Faculty and Associates

Thomas H. Broman, Associate Professor, B.A. (biology & chemistry) Ripon College; M.S. (agronomy) University of Illinois; Ph.D. (history) Princeton University. 18th-century science; early modern medicine.

Judith A. Houck, Assistant Professor, B.A. (liberal studies) St. John's College, Sante Fe; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of women's health, American medicine, medicine and sexuality, race and medicine, science and gender.

Florence Hsia, Assistant Professor, A.B. (East Asian studies) Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D. (history) University of Chicago. Early modern European science; Jesuit science; science and European expansion (esp. into East Asia).

Richard Keller, Assistant Professor, B.A. (history) University of Colorado at Boulder; M.A., (European history), University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph.D. (European history), Rutgers University. History of European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race.

Judith W. Leavitt, Ruth Bleier Professor, B.A. (social sciences) Antioch College; M.A.T. (education) University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. (history) University of Chicago. History of medicine and public health in America; women and medicine.

Susan Lederer, Visiting Professor, B.A. (history of science) Johns Hopkins University; M.A., (history of science), University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. (history of science), University of Wisconsin. Medicine and society in twentieth-century America, media and medicine, history of medical ethics.

Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor, B.Sc. (biology) Dalhousie University; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of ecology; environment and health, 20th century life sciences; science in America; science and film.

Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor, B.A. (mathematics and physics) Southern Adventist University; M.A. (history) Florida State University; Ph.D. (history) University of California, Berkeley. American science and medicine; science and religion.

Lynn K. Nyhart, Associate Professor, B.A. (history/history & philosophy of science) Princeton University; Ph.D. (history and sociology of science), University of Pennsylvania. History of biology; science, technology, and gender.

Robin E. Rider, Senior Lecturer, B.S. (mathematics) Stanford University; M.A. (mathematics), Ph.D. (history), University of California, Berkeley. Early modern science; printing and publishing of science; history of mathematics.

Walton O. Schalick III, Assistant Professor, Medical History and Bioethics, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, and History of ScienceA.B., magna cum laude, double major: Physics and English Literature, Washington University; Completed first two years of medical school, Washington University, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Eric Schatzberg, Associate Professor, B.S. (engineering) Swarthmore; Ph.D. (history and sociology of science), University of Pennsylvania. History of Technology.

Michael H. Shank, Professor, B.A. (physics) Goshen College; M.A. (history and philosophy of science) University of Notre Dame; A.M., Ph.D. (history of science) Harvard University. Physical Sciences to the 17th Century, especially in late middle ages; science and the university.

Richard Staley, Assistant Professor, B.A. (history and philosophy of science) University of Melbourne; Ph.D. (history of science), University of Cambridge. History of physics in Europe and America, 19th and 20th centuries.

Emeritus Faculty

Victor L. Hilts, Professor Emeritus, A.B. (history and science) Harvard University; Ph.D. (history of science) Harvard University. History of the social and behavioral sciences.

David C. Lindberg, Hilldale Professor Emeritus, B.S. (physics) Wheaton College; M.S. (physics) Northwestern University; Ph.D. (history and philosophy of science) Indiana University. Science and natural philosophy before 1700; science and religion.

John Neu, B.S. (English) University of Wisconsin; M.L.S. (library science) University of Wisconsin. Bibliography of the History of Science.

Daniel M. Siegel, B.S., M.S. (physics) University of Chicago; Ph.D. (physics) University of California, Berkeley; M. Phil. (history of science) Yale University. Physics and related disciplines in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Robert Siegfried, B.A. (chemistry) Marietta College; Ph.D. (chemistry and history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of chemistry.

Glenn A. Sonnedecker, B.S., (pharmacy), Sc.D. Ohio State University; M.S., Ph.D. (history of pharmacy and science) University of Wisconsin. Pharmacy and materia medica.

Faculty Associates and Affiliates

Jane R. Camerini, Honorary Fellow, B.A. (biology) Barnard College, Columbia University; M.S. (zoology and geography) University of Wisconsin; Ph.D. (bio-cartography) University of Wisconin. History of the evolutionary and ecological sciences, 1750 - present.

Sarah K.A. Pfatteicher, Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Programs and Services, CALS), Research Professor (Civil & Environmental Engineering), A.B. (physics & mathematics) Smith College; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of engineering design and professional ethics, engineering disasters, engineering education, engineering and diversity.