University of Michigan CampusHistory Web Logo
 
   | | |

Faculty List
Staff List
New Faculty
News & Awards
 


Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
  John  Carson

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton, 1994

Other U of M Affiliation:

Director: Science, Technology & Society Program. Faculty Affiliate: Program in American Culture

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1765 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-647-7378
E-mail: jscarson@umich.edu
Field(s) of Study:
American intellectual/cultural history; history of science; history of the human sciences; modern European intellectual
Homepage:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jscarson
Selected Publications:
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2007)

"The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America," in States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order, ed. Sheila S. Jasanoff (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 181-205

"The Culture of Intelligence," in The Cambridge History of Science, volume 7, Modern Social Sciences, eds. Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 635-648

"Differentiating a Republican Citizenry: Talents, Human Science, and Enlightenment Theories of Governance," Osiris, vol. 17: Science and Civil Society, eds. Thomas Broman and Lynn Nyhart (2002): 74-103

"Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence," Isis 84(1993): 278-309

 

Faculty and Staff - Graduate Program - Undergraduate Program - Courses