D. Graham Burnett (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1997[2001]) specializes in the history of natural history and the sciences of the earth and the sea from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including cartography, navigation, and hydrography. His recent research has examined the role of the geographical sciences in European colonialism. He has also worked on Charles Darwin, the history of exploration, and early modern optics. His first book, Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado (2000), examines the relationship between cartography and colonialism in the 19th century. He is also the author of Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest (2005), a monograph on Cartesian thought and 17th-century lens making. He is currently writing two histories of cetaceans and cetology (the study of whales and dolphins), one focusing on the nineteenth century, and the other on the twentieth.

Angela N.H. Creager (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1991) specializes in the history of the modern life sciences. She is author of several articles on the history of biochemistry and molecular biology and one book, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (Chicago, 2002). She is currently studying the effects of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's radioisotope distribution program on biological and medical research after World War II. Her other interests include the relationship of feminism to modern science and historical interactions between the physical and biological sciences.

Edward A. Eigen (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000) is an architectural historian and scholar whose work focuses on intersections of the human and natural sciences with architecture in the 19th century. He is currently preparing to publish the book An Anomalous Plan which discusses a system of novel sites, instruments, and institutions for researching the natural environment.

Benjamin A. Elman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980) is Professor of East Asian Studies and History with his primary department in East Asian Studies. His teaching and research fields include: 1) Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; 2) history of science in China, 1600-1930; 3) history of education in late imperial China; and 4) Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. His publications include: From Philosophy To Philology (1984, 1990, 2001); Classicism, Politics, and Kinship (1990); A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (2000); and On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (2005). He is currently working on two book projects: A Short Cultural History of Modern Science in Late Imperial China (forthcoming); and a study of cultural interaction in East Asia during the 18th century, in particular the impact of Chinese classical learning, medicine, and natural studies on Japan and Korea.

Daniel E. Garber (Ph.D. Harvard, 1975), Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, is principally interested in the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the period of the Scientific Revolution. Garber is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992) and Descartes Embodied (2001), and is co-editor of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). He is currently working on a variety of topics, including studies of Aristotelianism and its opponents in early seventeenth-century France and physics and philosophy in Leibniz's thought. His gravlax is considered by many to be a wonder of nature.

Charles C. Gillispie (Emeritus) (Ph.D. Harvard, 1949) founded undergraduate teaching in history of science at Princeton in 1956 and the Graduate Program in 1960. Now retired, he participates in the Program Seminar, in colloquia, and in consulting with students. He specializes in 18th and early 19th-century science, and particularly in the relation of science to political and intellectual developments in France during the Enlightenment and the revolutionary and Napoleonic era. His most widely read book is The Edge of Objectivity (1960; new edition 1992). His publications include Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1847: A Life in Exact Science (1997). He is currently working on Science and Polity in France, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Michael Gordin(Ph.D. Harvard, 2001) specializes in the history of the modern physical sciences, with a particular emphasis on science in Russia. He has published articles on a variety of topics, such as the introduction of science into Russia in the early eighteenth century, the history of biological warfare in the late Soviet period, the relations between Russian literature and science, and a series of studies on the life and chemistry of Dmitrii I. Mendeleev, formulator of the periodic system of chemical elements. His book-length cultural history of Mendeleev in Imperial St. Petersburg, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, was released by Basic Books in April 2004. He is continuing in this vein with a study of a cadre of Russian scientists, including Mendeleev and the composer and chemist Aleksandr Borodin, who studied chemistry together in Germany in the late 1850s and then returned to help establish a modern, professional scientific community in St. Petersburg. He is also the author of the recently published Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, on the use of atomic bombs on Japan, and is currently researching a transnational history of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.

Anthony T. Grafton (Ph.D. Chicago, 1975) has special interests in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. His past books include intellectual biographies of a 15th-century Italian humanist, architect, and town planner, Leon Battista Alberti; a 16th-century Italian astrologer and medical man, Girolamo Cardano; and a 16th-century French classicist and historian, Joseph Scaliger. He is also the author of two collections of essays, Defenders of the Text (1991) and Bring Out Your Dead (2001). He is currently working on a large-scale study of the science of chronology in 16th- and 17th-century Europe: how scholars attempted to assign dates to past events, reconstruct ancient calendars, and reconcile the Bible with competing accounts of the past. He hopes to reconstruct the complex and dramatic process by which the biblical regime of historical time collapsed, concentrating on the first half of the 17th century. In addition, he is collaborating with Daniel Rosenberg (Oregon) on a graphic history of chronological schemes, tentatively entitled Time In Print, and with Joanna Weinberg (Oxford) on a study of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) as a Hebraist.

Michael S. Mahoney (Ph.D. Princeton, 1967) has taught history and history of science at Princeton since 1965. He divides his teaching and research between the history of the mathematical science from Antiquity to 1700 and the history of technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author of The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (Princeton, 1973; 2nd ed. 1994), of René Descartes, The World (Le Monde) (Abaris, 1979), and of studies of Huygens, Barrow, and Newton, he has written more generally on the development of algebra and analysis during the 17th century, as well as on ancient and medieval mathematics. He is currently engaged in a study of the origins of theoretical computer science during the 1950s and '60s and in the development of software engineering.

Gyan Prakash (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1984) specializes in the history of colonial India, and his research and teaching interests include the relationship between colonialism and production of knowledge. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990), and his publications include the edited volume, After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). His most recent book, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999), explores the historical composition and functioning of science's cultural authority in colonial and postcolonial India. He is currently engaged in a research on the history of Bombay as an idea.

Eileen Reeves (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, and specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific literature. Her articles concern the relationships between early modern literature and various developments in cartography, magnetism, and astronomy. Her first book, Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo, was published by Princeton University Press in 1997. Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror will be published by Harvard University Press in 2008. She has also completed, together with Albert van Helden, an annotated translation of Galileo's and Christoph Scheiner's treatises on the sunspots, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008.

Emily Thompson (B.S. Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1984, PhD. History, Princeton University, 1992) Emily Thompson is a historian of technology who studies early twentieth-century America. Her research explores the cultural history of sound, music, noise, and listening, and focuses on how these phenomena and activities intersect with technologies like the phonograph, motion pictures, and architecture. She is the author of The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. Her current book project, Sound Effects will examine the working lives of sound engineers, editors, musicians, projectionists, and other technicians (as well as a few gangsters) associated with the production and exhibition of films in the U.S. circa 1925-1933.

Helen Tilley (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2001) specializes in the history of science in colonial Africa, placing particular emphasis on environmental, medical, and anthropological sciences. Her research examines the mutual influences of imperialism and disciplinary development. She is also interested in exploring intersections between environmental history and the history of science, especially in tropical environments, as well as the history of racial science and medicine. She has written several articles and book chapters on the history of ecology, eugenics, agriculture, and epidemiology in tropical Africa and is co-editor of a volume titled Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Ordering of Africa.