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Chair

Joseph Rouse

Hedding Professor of Moral ScienceShow Bio and Photo

Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Chair, Science in Society
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Professor, Science in Society
860-685-3655

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3655

jrouse@wesleyan.edu

BA Oberlin College
MA Northwestern University
PHD Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University

Fall 2011

PHIL258 - 01
Post-Kantian European Phil

SISP409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

SISP202 - 01
Philosophy of Science

SISP410 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Personal Homepage:
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Fall 2011: M 3-4 Russell House 202 W 11-12 Allbritton 209 Th 11-12 Allbritton 209 other meetings by appointment, usually in Russell House 202. Spring 2012: On sabbatical, but teaching one course postponed from fall and chairing SiSP

Research Interests:
Professor Rouse specializes in the philosophy of science, the history of 20th C. philosophy, and interdisciplinary science studies. His primary foci within these areas include the philosophy of scientific practice; naturalism and anti-naturalism in 20th Century philosophy; connections between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy; relations between philosophy of science and philosophy of mind/language and metaphysics; cultural studies of science and feminist science studies. He is currently working on a book on conceptual understanding in science and in discursive practice generally.

Scholarly Keywords:
Philosophy of Science
20th Century Philosophy
Social and Historical Studies of Science

Academic Associations:
American Philosophical Association
Philosophy of Science Association
History of Science Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
International Society for Phenomenological Studies
Society for Literature and Science

Publications:
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/publication-list/

Faculty

Paul Erickson

Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo

Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 420
860-685-5748

Assistant Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5748

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-5748

perickson@wesleyan.edu

BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison

Office Hours:
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2011-2012

Gillian Goslinga

Assistant Professor of AnthropologyShow Bio

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
222 Church Street 117
860-685-2454

Assistant Professor, Science in Society
222 Church Street 114
860-685-2454

ggoslinga@wesleyan.edu

BA Smith College
MA University of Southern California
PHD University of California, Santa Cruz

Fall 2011

ANTH101 - 02
Intro to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH397 - 01
The Politics of Nature

ANTH491 - 02
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial

SISP409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial

UNIV409 - 04
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

ANTH101 - 01
Intro to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH289 - 01
Ritual, Health, and Healing

ANTH404 - 01
Dept/Program Project or Essay

SISP410 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Allbritton 116/117, 222 Church Street, &nbsp;Tuesdays 3 to 4:30 and by appointment

Research Interests:
I am interested in the poetics and politics of incommensurable knowledges in the borderlands between religion and science, shamanism and medicine, and so-called 'superstition' and rationality. What social and historical processes make some 'facts' appear more factual than others in certain contexts and to whom? My latest research on this theme considers ontological negotiations and contestations over the 'facts of life' in Tamilnadu, South India as local gods and goddesses known for the boon of children encounter recently introduced and 'ultra-modern' reproductive technologies as the region modernizes.

Scholarly Keywords:
Critical medical anthropology, feminist science studies, the anthropology of religion, the anthropology of the body, visual anthropology, feminist ethnography.

Academic Associations:
American Anthropological Association Society for Feminist Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Religion Society for Visual Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Grants:
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship (2007-2008) Social Science Research Council IDFR (2000-2002) UC Regents Writing and Research grants (1996-2005)

William Johnston

Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo

Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 135
860-685-2375

Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures

Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2375

Professor, Science in Society
860-685-2375

wjohnston@wesleyan.edu

BA Elmira College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

Fall 2011

EAST419 - 01
Student Forum

HIST271 - 01
Atomic Bomb & Japan in History

HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST409 - 20
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SISP409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

EAST201 - 01
Pro-Seminar

EAST402 - 07
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

HIST323 - 01
Religion and History

HIST410 - 30
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SISP410 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesday mornings, 10 to 12, or by appointment.

Research Interests:
My current research topics are: Syphilis in Early Modern Japan Warfare and State Formation in Sixteenth Century Japan The Historiography of Amino Yoshihiko

Scholarly Keywords:
Modern Japanese History

Jill Morawski

Professor of PsychologyShow Bio

Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall 317
860-685-2344

Director, Center for the Humanities
Center for the Humanities 102
860-685-2344

Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-2344

Professor, Science in Society
860-685-2344

jmorawski@wesleyan.edu

BA Mount Holyoke College
MA Carleton University
PHD Carleton University
MAA Wesleyan University

Fall 2011

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

PSYC314 - 01
Theories in Psychology

PSYC401 - 12
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

PSYC409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SISP409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

PSYC259 - 01
Discovering the Person

PSYC402 - 06
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

PSYC410 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SISP410 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 2:45-4:15 &nbsp; &nbsp; room 317 Judd Hall

Research Interests:
History of modern psychological sciences with focus on the scientific practices accompanying claims about the nature of subjectivity and the moral commitments of scientific psychology.

Scholarly Keywords:
Social psychology, History of Psychology, Gender Studies

Laura Stark

Assistant Professor of SociologyShow Bio and Photo

Assistant Professor of Sociology
222 Church Street 207
860-685-3205

Assistant Professor of Science in Society
860-685-3205

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3205

ljstark@wesleyan.edu

BS Cornell University
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

Fall 2011

CHUM360 - 01
Social Life of the Modern Fact

SISP401 - 01
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

SISP409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SOC409 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

SISP262 - 01
Sociology of Medicine

SISP402 - 04
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

SISP410 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SISP420 - 01
Student Forum

SOC212 - 01
Sociology and Social Theory

SOC410 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Personal Homepage:
http://ljstark.faculty.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Monday, 2:30-3:30 p.m., or by appointment, Allbritton 207 X3205

Scholarly Keywords:
Science and Medicine;
Sociology of Ethics and Morality;
Law and Regulation;
Healthcare;
Social Theory;
Ethnographic and Historical Methods

Jennifer Tucker

Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo

Associate Professor of History
222 Church Street 221
860-685-5389

Associate Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5389

Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5389

Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
103
860-685-5389

jtucker@wesleyan.edu

BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2011

CHUM346 - 01
Visual Persuasion and the Law

HIST401 - 02
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

Spring 2012

FGSS269 - 01
Hist Persps on Women & Gender

HIST254 - 01
Science in Western Culture

Personal Homepage:
http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: in Allbritton 221.

Research Interests:
Jennifer Tucker's first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005) explores the social and cultural relations of photography, science, and ideas of truth in Victorian London. Other research concerns include artistic exchanges in scientific colonialism; interactions between science and popular culture; science and gender studies; and photography in historical documentation and interpretation. She is currently at work on a book about life and art in the Victorian photographic studio and is writing a series of essays about photography and historical interpretation.

Scholarly Keywords:
Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.

Grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies Grant; Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation Grant; British Marshall Scholarship (UK)