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Dr. Erik Baker Reviews Books on Work in Western Culture

May 02, 2024

In "Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?" ( The New Yorker Magazine, May 1, 2024), HoS Lecturer Erik Baker considers several books that in turn consider the evolving nature of work, and its place in our lives.

NYTimes Reviews New Book by HoS Alumna Antonia Hylton

February 21, 2024

Journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds in her new book, "Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum." NYTimes.com, 01/23/2024 Antonia graduated magna cum...

Richardson to Receive 2024 Adele E. Clarke Book Award

February 13, 2024

Professor Sarah Richardson's recent book, The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects, has been named this year's recipient of the Adele E. Clarke Book Award. Each year since 2015, the ReproNetwork, an interdisciplinary group of...

HS Prof. Naomi Oreskes Honored by TIME Magazine!

November 17, 2023

Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes has been named one of TIME magazine’s top 100 climate leaders. The TIME100 Climate issue will hit newsstands in print on Friday, November 24. Autographs will doubtless be available upon...

History of Science Concentrator Wins Rhodes Scholarship for 2024

November 14, 2023

Harvard College Senior Lucy Tu is among 10 students from Harvard headed to Oxford University next year! A History of Science and Sociology major from Omaha, Nebraska, Tu is also a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Kennedy...

History of Science Concentrator Receives Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications

November 02, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has named Harvard Senior Simar Bajaj one of six recipients of Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. Hearty congratulations and best wishes to this burgeoning...

Sarah Richardson Named the Aramont Professor of History of Science

October 02, 2023

Cheers and congratulations to friend and colleague Sarah Richardson recently named Aramont Professor of History of Science. Her ascension to this named professorship is a most fitting recognition of her innovative work in sexuality and gender studies.

Professor Everett Mendelsohn, History of Science Innovator, Dies at 91.

June 20, 2023

Everett Mendelsohn received his PhD from Harvard's Department of the History of Science in 1960, and went on to become a professor shortly thereafter. He spent several decades teaching and mentoring students and other scholars in the field. Throughout his...

HoS Alumnus & Lecturer Dr. Erik Baker Awarded the 2023 Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize!

June 07, 2023

"The sweep and impact of the study (Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise & the Reinvention of the American Work Ethic) are such that Baker not only redefines but at times simply explodes the categories of manager, bureaucrat, and conspicuous consumption...

Asst. Prof. Victor Seow, has been awarded the 2023 Michael H. Hunt Prize

June 23, 2023

HoS Asst. Prof. Victor Seow has been awarded the 2023 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History by The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)! Victor's " Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia," published last...

Prof. Naomi Oreskes Testifies Before the U.S. Senate: "Their lies have cost lives."

June 21, 2023

In testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, Prof. Naomi Oreskes outlined how the corrupt and self-serving fossil fuel industry has lied for years about the true nature of the Earth's current climate change catastrophe. https://twitter.com...

Owen Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy and History of Science, Dies at 93.

June 11, 2023

Honoring our esteemed friend and colleague, the late Owen Gingrich, Professor of Astronomy and History of Science, Emeritus. We wish every consolation to his wife and family, and to his many students and friends. NYTimes. 6/11/2023 Astronomer Owen...