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PEOPLE
 Ken
Alder, History, SHC Director
k-alder@northwestern.edu
Ken Alder (Ph.D., Harvard) is professor of history. Alder's first
book examined the history of science during the French Enlightenment
and Revolution. Engineering the Revolution was published
by Princeton University Press in 1997, and won the 1998 Dexter Prize
as the outstanding book in the field of the history of science.
His second book, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey
and Hidden Error that Transformed the World, was published by
The Free Press (New York) in 2002, and is being translated into
13 languages. It won the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society, the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science, and was a co-winner of the Kagan Prize of the The Historical Society. His most recent book is The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession, published by The Free Press (New York) in 2007. For this work, he has garnered fellowships
from the National Institute for the Humanities, the National Science
Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation.
 Pablo J. Boczkowski, Communication Studies
pjb9@northwestern.edu
Pablo J. Boczkowski (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell
University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication
Studies. Between 2001 and 2005, he was Cecil and Ida Green Career
Development Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT.
His research program examines the transformation of print culture
in the digital age. He pursues this program through field studies
of how the construction and use of digital media technologies affect
work practices, communication processes, and interaction with consumers,
focusing on organizations and occupations that have traditionally
been associated with print media. Boczkowski is the author of Digitizing
the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (MIT Press, 2004), which
is winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award of the International
Communication Association and co-winner of the 2004 Outstanding
Book Award of the National Communication Association's Organizational
Communication Division. He is currently undertaking two projects.
The first one looks at transformations in the library profession
that have arisen as librarians have attempted to extend their mission
of cultural custody-capturing, preserving and making available the
cultural record of a community-in the digital domain. The second
one analyzes changes in news organizations and journalistic routines
that have emerged as a result of making online news for a relatively
new time and space of news consumption: people who access the news
online during their work day and at their work places.
 Francesca Bordogna, History
f-bordogna@northwestern.edu
Francesca Bordogna (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is interested
in the history of psychology, psychiatry, and the human sciences
more generally. She is completing the book manuscript "William
James at the Boundaries," which examines the ways in which
James construed the relationship between philosophy and the newly
emerging human and behavioral sciences. She is also working on the
history of psychical research in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Her next project deals with the multiple strategies that American
psychologists adopted to reconfigure their discipline and reposition
it in the scientific and academic arena from the Progressive era
until World War II.
 Charles Camic, Sociology
c-camic@northwestern.edu
Charles Camic (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Areas of interest include: classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of ideas/knowledge; sociology of science; history of sociology and social thought; historical sociology. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Camic was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recent years, his work has centered on examining the social processes by which the social sciences took shape and developed in the United States in the period from 1880 to 1940. He is current writing on book on the social origins of Thorstein Veblen's heterodox economics. He has recently edited (with Philip Gorski and David M. Trubek) Max Weber's Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (2005).
 Scott Curtis, RTVF
scurtis@northwestern.edu
Scott Curtis, Radio/TV/Film (Ph.D., Iowa): studies scientific and
medical cinema, specifically how scientists and physicians use moving
images in their research, how the moving image is constructed as
legitimate evidence, and how the scientific moving image articulates
particular conceptions of time, space, and the human body.
 Daniel Garrison, Classics
d-garrison@northwestern.edu
Daniel H. Garrison, Professor of Classics, is translating Andreas
Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555) and writing a
commentary with Malcolm Hast of the Medical School. <http://vesalius.northwestern.edu/> His recent publications include Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece
(Oklahoma, 2000), and he teaches a course in Early European Medicine
on medical science and culture from Homer to Harvey.
Chris Herbert, English
c-herbert@northwestern.edu
Chris Herbert is professor of English. He is a Victorianist whose
recent research has had a strong science-in-culture orientation.
An earlier book entitled Culture and Anomie dealt with the nineteenth-century
emergence of the anthropological concept of "culture," and his recently-published book, Victorian Relativity, seeks to
trace the nineteenth-century history of relativistic thinking across
a fairly broad spectrum of sciences, focussing, however, on the
Victorian discourse of physics.
 Philip Hockberger, Physiology
p-hockberger@northwestern.edu
Philip Hockberger (Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Illinois) is Associate Professor of Physiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. He has published more than 40 scientific papers and book chapters on topics related to membrane biophysics, cell migration, and photobiology. He has been the lead author on papers published in several prestigious scientific journals including Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His current research is focused on the use of advanced imaging techniques for investigating the migratory behavior of neural stem cells, and the electrical properties of mitochondrial membranes in normal and abnormal neurons. Besides his research endeavors, he has long-standing interests in the philosophy of science and how research in the biomedical sciences impacts society. He has given more than 150 presentations to the public over the past 10 years aimed at fostering communication between scientists and society.
 Jennifer Light, Communication Studies
light@northwestern.edu
Jennifer Light teaches courses on the history
and sociology of information and communication technologies. Her
recent writings include several studies of inequality in the information
society, from the digital divide to the role of telecommuting and
workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Currently she is preparing a book to be published by Johns Hopkins
University Press linking the organizational history of American
cities with the techniques and values of the Cold War.
Larry Lipking, English
 Joel Mokyr, History/Economics
j-mokyr@northwestern.edu
Joel Mokyr (PhD Yale, 1974), the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts
and Sciences, holds a joint appointment in economics and history.
