Past Visiting Scholar & Student

Nahum Chandler

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees PhD :: University of Chicago
BA :: UC, Davis

Nahum D. Chandler is an intellectual and scholar working broadly in philosophical problematics, especially as they concern the history of the human sciences, as well as the concepts of historicity and historical memory in general. After completing his undergraduate study at the University of California at Davis, he received his Ph.D. in social and cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago, spending one summer at Jesus College and the Rhodes House at Oxford University. As a post-doctoral scholar, for the...

Zhenghong Chen

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Xiangyu Chen

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

PhD Candidate, School of Philosophy
Renmin University of China

Degrees M.S. Philosophy of Science and Technology :: Xiamen University (2017)
B.A. Philosophy & Literature :: Southwest University (2014)

My Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the theory and practice of technocracy in Republican China (1912-1949), aims to analyze the relationship between technocracy and development of modern Chinese technology and industry through an interdisciplinary method. In the early 20th century, Chinese intellectuals had...

Patrick Coffey

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Working on a book on competing military, technical, commercial, and political influences in the development of American weapons and strategies during the twentieth century.

last updated: April 12th, 2020

Marco Compagnini

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Visiting Student Researcher, Law
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Degrees BSc Economics :: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (2016)

Marco is in the final year of his law degree at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and his areas of study include science and the law, criminology, philosophy of law, criminal law, and business criminal law. His current project aims to analyze the current role of neuroscience in providing...

LaVera Crawley

PMH Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Degrees MPH, Interdisciplinary Studies :: University of California, Berkeley (2004)
Residency :: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (1986)
MD :: Meharry Medical College (1981)

Crawley's current research interests include: identifying unique spiritual care needs across the various trajectories of functional decline that precede death; and the phenomenology of spirituality among patients suffering from dementia.

In the field of medicine and ethics, LaVera is internationally known for her work on health disparities for palliative and end...

Per Dahl

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Asaf Darash

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

rofessor, Postgraduate Program in Technology for Social Development at UFRJ
Collaborator, Department of Electronic Engineering at the Engineering School of UFRJ
Extension Director, Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Social Development (NIDES / UFRJ)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Degrees Ph.D. Production Engineering :: COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2014)
M.S. Production Engineering :: COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2008)
B.S. Computer and Electronics Engineering...

Erica Dirkse

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

History of the earth sciences, 18th and 19th centuries, history of economic thought/economic history, Europe (concentration: German-speaking regions and Russia).

last updated: February 11th, 2013