Research interests: space history, history of aviation and aerospace technology; history of aerial and space archeology, Cold War, modern American history
Research Interests: History of natural history; colonialism in the Americas; collecting expeditions; paleontology and fossil hunting; interactions between scientists and indigenous people; subterranean spaces; deep time; animals and temporality.
(1914 - 2003) Victor S. Thomas History of Science Professor, Emeritus
I. Bernhard Cohen was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus at Harvard at the time of his death, June 20, 2003. He was 89...
Research Interests: History of science, technology, and engineering; public infrastructure and technology; state sponsorship of research and design; theory and epistemology of applied sciences; science-fiction and cultural acceptance of scientific and technological advance; technological fear; infrastructure studies; development studies; environmental justice; rural studies.
Research Interests:History of technology; East Asian studies; international science policy; postcolonial science studies; STS; transnational knowledge flows; post-secondary STEM education policy.
Research Interests: Environmental history; philosophy of science and technology; representation in the sciences; media studies; visual and material culture; design history. ... Read more about Samira Daneshvar