SST Faculty

SST Faculty are drawn from Philosophy, History of Science and Technology, History of Medicine, the Center for Philosophy of Science, and the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing.

Name & Title	Contact	Teaching Interests
Jennifer Alexander Associate Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 626-7309 jalexand@me.umn.edu Personal Website	History of industrial culture, bodies and machines, Nazi science and technology, the European efficiency and rationalization movements
Mark Borrello Assistant Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-7079 borrello@umn.edu	History of Biology, evolutionary theory, genetics and ecology, biology of behavior; biology and society
Bruce Braun Associate Professor Department of History	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
John Eyler Professor Department of History of Medicine	(612) 624-5921 eyler001@umn.edu	History of medicine and public health, epidemics, medicine and society
Fred Finley Associate Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction	(612) 625-2074 finle001@umn.edu	Science and environmental education
Alan Gross Professor Center for Writing	(612) 624-1209 grossalang@aol.com Personal Website	Rhetoric of science
Jennifer Gunn Associate Professor Department of History of Medicine	(612) 624-1909 gunnx005@umn.edu	Health policy; history of philanthropy, occupational medicine, and the organization of health care
Laura Gurak Professor Center for Writing	(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)
William Hanson Professor Department of Philosophy	(612) 625-4072 whanson@umn.edu	Logic, philosophy of logic and mathematics
Geoffrey Hellman Professor and Chair Department of Philosophy	(612) 625-8201 hellm001@umn.edu Personal Website	Philosophy of physics and mathematics, logic, epistemology
Michel Janssen Associate Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-5880 janss011@tc.umn.edu Personal Website	conceptual development of 19th and 20th century physics; history of relativity
Susan Jones Associate Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(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
Jeffrey Kahn Professor Department of Medicine Director Center for Bioethics	(612) 624-9440 kahnx009@umn.edu	Bioethics, including research ethics, ethics and genetics, and ethical issues in public health
Kenneth Keller Professor Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Director Center for Science, Technology, and Public Affairs	(612) 626-9547 khkeller@umn.edu	Technology and national sovereignty, the environment, the globalization of research and development, and policy issues in high technology medicine
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-9368 sgk@umn.edu Personal Website	History of science in America, women in science, education
Jean Langford Associate Professor Department of Anthropology	(612) 625-4092 langf001@umn.edu	Anthropology of science; healing practices and modernity
Alan Love Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy	(612) 625-4510 aclove@umn.edu Personal Website	Philosophy of Biology; philosophy of science; history of biology; epistemology
Thomas Misa Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-5050 tmisa@umn.edu Personal Website	Technology and modern culture; history of electronics and computing; historical methodologies
Hiromi Mizuno Assistant 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 Personal Website	Environmental rhetoric, history, and ethics; nature writing; science and religion; American cultural studies; regionalism and place studies
Naomi Scheman Professor Department of Philosophy	(612) 625-3430 nschema@umn.edu	Politics of epistemology, objectivity, realism, and physicalism, Wittgenstein
Robert W. Seidel Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-8003 rws@umn.edu	History of modern physical sciences and their applications
J. B. Shank Associate Professor Department of History	(612) 624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu Personal Website	Early modern intellectual and cultural history, history of the Scientific Revolution, "scientization" of political thought
Alan E. Shapiro Professor Program in History of Science and Technology	(612) 624-5770 ashapiro@physics.umn.edu	Scientific Revolution to early 1900s, Newton and history of optics
Karen-Sue Taussig Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology	(612) 625-3366 taussig@umn.edu	Anthropology of science, genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning, and stem cell research
C. Kenneth Waters Professor Department of Philosophy Director Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science	(612) 625-4325 ckwaters@umn.edu	Philosophy of biology: genetics, molecular biology, evolution; epistemology