Q&A: Speaking Out
Coming from very different institutional settings, Elizabeth Green Musselman and Audra J. Wolfe discuss the paths they took to podcasting the history of science.
The Life and Times of a Public Historian
Steven J. Dick has spent his professional career as a public historian, most recently as Chief Historian for NASA, a place where the study of history has real-world consequences in policy development and planning.
History of Science in Portugal: Where Do We Stand Today?
Portuguese historian of science Ana Simões discusses the doing of history of science in Portugal, from the Salazar dictatorship to the present.
PhotoEssay:What is it? Twentieth-century Artifacts out of Context
David Pantalony discusses ways and means of questioning 20th-century scientific and technological objects. An immersion with objects and collections, he writes, "can liberate students from traditional narratives about science and technology."
2008 Guggenheim Fellowships
We begin with profiles of Ken Alder and Michael Bess, two of the seven Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows whose projects are connected to the history of science.
Program Profile:History of Science at the University of Texas – Austin
Continuing our series covering HPS programs around the world.
NASA Fellowships
Both Janet Vertesi, who explores the human element of robotic space exploration since the 1970s, and Arturo Russo, who studies the origin and development of planetary research in the European Space Agency, report on their HSS/NASA Fellowship projects.