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New Faculty
The Department of the History of Science of the University of Oklahoma is pleased to announce the recent appointments of three new faculty. In Fall 2001, Dr. Hunter Crowther-Heyck was appointed Assistant Professor of the History of Science. Dr. Crowther-Heyck's interests include the history of modern science and technology and the history of the human sciences. His research has focused on the importance of new ideas about information, communication, and organization in both the natural and human sciences in the 20th century, as well as on the social implications of information technology.
Most recently, Dr. Crowther-Heyck was co-curator at the National Library of Medicine of an exhibit titled The Once and Future Web: worlds woven by telegraph and Internet. His dissertation Herbert Simon, Organization Man (Johns Hopkins, 2000) is the basis of a forthcoming book (JHU Press, 2003).
In Fall 2002, Dr. Kathleen Crowther-Heyck was appointed Assistant Professor of the History of Science. She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, in the Department of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Her specialty is early modern German history, with particular interests in the relationships between ideas about body, soul and gender in the Protestant Reformation. In 2001, she was named a finalist in the competition for the Fritz Stern Prize for her dissertation, "Creating Adam and Eve: Body, Soul and Gender in Sixteenth-Century Germany." Before coming to OU, she was Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College.
Also in Fall 2002, Dr. Stephen P. Weldon was appointed Assistant Professor of the History of Science and History of Science Society Bibliographer. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a dissertation entitled “The Humanist Enterprise from John Dewey to Carl Sagan: A Study of Science and Religion in American Culture.” Before coming to OU, Dr. Weldon was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. In addition to his responsibilities in creating the Current Bibliography of the History of Science Society, he is working on a book based on his doctoral dissertation. It contributes directly to the understanding of the relationship between religion and science in America, looking at what is often called scientism--the attempt to apply scientific habits of thought and scientific knowledge to all areas of human life and experience. In it, he discusses the advocacy and critique of scientistic views both within and outside the humanist movement.