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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Welcome to the Department of History of Science and Technology

For full information on the Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, offered jointly with the Department of History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, please visit the program's website at: http://web.jhu.edu/hsmt/

You may also link directly to the Department of History of Medicine's website by clicking here.

Please click the Calendar of Events link (on the left) for the Fall 2007 colloquium schedule.

Congratulations to our student recipients of the Dean's Teaching Fellowship for 2008-2009! This competitive fellowship allows graduate students to design and teach their own courses. For the coming academic year we are pleased to offer the following new courses for undergraduates:

Sandra Eder, "Sexing the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine"

Susan Lamb, "History of Psychiatry: Medicine and Madness from Antiquity to the Present"

Massimo Petrozzi, "Thinking and Living with Animals: Human-Animal Relationship in History"

Katie Reinhart, "Understanding the Heavens: History of Astronomy from Hipparchus to Hubble"

Welcome to new faculty and postdoctoral fellows.

The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Maria Portuondo from the University of Florida, Gainesville, will be joining the
program in the fall of 2008.

Patrick Boner will also joining the Department as an NSF postdoctoral fellow.