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WILLIAM PROVINE, 1970
"The Origins of Theoretical Popuilation Genetics." Currently professor of history and biology at Cornell University.

NANCY MAULL, 1974
Wimsatt, Toulmin, Ravin
"Progress in Modern Biology: An Alternative to Reduction." Currently dean of arts and sciences at Harvard University.

LINDLEY DARDEN, 1974
Hull, Ravin, Wimsatt
"Reasoning in Scientific Change: The Field of Genetics at Its Beginnings." Currently professor of philosophy at University of Maryland.

E. ROGER JONES, 1976
Geroch, Fine, Malament
"Causal Anomalies and the Completeness of Quantum Theory." Currently professor of philosophy at University of Kentucky.

DAVID BANTZ, 1976
Wimsatt, Toulmin, Fine
"Does Physics Explain Chemistry." Currently professor of philosophy, University of Alaska.

DAVID LEARY, 1977
Toulmin, Bradbern, Debus
" The Reconstruction of Psychology in Germany, 1780-1850 ." Currently University Professor, University of Richmond

ROBERT J. RICHARDS, 1978
Toulmin, Debus, King
"The Evolution of Behavior: Theories of Instinct in the Nineteenth Century with an essay on Animal Instinct and Intelligence Before Darwin." Currently professor of history and philosophy of science, University of Chicago.

PAUL THEERMAN, 1980
Richards, Debus, Swerdlow
"James Clerk Maxwell: Physicist and Intellectual in Victorian Britain." Currently archivist, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

GARY KAHN, 1982
Wimsatt, McNeill, Toulmin
"Theory and Reality in Cognitive Psychology." Currently a consultant in information technology.

MARCY LAWTON, 1982
Kiester, Fitzpatrick, Mueller, Richards, Wade, Wimsatt
"Altruism and Sociobiology: A Critical Look at the Issue." Currently adjunct professor of biology, University of Alabama, Huntsville.

JON JARRETT, 1982
Malament, Mueller, Stein, Tait
"Bell's Theorem and Local Realism." Currently professor of philosophy at University of Illinois, Chicago.

KAREN PARSHALL, 1982
Debus, MacLane, Richards
"The Contributions of J.H.M. Wedderburn to the Theory of Algebras, 1900-1910." Currently professor of history and mathematics at University of Virginia.

JAMES GRIESEMER, 1983
Wimsatt, Kiester, Lande, Mueller, Richards, Van Valen, Wade
"Communication and Scientific Change: An Analysis of Conceptual Maps in the Macroevolution Controversy." Currently professor of philosophy at University of California, Davis.

BONNIE KAPLAN, 1983
Debus, Richards, Stocking.
Currently president of Kaplan Associates, a lecturer at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and a member of Yale University's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project, and a Senior Scientist at Boston University's Medical Information Systems Unit.

BRUCE STEPHENSON, 1983
Swerdlow, Richards, Debus
"Kepler's Physical Astronomy." Currently director of research, Adler Planatarium, Chicago.

KATHLEEN WELLMAN, 1983
"Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Medicine in the Service of Philosophy." Currently professor of history, Southern Methodist University.

MARTIN SERENO, 1984
Wimsatt, Richards, Saddock
"'DNA' and Language: The Nature of the Symbolic- Representational Systemin Cellular Protein Synthesis and Human Language Comprehension." Currently professor of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego.

MICHAEL E. MYTILINAIOS, 1985
Tait, Slamen, Kurtz
"Priority Arguments and Models of Arithmetic." Currently professor at Athens University of Economics.

LELAND ESTES, 1985
Debus, Richards, King
"The Role of Medicine and Medical Theories in the Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in England." Currently associate professor of history at Chapman University.

REGIS CABRAL, 1986
Richards, Debus, Swerdlow
"The Interaction of Science and Diplomacy : Latin America, the United States and Nuclear Energy, 1945-1955." Currently project manger, UMINOVA CENTER, Umeå University, Sweden.

ELIZABETH KNOLL, 1987
Richards, King, Kazazos, Stocking
"Mental Evolution and the Science of Language: Darwin, Müller,and Romanes on the Development of the Human Mind." Currently editor at Harvard University Press.

