Chandler Allen (B.F.A, University of Texas Austin, MA, Christie's New York, MPhil, University of Cambridge)
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 in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Art History from Christie’s New York, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Austin. Chandler is currently a President’s Fellow at Princeton.
For prospective PhD students, please do not hesitate to get in touch. 

Joseph Bishop (B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A.,Philosophy at San Diego State University; M.A. in History at New York University)
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 health and disease.

Elizabeth Fricker (B.A., Brandeis University)
Elizabeth studies 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 them. Her previous research examined the impact of Einstein's theories of relativity amongst mathematicians and math educators in the early 1900s.

Mishka Wazar
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 Foreign Student Scholarship and the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship.

Tomas Uriburu

Jingwen Li (B.A., Renmin University of China; M.A., Yale University)
Jingwen is interested in interactions between media technologies and the human body. Her current research focuses on the history of sensory (visual and auditory) impairment with a comparative approach. In past projects, Jingwen has done research on loudspeaker, aerial photography, electroacupuncture, and opium.

Anin Luo (B.A., Yale University; M.Phil., University of Cambridge)
Anin Luo works broadly on intellectual and cultural histories of the modern life sciences. She has particular interests in histories of animals and the environment, especially as they intersect with issues of law and policy. She retains strong interests in science and media, as well as historiography and theories of history.

Justine Holzman

Alice Hong

Eva Molina Flores

Anna Speyart (B.A., University College London; M.A., Warburg Institute)
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 on intellectual sociability in the sixteenth century. Before coming to Princeton, she received a BA in History from University College London and an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute. For the Spring of 2023, she will join the Medici Archive Project in Florence as an Eva Schler Fellow.

Sara Tridenti (B.S., Yale University)
Sara studies the history of chemistry in early-modern Europe. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the practices, visualizations, and linguistic descriptions of the chemical arts, as well as the social environments which catalyze these interactions. Her previous research has focused on the emergence of chemistry as an academic discipline in European universities during the seventeenth-century.

Kathryn B. Carpenter (Bachelor of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia; M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Kate focuses on the history of science, technology, and the environment in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States. She is researching the combined efforts of meteorologists and citizens in tornado science in the mid-twentieth century. Her previous work explored inequalities of access to health and the environment in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Julian Chehirian (B.A., American University)
Julian Chehirian studies 20th century social histories of psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry across Eastern Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union. His adjacent interests include labor management theory and practices, while his methodological interests span archival research, oral history and public history approaches.

Francesca DeRosa (B.A., New York University; M.Phil., University of Cambridge)
Francesca works on the history of medicine in the 20th century United States. She is particularly interested in disability history and women’s health history. Her previous research has focused on the use of prosthetics to treat the young survivors of the drug thalidomide in the UK.

Vincent Femia (B.A., Kenyon College, M.Phil., University of Cambridge)
Vincent studies the history of the physical sciences, modern American social and political history, the history of science communication, and the history of science and the emotions. His previous research has focused on science writing, emotions, and observation at the turn of the twentieth century and United States scientific congressional testimony in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Jack Klempay (B.A., Columbia University; M.Phil., University of Oxford)

Jack studies the intersection of science, technology, and politics in the twentieth century. His dissertation is a history of atomic veterans, soldiers who were exposed to radiation through their participation in nuclear tests. The project examines the involvement of soldiers as technicians and as test subjects, subsequent efforts to reconstruct their past radiation exposures to determine their eligibility for compensation, and larger questions related to the science and politics of low-level radiation exposure.

Haris Durrani (B.S., Columbia Engineering; M.Phil., University of Cambridge; J.D., Columbia Law School)

Haris studies scientific and technological practices at the root of legal questions about sovereignty, property, and extraterritoriality in the twentieth century. He is interested in how expertise and governance shaped inequality, epistemology, and post-colonial order in encounters between the U.S. and global south, especially Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Previously, Haris wrote on the politics of global thinking about the “world picture” and post-colonial history in the law of commercial space mining.

Midori Kawaue (B.A., DePauw University)

Midori Kawaue studies the ties between religion, philosophy, and the natural sciences in the U.S. in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Midori is currently writing a paper that examines the relationship between Edward Hitchcock, a renowned geologist in Amherst, and Epaphras Hoyt, an enlightenment scientist. In 2017, she was awarded the Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award for her work in U.S. history.