He is particularly interested in the economic history of technology
and population, but considers himself a general-purpose economic
historian. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History, he
is currently the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic
History and a book series published by Princeton University Press.
Among his publications are The Lever of Riches (1990) and The British
Industrial Revolution (1993, second, revised edition, 1998). He
has previously worked on the Irish Famine, nineteenth-century industrialization
on the European Continent, and the economic effects of the Napoleonic
Wars. His Neither Fluke Nor Necessity: an Evolutionary Approach
to the Economic History of Technology will be published by Princeton
University Press.
http://www.faculty.econ.northwestern.edu/faculty/mokyr/
 Helmut Müller-Sievers, German, Comp. Lit.
hms@northwestern.edu
Helmut Müller-Sievers (MA in German and Latin Literature, FU Berlin 1985, Ph.D. in German and the Humanities, Stanford 1990) is Professor of German and Classics, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies. Müller-Sievers studies the relationship between the biological sciences and intellectual and cultural change, especially through the reading of literature and philosophy. His work is concerned with the interrelations of literature, science, philosophy, and the history of philology. He is the author of Epigenesis. Naturphilosophie im Sprachdenken Wilhelm von Humboldts. (Paderborn: Schoeningh 1994), Self-Generation. Biology, Literature, Philosophy around 1800. (Stanford: Stanford University Press 1997), and Desorientierung. Anatomie und Dichtung bei Georg Büchner (Göttingen: Wallstein 2003).
 Neena Schwartz, Neurobiology
n-schwartz@northwestern.edu
Neena Schwartz (Ph.D. Northwestern Medical School) is an Emerita
Professor in Neurobiology. Her research is on the regulation of
the reproductive cycle in mammals by environmental factors such
as light-dark cycles, proximity of conspecifics and stress. She
founded the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern, a bicampus
research and training center that currently includes 38 faculty
members from 12 departments. She was the first President of the
Association for Women in Science, and has a continuing interest
in the impact of increasing diversity of participants on practice
and interpretation within the sciences. In 2002 she received the
Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
 Jim Schwoch, Communication Studies
j-schwoch@northwestern.edu
James Schwoch is associate professor in the Center for International
and Comparative Studies, and the Department of Communication Studies.
He works on international studies and diplomacy, media history,
telecommunication and IT (Information Technology) policy, and research
methodologies. He has published 3 books and about 40 articles and
reviews, and his work has been supported by, among others, the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (in residence 1997-98),
the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Schwoch
has also (in 1994 and 1996) been a visiting professor in Finland.
He is currently working on a study of American diplomacy regarding
telecommunications, information technology, and television during
the Cold War, and also working on a project to develop new methodological
approaches for benchmarking IT infrastructures in industrializing
nations and regions of the world.
 Mark Sheldon, Medicine/Philosophy
mps747@northwestern.edu
Mark Sheldon (Philosophy), is interested in the point at which the
interests of children, the prerogatives of parents, and the obligations
of the state come into tension. Specifically, he has published papers
on the forced transfusion of Jehovah's Witness children and the
use of children as organ donors. He is currently a member of the
American Philosophical Assciation's Committee on Philosophy and
Medicine, and co-editor of the APA's Newsletter on Philosophy and
Medicine.
Jane Smith, History
j-smith5@northwestern.edu
Jane S. Smith's work focuses on the intersection of medicine, social
history, and public attitudes toward health and community, primarily
in twentieth century United States. She teaches the history of public
health and has written on polio epidemics, childhood vaccination
issues, and the changing goals of care for children with chronic
disabilities.
 Kearsley
Stewart, Anthropology
kstewart@northwestern.edu
Kearsley A. Stewart (Ph.D., Florida) is lecturer in anthropology.
She is a medical anthropologist who conducts research in the USA
and Africa. At Northwestern she teaches courses on HIV/AIDS, medical
anthropology, gender and health, bioethics, epidemiology, physician-patient
interaction, and medical education. Currently she is collaborating
with physicians at Cook County Hospital on a study of low birth
weights for African-born women who deliver in the USA. She is also
preparing a study of ethical issues related to biomedical and genetic
research in Africa. Her website is:
http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/anthropology/stewart
 Claudia E. Swan, Art History
c-swan@northwestern.edu
Claudia Swan (Department of Art History) studies the relations between
early modern natural history and scientific empiricism and art,
with a special emphasis on Netherlandish visual culture 1550-1700.
She has published The Clutius Botanical Watercolors (1998), a collection
of late 16th-century watercolors used in the instruction of medicine
at Leiden University; her Making Nature. Art, Science, and Witchcraft
in the Netherlands ca. 1600 is forthcoming (Cambridge University
Press). She has also published on 17th-century Dutch collecting,
classification, print culture, bookkeeping, and theories of the
imagination, and is a Director of Northwestern's Program in the
Study of Imagination.
 Sandy Zabell, Statistics and mathematics
s-zabell@northwestern.edu
Sandy Zabell (Ph.D., 1974, Harvard) is professor of mathematics
and statistics. His principal research interests center on mathematical
probability and Bayesian statistics, as well as the history, philosophical
foundations, and legal applications of probability and statistics.
His primary applied interests are in the areas of forensic science.
He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics.
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