NYU has assembled a rapidly-growing group of faculty specializing in the history of science and science studies. These scholars use a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to investigate critical issues of the development, meaning, practice, and social significance of science. Their work is supported by several different schools and departments at NYU. The new Science and Society Minor brings together their teaching, and research projects are discussed with city-wide scholars at the NYC History of Science Working Group.
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
pja7@nyu.edu
history of science, ecology, and environmentalism; history of design; environmental philosophy
Department of History
environmental history, history of science, technology and medicine, history of animals, Mediterranean history, Italian Renaissance.
Department of Technology, Culture and Society, NYU Tandon
philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, foundational issues in quantum field theory and general relativity.
Steinhardt School
digital humanities, history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, network politics; privacy, anonymity, encryption; intellectual history, philosophy and critical theory
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
ec15@nyu.edu
history of ecology and environmental thought, role of science in culture, environmental policy
Department of History
history of science, history of medical concepts, Modern European Intellectual History; French and German Thought
Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Department of East Asian Studies
Chinese science, history of writing, science and religion
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
history and transmission of the mathematical sciences, Babylonian and Greco-Roman astronomy and astrology, material culture of Hellenistic astronomy
Department of Anthropology
anthropology of science and medicine, gender, cultures of the mind, emotion and rationality, history of psychiatry and psychology, US culture and society
Department of Media, Culture, and Communications, Steinhardt School
history of science and technology; disability studies
Department of Sociology
sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, concepts of race in science
Department of History
ortolano@nyu.edu
science in the public culture; science and literature; history of the social sciences; historiography (especially modern Britain)
Department of Anthropology
gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology, United States and Europe
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
ms5100@nyu.edu
history of physics and astronomy, science and religion, science teaching
Department of Philosophy
philosophy of science, complex systems, philosophical applications of cognitive science