Field-Of-Study: History of Science and Technology

Michael D. Gordin is a professor of the history of science in the History Department at Princeton University, where he is also the Director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies. He arrived at Princeton 2003, having earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Harvard University, and completing a term as a Junior Fellow

Paula Michaels is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where she joined the faculty in 1997 after completing degrees at Northwestern University (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.). Michaels’ work lies at the crossroads of the social, cultural, and political history of medicine and health.

Currently a professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at SUNY Binghamton, Gerald Kutcher is the author of Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which examines through case studies the still highly controversial total-body radiation experiments on humans conducted in the 1960s by Eugene Sanger at the University

Tara Nummedal grew up in Seal Beach, California. She received a B.A. in history from Pomona College in 1992, an M.A. in history from University of California, Davis in 1996, and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2001. After spending 2001-02 as the Edelstein International Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia,

Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung. Mr. Galison