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Prof. Evelynn Hammonds Addresses Federal Government's Censoring of US History

April 24, 2025

In her capacity as President of the History of Science Society, Prof. Evelynn Hammonds has outlined the stakes involved in President Donald Trump's executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," calling it an attack on America's...

Victor Seow to Receive the 2025 Sarton Prize

February 24, 2025

The Harvard Gazette acknowledges that The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named John L. Loeb Associate Professor Victor Seow as this year's recipient of the Sarton Prize for History of Science. In its announcement, the Academy lauds Victor's...

Latest Issue of SYNTHESIS Has Arrived!

February 05, 2025

Synthesis: The Undergraduate Research Journal has published its Winter 2025 issue. This season's journal features five scholarly articles written by undergraduates studying at institutions in three countries, focusing on topics such as the development of...

Examining the True Role of Human Female Biology in Sports Injury

December 12, 2024

HoS Professor Sarah Richardson and her fellow authors point out substantial interpretive bias via a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The Importance of Childhood Vaccinations Revisited

December 13, 2024

As federal management of America's healthcare system passes into new, decidedly skeptical hands, the NYTimes reminds readers about " Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines." Included in the review is the scholarship of HoS...

CHSI Exhibit "MEASURING DIFFERENCE" Reviewed in The Boston Globe

December 01, 2024

Measurement is at the heart of what science does, and difference defines life on this planet — human existence especially. So the interaction of measurement and difference is inescapable and often essential. It can also be put to dubious, even disturbing...

HoS PhD Candidate Gustave Lester Awarded the 2024 Ronald Rainger Prize

November 12, 2024

Gustave is being recognized for his recent article, “ Land, Fur, and Copper: The Union of Settler Colonialism and Industrial Capitalism in the Great Lakes Region, 1815-1842.” published in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 21...

HoS Professor Naomi Oreskes Awarded the 2024 Suppes Prize

November 13, 2024

Prof. Oreskes will receive the prize from the American Philosophical Society in recognition of her book Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean (University of Chicago Press 2021). The prize will be...

HoS Prof. Gabriela Soto Laveaga to Address Historic HSS Meeting in Mexico

November 07, 2024

The History of Science Society (HSS) is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a landmark event in Mérida, Yucatán, from November 7 to 10, 2024. For the first time in its history, the HSS Annual Meeting will be held in Latin America, featuring...

Toynbee Prize Foundation Roundtable Discusses Prof.Victor Seow's Latest Book

October 05, 2024

Three scholars from the fields of mining and energy were convened to discuss " Carbon Technocracy,": Mark Hendrickson, associate professor of History at UC San Diego, Trish Kahle, assistant professor of History at Georgetown University Qatar, and Victor...

New Book Profiles Roots of Feminist Science Studies, Including the Work of Prof. Evelynn Hammonds

October 01, 2024

In Our Science, Ourselves, author Christa Kuljian tells the origin story of feminist science studies by focusing on the life histories of six key figures—Ruth Hubbard, Rita Arditti, Evelyn Fox Keller, Evelynn Hammonds, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Banu...

Journal Dedicates Special Issue to the Work of Prof. Evelynn Hammonds

September 01, 2024

In the September 2024 issue of the journal differences, contributors unpack what Evelynn Hammond’s 1994 differences essay, “Black (W)holes,” has meant and continues to mean for queer black feminist knowledge production and academic subject formation...