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The Department of History offers the M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees in History of Science. The Department also participates in the graduate program in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.). History and History of Science may be used as a major or minor in the MAIS degree program or as a minor in other graduate programs.
The History of Science Graduate Program in the Department of History at Oregon State University provides professional training in the interdisciplinary subject of history of science. The program connects the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences by studying and interpreting the development of the sciences within particular historical settings and analyzing the changing roles of the sciences within modern cultures. Emphasis in the program is on scientific traditions since the sixteenth century in Europe and North America, in the physical, earth, biological, medical, and social sciences, as well as on environmental history and the history of the environmental sciences.
Oregon State University is a Land, Sea, and Space Grant institution located in the Willamette Valley between the Oregon Coast and the Cascade Mountains, approximately eighty miles south of Portland. The University traditionally is noted for strong graduate programs in scientific, engineering, and agricultural fields.
Some faculty in the History of Science Graduate Program have appointments in both history and science departments, enhancing educational and research opportunities for graduate students. The Horning Endowment for the Humanities sponsors lectures, conferences, and colloquia that strengthen a deeper understanding of the humanities among science students and bridge the humanities and the sciences. Horning activities often focus on the history of science.
Among noteworthy resources at OSU for the history of science are the archival and on-line collection of the papers of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling in the Special Collections of the Valley Library. The History of Atomic Energy Collection is an archival reference library documenting the history of atomic energy since the discovery of radioactivity in 1896. The Program for Ethics, Science, and the Environment, based in the Philosophy Department, supports multi-disciplinary education and scholarship aimed at recognizing, understanding, and resolving conflicts of value resulting from scientific knowledge, biotechnology, and the use of natural resources.
The History Department offers the degrees of Master of Arts (MA), Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History of Science. The History Department also participates in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program, in which students may take one or two fields in history or history of science among the three fields required for the degree.
Students with substantial scientific or historical background are encouraged to apply to the Graduate Program in History of Science. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required, along with a writing sample and other materials, and the GRE and should have been completed within five years of the application. Students who have not completed a master's degree in history of science should apply to the master's program even if the intent is to pursue the Ph.D.
The deadline for applications to the MAIS Program is March 1 for the summer and fall quarter and November 10 for the winter or spring quarter. It is preferred that students begin the graduate program is the fall term (March 1 application deadline).
The deadline for applications to the History of Science Graduate Program is January 1 for admission in the fall quarter of the academic year. Applicants who wish to apply for graduate research assistantships or graduate teaching assistantships should indicate this on an application meeting the January 1 deadline for admission in the fall quarter. Assistantships ordinarily are awarded around April 1 for the following academic year.
An appointment as graduate assistant includes a tuition waiver and a stipend. Oregon State University is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools. Accordingly, students are under no obligations to respond to financial support prior to April 15. For further information about financial support and loans, contact the University's Financial Aid Office, 541-737-2241.
Mina J. Carson (Harvard 1984, Associate Professor) history of psychology and social work, American social and cultural history.
Ronald E. Doel (Princeton, 1990, Associate Professor of History and Geosciences) history of the earth and environmental sciences, international science, U.S. History.
Paul L. Farber (Indiana, 1970, OSU Distinguished Professor of History of Science and Professor of Zoology), history of biology and natural history, European intellectual history.
Gary B. Ferngren (University of British Columbia, 1973, Professor), social history of ancient medicine, the historical relationship of science and religion, history of Greece and Rome.
William Husband (Princeton, 1984, Professor) social displacement, cultural continuity and change, and the consolidation of political authority during the early Soviet period.
Paul E. Kopperman (Illinois, 1972, Professor), military medicine in the eighteenth century, English history, history of the holocaust.
Ben Mutschler (Columbia, 2000, Assistant Professer), Colonial America, Early American History and Culture, history of Colonial medicine.
Mary Jo Nye (Wisconsin, 1970, Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History), history of chemistry and physics, history of European, British, and U.S. science since the eighteenth century.
Robert A. Nye (Wisconsin, 1969, Emeritus Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History), history of social sciences, history of medicine, human sexuality, and gender, European intellectual history.
William G. Robbins (Oregon, 1969, OSU Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History), environmental history, history of the American West and Pacific Northwest.
Lisa T. Sarasohn (UCLA, 1979, Professor), early modern science, medieval and early European history.
Jeffrey Sklansky (Columbia, 1996, Associate Professor), history of the social sciences, nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history.
Additional history faculty members have expertise in the history of the U.S., Russia, China, the Middle East and Islamic cultures, Latin America and Mexico, and Africa, with fields including African American history, the history of women, Native American history, and U.S. foreign relations.
Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist, eds., The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science (London: Routledge, 2006).
Paul L. Farber, Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson, (2000).
Gary Ferngren, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
Robert Nye, ed. Sexuality (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Mary Jo Nye, ed. Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Lisa Sarasohn, The Scientific Revolution (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006).
Jeffrey Sklansky, The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood
in American Thought, 1820 - 1920 (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2002).
Sharyn Clough (Simon Fraser University, 1997, Assistant Professor), history and philosophy of science.
Jonathan Kaplan (Stanford University, 1996, Assistant Professor), biomedical ethics, philosophy of economics, epistemology, metaphysics, Wittgenstein.
Michael J. Scanlan (SUNY Buffalo, 1982, Emeritus Associate Professor), philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science.
William L. Uzgalis (Stanford, 1981, Associate Professor), epistemology and metaphysics, history of modern philosophy.
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