currently working on the sequel to Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime (1980). It treats the period from 1789 through the 1820s.
- Anthony T. Grafton
(Ph.D. Chicago, 1975) has been associated with the history of science at Princeton since 1975. His interests include the history of science both in Antiquity and in the Renaissance, as well as the relations between the study of the classical world and the practice of science in early modern Europe. He has written Joseph Scaliger, I (Oxford, 1983) and II (Oxford, 1993); (with Lisa Jardine) From Humanism to the Humanities (Harvard, 1986); Forgers and Critics (Princeton, 1990); and Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Humanism in an Age of Science (Harvard, 1991); and The Tragic Origins of the German Footnote (Harvard and Faver, forthcoming). He is currently working on the astrology of Girolamo Cardano and (with Noel Swerdlow) on a study of Johannes Regiomontanus.
- Elizabeth Lunbeck
(Ph.D. Harvard, 1984) specializes in the history of psychiatry, with particular interest in gender issues. She teaches twentieth-century U.S. history, women's history, and the history of the human sciences. The author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (1994), she is currently working on the early practice of psychoanalysis in the United States and has begun a book-length project on the American personality in society and culture from 1940 to the present.
- Michael S. Mahoney (Ph.D. Princeton, 1967) has taught history and history of science at Princeton since 1965. He divides his teaching and research between the history of the mathematical science from Antiquity to 1700 and the history of technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author of The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (Princeton, 1973; 2nd ed. 1994), of René Descartes, The World (Le Monde) (Abaris, 1979), and of studies of Huygens, Barrow, and Newton, he has written more generally on the development of algebra and analysis during the 17th century, as well as on ancient and medieval mathematics. He is currently engaged in a study of the origins of theoretical computer science during the 1950s and '60s and in the development of software engineering.
- Gyan Prakash
(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1984) specializes in the history of colonial India, and his current interest centers on the relationship between colonialism and science. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990), and his publications include a recently-edited volume, After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). He is presently completing a book manuscript which describes the composition and functioning of the cultural authority of science in the imagination of modern India.
- Mary J. Voss (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1994) specializes in the history of early modern science from its roots in literary and mechanical practices of the late 15th century to its institutionalization in the 18th century. She is completing work on the development of a mathematical, experimental physics in the context of military culture of 16th-century Italy. Her current research interests include 17th-century scientific and popular conceptualizations of human passions, the relationship between European science and European global colonization in the early modern period.