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: History of the physical sciences; institutionalized efforts to promote public science literacy; the widespread use of mathematics and statistics and how numbers are popularly utilized in legal and social arenas; nineteenth- and twentieth-century acceptance and adoption of evolution; development of biophysics; the conscious use and role of applied science as legal precedent.
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.
Ki Won Han (BS, MA, Seoul National University)
Research interests: History of 19th and 20th century biology and oceanography.
Andrew Mamo (BA, MIT)
Research interests:Science and technology in 20th century United States. Postwar physics and development of computers.
Kalil Oldham (BA, Harvard University)
Research interests: The history of physics, Europe since 1786, and the history of modern philosophy. His dissertation is about physics and philosophy in late 19th-century Germany.
Doug O'Reagan (BA, University of Virginia)
Research interests: The history of modern physics, contrasting cultures
in the physical sciences, and the development and use of technologies
for scientific, military, and espionage functions.
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.
Daniel Ussishkin
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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.
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. Web page: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jeffwolf/.
Stephanie Young (BA, UC Berkeley)
Research interests: American science and national security in the cold war and program budgeting in federal administration. But I really just want to study Poland.
Students interested in affiliating with OHST should contact Diana Wear.
