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Associate Professor
Director and Director of Graduate Studies
Science, Technology & Society

• Affiliation(s)

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
  • Faculty Affiliate in Program in American Culture
  • Faculty Affiliate in Anthro-History Program

• Fields of Study

  • U.S. intellectual/cultural history, History of science, History of the human sciences, 19th-century U.S. history, European intellectual history

• Education

  • Ph.D. Princeton, 1994

• Research Areas of Interest

  • U.S. intellectual/cultural history, history of science, history of the human sciences, 19th-century U.S. history, European intellectual history

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2007) The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
  • (2003) The Culture of Intelligence

• Book Chapters

  • (2004) The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America, States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order