HSSC PhDs 1970-present
HSSC Dissertations through 2009 (pdf)
1970
Walter E. Gross is retired from the La Guardia Community College at the City University of New York
1971
Steven Shapin: Franklin L. Ford Professor, History of Science, Harvard University. His most recent book is The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (2008).
1973
Tonja A. Koeppel, science writer and retired chemistry professor, has now published two novels: Astral Twin (2003) and Secrets of Adament House (2006) and is working on a third. She lives in Houston.
Kenkichiro Koizumi: Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Shonan Campus, Bunkyo University, Chigasaki-city, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
1974
Robert J. Kwik
Kenneth Thibodeau: Director of the Center for Advanced Systems and Technology at the National Archives and Records Administration.
1976
Ruth Barton, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Auckland
Susan R. Sheets-Pyenson (1949-1998) Obituary
1977
John R. Uberti, deceased
1979
Bonnie Ellen Blustein is associate professor at West Los Angeles College, and has been a professor at the University of Louisville and Northwestern University, and Humanist-in-Residence at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
John A. Pitts has retired as Command Historian for the U.S. Southern Command in Florida.
1980
Robert Bud: Principal Curator of Medicine, London Science Museum,Visiting Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University of London.
John M. Staudenmaier: Editor of Technology & Culture; Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity, University of Detroit Mercy.
1981
Robert B. Belfield, deceased (November 6, 2004)
Jonathan Liebenau: Reader in Technology Management, Department of Management, London School of Economics, and Associate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at the Columbia University School of Business.
Anne Millbrooke is a consulting writer and editor.
David Philip Miller: Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales.
Jeffrey Sturchio: Retired as Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, Merck & Co., Inc., now President and CEO of the Global Health Council.
Daniel P. Todes: Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
1982
P. Thomas Carroll: Executive Director of Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway (Troy, NY). Article
David K. van Keuren (1950-2004), Chief Historian at the Office of Naval Research. In Memoriam
1983
Pamela E. Mack: Professor of History, Clemson University.
Bayla S. Singer, is an Independent Scholar whose most recent book is Like sex with gods : an unorthodox history of flying (2003)
1984
W. Bernard Carlson: Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia.
Edmund N. Todd: Associate Professor, History, University of New Haven
1985
Deborah Fitzgerald: Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Richard P. Gillespie, Museum Victoria, Melbourne
1986
Gale Avrith Wakeam is the author of Science at the Margins: The British Association and the foundations of Canadian anthropology, 1884-1910 (2002).
Simon Baatz, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Review of Baatz's 2008 book, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago
James H. Capshew: Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University.
Edward Morman, Director, Jacobus tenBroek Library, Baltimore, MD
Lynn K. Nyhart: Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin.
Jack D. Pressman was Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his death in June 1997. Obituary
Lisa Mae Robinson: Michigan State University Libraries
1987
Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D.: University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History, George Washington University
Joel D. Howell, M.D.: Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine, Director of the Program in Society and Medicine, and Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, History, and Health Management & Policy, University of Michigan.
Barbara Kimmelman: Professor of History, School of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia University.
Bruce V. Lewenstein: Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University.
Thomas J. Misa: Director, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Richard P. O'Connor, deceased
David J. Rhees: Executive Director, The Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis.
1988
Glenn Bugos: Founder, Moment LLC, and Historian of the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, California.
Mary E. Fissell: Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
David Shearer: Associate Professor, University of Delaware
1989
Zhong Zhang: Ades Professor, Wharton School of Business
1990
Ellen Douglas Breckinridge (formerly Koch), J.D., M.P.H.: Legal Editor, Jones McClure Publishers, Houston, Texas.
Deborah C. Brunton: Senior Lecturer, History of Medicine, The Open University (UK)
Eric M. Schatzberg: Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin.
1991
James Gerald Cassidy, OSB
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: Cofounder of the Palo Alto Strategy Studio, Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science, Technology and Society program at Stanford University
1992
Warwick H. Anderson, M.D.: Professorial Research Fellow, Department of History and Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney.
Gabrielle Hecht: Associate Professor, Department of History and Program for Science, Technology and Society, University of Michigan.
Alexander Laszlo: Co-founder, Syntony Quest, San Francisco, California
Julie Johnson-McGrath: Lecturer, Harvard Medical School (Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology), at work on Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Science and American Justice and has been doing a longitudinal participant-observation study of the practice of women's medicine.
Susan Speaker: Digital Manuscripts Division, National Library of Medicine
Sarah Tracy: Associate Professor, Honors College, University of Oklahoma. Article about Dr. Tracy
Keith Wailoo: Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers University.
1993
Nina E. Lerman: Associate Professor, Department of History, Whitman College.
1994
Janet Abbate is an assistant professor in STS at Virginia Tech.
Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D.: Full Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Miami.
