Associate Professor, History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College
Office: SS 217
Phone: (773) 702-0638
Director, Nicholson Center for British Studies
Faculty Member, Nicholson Center for British Studies
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s field specialties include British history; the British Empire; the Enlightenment; science and environmental history; political economy; cornucopianism and the Anthropocene.
Visiting Professor
History and Social Thought
Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and regular visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought. Her work focuses on the history of rationality, especially but not exclusively scientific rationality. She has written on the history of wonder, objectivity, observation, the moral authority of nature, probability, Cold War rationality, and scientific modernity. Her current book projects are a history of rules and an inquiry into the relationship between the moral and natural orders.
Professor; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Office: SS 420
Phone: (773) 834-3612
Interests: knowing, computational social science, collective intelligence, science of science, skills and learning, machine learning & AI, human-machine intelligence, human and machine languages, fields and networks, text and image analysis, the science of data.
Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College
Office: HM-W 602
Phone: (773) 702-2334
History of science; British history; history of intellectual property; history of the book and other media
History of Science Assistant Professor and the College
Office: SSRB 517
(773) 702-7888
Emily Kern is a historian of science, with a specialty in the intellectual and cultural history of anthropology, evolution, and the life sciences. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between the production of scientific knowledge and the production of global political power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor (Jointly Appointed in Anthropology)
Office: SS 424
Phone: (773) 834-3312
Interests: economic sociology, sociology of science, consumption, globalization, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, contemporary theory.
Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College
Office: Haskell 201
Phone: (773) 834-7807
Joseph Masco (PhD, UC San Diego 1999) is Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College. Working at the intersection of science studies, environmental studies, media studies, and critical theory, his scholarship examines the material, affective, and conceptual force of technological revolution.
The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division
Office: Wieboldt 411
Phone: (773) 702-8531
Dr. Mufwene currently works on language evolution, focusing on language speciation (including the emergence of creole language varieties, of African-American English, and of indigenized Englishes), on the phylogenetic emergence of language, and on colonization, globalization, and the vitality of languages (including language birth and death). He is also exploring ways in which economics bears on language vitality and language influences economic development. His earlier work was on structural aspects of Gullah, of Caribbean English creoles (chiefly Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles), and of African American English, as well as the morphosyntax of Bantu (especially Kituba, Lingala, and Kiyansi). He was trained in lexical semantics and lexicography (the focus of his earliest scholarship), in syntax, and in language contact. He has been at Chicago since January 1992.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College
Office: Stuart Hall, Room 231-B
Phone: (773) 834-8191
Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, History and Philosophy of Science
Director, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
Faculty Member and Steering Committee, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the College
Office: SS 205
Phone: (773) 702-8348
Professor Richards does research in the history and philosophy of psychology and biology. This includes particular interest in evolutionary biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology, as well as theories of perception from the ancient period to the present day.
Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, 2022-2023
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College
Office: SS 206
Phone: (773) 702-5266
Michael Rossi’s field specialties include medicine and the body; history of perception and visual culture; history of social science; American intellectual and cultural history.
Associate Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College;
Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, the College
Office: SS 225B
Phone: (773) 834-1271
Modern US political history; political economy; war and society; human rights; America in the world; history of social science
Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Co-Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
Office: Haskell 314
Phone: (773) 702-6151
(PhD, MIT, 2002; Professor; Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory) Biotechnology; capitalism; comparative ethnography; genomics; globalization; nation-state; political economy; post-colonialism; science and technology studies; subjectivity; India. (On leave winter 2019 through autumn 2019)