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Sharon Kingsland
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History of Science and Technology
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Faculty Directory 

Robert H. Kargon, Ph.D.: Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History of Science; History of physics, science and social change; history of science in America.

Sharon Kingsland, Ph.D.: Department Chair and Professor; History of biology, especially ecology, genetics and behavioral biology; history of science in America.

Stuart W. Leslie, Ph.D.: Professor; History of technology, history of science-based industry, history of 20th century American science.

Morris Low, Ph.D.: Adjunct Associate Professor, History of East Asian Science and Technology. Japanese physics and technology, cultural history of science in Japan. (Associate Professor at University of Queensland, Australia).

Maria Portuondo, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; History of science, science and exploration, science and technology in Latin America, early modern Spanish and Latin American Cosmography and geography.

Lawrence M. Principe, Ph.D. (Chemistry), Ph.D. (History of Science): Drew Professor of the Humanities; History of alchemy/chemistry, especially in the early modern period; science and religion, chemical education.

Min Suh Son, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; Korean history, East Asian history of technology.

Fellows and Visiting Faculty

Joan Lisa Bromberg, Ph.D.: Visiting Scholar; Author, NASA and the Space Industry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); The Laser in America, 1950-1970 (MIT Press, 1991)

Dong-Won Kim, Ph.D.: Visiting Associate Professor; (formerly Associate Professor, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Author of The Emergence of the Cavendish School: An Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1900 (Elsevier, 2001)

Buhm Soon Park, Ph.D.: Visiting Scholar; Associate Historian, National Institutes of Health; Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology.  History of the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century; History of Quantum Chemistry; Currently writing a book on the history of NIH, 1937-1987.

Elizabeth Rodini: Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department; Associate Director of the Museum and Society undergraduate program.

Michael Dennis, Fellow-by-Courtesy.

Susan Morris, Fellow-by-Courtesy. 

Joint Faculty in History of Medicine

Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Public Health Studies Program; History of surgery, history of medical education.

Nathaniel Comfort, Ph.D.: Associate Professor; History of biology, especially genetics, molecular biology and biomedicine; history of recent science; oral-history and interviewing. Current project: History of human and medical genetics in America.

Mary E. Fissell, Ph.D.: Professor; European health care and popular medicine, 17th and 18th centuries; early modern gender and the body.

Marta Hanson, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor in the History of East Asian Medicine; History of Chinese science and medicine; history of epidemics and disease in China.

Harry M. Marks, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, E. Treide and A.M. Harvey Professorship in the History of Medicine; History of 20th century medicine, history of disease, history of public health.

Graham Mooney, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; History of public health, 19th and 20th centuries; historical epidemiology, historical demography, disease surveillance and risk.

Randall M. Packard, Ph.D.: Professor, Chair and William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine; Social history of disease and healing in Africa, history of public health, history of colonial and post-colonial medicine.

Daniel P. Todes, Ph.D.: Professor; History of Russian medicine and science, social relations of scientific thought, history of biomedical sciences. Currently writing a biography of Ivan Pavlov.

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