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SHC is Northwestern University's program in "science studies," an interdisciplinary field that invites students and faculty to consider how science, medicine, and technology have become defining features of modern culture. SHC brings the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences to bear on developments in science, technology, and medicine.
• SHC offers undergraduates an adjunct major and minor field, where they may confront the impact of science, medicine, and technology on society—and on their own lives.
• SHC welcomes graduate students, including applicants to its cluster initiative in science studies as well as current students who wish to affiliate with the program.
• SHC offers two concurrent two-year postdoctoral fellowships in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine.
• And SHC invites faculty and students to attend the Klopsteg lecture series to hear visiting scholars.
For questions about the program please contact:
Program Director:
Steven Epstein
University Hall, Room 025
s-epstein@northwestern.edu
Program Administrator:
Natasha Dennison
Science in Human Culture
University Hall, Room 020
Northwestern University
1897 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208-2245
tel: 847-491-3525
fax: 847-467-2733
shc-program@northwestern.edu
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Upcoming Events
Look here for information about future Klopsteg talks.
SHC News
- Welcome back to Professors Ken Alder, Chas Camic, Gary Fine, and Claudia Swan, who have returned from research leaves.
- Congratulations to Jennifer Light, who will be spending 2011-12 as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and to Grégoire Mallard, who will be in residence at the European University Institute in Florence. Carol Heimer will also be on leave this year, and we will miss Scott Curtis, who will be teaching at Northwestern University in Qatar for the next two years.
- We are very proud of Ken Alder, who received the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Teaching Excellence for 2010-2011 from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Alder will be teaching a new course on "Law and Science" in the Winter quarter.
- Pablo Boczkowski received the Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Communication and Information for his book, News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance. Congratulations, Pablo!
- Welcome to our three arriving Cluster Fellows in the interdisciplinary graduate cluster in Science Studies: Kevin Baker (History), Bonnie Ernst (History), and Alka Menon (Sociology).
- Congratulations to our departing doctoral students who recently defended their dissertations: Will Cavert is taking up a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge. Genevieve Carlton, Meghan Roberts, and Andy Wehrman are taking up tenure-track faculty positions at the University of Louisville, Bowdoin College, and Marietta College, respectively. Lynn Gazley is now a clinical research associate at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
- Congratulations to our graduate student Cluster Fellows and Affiliates for their many recent accomplishments:
- Lindsay Fullerton (Media, Technology, and Society) won an award for Top Student Paper from the National Communication Association for “Web 2.0: Framing a Technological Movement.”
- Ann Koenig (History) was awarded both the Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship and the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship for work on her dissertation “Madness and Melancholia: Society and Medicine in Late Medieval Germany.”
- Jessica Koski (Sociology) won the Best Paper Award at the STGlobal Consortium Conference for “Human Rights and the Warming World: How Does Introducing Social Science into the Climate Debate Impact Dominant Conceptions of Climate Change?”
- An article by Ignacio Siles (Media, Technology, and Society) “From online filter to Web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs,” is forthcoming in Social Studies of Science.
- Maureen Warren (Art History) will be conducting research in the Netherlands for two years with support from the Kress Institutional Fellowship.
- Congratulations to the two SHC Undergraduate Paper Prize winners for 2011: Marissa Konstadt, for her honors thesis (adviser: Scott Curtis), “H.G. Wells and the Popularization of the Scientific Method through Fiction,” and Benjamin Reisman for his essay “Risks and Benefits: History and Policy Implications of FDA Reform, 1906-2010.”
- Congratulations to SHC undergraduate major Emily Gao, who won both the Katherine L. Krieghbaum scholarship and an undergraduate research grant to pursue work related to her senior honors thesis in SHC (adviser: Kearsley Stewart), entitled “Race, Disability, and Health: Using Photovoice to Explore the Health Perceptions of Asian Americans with Visually Identifiable Disabilities.”
- Also writing an honors thesis this year is Cari Romm, whose topic is “Reflections of Identity Transformation in Narratives of the Abortion Experience” (adviser: Steve Epstein).
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Selected faculty publications
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