Professor of History and Humanities,
Department of History,
University of New Hampshire.
 
Welcome to my homepage.

This page will allow you to find out about the courses I teach at the University of New Hampshire and about my research interests and publications.

How to contact me:

Mailing address: Department of History, Horton Social Science Center, 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824-3586, U.S.A.

Phone: (603) 862-3789

E-mail: jan.golinski@unh.edu

Office: Horton Social Science Center 403

I AM ON LEAVE FOR THE 2012-13 ACADEMIC YEAR.

Introduction

Personal information: I have B.A. and M.A. degrees in Natural Sciences from Christ's College, Cambridge University. My Ph.D. (1984) is in History and Philosophy of Science, from the University of Leeds, U.K. I have taught at the University of Lancaster (U.K.), at Churchill College, Cambridge University, and at Princeton University. I have held fellowships at the University of Wisconsin, at the William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA, at the Huntington Library, and at the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology, MIT. I have been on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire since 1990 and am a Professor in the History Department and the Humanities Program. In 1998, I received the UNH Outstanding Faculty Award (Associate Professor).
 
 

Teaching Interests: In the History Department and the Humanities Program, I teach general education courses on the history of science from the ancient world to the twentieth century. My advanced undergraduate courses are on aspects of the history of European science since the Renaissance. For graduate students, I offer the following fields: Early-modern European science; the Enlightenment; European intellectual history; historiography.
 
 

Research interests: I have published articles on the history of chemistry, on problems of method in the history of science, and on the social history of science in Britain in the long eighteenth century. My first book, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1992 and is still available in a paperback edition. My second book, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, is now available in a new edition by the University of Chicago Press (2005). I edited an international collaborative volume on The Sciences in Enlightened Europe with William Clark and Simon Schaffer (Chicago, 1999). My most recent book, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment, was published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2007.

 

 Follow the links below for more information

• COURSES 

• UNH Minor in History and Philosophy of Science

• My curriculum vitae (PDF)

• Information about my books and WRITINGS AVAILABLE ONLINE

• British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

• Making Natural Knowledge

• Resources for research in history of science  

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Last updated: 21 June 2011.

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