Ellen Bales (BA, University of Chicago)
Research interests: U.S. science during the Cold War, history of risk and risk assessment in 20th-century America, regulatory science in the U.S. and Germany, history of the nuclear establishment in the U.S.

Tom Burnett (BA, Rice University)
Research interests: Natural history, deep time, fossil collecting, and the scientific exploration of South America. My broader interests include European intellectual history, 18th- and 19th-century Germany, and post-colonial Latin America.

Emily Hamilton (BA, Drew University)
Research interests: The development of mathematics education reform in 20th century America as compared to science education reform; the National Science Foundation and its efforts in mathematics and science education reform; rhetorical strategies used in framing debates on public understanding of science and mathematics; applications of quantitative and statistical methods. More info...

Alysia Han (BA, Princeton University; MD, Harvard Medical School)
Research interests: History of British and American colonialism, theories of addiction, history of child psychiatry in the US and UK.

Andrew Mamo (BA, MIT)
Research interests:Science and technology in 20th century United States. Postwar physics and development of computers.

Doug O'Reagan (BA, University of Virginia)
Research interests: Scientific and technological espionage in the 20th century; scientific communication. More info...

Daniel Robert (BS, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Research interests: The Industrial Revolution. Social history of railroads. Comparative industrialization of Britain and the US, especially in the textile industry. More info...

Matthew Sargent (BA, Dartmouth; MA, Georgetown)
Research interests: Science in Indonesia under the Dutch East India Company, early modern alchemy, the reception of non-Western artifacts in 17th century Europe, and the effects of corporate culture on scientific innovation.

James Skee
Research interests: History of technology and science in 19th and 20th Century America, particularly in California, urban cores and fringes. More info...

Teddy Varno (BS, Duke University)
Research interests: History of biology in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly evolution and genetics; history of agriculture, particularly plant and animal breeding; history of animals, particularly the domesticated type. My dissertation traces biological research on inbreeding from Darwin through the Evolutionary Synthesis. More info...

Jeff Wolf (BA, Princeton University)
Research interests: The histories of the human sciences- especially those concerning the mind and brain—and the biological sciences, primarily genetics and evolutionary biology. The political and cultural history of Germany often vies for his attention as well.

Stephanie Young (BA, UC Berkeley)
Research interests: Cold War America, decision-making technologies, national security policy, defense budgeting, scientific management, political history More info...

Students interested in affiliating with OHST should contact Diana Wear.