Contributors
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Benjamin R. Cohen is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech. He is currently working on a new project dealing with science, satire, and culture in American history. Having obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech's Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, he is also working on a book about chemistry and the environment in rural antebellum America related to his 2004 dissertation.
Sofie Lachapelle is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and until recently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She wrote her dissertation on mediumistic phenomena in France between 1852 and 1931. She is currently working on the relationship between theory formation and disciplinary organization in the creation of French psychology.
Susan Lanzoni is a Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University's History of Science program and was a NSF Post-Doctoral fellow at Boston University's Center for Philosophy and History of Science. Her publications have explored themes in the history of psychiatry, phenomenology, and the doctor-patient relationship, and have appeared in the journals Critical Inquiry (2003) and History of Psychiatry (2004). She is currently working on a history of empathy.
Sha Xin Wei is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University with a dissertation on the phenomenology of differential geometric practice and the technologies of writing, as a joint project in Mathematics, Computer Science, and History and Philosophy of Science. In 2001, he joined the faculty [End Page 165] of Georgia Tech in Atlanta as a professor of critical studies of technoscience and media, where Sha established the Topological Media Laboratory for the study of gesture and materiality from computational and phenomenological perspectives. He is currently Visiting Scholar in History of Science at Harvard University, and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.
Hanna Rose Shell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research interests coalesce around the history of nature from the Renaissance to the present, visual representation in the environmental sciences, and material culture studies. She is the author, most recently, of an article "Skin Deep: Taxidermy, Embodiment, and Extinction" (2004). In 2002, Shell edited and introduced the reprint of William T. Hornaday's The Extermination of the American Bison [1889]. She is currently finishing a documentary film, "Locomotion in Water," about Etienne-Jules Marey and the visual context of late-nineteenth century physiology.
Eric Sonstroem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Pacific. [End Page 166]
