Current Visiting Scholars and Post-Docs

Patrick Coffey
  Patrick Coffey, an independent scholar from Berkeley, CA, is here from December 1, 2005 to December 1, 2009.
Area of Research: A biography of Gilbert Newton Lewis, one of America's greatest chemists, who came to UCB in 1912 as Dean of the College of Chemistry and died in his laboratory in 1946.

Nahum Chandler
  Originally from Japan, Nahum Chandler lives and works in Tokyo, and is here from April 2008 to April 2009
Area of Research: History of the human sciences.

Erica Dirkse
  Erica Dirkse, a graduate student from the University of Minnesota, is here from June 2004 to Aug 2009.
Areas of Research: History of the earth sciences, 18th and 19th centuries, history of economic thought/economic history, Europe (concentration: German-speaking regions and Russia).

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
  Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, an independent scholar from Oakland, CA, is here from September 2002 to September 2009.
Area of Research: Early U.S. cabinets and museums, collection formation and the construction of racialized identities.

Elihu Gerson
  Elihu Gerson, from the Tremont Research Institute, is here from January 2007 to December 2010.
Areas of Research: Social organization of scientific knowledge, especially evolutionary biology and natural history.

Doug Giancoli
  Doug Giancoli, an independent scholar from Berkeley, CA, resides in Italy
and travels to Berkeley. He has an appointment through December 2010.
Area of Research: Writes physics textbooks and his current project is a
book, "Science as Myth."

Andrea Grignolio
  Andrea Grignolio, Ph.D. in history of science and research fellow at C.I.G. Interdepartmental Center 'L. Galvani' at University of Bologna, has been visiting scholar during the summer 2009.
Area of Research: History of biomedical disciplines in twentieth-century western society, with special regard to immunology.

Shizue Hinokawa
  Shizue Hinokawa is here from March 2009 to March 2010
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Marita Hübner
  Marita Hübner is here, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, from May 2007 to December 2010.
Area of Research: Parallels and intersections between the historical and natural sciences in learned societies in the eighteenth century; science and religion; Jean André Deluc (1727-1817).
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Merav Katz-Kimchi
  Merav Katz-Kimchi, from Bar Ilan University, Israel, is here from August 2007 to August 2012.
Area of Research: Social and cultural history of communication
technologies, public communication of science and technology,
representations of science in popular culture.

Sungeen Kim
  Sungeen Kim, from Gwangjushi, South Korea is here from May 2008 to November 2009.
Area of Research: News about high technology, bioethics, science culture, relationship of science and sosciety, popularization in science

Monica Libell
  Monica Libell, originally from Sweden, is here from June 2007 to June 2010.
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Natalia Lozovsky
 

Natalia Lozovsky, a local independent scholar, is here from February 2006 to February 2011.
Area of Research: Medieval geo-ethnography, Sciences in medieval education.
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Brendan Matz
  Brendan Matz is a visiting student researcher here from February 2009 to May 2009
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Takashi Nishiyama
  Takashi Nishiyama, from MEXT of the Japanese Government, is here from March 2008 to March 2009.
Area of Research: The stakeholder involvement in decision-making process of S&T policy, and the history of nuclear energy policy and safeguards

Lisa Onaga
  Lisa Onaga is a visiting student researcher here from March 2009 to October 2009.
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Joshua Roebke
 

Joshua Roebke, from San Francisco, CA, is here from January 2009 to January 2011
Area of Research: Physics in the 20th Century, especially particle physics and quantum physics in their cultural contexts. Science in the media, arts, literature, and popular culture.
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Richard Rocco
 

Richard M. Rocco is an Associate Professor (Pharmacology) from Samuel Merritt University and is here from August 2008 to August 2009.
Area of Research: The development of clinical laboratory science and its
impact on the practice of medicine in the 20th century.


Tian Song
  Tian Song is here from January 2009 to March 2009
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William Storage
  William Storage, a local independent scholar, is here from September 2006 to August 2010.
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Mary Sunderland
  Mary Sunderland is here from January 2009 to December 2010 on a grant
sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Area of Research: History of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the
University of California, Berkeley; History of Biology; History of
Embryology