Pamela H. Smith

Pamela H. Smith (born November 30, 1957 ) is a science historian .

Life

Smith studied history and theory of science from 1976 to 1979 at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales , where he received a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honors in November 1979 . From 1983 to 1990 she studied at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland and received his doctorate there in May 1991 at the Department of the History of Science for Ph.D. The title of her dissertation was Alchemy, Credit, and the Commerce of Words and Things: Johann Joachim Becher at the Courts of the Holy Roman Empire, 1635–82 . Her doctoral supervisor was the chemical historian Owen Hannaway .

From 1990 she taught at Pomona College , first as an assistant professor , then as an associate professor and finally from 2000 as a professor. As such, she held the chair of Margaret and Edwin F. Hahn Professor in the Social Sciences from 2000 to 2005 . In addition to teaching, she was Chair of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Claremont Colleges from 1992 to 2003 , and Director of European Studies at Claremont Graduate University from 1996 to 2003 .

In 2005, Smith moved to Columbia University in New York City , where he teaches the history of science and early modern European history as Seth Low Professor of History . Since 2013 she has been the founding director of the University's Center for Science and Society .

In 2014 she was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin-Dahlem . She is a member of the American Historical Association , the American Association for Netherlandic Studies , the History of Science Society , the Historians of Netherlandish Art , Interdisciplinary of Early Modern Times , the British Society for the History of Science , the Renaissance Society of America , the Society for the History of Technology and the Historical Metallurgy Society .

For her book The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire , she received the 1995 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society . In 2005 she received the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association for her book The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution .

Publications

• The Business of Alchemy. Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1994, ISBN 0-691-05691-9 .
• with Paula Findlen (Ed.): Merchants and Marvels. Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe. Routledge, New York 2002, ISBN 0-415-92815-X .
• The Body of the Artisan. Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2004, ISBN 0-226-76399-4 .
• with Benjamin Schmidt (Ed.): Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400--1800. University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-76328-6 .
• with Amy RW Meyers, Harold J. Cook (eds.): Ways of Making and Knowing. The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2014, ISBN 978-0-472-11927-1 .
• with Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop (Eds.): The Matter of Art. Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250-1750. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2015, ISBN 978-0-7190-9060-8 .

Web links

• Pamela H. Smith on the Columbia University website