Science in Human Culture at Northwestern University

FACULTY

Ken Alder* Pablo J. Boczkowski Charles Camic* Héctor Carrillo Jeannette Colyvas* Scott Curtis Penelope Deutscher Steven Epstein* Wendy Espeland Gary Fine Daniel Garrison Eszter Hargittai Carol A. Heimer Chris Herbert Philip Hockberger Jennifer Light Lawrence Lipking Grégoire Mallard Joel Mokyr Jim Schwoch Mark Sheldon Jane Smith Jacqueline Stevens Kearsley Stewart Claudia Swan* Helen Tilley* Sandy Zabell *Members of the Advisory Committee for SHC and the Science Studies Graduate Cluster
		Ken Alder, History, Director of Science in Human Culture k-alder@northwestern.edu Ken Alder (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard) is Professor of History and Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities. He studies the history of science and technology in the context of social and political change. His first book Engineering the Revolution: Army and Enlightenment in France (Princeton, 1997) won the 1998 Dexter Prize from the Society of the History of Technology. His second book, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002) examined the origins of the metric system in Revolutionary France. It has been translated into 13 languages and won several “best book” prizes. His most recent book, The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession (The Free Press, 2007) turned to the fraught relation between truth and justice in the United States. His current project traces the history of the forensic sciences from the Renaissance to genomics so as to explore the shifting relationship between identification and identity. For this work he has been granted fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has served on the executive council of the History of Science Society and the Society for the History of Technology.
		Pablo J. Boczkowski, Communication Studies pjb9@northwestern.edu Pablo J. Boczkowski (Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and, starting in fall 2011, Director of the Program in Media, Technology and Society. He is the author of the award-winning books, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (MIT Press, 2004) and News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and twenty-five papers and over fifty conference presentations. He is currently working on three book projects. The first, joint with Eugenia Mitchelstein, analyzes the divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers in North America, Latin America and Western Europe, and reflects on the implications of this divergence for the future of media and democracy. The second is an ethnographic and historical study of the demise of print newspapers in the United States, France and Argentina as a window into larger dynamics of institutional crisis. The third, in collaboration with Tarleton Gillespie and Kirsten Foot, is an edited volume on the linkages between the fields of communication and science and technology studies. For more information: http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/boczkowski/index.php.

		Charles Camic, Sociology c-camic@northwestern.edu Charles Camic (Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago) is John Evans Professor of Sociology and studies classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of ideas/knowledge, sociology of science, history of sociology and social thought, and 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).
		Héctor Carrillo, Sociology/Gender Studies hector@northwestern.edu Héctor Carrillo (Ph.D., Public Health, Berkeley) is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Gender Studies Program. He is interested generally in issues of health, biomedicine, and sexuality for Mexican and Latino/a immigrant populations. He is the author of The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association. He currently investigates the intersections of sexuality, migration, and heath among Mexican gay and bisexual men who have relocated to California. In collaboration with co-investigators in Mexico, Dr. Carrillo is also investigating the meanings associated with adult male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy among Mexican immigrant men and their female and male sexual partners. Dr. Carrillo has recently initiated a new study, in collaboration with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, of the influence of spatial mobility on late testing and access to medical and HIV prevention services among Latino/a migrants in California. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, among other agencies.
		Jeannette Colyvas, Human Development and Social Policy j-colyvas@northwestern.edu Jeannette Colyvas (Ph.D., Education, Stanford) is assistant professor of learning and organizational change at the School of Education and Social Policy. Her current research addresses university-industry relations, scientist collaboration networks, and the development and commercialization of academic research, particularly with respect to the biotech industry. She is interested in organizations and entrepreneurship, comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing, and the study of networks. Professor Colyvas teaches the course Tools for Organizational Analysis at Northwestern and while at Stanford co-taught graduate courses on the nonprofit sector with Professor Walter W. Powell. Her published work has appeared in the journals Management Science and Research in Organizational Behavior.
		Scott Curtis, RTVF scurtis@northwestern.edu Scott Curtis (Ph.D., Film Studies, Iowa) is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. He 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. His work on science and cinema has appeared in Science in Context, Zeitschrift fūr Medienwissenschaft, and other journals and anthologies, and he has organized symposia on the topic at Northwestern University and Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Professor Curtis will be teaching at the NU campus in Qatar for 2011-13.
		Penelope Deutscher, Philosophy p-deutscher@northwestern.edu Penelope Deutscher (Ph.D., Philosophy, New South Wales) is Professor of Philosophy and specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender. Other areas of special interest include theories of genealogy and biopolitics (Nietzsche, Foucault, Agamben). Her main publications include Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997); A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell, 2002), How to Read Derrida (Granta/Norton, 2006), and The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge, 2008).
