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The following is a list of current CHSS and Fishbein Center students (who will receive their degrees in history of science through the History Department), their emails, dissertation titles of those advanced to candidacy, and their research interests.

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ADAM BAIM (CHSS/Pritzker School of Medicine)

Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~abaim/
Research interests: anthropology of biomedicine, clinical rationality and interpretation, translational medicine.

ASHLEY CLARK (History Dept.)

Research interests: history of evolutionary theory, German biology, German Romanticism.

CARMINE GRIMALDI (History Dept.)

Research interest: history of science.

ANDREW DOMONDON (CHSS)

Research interest: history of altruism in evolutionary biology.

CAITJAN GAINTY (History Dept.)

Research interests: history of medicine, medical ethics.

DEVIN GOUVÊA (CHSS)

Research interests: history and philosophy of biology.

MARCIA HOLMES (CHSS)

Research interests: History of cybernetics, history of psychology during World War II.

LILY HUANG (History Dept.)

Research interests:  History and philosophy of life.

JENNIFER KARLIN (CHSS/Pritzker School of Medicine)

Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Dissertation Title: "Respacializing 'The Clinic': Constructing Communities and Transforming Chicago's Southsiders into Healthy Subjects."
Research interests: Employing anthropological and historical methodologies and theories, Jennifer investigates the co-production of health care institutions, biomedical research objects, practices of expertise, diagnostic categories, individual and community subjectivites, and health and illness experiences.

KALIE KISSOON (CHSS)

Research Interests: History and anthropology of colonial medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa; bioethics; epidemiological mapping.

DANIELE MACUGLIA (CHSS)

Research interests: History of physics and biology in 20th century.

SHIRLEY MARTIN (CHSS)

Research interests: history of twentieth century psychology and psychiatry, psychology of science.

FRANCIS MCKAY (CHSS/Anthropology Dept.)

Research interests: continental philosophy of science, anthropology of science, history of anthropology.

ALEXANDER MOFFETT (CHSS/Pritzker School of Medicine)

Research interests: history and philosophy of Medicine.

ZOE NYSSA (CHSS)

Research interests: history and sociology of ecology.

ALESSANDRO PAJEWSKI (CHSS)

Research interests: theories of evolution, 18th Century British philosophy.

RACHEL PONCE (CHSS/History Dept.)

Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rponce
Dissertation Title: "Homicidal Monomania:Insanity, Criminal Responsibility, and Medicine in America, 1835-1882 "
Research Interests: History of medicine and psychiatry, 19th century America, legal history, historical epistemology.

DANA ROVANG (CHSS)

Homepage:http://home.uchicago.edu/~dmrovang/
Dissertation Title: "Conjuring Science: Performance Magicians, Natural Philosophy, and Popular Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1770-1800."
Research interests: history of science performance, technologies of display, theories of observation, history of psychology.

MATTHEW SLAYTON (CHSS)

Research interests: philosophy of biology.

BECKETT STERNER (CHSS)

Homepage: home.uchicago.edu/~bsterner
Reserarch interests: history and philosophy of biology, philosophy of probability & statistics, bioethics, American Pragmatism.

WILLIAM STERNER (CHSS)

Dissertation Title: "Saving Aristotle's Productive Science of Appearances in Poetics 1 - 5."
Research interests: Aristotle's productive science of Poetics, human-computer interactions, computer science and technology, philosophy of biology, pragmatism, philosophy of science as a humanism, the liberal arts and close reading of texts, and philosophic organizations of knowledge.

CECELIA WATSON (CHSS)

Homepage: home.uchicago.edu/~cecelia
Research interests: history of psychology, foundations of pragmatism, scientific rhetoric, and science in U.S. legal history.

JOY WATTAWA (CHSS)

Research interets: History and philosophy of science, historical epistemology, public science, science and media.

 

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