Lynette L. Schumaker, Lecturer, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Lynne P. Snyder, PhD/MPH, Project Director, Energy and Health, for the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association, Washington, DC
Raman Srinivasan, Tata Consultancy Services (an IT services company), in Chennai, India, "a dream job, combining the best of both worlds, academics and business, India and the USA, research and teaching, theory and practice, humanities and technology." He adds, foreign students (Americans included) are welcome." Article/Photo
1995
Michael Thad Allen: Law student, Yale University
Chris Feudtner, M.D, M.P.H., Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
Deborah J. Franklin, M.D., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
Amy Slaton: Associate Professor, Drexel University
1996
Deborah Douglas: Curator of Science and Technology, MIT Museum
Elliot Fishman: Industry Associate Professor, Howe School, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Lisa Bud-Frierman, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for International Business History, University of Reading, UK
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hanson writes about the life sciences and the history of science. She has recently completed projects for The Rockefeller University, the American Museum of Natural History, the Lasker Foundation, the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, and Columbia University’s Earth Institute. She has taught students at Yale University and Bard College, and is the author of two books: Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos (Princeton University Press, 2002) and The Rockefeller University Achievements: A Century of Science for the Benefit of Humankind, 1901-2001 (Rockefeller University Press, 2000).
Maneesha Lal, Assistant Professor, SUNY-Binghamton.
David Powlison, Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, Glenside, Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Faculty, Westminster Theological Seminary.
Helen M. Rozwadowski, Associate Professor of History and Maritime Studies Coordinator, University of Connecticut.
Shari Rudavsky, Health and Medicine Columnist, Indianapolis Star
1997
Jennifer Gunn, Acting Director and Associate Professor, Program in History of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Marta Hanson, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Susan D. Jones, Associate Professor, History of Science and Technology, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Donna C. Mehosis Senior Researcher at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Johannes (Hans) C. Pols, Senior Lecturer, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Editor of Health and History
Jean Silver-Isenstadt, M.D., Executive Director, National Physicians Alliance
1998
Atsushi Akera: Associate Professor, Director of First Year Studies Program, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; author, Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT, 2008).
Elizabeth E. Hunt (1962-2005) Obituary
Fredric L. Quivik: Consulting Historian of Technology, Lecturer, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Toon: Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
1999
Asaf Goldschmidt, Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Mark Hamin: Lecturer of Regional Planning, Director of Master of Regional Planning Program, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
David Howie, TPI
Eric Rau, Instructor in History and Politics, Drexel University.
2001
Joshua Blu Buhs, Independent Scholar, author (most recently) of Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend (University of Chicago Press, May 2009).
Nathan Ensmenger, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Erin McLeary
Susan A. Miller, Assistant Professor, Childhood Studies, Rutgers University -Camden
John Terino, (Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.), Professor of Airpower Studies, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama
2002
Audra Wolfe runs The Outside Reader, an editorial and publishing consulting business in Philadelphia.
2003
Elisa M. Becker
Thomas Haigh, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Carita C. Huang, Radiology Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2004
Alex Checkovich, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Richmond
Carla Keirns graduated with an MD/PhD, and is teaching internal medicine, preventive medicine, ethics and history at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York.
Chloe B. Silverman: Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and Society Program, Pennsylvania State University.
Jeffrey Tang: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University; created and coordinates Science, Technology and Society Minor; current work is on renewable energy policy and implementation issues.
2005
Philip Cho, National University of Singapore
Yashushi Sato: Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
Jeremy Vetter: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dickinson College.
2006
Eve Buckley: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware.
2007
Sejal Patel: Post-Doctoral fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Societies Scholars Program, Madison, WI, 2007-2009.
Joy Rohde, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Xiaochun Sun: Associate Professor, Research Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing.
2008
Paul Burnett is currently a lecturer in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and writing a book, The Visible Land: Agricultural Economics, Export Agriculture, and International Development in the United States, 1918-1965. Recently he was the researcher for the American Philosophical Society Museum's Dialogues with Darwin exhibit in celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth.
Elise Carpenter: Completing her M.D. at Penn in the MD/PhD program.
Katherine (Katie) Janssen leads workshops and other events in which she applies insights from history, ethics, and the arts to real-life issues. She also also writes and edits college textbooks and supplementary materials on a freelance basis; recent projects have included contributions to Gilbert and Reynolds, Africa in World History (Prentice Hall) and Craig, et al, The Heritage of World Civilizations (Prentice Hall).
Hilary Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Meredith College.
Dominique Tobbell, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
2009
Josh Berson is a Visiting Fellow at the Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna. He is writing a book with the working title "Archiving Indigeneity: Language Documentation and Taxonomies of Country in Northern Australia" and planning a second project on the history of the ethnographic apprehension of language and music in Central Asia.
Chris Jones, Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)
Andi Johnson, Writing Fellow, Penn Critical Writing Program
Emily Pawley, Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, the Smithsonian, and American Council of Learned Societies.
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