SST Faculty
SST faculty are drawn from anthropology, bioethics, commuication studies, english, geography, history, philosophy, writing studies, and the history of science, technology, and medicine program.
| Name | Contact | Teaching Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Alexander Associate Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-626-7309 jalexand@me.umn.edu |
History of industrial culture, bodies and machines, Nazi science and technology, the European efficiency and rationalization movements |
| Victor Boantza Associate Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-8073 vboantza@umn.edu |
Early modern physical sciences, Enlightenment science, the scientific and chemical revolutions |
| Mark Borrello Associate Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-7079 borrello@umn.edu |
History of biology, evolutionary theory, genetics and ecology, biology of behavior, biology and society |
| Bruce Braun Professor Department of Geography |
612-625-6349 braun038@umn.edu |
Politics and ethics of environmental change, politics of difference |
| Carl Elliott Professor Center for Bioethics |
612-626-5347 ellio023@umn.edu |
Bioethics: philosophical and ethical questions in psychiatry and pediatrics |
| Samuel Fletcher Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy |
612-625-4325 scfletch@umn.edu |
Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of statistics |
| Alan Gross Professor Emeritus Department of Communication Studies |
612-624-1209 grossalang@aol.com |
Rhetoric of science |
| Jennifer Gunn Associate Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-1909 gunnx005@umn.edu |
Health policy, history of philanthropy, occupational medicine, and the organization of health care |
| Laura Gurak Professor Department of Writing Studies |
612-624-3773 gurakl@umn.edu |
Rhetorics of science and technology, Internet studies, online research methods, social aspects of computing, the law and technology (intellectual property and privacy) |
| Geoffrey Hellman Professor Department of Philosophy |
612-625-8201 hellm001@umn.edu |
Philosophy of physics and mathematics, logic, epistemology |
| Michel Janssen Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-5880 janss011@tc.umn.edu |
Conceptual development of 19th and 20th century physics, history of relativity |
| Susan Jones Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-9636 jone0996@umn.edu |
History of biomedical sciences, history of life sciences, historical ecology of disease, role of science in mediating human-animal interactions over time |
| Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-9368 sgk@umn.edu |
History of science in America, women in science, education |
| Jean Langford Professor Department of Anthropology |
612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu |
Anthropology of science, healing practices and modernity |
| Alan Love Professor Department of Philosophy |
612-625-4510 aclove@umn.edu |
Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, history of biology, epistemology |
| Hiromi Mizuno Associate Professor Department of History |
612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu |
History of science/technology, Japanese history, nationalism, gender/sex, colonialism |
| Daniel Philippon Associate Professor Department of English |
612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu |
Environmental rhetoric, history, and ethics, nature writing, science and religion, American cultural studies, regionalism and place studies |
| Jole Shackelford Assistant Professor HMed Director of Undergrad Studies History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-624-4499 shack001@umn.edu |
Politics of epistemology, objectivity, realism, physicalism, Wittgenstein |
| J.B. Shank Professor Department of History |
612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu |
Early modern intellectual and cultural history, history of the Scientific Revolution, "scientization" of political thought |
| Karen-Sue Taussig Associate Professor Department of Anthropology |
612-625-3366 taussig@umn.edu |
Anthropology of science, genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning, and stem cell research |
| Dominique Tobbell Associate Professor Director of HMed Program History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
612-626-5114 dtobbell@umn.edu |
History of health care and health policy, pharmaceuticals, nursing, medical technology, business history, and oral history |