HSS

""
Undergraduate

UNDERGRADUATE

Undergraduate
grad students

GRADUATE

link
faculty

FACULTY

Faculty
History and Sociology of Science

Uniquely Interdisciplinary

Our faculty uses the tools of the humanities and social sciences to study science, technology, medicine, and the environment.

Learn More

Upcoming Events

More Events


Theories of History Discussion Group

COVID-19: Memory In and Of a (Public Health) Crisis
Dr. Christine Muller
Oct 21, 2024 at - | HSS Lounge, 351 Cohen Hall

COVID-19: Memory In and Of a (Public Health) CrisisThe COVID-19 pandemic began in the recent past and continues to affect present life and future trajectories. Scholars live during this time with their own personal…



HSS Workshop: Sara Pritchard

Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Oct 21, 2024 at - | 392 Cohen Hall

“Seeing Like a Turtle”: Ecologists, Light Pollution, and the Anthropocene: At an interdisciplinary conference on artificial light at night, an Australian biologist critiqued satellite visualizations of light pollution…



HSS Workshop: Rebecca Lemov

Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Oct 28, 2024 at - | 392 Cohen Hall

Literal Brain Control: The Resurgence of Psycho-Surgery and the Search for a Science of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s.This talk describes a controversial case of Leonard Kille, a talented engineer who in 1968…