		Steven Epstein, Sociology s-epstein@northwestern.edu Steven Epstein (Ph.D., Sociology, Berkeley) is the John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Sociology. He studies the contested production of knowledge, especially biomedical knowledge, with an emphasis on the interplay of social movements, experts, and health institutions, and with a focus on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (California, 1996) and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (Chicago, 2007), and he is a co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (Johns Hopkins, 2010). Epstein serves on the editorial board of the journal Social Studies of Science, and he has served on the council of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
		Wendy Espeland, Sociology wne741@northwestern.edu Wendy Espeland (Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Sociology. She works in the areas of organizations, culture, and law. Her book, The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality and Identity in the American Southwest (Chicago, 1998) was awarded the Best Book Prize by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, the Rachel Carson Award from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration. She is currently writing a book about the effects of commensuration, the process of translating qualities into quantities. In it she investigates how media rankings have influenced higher education, how efforts to measure homosexuality have shaped gay and lesbian politics, and the commensurative practices necessary in order to transform air pollution into a commodity that is traded on futures markets.
		Gary Fine, Sociology g-fine@northwestern.edu Gary Fine (Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard), Professor of Sociology, studies social psychology, sociology of culture, sociology of science, qualitative sociology, social theory, and collective behavior. His current research has three distinct streams. As an ethnographer, he is currently examining the multiple social worlds of chess as a leisure and competitive activity, examining the role of technological change and changes in global-political politics (e.g., the breakup of the Soviet Union) on chess as a community. His most recent publication is Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the Culture of Prediction (Chicago, 2007). Second, he is interested in the development of reputations of individuals with “difficult reputations” by means of reputational entrepreneurs, work published in Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept and Controversial (Chicago, 2001). His current research on reputations deals with reputations and memories of the American left and right during the 1935-1955 period, including McCarthy era and the way that Adolf Hitler is remembered in the United States. His final stream of research involves the interpretation of rumor and contemporary legend, particularly political and economic rumors. His most recent book in this area is Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America (California, 2001).
		Daniel Garrison, Classics d-garrison@northwestern.edu Daniel H. Garrison, Professor Emeritus of Classics, has written an annotated translation on Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555) with Malcolm Hast of the Medical School, to be published in 2012 by Karger Publishers of Basel. He is currently finishing an annotated translation of Vesalius' Epistle on the China Root (1546), which is chiefly a defense of his scientific method in anatomy. His recent publications include Sexual Culture on Ancient Greece (Oklahoma, 2000), and he has taught a course on Early European Medicine from Homer to Harvey. His core interest is in medical humanities.
		Eszter Hargittai, Communication Studies Eszter Hargittai (Ph.D. Sociology, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She is also Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society where she spent the 2008-09 academic year in residence. Previously, she was a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on the social and policy implications of digital media especially as applied to questions of inequality with a particular interest in how differences in people's Web-use skills influence what they do online. She has published over 60 papers and has given over 120 invited presentations and over 70 conference talks on these topics across the globe. She is editor of Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have (University of Michigan Press 2009). Her work has received awards from several professional organizations including the International Communication Association's Young Scholar Award. For more information, see eszter.com and webuse.org.
		Carol A. Heimer, Sociology On leave 2011-12 c-heimer@northwestern.edu Carol A. Heimer (Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago) is Professor of Sociology and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action), organization theory (Organization Theory and Project Management, co-authored with Stinchcombe), the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For the Sake of the Children, co-authored with Staffen, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching, she usually teaches courses on law, medicine, and qualitative methods, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience. Heimer is currently writing a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine. The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand.
		Chris Herbert, English c-herbert@northwestern.edu Chris Herbert (Ph.D., English, Yale) is professor of English and Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities. He is a Victorianist whose recent research has had a strong science-in-culture orientation. His recently published book, Victorian Relativity Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (Chicago, 2001) seeks to trace the nineteenth-century history of relativistic thinking across a fairly broad spectrum of sciences, focussing 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 and Director of Core Facilities at Northwestern University. He has published more than 50 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 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 electro-optical properties of mitochondria in normal and abnormal neurons underlying neurodegeneration. 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 15 years aimed at fostering communication between scientists and society. He and Dr. Richard Miller co-teach an annual graduate course, Science & Society, that explores the intersection of these topics. They also lead an annual bioethics seminar for the Chicago Graduate Student Association, and serve as faculty mentors for the NU Science Policy Initiative (SPiN).
		Jennifer Light, Communication Studies On leave 2011-12 light@northwestern.edu Jennifer S. Light is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, History, and Sociology and a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is the author of From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America (2003) and The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions (2009), both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Light serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing; Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences; and Libraries and the Cultural Record (to appear as Information & Culture: A Journal of History from 2012). She is currently engaged in two research projects: a series of studies at the intersection of the histories of cartography and computing that use GIS as an analytic tool, and an investigation of the historical and contemporary significance of the junior republic movement in the US. Professor Light is on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2011-2012.
