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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, 2024-2027; Associate Professor, History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College

Office: SS 217

Phone: (773) 702-0638

fljonsso@uchicago.edu

Director, Nicholson Center for British Studies Faculty Member, Nicholson Center for British Studies Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s field specialties ...

Lorraine Daston

Visiting Professor, History and Social Thought

ldaston@uchicago.edu

Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and regular visiting professor in the Committee on Social ...

James A. Evans

Professor; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Office: SS 420

Phone: (773) 834-3612

jevans@uchicago.edu

My research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas an...

Adrian Johns

Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College

Office: HM-W 602

Phone: (773) 702-2334

johns@uchicago.edu

Chair, Department of History (2022-2025) Faculty Member, Nicholson Center for British Studies Faculty Member, Renaissance Studies Adrian Johns sp...

Emily Kern

History of Science Assistant Professor and the College

Office: SSRB 517

Phone: (773) 702-7888

ekern@uchicago.edu

FIELD SPECIALTIES History of modern science; intellectual and cultural history; twentieth century global history BIOGRAPHY Emily Kern is a hi...

Karin Knorr Cetina

Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor (Jointly Appointed in Anthropology)

Office: SS 424

Phone: (773) 834-3312

knorr@uchicago.edu

Karin Knorr Cetina is interested in financial markets, knowledge and information, as well as in globalization, theory and culture. Her current project...

Joseph P. Masco

Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College

Office: Haskell 201

Phone: (773) 834-7807

jmasco@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Science Studies, Critical Theory, Planetary Politics, Visualization, Threat Perception, Ecology, Race, Temporality, US, North America.

Joseph Masco is a scholar of technoscience, ecology, affect, and social theory, with a long-term focus on technological revolutions and their aftermat...

Salikoko S. Mufwene

The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division

Office: Wieboldt 411

Phone: (773) 702-8531

s-mufwene@uchicago.edu

Dr. Mufwene currently works on language evolution, focusing on language speciation (including the emergence of creole language varieties, of African-A...

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

r-richards@uchicago.edu

BIOGRAPHY I do research on history and philosophy of biology and psychology, as well as on German Romanticism. This includes particular interest in...

Michael Rossi

Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College

Office: SS 206

Phone: (773) 702-5266

michaelrossi@uchicago.edu

BIOGRAPHY Michael Rossi is an historian of medicine and science in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. His work focuses o...

James T. Sparrow

Associate Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College

Office: SS 225B

Phone: (773) 834-1271

jts@uchicago.edu

Affiliated Faculty, Masters in Computational Social ScienceFaculty Board Member, Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American CultureSenior Fellow, ...

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Co-Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

Office: Haskell 314

Phone: (773) 702-6151

ksunderr@uchicago.edu

My work lies at the intersection of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), with commitments to social theories of capitalism and postc...