History of Science, Technology and Medicine

The history of science, technology, and medicine has recently emerged as an important area of strength within The University of Texas History Department. The work of department faculty members spans many fields, periods, and regions, ranging from mathematics in pre-modern China to psychology in 20th-century America.

Members of our faculty also study the interaction of science and culture in the early modern Atlantic world, the history of natural history and evolutionary biology, medicine and public health in the 20th-century U.S., technology and the environment in the American West, the role technology has played in U.S. economic development, the relationship between materialism and science in 19th-century Europe, the history of mathematics and relativity theory , and the history of physics and technology in the 19th-century.

Science, Technology and Medicine faculty list