		Lawrence Lipking, English llipking@northwestern.edu Lawrence Lipking (Ph.D., English, Cornell), Professor Emeritus of English, teaches and studies eighteenth-century literature, Romanticism, and poetry in many times and languages. He is the author of The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (1970), The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (Chicago, 1981), which won the Christian Gauss Award, Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (Chicago, 1988), and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (Harvard, 1998). An editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996 he won the MLA William Riley Parker prize for “The Genius of the Shore: Lycidas, Adamastor, and the Poetics of Nationalism.” His current research project is a study of relations between imagination and science during the Scientific Revolution.
		Grégoire Mallard, Sociology On leave 2011-12 g-mallard@northwestern.edu Grégoire Mallard (Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton) is Assistant Professor of Sociology. He is currently working on a book manuscript, titled “The Atomic Confederacy: Europe's Quest for Nuclear Weapons and the Making of the New World Order.” He has recently co-edited Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science, published by Routledge. He has also published articles in the sociology of science, and more precisely, on peer evaluation and fairness in a context of epistemological pluralism (coauthored with Michèle Lamont) in the American Sociological Review, Research Evaluation and Science, Technology and Human Values; as well as on knowledge practices in the humanities in the American Sociological Review.
		Joel Mokyr, History/Economics j-mokyr@northwestern.edu Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change. He is the author of Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative Study of the Irish Economy, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective and his most recent The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. His most recent book is The Enlightened Economy published by Yale University Press and Penguin in 2009. He has authored over 80 articles and books in his field. He has served as the senior editor of the Journal of Economic History from 1994 to 1998, and was editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (published in July 2003), and still serves as editor in chief of a book series, the Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. He served as President of the Economic History Association 2003-04, and is a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as chair of the advisory committee of the Institutions, Organizations, and Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He served as chair of the Economics Department at Northwestern University between 1998 and 2001 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford between Sept. 2001 and June 2002. Professor Mokyr has an undergraduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D, from Yale University. He has taught at Northwestern since 1974, and has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tel Aviv, University College of Dublin, and the University of Manchester. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His books have won a number of important prizes including the Joseph Schumpeter memorial prize (1990), the Ranki prize for the best book in European Economic history and more recently the Donald Price Prize of the American Political Science Association. In 2006 he was awarded the biennial Heineken Prize by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences for a lifetime achievement in historical science. He was President of the Midwest Economics Association in 2007/08, and was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society (in the first class) in 2010. He is currently working on the intellectual and institutional origins of modern economic growth and the way they interacted with technological elements. His current other research is an attempt to apply insights from evolutionary theory to long-run changes in technological knowledge and economic history.
		Jim Schwoch, Communication Studies j-schwoch@northwestern.edu James Schwoch (Ph.D., School of Communication, Northwestern) examines global media, diplomacy, media history, international studies, science and technology studies, global security, telecommunication policy, and research methodologies. His most recent book is Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-1969 (Illinois, 2008). Previous books and anthologies include Questions of Method in Cultural Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900-1939 (Illinois, 1990). Schwoch has also published about fifty articles, reviews and reports; received research funding from the NSF, NEH, Ford Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission (Germany 1997, Finland 2005); held a resident fellowship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC (1997-98) and visiting professorships in Finland (1994, 1996, 2005); and lectured widely in North America and Europe. He is currently in residence in Doha, developing the Global Media curriculum and related research projects at Northwestern’s new campus in Education City.
		Mark Sheldon, Philosophy; Medical humanities and bioethics Sheldon@northwestern.edu Mark Sheldon, Assistant Dean in Weinberg College, is Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Weinberg College, as well the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern. His PhD is from Brandeis University, where he was awarded the Sachar Scholarship to study at Oxford University. He served as Adjunct Senior Scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and Senior Policy Analyst at the American Medical Association. He was appointed to a two year term on the Illinois Humanities Council Task Force on Genetics, and has published and presented talks on a variety of issues including informed consent, confidentiality, the forced transfusion of children of Jehovah’s Witnesses, children as organ donors, and disclosure. He is a faculty member in the Program in Ethics at Rush University Medical Center where he does clinical ethics consultations, and has served as guest editor of two journals – Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, and The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. A member of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine of the American Philosophical Association, he serves as co-editor of the Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine for the Association.
