July 2007 Newsletter, Vol. 36, No.3
2007 History of Science Guggenheim Winners
Out of the 189 artists, scholars and scientists chosen to receive the 2007 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, eight are working on projects with connections to the history of science. This issue we profile the projects of four of the eight; the remaining four will be profiled in the next issue of the Newsletter.
Warwick Anderson, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, Professor of the History of Science, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As part of his fellowship, Anderson studies race science in the 20th century.
Alan Burdick is a writer who has worked as an editor at The New York Times Magazine, Discover, and The Sciences, and was the editorial producer and senior writer for Science Bulletins, a multimedia science-news division of the American Museum of Natural History.
Burdick is writing a book on the biology of time, from genetics to cognitive pyschology to neurobiology. Burdick describes his project as a "book about time, written on time, and... the story of how I did it."
Pamela O. Long, independent historian, is working on a book, “Engineering the Eternal City: Power, Knowledge, and Urbanization in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome.”
Her fellowship goal is to complete the archival research for a cultural history of engineering of the early ‘counter-reformation’ decades.
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Director of the Indiana University Center for the History of Medicine, is working on a project titled “Microscopy, experiment, and disease: Marcello Malpighi and his world.”
"The main reasons to focus on Malpighi are his key role in the anatomical world of his time and the breadth of his publications and interests..."