Curriculum vitae, April 2010
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Department of History
Northwestern University
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| 2003 - present |
Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University. |
| 2003 - present |
Professor of History, Northwestern. |
| 1994 - 2010 |
Founding director, Science in Human Culture Program, Northwestern. |
| 2001 - 2002 |
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation, Chicago. |
| 1999 - 2003 |
Harold and Virginia Anderson Outstanding Teaching Professor, Northwestern. |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Visiting Scholar, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris. |
| 1997 - 2003 |
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern. |
| 1991 - 1997 |
Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern. |
EDUCATION
| 1991, Ph.D. |
Harvard University. History of science. |
| 1981, A.B. |
Harvard University. Honors physics. Phi Beta Kappa. National Merit Scholar. |
HONORS, PRIZES
The 2004 Kagan Prize of The Historical Society, for
The Measure of All Things, co-winner for the best book in
European history published in 2002-03. |
The 2003 Davis Prize of the History of Science Society, for
The Measure of All Things, winner for the best book directed to
a general audience in the history of science published in 2002. |
The 2003 Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of
Science, for The Measure of All Things, winner for the best
book in the history of science published in 2001-02. |
The 1998 Dexter Prize (now Edelstein Prize) from the Society
for the History of Technology, for Engineering the Revolution,
winner for the best book in the history of technology
published in 1995-1997. |
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS
| Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2010-11. |
National Science Foundation Scholar’s Award: Program in Science,
Technology, and Society, and Program in Law and Social Sciences,
2008-09. |
Visiting Senior Scholar, American Bar Foundation,
Chicago, 2001-02. |
National Science Foundation Scholar's Award, Science and
Technology Studies, 1997-2000. |
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry
Library, Chicago, 1997-98. |
Henry M. Phillips Research Grant in Jurisprudence, American
Philosophical Society, Summer 1997. |
| University Research Grant, Northwestern University, Summer 1995. |
Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Northwestern
University, 1994-95. |
Whiting Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard
University, 1990-91. |
| Mellon Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, 1988-89. |
| National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1984-87. |
Fulbright Fellowship, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1982-83. |
BOOKS PUBLISHED
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession.
New York: The Free Press,
March 2007.
- Foreign language editions:
Japanese: Tokyo, Hayakawa [2008].
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and
Hidden Error that Transformed the World. New York: The
Free Press, 2002; paperback, 2003.
London: Abacus/Time Warner Books, 2002; paperback, 2004.
- Foreign-language publications:
Italian: La misura di tutte le cose: L'avventurosa
storia dell'invenzione de sistema metrico decimale.
Milan: Rizzoli, 2002.
Spanish: La Medida de Todas las Cosas: La Odisea de
Siete Años y el Error Oculto que Transformaron el Mundo.
Madrid: Taurus, 2003.
Dutch: De Maat van alle Dingen: : De Zevenjarige
zoektocht naar de Universele Meter. Amsterdam:
Ambo/Anthos, 2003.
Portuguese: La medida de todas as coisas: A odisséia
de sete anos e o erro encoberto que transformaram o mundo.
Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2003.
Swedish: Världens Mått: Berättelsen om hur Metersystemet
Förändrade Världen. Stockholm: Norstedts, 2003.
Norwegian: Alle Tings Mål: Den Syv Ar Lange Odysseen
Og Den Skjulte Feilen Som Forandret Verden.
Oslo: Cappelen, 2003.
German: Das Mass der Welt: Die Suche nach dem Urmeter.
Munich: Bertelsmann, 2003; paperback 2005.
French: Mesurer le monde, 1792-1799, l’incroyable histoire du
mesure du mètre. Paris: Flammarion, 2005.
Chinese (simple characters): Beijing: HuaWen, 2005.
Chinese (complex characters): Taiwan: Owl/Cite Publishing,
2006.
Japanese: Tokyo: Hayakawa, 2006.
Hebrew: Tel Aviv: Kinneret-Zmora, 2007. Hakol lefee meeda
- Prizes/Honors:
Co-winner of the Kagan Prize of The Historical Society
for 2002-03
Winner of the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society
for 2002; citation in Isis 95 (2004): 263.
Winner of the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the
History of Science for 2001-02.
NY Times “Notable Book” for 2002.
