OU History of Science

The Faculty

Current Full-time Department Faculty:

Peter Barker, Professor (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo): History and historiography of the Scientific Revolution; 19th- and 20th-century physical science; 19th- and 20th-century psychology; philosophy of science

Kathleen Crowther, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins): Early modern science and medicine; body and gender in early modern Europe; science and religion

Piers J. Hale, Assistant Professor (D.Phil, Lancaster University, England): Science, Technology, and Society, Social History of Modern Biology; Biomedical and Environmental Ethics; British Socialism, Environmentalism and Feminism; Gender and the Body; Science and Utopia

Hunter Heyck, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins): 19th- and 20th-century science; science and social thought; history of technology; information technology and society; technology and the environment

Steven J. Livesey, Professor and Chair (Ph.D., UCLA): Medieval science; history of early scientific methodologies; science in medieval universities

Kerry Magruder, Librarian of the History of Science Collections, Asst. Professor of the History of Science (Ph.D., Oklahoma): 17th- and 18th-century Theories of the Earth, early geology, cosmology, visual representation, and the development of the historical sciences

Suzanne Moon, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University): History of technology, 20th-century international development, technology, science and colonialism, technology outside the western world, Southeast Asia, environment

Marilyn B. Ogilvie, Curator of the History of Science Collections, Professor of Bibliography, Professor of the History of Science (Ph.D., Oklahoma): 19th- and 20th-century science; history of women in science; modern biological science

Katherine Pandora, Associate Professor and Associates Presidential Professor (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego): Science and the Public; 19th- and 20th-century history of science; American Science and Technology; History of the Social Sciences; Natural History; Science Studies

Rienk Vermij, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Utrecht): Cartesian natural philosophy, Copernicanism, early modern meteorology, Enlightenment, science and religion, science in the Netherlands

Stephen P. Weldon, Assistant Professor and History of Science Society Bibliographer (Ph.D., Wisconsin): History of Science and Religion; Study of the Paranormal; Modern Biology and Evolutionary Psychology; American Intellectutal and Cultural History

Adjunct Faculty:

R. Richard Hamerla, Associate Professor, Honors College; Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Science (Ph.D., Case Western): History of the physical sciences; 19th-century science; history of chemistry; science in the 19th century American west

Sarah W. Tracy, Associate Professor, Honors College; Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Science (Ph.D., Pennsylvania):History and sociology of medicine; medicine in American culture; gender and medicine; history of the human sciences; history of psychoactive substances; sociology of knowledge; science studies; medical anthropology; food studies

Visiting Faculty:

JoAnn Palmeri, Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Oklahoma): 20th-century astronomy and cosmology; science and technology in American popular culture; science and religion

Resident Emeritus Faculty:

David B. Kitts, David Ross Boyd Professor of the History of Science and Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus (Ph.D., Columbia):History and philosophy of biology; structure of historical knowledge; vertebrate paleontology; geomorphology

Kenneth L. Taylor, Professor and C.B. Hudson/Torchmark Presidential Professor, Emeritus (Ph.D., Harvard): History of geology and natural history; 18th-century science

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