		Jane Smith, History j-smith5@northwestern.edu Jane S. Smith (Ph.D., Yale) writes about the intersection of science and social history, primarily in nineteenth and twentieth century United States. She has taught the history of public health and written about the development, testing, and marketing of the first polio vaccine. Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology. The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants, winner of the 2010 Caroline Bancroft Prize for Western American History, relates the career of the charismatic plant “evoluter” Luther Burbank to the transformation of the farm and garden from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s. Her latest book, In Praise of Chickens (December 2011), is a compendium of over two millennia of scientific, philosophic, and artistic study of this mysterious, ubiquitous domestic fowl.
		Jacqueline Stevens, Political Science jacqueline-stevens@northwestern.edu Jacqueline Stevens (Ph.D., Political Science, Berkeley) studies how political societies materialize and idealize intergenerational and religious group differences, especially those of the nation, ethnicity, race, the family, and sex. Her work is published in journals of political theory, public policy, law, sex/gender studies, and science studies. Her most recent book States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (Columbia University Press, 2009) explores thought experiments inferring the consequences of eliminating laws that produce attachments to intergenerational groups, and specifies their violence and inequality. She also writes about racialized genetics reinvigorated by the Human Genome Project. For more information, please see http://jacquelinestevens.org.
		Kearsley Stewart, Anthropology kstewart@northwestern.edu Kearsley A. Stewart (Ph.D., Anthropology, Florida) is senior lecturer in Anthropology, adjunct senior lecturer in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, and Assistant Director of Global Health Studies. She is a medical anthropologist who conducts research on HIV/AIDS in the USA and Africa with a current focus on ethical issues related to HIV/AIDS vaccine clinical trials in Africa. At Northwestern she teaches courses on HIV/AIDS, medical anthropology, global health, gender and health, bioethics, and physician-patient interaction. She is a founding faculty member of the Global Health minor and leads a public health study abroad course on HIVAIDS in Uganda each Spring quarter. Before joining Northwestern she was a medical anthropologist in the HIV/AIDS Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. For more information: http://depot.northwestern.edu/projects/stewart/ and http://nuinuganda.blogspot.com/
		Claudia Swan, Art History c-swan@northwestern.edu Claudia Swan (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Art History, and studies relations between early modern scientific empiricism and art, with a special emphasis on things Dutch. She is the author of The Clutius Botanical Watercolors; Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland. Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629); and several essays and articles on early modern science and the arts, 17th-century Dutch collecting, classification, print culture, bookkeeping, and theories of the imagination. With Londa Schiebinger, she is co-editor of Colonial Botany. Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Professor Swan regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on art and science, and on related phenomena and issues. She is currently working on two book manuscripts: “The Aesthetics of Possession,” about 17th-century Dutch interest in exotica, and a short history of the imagination. Professor Swan has served as a founding director of Northwestern's Program in the Study of Imagination and Chair of the Art History Department (2007-2010). In recent news, she has contributed to “Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” a major exhibition originating at the Fogg Museum, Harvard, in fall 2011, which will be at the Block Museum January-April 2012 and in conjunction with which she is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in winter 2012 and organizing a colloquium January 19, 2012.
		Hellen Tilley, History helen.tilley@northwestern.edu Helen Tilley (PhD, History, Oxford) is an Associate Professor of History with affiliations to the programs in African Studies, Global Health, and Environmental Policy and Culture. Her work examines medical, environmental, racial, and anthropological research in colonial and post-colonial contexts, emphasizing intersections with environmental history and development studies. Her book, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (Chicago, 2011) explores the dynamic interplay between scientific research and imperialism in British Africa between 1870 and 1950. She has also written articles and book chapters on the history of ecology, eugenics, agriculture, and epidemiology in tropical Africa, and is co-editor with Robert Gordon of Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge (Manchester, 2007) and with Michael Gordin and Gyan Prakash of Utopia-Dystopia: Historical Conditions of Possibility (Princeton, 2010). Her current project seeks to explain the different scientific studies and legal interventions in the twentieth century that originally helped to construct “traditional medicine” as a viable category of research and policy-making, especially in the contexts of decolonization and the Cold War. This research ought to shed light on the challenges independent African states have faced juggling not just the co-existence of strikingly different medical cultures within their sovereign spheres, but also the demands of global governance, which has increasingly set the terms of debate regarding health, medicine, and the status of knowledge. She has received grants for her research from the Wellcome Trust and the National Science Foundation.
		Sandy Zabell, Mathematics and Statistics zabell@math.northwestern.edu Sandy Zabell (Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard) is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Statistics, and Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy. 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, in particular DNA identification evidence. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His book Symmetry and its Discontents (Cambridge, 2005) is a collection of essays about the history and philosophy of probability. He is a member of the editorial board of the Collected Works of Rudolph Carnap; and served on a joint Federal Judicial Center and National Academy of Sciences committee charged with the revision of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (3rd. ed.).

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