History and Philosophy of Science at Oregon State University

On Monday, May 6 2019, Ambika Natarajan—a doctoral candidate in Oregon State University’s History of Science Program—successfully defended her dissertation, titled, “Sex, Surveillance, and the Servant Question in Vienna: 1850-1914.” Dr. Natarajan’s work investigates how and why various historical actors crafted distinct narratives about chambermaids during the late nineteenth and pre-war twentieth centuries. Utilizing a […]

On January 11, 2019,  Trisha Thompson Pritikin sat for an oral history interview with Oregon State University’s Dr. Jacob Darwin Hamblin, as part of the NSF-funded project, “Reconstructing Nuclear Environments and the Downwinders’ Case.” Pritikin—a Downwinder who grew up in the 1950s downstream from the Hanford nuclear site in Richland, Washington—offered her story in front […]