Degrees
B.A. Harvard University; PhD UCLA
Selected Publications
Books:
Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life and Death (University of Toronto Press, 2012). (Co-edited with Helen Deutsch)
The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment, University of Chicago Press, 2002. Winner of Pfizer Prize (History of Science Society) and Gottschalk Prize (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies).
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Masculine Knowledge, the Public Good, and the Scientific Household of Réaumur,” Osiris 30 (2015): 182-202.
“Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance,” in Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life and Death, ed. Mary Terrall and Helen Deutsch (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
“Frogs on the Mantelpiece: The Practice of Observation in Daily Life,” in Histories of Scientific Observations, ed. Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
“Following Insects Around: Tools and Techniques of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century,” British Journal for the History of Science, 43 (2010): 573-588.
“Speculation and Experiment in Enlightenment Life Sciences,” in Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1800, ed. Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans¬Jörg Rheinberger (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007).
“Biography as Cultural History of Science,” Isis 97 (2006): 306-313.
“Mathematical Narratives of Scientific Expeditions,” Isis 97 (2006): 683-699.
“Vis viva Revisited,” History of Science 42 (2004): 189-209.
“The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason,” in Scientific Authorship, ed. Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison (Routledge, 2002).
“Fashionable Readers of Natural Philosophy,” in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. Nick Jardine and Marina Frasca-Spada (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
“Metaphysics, Mathematics and the Gendering of Science in France,” in The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, ed. by William Clark, Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
“Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery,” Configurations 6 (1998): 223-242.
“Salon, Academy and Boudoir: Generation and Desire in Maupertuis’s Science of Life,” Isis 87 (1996): 217-229.
“Gendered Spaces, Gendered Audiences: Inside and Outside the Paris Academy of Sciences,” Configurations 3 (1995): 207-232.
“Emilie du Châtelet and the Gendering of Science,” History of Science 33 (1995): 283-310. (Winner of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society, 1998)
“Representing the Earth’s Shape: The Polemics Surrounding Maupertuis’s Expedition to Lapland,” Isis 83 (1992): 218-237. (Winner of Derek Price Award, History of Science Society, 1994.)
“The Culture of Science in Frederick the Great’s Berlin,” History of Science 28 (1990): 333-364.
Previous Courses by Term
Topics in History of Science
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology
Seminar: History of Science
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Seminar: History of Science
Topics in History of Science
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Topics in History: Science/Technology
Topics in History of Science
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Topics in History of Science
Topics in History: Science/Technology
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Topics in History of Science
Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Topics in History of Science
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
History of Modern Thought
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Seminar: History of Science
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Seminar: History of Science
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in History of Science/Technology
Topics in History of Science
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Science
Undergraduate Seminar: Science/Technology
Topics in History: Science/Technology
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Science
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Science
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Undergraduate Seminar
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
Previous Courses by Course
Topics in History of Science
2019 Winter Quarter
2015 Winter Quarter
2013 Spring Quarter
2012 Spring Quarter
2011 Spring Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
2005 Winter Quarter
Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology
2019 Winter Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2014 Fall Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2010 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology
2016 Winter Quarter
2011 Spring Quarter
Seminar: History of Science
2016 Winter Quarter
2006 Spring Quarter
Seminar: History of Science
2015 Fall Quarter
2006 Winter Quarter
Introduction to History of Science: Scientific Revolution
2015 Fall Quarter
2013 Fall Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
2010 Fall Quarter
2009 Winter Quarter
2006 Winter Quarter
2003 Fall Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
2000 Fall Quarter
2000 Winter Quarter
1998 Fall Quarter
Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth
2015 Winter Quarter
2013 Spring Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
2003 Fall Quarter
2002 Spring Quarter
2001 Spring Quarter
2000 Spring Quarter
Topics in History: Science/Technology
History of Modern Thought
2006 Fall Quarter
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
2005 Winter Quarter
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in History of Science/Technology
2005 Winter Quarter
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Science
Undergraduate Seminar: Science/Technology
2004 Winter Quarter
Undergraduate Seminar