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Of Note:

New SiSP Faculty Appointments:
The Science in Society Program is pleased to announce two new faculty appointments:
Dr. Laura Stark of the National Institutes of Health will become Assistant Professor of Science in Society and Sociology, beginning July 1, 2009. Dr. Stark received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and a post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University before taking her current post as a Stetten Fellow at the Office of NIH History.
Professor Gillian Goslinga of Stanford University will become Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and a member of the SiSP faculty, beginning July 1, 2009. Professor Goslinga received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is currently a Humanities Fellow at Stanford University.


Contact Information:
Chair of the Program:
Joseph Rouse
jrouse@wesleyan.edu
(860)685-3655

Administration:
Deborah Grasso
dgrasso@wesleyan.edu
(860)685-2680

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Tucker, Jennifer


Associate Professor of History
History Department
860.685.5389
222 Church Street 221

Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860.685.5389

Associate Professor, Science in Society
Science in Society Program
860.685.5389

BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University
EMAIL:
jtucker@wesleyan.edu
PERSONAL HOME PAGE:
http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 History Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
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.



AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.
AWARDS WON:
Visiting Faculty Fellow at Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts (Fall 2005); Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize; Johns Hopkins University Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
OFFICE HOURS:
On Leave 2009-2010
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)