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Endowed Chairs
Baker, Keith
Beinin, Joel
Bernstein, Barton
Buc, Philippe
Camarillo, Al
Carson, Clayborne
Chang, Gordon
Como, David
Corn, Joseph
Crews, Robert
Daughton, J.P.
Duus, Peter
Findlen, Paula
Frank, Zephyr
Freedman, Estelle
Haber, Stephen
Hanretta, Sean
Herzog, Tamar
Holloway, David
Jolluck, Katherine
Kahn, Harold
Kennedy, David
Klein, Herbert
Kollmann, Nancy
Lewis, Mark Edward
Lewis, Martin
Lougee Chappell, Carolyn
Mancall, Mark
Miller, Kathryn
Moon, Yumi
Morris, Ian
Mullaney, Thomas
Naimark, Norman
O'Mara, Margaret Pugh
Proctor, Robert N.
Rakove, Jack
Riskin, Jessica
Roberts, Richard
Robinson, Paul
Rodrigue, Aron
Satia, Priya
Schiebinger, Londa
Seaver, Paul
Sheehan, James
Sommer, Matthew
Stansky, Peter
Uchida, Jun
Weiner, Amir
White, Richard
Wigen, Karen
Winterer, Caroline
Zipperstein, Steve
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Jessica Riskin received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Iowa State University and at MIT before coming to Stanford. Her research interests include Enlightenment science, politics and culture and the history of scientific explanation. She is the author of Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which won the American Historical Association's J. Russell Major Prize for best book in English on any aspect of French history. She is currently writing a book on the idea of the animal-machine, its technological basis and expressions, and its ramifications in philosophy, physiology, culture and politics, from Descartes to Darwin. The book is under contract with Basic Books; its working title is Mind Out of Matter. In October 2003, she hosted a workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center on the history and philosophy of artificial life, which gave rise to an edited volume of essays entitled Genesis Redux, forthcoming from Chicago Press in 2007. |
COURSES TAUGHT:
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- The Enlightenment
- The History of the Senses
- Origins and History of the Scientific Fact
- Minds and Worlds, from Aristotle to Newton to Einstein
- The Prehistory of Computers
- The History of Artificial Life
- Science and Culture Wars, from Galileo's Trial to the Sokal Hoax
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BOOKS:
- Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
- Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life. Edited volume forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, spring 2007.
- Mind out of Matter: The Animal-Machine from Descartes to Darwin. Work in progress under contract with Basic Books.
ARTICLES:
- "Amusing Physics." In the Harvard Library Gazette, forthcoming.
- "The Defecating Duck; or, The Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life."In Critical Inquiry Summer 2003, Vol. 29, No. 4: 599-633 [reprinted in Bill Brown, ed., Things (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 99-133].
- "Eighteenth Century Wetware." In Representations, Summer 2003, No.83: 97-125. [A second version is forthcoming in The Artificial and the Natural: An Ancient Debate and its Modern Descendants, eds.Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William Newman (MIT Press)].
- "The 'Spirit of System' and the Fortunes of Physiocracy." In Oeconomies in the Age of Newton, eds. Neil De Marchi and Margaret Schabas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003: 42-73.
- "The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod." In Science in Context, 12, 1 (1999): 61–99.
- "Poor Richard's Leyden Jar: Electricity and Economy in Franklinist France." In Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Vol. 28, Part 2 (1998): 301-336.
- "Rival Idioms for a Revolutionized Science and a Republican Citizenry." In Isis 1998, 89: 203-232.
- "Science in the Age of Sensibility." In Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds., Making Things Public (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 722-726.
- "La Machine, l'art et l'étron." In La Recherche hors série no. 12, July-September 2003: 51-53.
- "Robespierre, l'avocat et le paratonnerre." In La Recherche hors série no. 8, July/August/September 2002: 86-91.
- "Le canard, l'homme et le robot." In La Recherche, no 350, February 2002: 36-40.
- "Duckshit and Damask." In Jennifer Riddell, ed., Eve Andrée Laramée: A Permutational Unfolding. Cambridge: List Visual Arts Center, MIT, 1999: 45-51.
- "Chimie et Révolution: Le Pouvoir des Mots." In La Recherche, no. 320, May 1999: 75-80.
- "Newtonianism." In The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Edited by J.L. Heilbron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003: 574-576.
- "Dimostrazioni e intrattenimento." In Storia della scienza, ed. Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 10 vols., 2001-, Vol. VI, 2002, pp. 139-143.
- "Gli amusements aeriformi," "Gli amusements imponderabili," "Gli amusements automatici." In Storia della scienza, ed. Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 10 vols., 2001-, Vol. VI, pp. 261-268.
- "I parafulmini." In Storia della scienza, ed. Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 10 vols., 2001-, Vol. VI, pp. 275-278.
- "Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de," Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by Alan E. Kazdin (Oxford University Press, 2000), Vol. 2: 255-56.
- "La Mettrie, Julien Offray de la," Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by Alan E. Kazdin (Oxford University Press, 2000), Vol. 4: 471-72.
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AWARDS:
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- William H. and Frances Green Faculty Fellowship, 2004-2005
- J. Russell Major Award (for best book on any aspect of French history), awarded by the American Historical Association, January 2004
- Scholar’s Award, Program in Science and Technology Studies, National Science Foundation, awarded February 2003
- Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, awarded January 2003
- Old Dominion Fellowship, 2000-2001
- Visiting Scholar, History of Science Department, Harvard University, 1997-98
- National Science Foundation seed grant, awarded summer 1997
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
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- Freshman Academic Advisor, 2004-
- Faculty Co-Coordinator, Humanities Center Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolutions, 2002-
- Member, Steering Committee for Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2002-2003, 2006-2007
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
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- American Historical Association
- History of Science Society
- Society for French Historical Studies
- American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
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