Past Graduate Student

Ronald Numbers

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The nebular hypothesis in American thought." Completed 1969

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Donald L. Obendorf

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Samuel P. Langley: solar scientist, 1867-1891." Completed 1969

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Kalil Oldham

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The doctrine of description: Gustav Kirchhoff, classical physics, and the 'purpose of all science' in 19th-century Germany." Completed 2008

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Marcus Owens

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Initially trained as an Architect, Marcus received a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. He has worked in a variety of professional contexts, including founding CAMO Studio with Christina Antiporda, focused on community engaged design/build, and with the US Forest Service. His research interests include design research, design/build, and emerging applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Landscape Architecture.

Lindsay Parham

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
School of Law
Jurisprudence & Social Policy Graduate Program

My work looks at the governance systems surrounding new prenatal genetic testing technologies. I am particularly interested in the creation and meaning of risk (personal, genetic, social, legal, institutional) as it impacts the pregnancy experience, as well as technological interventions and innovations as they impact ethics of care in clinics and hospitals. My dissertation work brings together sociologies of law, science and medical anthropology to address the impact of governance systems and institutional and organizational policies on clinical work, and on the pregnancy and child-...

Charles Paul

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Rameau's musical theories and the Age of Reason." Completed 1966

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Gordon N. Pinkham

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Case studies of scientific contributions." Completed 1973

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Ethan Pollock

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The politics of knowledge: Party ideology and Soviet science, 1945-1953." Completed 2000

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Kathleen Powers

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Rhetoric

I am interested in the definition of biology in the Western philosophical tradition - in particular, in 20th century vitalism's attempt to define biological life.

My dissertation, “The Cybernetic Origins of Life”, is about the influence of vitalist concepts of the organism on post-war American neurology. I focus on the experiments and writings of neurologist Warren S. McCulloch (1898-1969) on the vertebrate nervous system to gain an understanding of how life was considered in the philosophy of science immediately before the genetic revolution.

I applied to the Rhetoric...

Carroll W. Pursell

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Stationary steam engines in America before the Civil War." Completed 1962

last updated: August 29th, 2012