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SHC is an interdisciplinary program which brings the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences to bear on developments in science, technology, and medicine. SHC is Northwestern University's program in "science studies," a field which invites students and faculty to consider how science, medicine, and technology have become defining features of modern culture—in the United States and around the world.
- 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 who wish to apply through its cluster initiative in science studies or 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 weekly Klopsteg lecture series to hear visiting scholars.
For questions about the program please contact:
Program Director:
Ken Alder
University Hall, Room 025
k-alder@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
Jennifer Reardon
Sociology Department, UC Santa Cruz
"The Postgenomic Condition: Technoscience at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Imaginaries"
Monday, February 15, 2010, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
reception to follow
Look here for information about future Klopsteg talks.
SHC News
SHC welcomes several new scholars to campus this year!
- Héctor Carrillo has joined the Sociology and Gender Studies Departments as an Associate Professor. Prof. Carrillo studies sexuality, migration, and heath, with particular attention to Mexico and the U.S.
- Steven Epstein has joined the Sociology Department as the John Schaffer Professor in the Humanities. Prof. Epstein studies the politics of biomedical knowledge, with a focus on race, gender, and class. Epstein's book, Inclusion, in addition to its other honors, recently won the 2009 Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for the Social Study of Science.
- Grégoire Mallard has joined the Sociology Department as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Mallard studies the institutions of supra-national science, particularly in Europe.
- Dániel Margócsy is the current 2009-11 postdoctoral fellow; he will be teaching in the History Department. Dr. Margócsy studies the relations of science and commerce in early modern Europe, especially Holland.
- Francisco Portugal is visiting SHC this year, on leave from the Department of Psychology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Prof. Portugal studies the history of psychology.
- Kapil Raj is visiting SHC in February 2010 from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Prof. Raj studies colonial science with a particular interest in the Asian sub-continent.
Also, SHC's cluster program in science studies will be getting underway this year, along with its new doctoral colloquium; interested graduate students should contact Darcy Heuring.
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