About the Department

The History of Science and Technology Department concentrates on science and technology since the Renaissance and has particular strength in the history of early-modern science and the history of American science and technology.  Faculty interests extend to such subjects as history of architecture, the emergence of science cities, the iconography of science, science and exploration, and science and religion.

Research interests of the faculty are described on their individual web pages, which you can find by browsing our directory.

The Department encourages applications in the following broad areas:

• Early modern alchemy/chemistry, cosmology, natural history, in Europe and North and South America;
• Technology in 19th-20th centuries; including history of engineering and related disciplines.
• Modern physical sciences, 19th-20th centuries;
• Biological sciences, especially history of evolution, genetics, ecology, behavioral biology, physiology; Environmentalism as it relates to ecological sciences.
• Science in Latin America;
• East Asian science and technology, especially in Korea, Japan or China in modern period;
• Museums and modern society.  The Department works with curators and research historians at the Smithsonian Institution to sponsor workshops, student internships, courses, and other activities; and cooperates in the undergraduate Program in Museums and Society (director, Elizabeth Rodini).

The Department runs its teaching programs and colloquium in cooperation with the Department of History of Medicine, at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. (For a description of the program, faculty, and students in history of medicine, go to the website of the Institute of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University.)

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