Events

Robert Westman, University of California--San Diego

"The Two-Cultures Question in the Early Decades of the Salk Institute" 

From its foundation in 1960, Jonas Salk envisioned an unusual…

Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Florida--Gainesville

Ezelle Sanford III,  Program on Race, Science, and Society and Project Manager for the Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project at Penn

Segregated Medicine:…

Bill Rankin, Yale University

Lisa Ruth Rand (HSS PhD 2016) winner of the 2019 PHW Emerging Scholars Policy Prize and Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science History Institute, will be presenting her paper, "Egalitarian Orbits: A…

Peter Galison, Harvard University

"Philosophy of the Shadow."

In thousands of atlases depicting the working objects of inquiry—from bodies, clouds, plants, to…

Save the Date for HSS@50 on October 23-25, 2020

Details about schedule, housing, etc. will be forthcoming on the website

History and Sociology of Science Assistant Professor Sebastian Gil-Riano will present a paper based on the introduction to his book manuscript, The Remnants of Race: Anti-Racist Science and Economic…