News and Events
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HSSC Monday Workshop Schedule for Fall 2009
Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) Calendar
LInk to comprehensive calendar of events at area institutions.
Links to program and alumni news on this website: Graduate * HSOC * STSC
Around the Department
Mellon Fellow Mara Mills has received the 2009 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and the 2009 William Cadogan Prize
from the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health.
STSC senior Lindsey Stull writes a regular column for The Daily Pennsylvanian
Professor John Tresch is on leave with a fellowship from the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for the 2009-2010 academic year.
HSS was well represented at SHOT 2009 (Society for the History of Technology meeting) in Pittsburgh on October 15-18. Faculty and graduate students: Ruth Cowan, Nathan Ensmenger, Ann Greene, Matt Hersch, Eric Hintz, Corrina Schlombs, Kristofer Whitney and Damon Yarnell; HSS Alums: Atsushi Akera, Glenn Bugos, Bernie Carlson, Deborah Douglas, Nathan Ensmenger, Thomas Haigh, Gabrielle Hecht, Chris Jones, Nina Lerman, Thomas Misa, Fred Quivik, Eric Rau, Yasushi Sato, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudemaier, Jeff Tang, Jeremy Vetter, and Audra Wolfe. Many HSS folks are in leadership positions: Bernie Carlson is SHOT Secretary, John Staudemaier is the (long-time but retiring) editor of Technology and Culture; Thomas Haigh, Corinna Schlombs and Ann Greene are SIG (special interest group) leaders; Deborah Douglas, Nina Lerman, Amy Slaton, Glenn Bugos, Atsushi Akera, John Staudemaier and Karl-erik Michelsen serve on SHOT committees.
HSS graduate students hosted the Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine on October 9-10.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan has recently given the following talks: "Climbing Up The Slippery Slope," at a conference on Religion and Genetics at the University of Minnesota in September, and "Archibald Garrod and the Origins of Personalized Medicine," at the CIGHT Symposium at Penn. She served on a panel at the [public] Symposium on Regenerative Medicine for Penn's Genome Frontiers Institute at the Franklin Institute in September, and at the recent SHOT meeting she chaired and participated on a panel about "Why there are So Few Women Engineers."
Ann Greene's book,Horses At Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008) has received the Fred B. Kniffen Award for best authored book from the Pioneer America Society.
Festschrift for Feierman
"Social Health," in honor of Steven Feierman, will be held at Penn on April 23-24, 2010. (details forthcoming)
Welcome to our new Graduate Students!
Whitney Laemmli
Lisa Rand
Nellwyn Thomas
Research and Publications
Professor Robert Aronowitz, "The converged experience of risk and disease" Milbank Quarterly 87.2 (2009): 417–442. He gave a talk with the same title last March at CNRS, Paris.
Dominique A. Tobbell (Ph.D. 2008), "Who's Winning the Human Race?" Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64 (2009): 429-473. PDF
The research of Samuel Preston, former provost of the University and professor of sociology, well-known to HSOC-ers for his course "Health of Populations" (HSOC 111/SOCI 111) and graduate student Jessica Ho, HSOC '09, was the subject of a front page article in the "Science Times" section of the New York Times on Tuesday, September 22. Link to article
Professor Nathan Ensmenger has been profiled in SAS Frontiers magazine. The article focuses on his recent research, and is titled "Doctors Without Modems? Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution." You can also listen to an audio interview of Professor Ensmenger discussing the Science, Technology, and Society major, as well as his forthcoming book "The Computer Boys Take Over" (MIT Press)
Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008). New York Times Review
