Chandler Allen is a doctoral student in the History of Science, with particular focus on intersections between modern and contemporary art and science and those who skirt the history-fiction divide. Prior to Princeton, she worked as a curator and associate for galleries, museums, and auction houses in New York and London, and earned an MPhil…

Joe Bishop works at the intersection of American science and medicine around the turn of the twentieth century. He is currently interested in how the pursuit of scientific authority shaped the food and drug industries and transformed scientific standards. He also focuses on how contending approaches to the environment recast the concepts of…

Elizabeth is a Ph.D. student in the History of Science Program. Her research centers on the histories of mathematics and physics in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is particularly interested in scientific communities, focusing on how they are defined and established, how they interact with one another, and the ways in which "outsiders" affect…

Mishka is interested in the history of psychiatry in colonial and apartheid South Africa. She completed her bachelor's degree at Rhodes University in South Africa, and her master's degree at New York University, where she researched the intellectual history of colonial psychiatry in the Cape Colony. Mishka is a recipient of the Fulbright…

Jingwen Li is a first-year Ph.D. student in the History of Science Program at Princeton. Her research focuses on interactions between media technologies and the human body with a comparative approach. She is currently interested in the history of sensory (visual and auditory) impairment. In past projects, Jingwen has…

Anin Luo is interested in how ideas and culture intersect in the context of the life, human, and environmental sciences. One of the questions driving her research is how the sciences define what “humanity” is. She explores this through humans’ understandings of animals and the environment and is currently writing on immunity in the second half…

Anna Speyart is interested in the sociocultural history of early modern science. Her current work focuses on the history of ice and snow in early modern Europe. It traces the history of these ephemeral materials from harvest to use in scientific, medical, and consumer contexts. Anna has previously worked on games and play in erudite culture and…

Sara Tridenti is a first-year Ph.D. student in the History of Science Program at Princeton. She is primarily interested in the history of chemistry in early-modern Europe, with a focus on the intersections between the practical, visual, and linguistic tools used within the field. She maintains a broad interest in intellectual history and hopes…

My research focuses on the history of science, technology, and the environment in 19th and 20th century North America, and the ways in which all three intersect. I am also interested in methodologies including oral histories and using digital tools for evaluating and presenting information.

I earned an undergraduate degree in…

My dissertation project traces the emergence of art-making as a form of psychological therapy across the 20th century. It studies the entwinement of psycho-scientific and artistic practices in varying efforts to use creative expression to access and heal the psyche. 

In my public history practice, such continuities between…

I study the history of medicine, focusing on the United States in the 20th century. I earned a BA in History and German from NYU in 2016. For my honors thesis, I researched and wrote on the history of the nutritional deficiency disease pellagra in the American South. After a brief stint in editing, I then moved to the History and Philosophy of…

I study the history of science and science communication, urban history, and modern American social, political, and cultural history. I am working on a dissertation that is an urban history of science of Washington, D.C. at the turn of the twentieth century. It focuses on how local conditions of space, race, urban change, and intellectual…

My dissertation project is a history of the atomic veterans, soldiers who were exposed to radiation through their participation in nuclear tests. During the period of exposure, soldiers conducted exercises and were subjected to a battery of physical and psychological tests in order for war planners to anticipate the challenges they would face…

I study the histories of law, technology, and extraterritoriality in the twentieth century. My dissertation follows legal disputes surrounding the first communications satellites launched in the 1960s. I ask how legal and technological practices surrounding the satellites both implemented and reconfigured ideas of extraterritoriality and empire…

Midori Kawaue studies how interactions between the indigenous population and the colonial settlers from the 17th to 19th centuries produced new scientific knowledge at a global level. She is writing a comparative history of the Ainu people, the indigenous people of northern Japan, and the Native Americans. Her first co-edited book is James…

Julia Marino is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University specializing in United States History of Science, with a particular focus on the intersections of science and economic policy. Her dissertation, “Fighting for Capitalism’s Cutting Edge,” explores how, in response to Japan’s economic and technological rise, American policymakers embraced…

I am an intellectual historian of early modern Europe, with a particular interest in the relationship between religion and science. My dissertation, “Reading, Revelation, and Nature: Biblical Interpretation and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England,” examines the rise of Mosaic natural philosophy and its consequences for the study of…

Dissertation Title:
"Science at the Nineteenth-Century École Des Beaux-Arts"

Yang is a PhD candidate in the History of Science program. She is currently working on her dissertation, titled “Antibiotics, Scientific Expertise, and Pharmaceutical Marketplace in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1990,” which examines the interrelated development of science, technology, and medicine in modern China through a history of…

Dissertation Title:
"The Other Chemists' War: The Uses, Dual Uses, and Abuses of Chemical Weapons in World War II"

I am a historian of knowledge, working on the intellectual and environmental histories of European science across the early modern globe. My dissertation, Reawakening the Ammonites, argues that conchologists (scientists who study shells) raised awareness of extinction three centuries before the discovery of…

Dissertation Title:
"Slow Tampering: A History of Solitary Confinement"

I study the history of the human sciences, race, law, and technology with a focus on the history of data: why and how we measure what we do. My dissertation tells the story of how civil rights lawyers embraced statistical proof of discrimination and the impact of their efforts on criminal justice data, employee evaluation, and legal…

Jenne studies the history of mathematics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At Columbia, Jenne double majored in mathematics and history, and wrote her senior thesis on non-Euclidean geometry’s role in Nietzsche’s famed turn to nihilism.

Jenne’s other interests include the history of the physical sciences, modern European…

Pallavi is a PhD candidate in the History of Science program and a Gender and Sexuality Studies certificate student. She is interested in the history of medicine, technology, disability and the body. Her dissertation is on the history of medicine and technology in the Paralympic Games. Before starting graduate studies at Princeton, she served…

Dissertation Title:
"The "Currency of the Cell": Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900 – 1970"

Dissertation Title:
""I [Suffer] Unfortunately from Intellectual Hunger": The Geistkreis, Desire for Knowledge, and the Transformation of Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century"

Dissertation Title:
"Crazy Standards: The World Health Organization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Remaking of Psychiatry"

Dissertation Title:
"Sweet Deception: A History of the Health Politics of Saccharin in the United States"

I am a Ph.D. student in the Program for the History of Science with research interests in Early Modern science; the history of the imagination; visual culture and scientific illustration.

Before coming to Princeton I completed an M.Sci. at the University of Sydney with a thesis called "Optical Instruments and the Early Modern…

Dissertation Title:
"Writing the Rules of Reason: Notations in Mathematical Logic, 1847–1937"

Dissertation Title:
"From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbial Culture Techniques and Chemical Orders of Nature, 1875 – 1946"

Richard J. Spiegel is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University in the Program for the History of Science and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. His research focuses on European intellectual, social, and cultural history from 1700, with an emphasis on the history of the humanities and the human sciences. Richard's…