Henrika Kuklick, Ph.D., Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History and Sociology of Science
Logan Hall, 249 S. 36th Street, Room 327
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Telephone: (215) 898-5893
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Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., University of London
B.A., Brandeis University
Teaching Fields:
History of the human sciences, the history of the field sciences, the sociology of knowledge.
Research Interests:
History of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and colonial science, development of the human science disciplines in the American university, the justification of colonial settlement in North America, Southern Africa, and the Middle East.
Henrika Kuklick received her Ph.D. in sociology from Yale in 1974 and was appointed an assistant professor in Penn’s Department of History and Sociology of Science in 1981. The author of studies of American sociology, British colonialism, and British anthropology, she teaches courses in the history of the human sciences, the history of the field sciences, and the sociology of knowledge. Among her publications are: The Imperial Bureaucrat: The Colonial Administrative Service in the Gold Coast, 1920-1939 (1979); Current Perspectives on the History of the Social Sciences, co-edited with Robert Alun Jones (1983); The Savage Within. The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945 (1991, 1992); a special issue of Osiris, Science in the Field, co-edited with Robert Kohler (1996); "Islands in the Pacific: Darwinian Biogeography and British Anthropology," American Ethnologist (1996); “ ‘Humanity in the chrysalis stage’: Indigenous Australians in the anthropological Imagination, 1899-1926,” British Journal for the History of Science (2006); and A New History of Anthropology (2007), an edited collection to which she has also contributed.
Courses for Spring 2007:
STSC 028, “Magic, Science and Religion” (HSOC 025)
STSC 182 “Social Science and American Culture”
