History and Philosophy of Science at Oregon State University

The graduate program, formerly known as History of Science has been renamed History and Philosophy of Science. This change, which will fully take effect in summer 2020, was a collaborative effort over the past seven years of various faculty members within the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University. This new exciting […]

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 […]

D M Cicchiello has been awarded the Robert and Mary Jo Nye Graduate Student Essay Award for their historiographic essay, Medical (un)Making: Ethical Responsibilities and the Search for Agency in J. Marion Sims’s Montgomery Experiments. The essay was written for Professor Jacob Hamblin’s History of Science 513 course, which covers the history of science in […]