MARTHA BALDWIN, 1987
"Athanasius Kircher and the Magnetic Philosophy"

SARA JOAN MILES, 1988
Richards, Debus, Wimsatt
"Evolution and Natural Law in the Synthetic Science of Clemence Royer." Currently professor of biology and history, Eastern University.

ROBERT DISALLE, 1988
Stein, Malamant, Richards
"Space, Time, and Inertia in the Foundations of Newtonian Physics, 1870-1905." Currently associate professor of philosophy, Western Ontario University.

JEFFREY LEE RAMSEY, 1990
Wimsatt, Berry, Garber
"Metastable States: The Justification of Approximative Procedures inReaction Kinetics, 1923-1947." Currently associate professor of philosophy at Smith College.

SHERRIE LYONS, 1990
Richards, Debus, Wimsatt
"The Evolution of Thomas Henry Huxley's Evolutionary Views."

JEFFRY SCHANK, 1990
Wimsatt, Maull, Richards
"Computer Similation, Model Building and Experimental Design in Biology." Currently associate professor of psychology at University of California, Davis.

KAREN WETMORE, 1991
Richards, Debus, Harris
"The Evolution of Psychology from Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth-century American College Curriculum."

DOUGLAS ALLCHIN, 1991
Wimsatt, Hull, Maull
"Resolving Disagreement in the Ox-Phos Controversy, "1961-1978"

LOUISE GOLLAND, 1991
Swerdlow, Richards, Schramm
"Leonhard Euler's Contributions to the Method of the Variation of the Orbital Elements."

LOREN BUTLER, 1992
Richards, Wimsatt, Harris
"Mathematical Physics and the American Mathematical Commmunity: DisciplinaryValues, Professional Interests and the Place of Borderland Research, 1886-1940." Formerly lecturer at University of Pennsylvania; now deceased.

CHRISTOPHER COSANS, 1993
Richards, Forster, Asmis, Wimsatt
"The Beginnings of Experimental Biology: Scientific Realism and Medicinein Antiquity." Currently assistant professor of philosophy at Hanover College.

KATHY COOKE, 1994
Richards, Harris, Stocking
"An American Gospel of Social Evolution: Religion, Education, and Biology in the Thought of Edwin Grant Conklin." Currently professor of history, Quinnipiac College.

DAVID VALONE, 1994
Stocking, Richards, Debus
"The Dark and Tangled Recesses of Knowledge: Theology and the Moral Sciences at Cambridge , 1812-1837." Currently Director of Academic and Cultural Programming in the Liberal Arts, Quinnipiac College.

GEORGE REISCH, 1994
Richards, Garber, Stein, Smigelskis
"A History of the International Encyclopedia of Science." Currently lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology.

PAUL WHITE , 1996
Richards, Daston, Goldstein
"Thomas Henry Huxley: Making the Man of Science." Currently editor of the Darwin Letters Project and Research Associate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University.

BERNA EDEN KILINC, 1997
Stigler, Daston, Garber, Gigerenzer
"The One and the Many of Frequentism." Currently assistant professor of philosophy at Bogazici Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

BRIAN OGILVIE, 1997
Daston, Richards, Fasolt
"Observation and Experience in Early Modern Natural History." Currently associate professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

GREGORY MATTHEW MIKKELSON, 1997
Wimsatt, Richards, Leibold
"Other Things Being Equal: Counterfactuals, Natural Laws, and ScientificModels; with Case Studies from Ecology." Currently associate professor of philosophy, McGill University.

FRANCESCA BORDOGNA, 1997
Davidson, Richards, Daston
"The Historical Contexts of William James's Pragmatism." Currently assistant professor of history at Northwestern University.

CHERYCE KRAMER, 1998
Daston, Richards, Goldstein
"A Fool's Paradise: The Psychiatry of Gemuth in a Biedermeyer Asylum." Currently post-doctoral fellow at the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

LELAND GIOVANNELLI, 1999
Swerdlow, Richards, Mueller
"Aristotle's Theory of Sexual Reproduction as it Emerges in His On the Generation of Animals ." Currently assistant professor in the Herbst Program of Humanities, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.

