Allison Marsh ’08 PhD uses historical objects to teach the public about the history of science and technology, and get them more excited about archives and civic engagement.
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Faculty position in the History of Pre-Modern Science (antiquity to ca. 1700)
The Department of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position (open rank) in the history of pre-modern science […]
Professor Lawrence Principe to be Department Chair
Professor Lawrence Principe was ceremoniously presented with the Department’s “chair” at our end of the year reception by our current Chair, Professor Maria Portuondo. Thank you Professor Portuondo for serving […]
Doctoral Candidate, Marlis Hinckley, Awarded Fulbright
Marlis Hinckley will form part of the 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Mexico. She will be in Mexico starting in September, affiliated with UNAM and its Botanical Garden, where […]
Marc Alsina selected for the Krieger School’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities Cohort
Recent graduate, Marc Alsina, PhD, has been named part of the inaugural cohort of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Society of Fellows in the Humanities. He will spend […]
Doctoral Candidate, Urna Mukerjee, selected for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands
Urna Mukherjee has been selected for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, for “object-based research involving the art and cultural history of the Low Countries.” Her […]
History of Biology has selected, doctoral candidate, Ryan Hearty as winner of its 2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize!
The Journal of the History of Biology has selected Ryan Hearty’s article on ecologist Ruth Patrick as winner of its 2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize! This prize rewards the best paper […]
Congratulations Aaron Bateman
Doctoral candidate Aaron Bateman recently published two articles, “Anti-satellite weapons are creating space hazards. Here’s a way to limit the damage” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and “Mutually assured […]
Doctoral candidate, Marc Alsina, published an article
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Marc Alsina for his article, “Aviation for the People: Class and State Aviation in Perón’s ‘New Argentina,’ 1946–55” which is in the January issue of Technology […]
Congratulations Professor Portuondo!
The department of History of Science and Technology is delighted to announce that Maria Portuondo’s book, The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano (Chicago, 2019) has […]