Julia Marino (B.A., Dartmouth College)

Julia Marino specializes 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 the maintenance of competitiveness as a central policy goal from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Wes Viner (B.S., United States Naval Academy, M.S. Oxford University, M.A. Westminster Seminary)

Wes works on the intellectual history of early modern Europe. He is particularly interested in the interaction between religion and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His previous research has examined natural philosophy in the Reformed and Lutheran traditions and various metaphysical frameworks within Christianity. He is also interested in the history of technology and warfare.

Sally Cochrane (B.A., University of Chicago)
Sally is interested in visual information in science and medicine (anatomical illustrations, color ordering systems, and models) and the history of the science of perception. Before coming to Princeton she studied representational painting and drawing based on the nineteenth-century French Academic tradition at the Grand Central Atelier in New York City.

Yang Li (Ch. 李洋) (B.S., Peking University; M.S., University of California, Riverside)
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 antibiotics. Before discovering her passion in history, Yang conducted research in physical chemistry.

Jeremy Schneider (B.A., M.A., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Jeremy studies the thinkers of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the ways in which they investigated the natural world. In particular, he focuses on the work of the early Royal Society of London and how its members wove together speculative theory, astute observation and bookish knowledge to create scientific knowledge. He also has interests in intellectual history, philosophy and everything related to Einstein.

Michael McGovern (B.A., University of Chicago; M.Phil., University of Cambridge)
Mikey studies classification and quantification in the histories of the human sciences and technology in the twentieth century United States. His dissertation examines the use of statistical evidence of racial discrimination in the American legal system. He is also interested in the histories of genetics, information technology, the sciences of mind and brain, and populations as objects of knowledge.

Jenne O'Brien (B.A., Columbia University)
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.

Pallavi Podapati (B.A., University of Pennsylvania)
Pallavi is a historian of medicine, technology, disability and the body. Her dissertation examines the history of adaptive sports technologies in the Paralympic Games. Before starting graduate studies at Princeton, she served as an organizer in the Appalachian coalfields and as a researcher specializing in the history of occupational dust diseases.

David Robertson (B.A., University of Sydney; M.A., University of Sydney)
David studies the history of the mind sciences, anthropology, and colonialism. He interested in nineteenth and twentieth century constructions of “the primitive mind” and the nexus of anthropology and the mind sciences more generally. He wrote his M.A. thesis on the history of Australian ethnopsychiatry and its relationship to the assimilation of Aboriginal Australians in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Julia Stone (B.A., Barnard College)
Julia is interested in the relationship between printed texts, authorship, and scientific authority in the early modern period. She has a B.A. from Barnard College in Physics and French literature. Julia wrote her senior thesis on cookbooks in eighteenth-century France. 

Megan Baumhammer (B.A. (Hons.), M.Sci., University of Sydney)
Megan studies early modern natural philosophy and natural history, with a focus on the role of the imagination in the production and reception of knowledge. She is interested in optical instruments and technology, scientific images, visuality and visual culture, the history of the senses, colonial science, gender in the history of science, science and literature and science and art.

Richard Spiegel (B.A., McGill University; M.A., McGill University)
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 dissertation looks at the role of philosophical psychology and the language of attention in forming the cultural ideology of the educated middle-class in central Europe. He is published in the British Journal for the History of Science, and his work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion, and the Social Sciences Research Council, among other organizations. Richard holds a B.A. (First-Class Honors) and an M.A., both in history from McGill University, as well as an M.A. from Princeton University. In a previous life, Richard co-wrote an award-winning, feature-length documentary.

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Yael Geller (M.D., Tel-Aviv University; M.A., Tel-Aviv University)
Yael studies the history of psychiatry and medicine, with a focus on conceptual issues at the interface of psychiatry and philosophy. Her research centers on ethical aspects of the rise of biological psychiatry.

Cynthia Houng (B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University)
Cynthia studies science and culture in Europe and East Asia in the Early Modern era. To learn more about her research and interests, please visit Cynthia's website.

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