Shortlisted (finalist) for The Longmann, History Today
Prize, 2002.
Second place, best science/fact book of year, 2004, Buchjournal
[Germany], December 2004.
Winner of the 2005 Prix de la Traduction Pierre-François Caillé
from the Société Française des Traducteurs, for the French
translation by Martine Devillers-Argouac’h.
Cited as a “Best Book of 2002” by The Economist, Discover
Magazine, Book Sense, Library Journal, The Sunday Times
(London), The Sunday Telegraph, Granta, and The Spectator.
Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in
France, 1763-1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1997. Paperback edition, 1999.
- Honors: Winner of the 1998 Dexter/Edelstein Prize of the Society
for the History of Technology, citation in Technology & Culture 40
(1999): 623-24.
- Featured in review essays: C. C. Gillispie, Technology & Culture
39 (1998): 742-54; Myles Jackson, Journal of Modern History 71
(1999): 902-13; Donald MacKenzie, London Review of Books
(11 December 1997):18-19; Terry Shinn, Social Studies of Science
29 (1999): 135-44. |
MAJOR ARTICLES
“America’s Two Gadgets: Of Bombs and Polygraphs.” Guest-editor
and author of an essay and introduction for an invited Focus
Section entitled “Thick Things,” Isis [March, 2007].
“It’s Not About France.” Why France?, pp. 189-210. Ed. Laura Lee
Downs and Stéphane Gerson. Ithaca: Cornell Unversity Press,
2006.
"History's Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and Fraud along
the Seine." Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 702-16. German
translation: “Der Grösste Fälscher der Geschichte,” Sinn
und Form 57 (2005): 748-64.
"A Social History of Untruth: Lie Detection and Trust in
Twentieth-Century America." Representations 80 (2002):
1-33.
Review Essay: "The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic
Theory of Relativistic Objectivity." In A Companion to
Western Historical Thought, pp. 297-318. Eds. Lloyd
Kramer and Sarah Maza. London: Blackwell, 2002.
"French Engineers Become Professionals, Or, How
Meritocracy Made Knowledge Objective." In The Sciences
in Enlightened Europe, pp. 94-125. Eds. William Clark, Jan
Golinski, and Simon Schaffer. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999.
"To Tell the Truth: The Polygraph Exam and the Marketing
of American Expertise." Historical Reflections 24 (1998):
487-525.
"Stepson of the Enlightenment: The Duc Du Châtelet, The
Colonel Who 'Caused' the French Revolution." Eighteenth-
Century Studies 32 (1998): 1-18.
"Making Things the Same: Technological Representation,
Manufacturing Tolerance, and the End of the Old Régime
in France." Social Studies of Science 24 (1998): 499-545.
"Innovation and Amnesia: Engineering Rationality and the
Fate of Interchangeable Parts Manufacturing in France."
Technology and Culture 38 (1997): 273-311.
"A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the
Metric System in France." In Values of Precision, pp. 39-
71. Ed. M. Norton Wise. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1995. |
OTHER ARTICLES
Published interview: “Le mètre et le méridien,” Libération (13
August 2006): i-iii.
Popular article: “Der heisse Stuhl,” NZZ-Folio, the monthly
magazine of the daily newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung,
Zürich (August 2006): 26-31.
Popular article: “Der Meter misst keinen Meter!” NZZ-Folio, the
monthly magazine of the daily newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung,
Zürich (February 2005): 22-25.
Popular article: “The Measure of the World.” The Dibner Library of
the History of Science and Technology. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2004.
Popular article: “La démesure du mètre.” La Recherche 13
(October-December, 2003): 16-21.
Popular article: “Europe’s Rulers.” Times Educational Supplement, 8
November 2002, pp. 12-15.
Popular article: “The Mismeasure of All Things.” American Heritage
of Invention and Technology (Fall 2002): 38-44.
Encyclopedia article: “Weights and Measures.” In The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History. Ed. Joel Mokyr. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
Popular article: “Les tours et détours du détecteur de mensonge.”
La recherche 341 (April 2001): 48-53. Reprinted in special
edition: La recherche, hors-series 8 (July/September 2002):
60-65. Spanish edition: “Las mentiras del detector de
mentieras,” Mundo Cientifico 224 (May 2001): 58-63.
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