Previous Visiting Scholars and Post-Docs



Michael Adamson
  Michael Adamson was here from UC Santa Barbara, October 2000 to May 2002.
Area of research: The southern California costal oil industry.

S.M. Amadae
  S.M. Amadae was here as an independent scholar from Berkeley, CA, February 2000 to June 2006.
Area of research: The history and philosophy of political economy.

Åsa Andersson
  Åsa Andersson was here from Lund University, Sweden, September 2004 to June 2006.
Area of research: Social ontology.

Mitchell Ash
  Mitchell Ash was here from the University of Vienna, Austria, February 2004 to July 2004.
Area of research:

Christian Carletti
  Christian Carletti was here from the Universita degli Studi Bari, Italy, September 2004 to June 2005.
Area of research:

Olivier Darrigol
  Olivier Darrigol was here from CNRS, Paris, France, June 2002 to October 2002.
Area of research: History of nineteenth and twentieth century physics (electrodynamics, hydrodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum physics).

Moon Duchin
  Moon Duchin, from the University of Chicago, was here from September 2004 to June 2005.
Areas of research: Epistemology of mathematics; feminist science studies; history and sociology of scientific knowledge.

Zaiqing Fang
  Zaiqing Fang, from the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, was here from July 2006 to August 2006.
Areas of research: Physics in twentieth-century Germany.

Toshihike Kamada
  Toshihike Kamada was here from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, March 2003 to March 2004.
Area of research: Science and technology for culture.

Jochen Kirchhoff
  Jochen Kirchhoff was here from the Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, Germany, April 2001 to July 2001.
Area of research: Patterns of science policy in comparative perspective: German and American experiences in 20th century science policy.

Monika Kurath
  Monika Kurath was here from the ETH Zurich University of St. Gallen, Switerland, November 2001 to April 2002.
Area of research: Background to the human biotechnology debate: comparsion between the United States and Switerland.

Li Jianhui
  Li Jianhui, from Beijing Normal University, China, was here from July 2005 to October 2005.
Area of Research: History, philosophy, and social studies of biology. His homepage can be viewed here.

Diana Long
  Diana Long was here from the University of Southern Maine, September 2000 to July 2001.
Area of research: The women of the Institute of Experimental Biology, Berkeley 1915-1940.

Dimitrios Papadopoulos
  Dimitrios Papadopoulos was here from the Free University of Berlin, September 2001 to August 2002.
Area of research: The meaning of sociohistorical science studies for developmental psychology.

Joanna Ploeger
  Joanna Ploeger was here from the University of Iowa and California State University, Stanislaus, June 2004 to June 2006. She passed away in July 2006.
Area of research: Rhetoric of science and technology, the history of the national labs, and public communication about science.

Jessica Riskin
  Jessica Riskin was here from MIT, August 1999 to September 2001.
Area of research: Eighteenth-century mechanical simulations of living creatures and physiological systems.

Rudolf Seising
  Rudolf Seising was here from the Universität der Bundeswehr, München, Germany, June 2001 to July 2001.
Area of research: History of fuzzy logic and fuzzy technology.

Kazumi Shindo
  Kazumi Shindo, from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, was here from March 2004 to March 2005.
Area of research: History of US energy policy.

John Vardalas
  John Vardalas was here as an independent scholar from Modesto, CA, here from December 2001 to December 2002.
Area of research: History of the U.S. computer industry.

Richard von Mayrhauser
  Richard von Mayrhauser, an independent scholar from Burlingame, CA, was here from March 2002 to March 2004.
Area of research: Evolving perspectives on the history of psychology.

Zheng Huanbin
  Zheng Huanbin was here from the International Technology and Economy Institute, China, August 2000 to August 2001.
Area of research: Policy and management of science and technology, technology transfer and innovation.

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