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Victor Seow to Receive the 2025 Sarton Prize

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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...

FAS Dean Awards Assistant Professor Victor Seow With Project Grant

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Victor Seow has been awarded a grant from the Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for his project, "The Human Factor: Industrial Psychology in Modern China." Congratulations to Victor for this vote of confidence in his innovative scholarship...

Victor Seow Awarded the 2023 John Whitney Hall Book Prize

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Congratulations to HoS Assistant Professor Victor Seow for having been awarded the 29th Annual John Whitney Hall Book Prize. The prize is given for Victor's new book Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press) by...

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

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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...

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

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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...

Asst. Professor Victor Seow Receives GSAS Mentoring Award

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History of Science Assistant Professor Victor Seow has been selected by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Student Council to receive the Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Mentorship award this year. Heartfelt kudos to Victor for this...

Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

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A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.

The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early...

Victor Seow

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Areas of Research: History of Science and Technology in East Asia

My name is Victor Seow (pronounced “meow” with an “s”), and I am a historian of science, technology, and industry, specializing in China and Japan in their global contexts and in histories...

HISTSCI 2812: China in the History of Science and Technology

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With Professor Victor Seow on Monday at 9:00-11:45 am This graduate seminar has been designed to prepare students to undertake independent research in the history of science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present. To that...

HoS Book Panel: Victor Seow

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Assistant Professor of the History of Science Professor Seow will introduce his new book, " Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia ," followed by a discussion with Megan A. Black (MIT), Conevery Bolton Valencius (Boston College), and...

HISTSCI 101: Making the World: An Introduction to the History of Technology

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How do people use technologies to transform the world, and how are we transformed in the process? Who—or what—drives technological innovation? How does technology relate to nature, to art, to science? What might machines tell us about our humanity? In...

History of Science Scholars Honored With 2022 Cabot Fellowships

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Professor of the History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Sarah Richardson, and History of Science Asst. Professor Victor Seow, have both been named Cabot Fellows for their new books! The fellowship is an annual award given in...