Angela Creager

Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she teaches in the Department of History and advises graduate students through the Program in History of Science. She is author of two books, both published by University of Chicago Press, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965 (2002) and Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (2013). In 2022, she and six coauthors published Residues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments, which considers the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health; she has been awarded residential fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. Her current book project follows how one toxicity test was standardized, disseminated, used, and challenged, in order to understand how new knowledge about cancer did and did not inform environmental law.