ANDRE WAKEFIELD, 1999
Richards, Geyer, Goldstein, Clark
"The Apostles of Good Police: Cameralism and the Culture of Administration in Central Europe, 1656-1800." Currently Assistant Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

HSIANG-LIN (SEAN) LEI, 1999
Richards, Stocking, Kelley
"When Chinese Medicine Encountered the State: 1900-1949." Currently assistant professor of history at National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan.

DAVID MILLET, 1999
Richards, Wimsatt, Metz.
"Wiring the brain : from the excitable cortex to the EEG, 1870-1940." Currently resident at UCLA Medical School.

FLORENCE HSIA, 1999
Swerdlow, Garber, Alitto, Feingold
"French Jesuits and the Mission to China: Science,
Religion, History." Currently assistant professor of history of science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

JOHN SIMMONS CECCATTI, 2001
Richards, Wimsatt, Kohler
"Science in the Brewery: Pure Yeast Culture and the Transformation of Brewing Practices in Germany at the End of the 19th Century." Currently assistant dean, University of Pennsylvania.

TRACY TESLOW, 2002
Richards, Stocking, Harris,
"Representing Race to the Public: Physical Anthropology in Interwar American Natural History Museums." Currently assistant professor of history at University of Cincinatti.

DANIELA BARBERIS, 2002
Richards, Stocking, Jones
"The Annee Sociologique and Neo-Kantian Philosophy in France." Currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University.

KU-MING (KEVIN) CHANG, 2002
Debus, Richards, Fasolt, Weintraub
"The Matter of Life: Ernst Georg Stahl, 1659-1734," Currently, permanent research fellow, Institute for history and philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

SCOTT ROLSTON, 2003
Richards, Stocking, Wimsatt
"Kroeber on Archeological Theory." Currently in the American Embassy (State Department), Thailand

JOHN HUSS, 2004
Richards, Wimsatt, Foote
"Experimental Reasoning in Non-Experimental Science: Case Studies from Paleobiology."
Currently director of Quantitative Studies, Reed College.

MATTHEW FRANK, 2004
Tait, Geroch, Weinberger
"Aesthetics and Axioms in Constructive Mathematics and Differential Geometry"
Currently analyst for Goldman Sachs.

PATRICK SINGY, 2004
Davidson, Goldstein, Richards
"Experiencing Medicine: An Epistemological History of Medical Practice and Sex in French Speaking Europe, 1700-1850"
Currently a post-doctral student in history of science at Northwestern University.

CLAUDIA WASSMANN, 2005
Richards, Guyer, Cacioppo
"The Science of Emotion: Studying Emotions in Germany, France and the US, 1860-1920
Research interests: history of theories of emotion in 19th and 20th centuries"

JESSICA HEINEMAN-PIEPER, 2005
Richards, Wimsatt, Woodward
"A Science of Persons: New Foundations for Human Agency" (Jointly with Psychology)
Currently assistant professor at George Mason University.

PAUL MUELLER, S.J., 2006
Garber, Swerdlow, McMullan
"Marin Mersenne's Questions Théologiques, Physiques, Morales et Mathematiques: Agenda and Structure, with an Annotated Translation."
Currently assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.

MICHAEL FRAMPTON, M.D., 2007
Richards, Johns, Asmis
"The Study of Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to The Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C.-A.D. 1325"
Currently a practicing physican.

ADAM SHAPIRO, 2007
Richards, Johns, Numbers
"Losing the Word: the Scopes Trial, Biology Textbooks, and the Rise of Literalism."
Currently visiting assistant professor of history at University of British Columbia

CHRISTINA FRADELOS, 2008
Richards, Wimsatt, Gere
" The Last Desperate Cure: Electrical Brain Stimulation and its Controversial Beginnings"
Currently working for Boston Consulting

JONATHAN TSOU, 2008
"The Reality and Classification of Mental Disorders"
Richards and Wimsatt (co-chairs), Hacking
Currently a post-doctoral students at University of British Columbia