Catherine Mary Jackson, PhD Department of the History of Science, 1225 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-‐1528, USA Phone: +1 608 890 4412; Email:
[email protected]
Current Position Jan 2015-‐
Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science, UW-‐Madison
Departmental, College and University Service May 2015-‐
0% Affiliate Appointment in the Department of Chemistry, UW-‐Madison
May 2015-‐
Core Faculty in the Material Culture Program, UW-‐Madison
2016-‐17
Chair of Graduate Admissions and Departmental Graduate Committee Member Ad-‐Hoc Undergraduate Teaching Committee Member
2015-‐16
Departmental Graduate Committee Member
May 2016-‐
PhD Committee Member for Dan Liu, History of Science Department, UW-‐Madison
July 2016 Jan 2016-‐
Liu’s project examined changing conceptions of cellular cytoplasm from 1840 to 1940.
MA/MFA Committee Member for Tyler Gordon, Art Department, UW-‐Madison Gordon’s project focuses on the work of itinerant glassblowers in late 19th Century North America.
Fellowships 2011-‐
Honorary Research Associate in Science and Technology Studies, UCL, London
Fall 2014
Honorary Fellow in the Department of the History of Science, UW-‐Madison, USA
2011-‐2012
Gordon Cain Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
Fall 2007
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Professional Affiliations Member of the History of Science Society Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chartered Chemist (MRSC, CChem) Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Member of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Education 2004-‐09
PhD History of Science
University of London
2002-‐04
MSc History of Science, Technology and
University of London
Medicine 1997-‐98
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
King’s College, London
(Chemistry) 1985-‐88
PhD Organic Chemistry
Clare College, Cambridge
1982-‐85
MA Natural Sciences (BA 1985, MA 1999)
Clare College, Cambridge
Employment History 2012-‐2014
Graduate Program in HPS and Dept of History,
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame, USA 2009-‐2011
Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Teaching Fellow
2004-‐2006
Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Teaching Assistant
2003-‐2005
Language Centre, UCL
Subject Leader in Chemistry
2004
Dept of Chemistry, UCL
Lecturer in Chemistry
2002-‐3
SOAS, University of London
Subject Leader in Chemistry
Sutton High School GDST
Teacher of Chemistry
2000-‐02
Wimbledon High School GDST
Head of Chemistry
1998-‐99
Godolphin and Latymer School, London
Teacher of Chemistry
1990-‐97
Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd
Project Leader
1989
Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Grants and Awards 2016 Burkett Lecturer awarded by the Chemistry Department, De Pauw University, USA. The Burkett Lectures are endowed ($2500) by alumni of De Pauw’s Chemistry Department to honor the memory of esteemed teacher and researcher Howard Burkett (1916-‐2009). 2014 Liebig-‐Wöhler-‐Freundschaftspreis endowed by Wilhelm Lewicki and awarded by the Göttinger Chemischen Gesellschaft, Museum der Chemie e.V. Declined. 2011 (With Chiara Ambrosio) “Undergraduate research goes digital: using open educational resources to develop teaching and research on the directed community model”: Tranche 13 Mini-‐Projects Funding from the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, The Higher Education Academy. 2005-‐8 “Analysis and Synthesis in 19th-‐Century Chemistry: Toward a New Philosophical History of Scientific Practice”: named PhD student on this Leverhulme Trust Research Project (Principal Investigator: Hasok Chang; Project ID: F/07 134/BD).
Monograph in Preparation Material World: Making Modern Chemistry. University of Chicago Press has invited submission of the manuscript; completion expected 2017.
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Edited Volume (Co-‐editor with Hasok Chang) An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. (British Society for the History of Science: 2007). In addition to normal editorial tasks, my role as co-‐editor of this volume included producing consolidated essays presenting research on particular topics performed by five successive cohorts of undergraduate students in STS at University College London. I was also Hasok Chang’s TA for the final teaching cycle of this highly innovative course.
Articles and Chapters (* indicates peer reviewed) In preparation for Fusion: Journal of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society, “In the flame of a proper lamp.” In preparation for Tools in Materials Research, eds. Cyrus C. M. Mody and Joseph D. Martin (Vancouver: Vancouver University Press), “Glassware.” *Under review at History of Science, “Emil Fischer and the ‘Art of Chemical Experimentation’.” Based on Emil Fischer’s investigation of the sugars in 1880s and 90s Germany, this study presents a new analysis of the foundations of chemical knowledge, revising the theory/practice relationship in nineteenth-‐century chemistry. It explains how laboratory reasoning led Fischer to a crucial impasse between experiment and theory, and how he resolved this impasse by re-‐conceptualizing sugars in three-‐dimensions. Finally, it reveals that it was by laboratory reasoning – and not by applying any theory – that Fischer mastered the sugars and achieved the landmark 1892 synthesis of glucose.
Invited contribution to the 2016 Metzler Handbuch Wissenschaftsgeschichte, eds. Marianne Sommer, Staffan Müller-‐Wille, und Carsten Reinhardt (Stuttgart: Metzler), “Laboratorium.” This chapter presented a revised and extended introduction to laboratory history and lab studies for a German language readership.
Invited contribution to the 2016 Blackwell Companion to the History of Science, ed. Bernard Lightman (Oxford: Blackwell-‐Wiley), “The Laboratory:” 296-‐309. In addition to providing an introduction to laboratory history and lab studies, this chapter used my original research as the basis of a radical proposal for the future re-‐invigoration of the field. It argued for practice, pedagogy, and material culture as productive approaches to new lab studies integrating the practice of science with its venue.
*Invited contribution to a special issue in honor of Alan Rocke: “Chemical Identity Crisis: Glass and Glassblowing in the Identification of Organic Compounds,” Annals of Science 72 (2015): 187-‐205. This sequel to “The ‘Wonderful Properties of Glass’” argued that making melting and boiling points serve as reliable indicators of chemical purity and identity was essential to the development of synthetic organic chemistry, and it showed how chemists achieved this outcome by using glass and glassblowing.
*“The ‘Wonderful Properties of Glass’: Liebig’s Kaliapparat and the Practice of Chemistry in Glass,” Isis 106 (2015): 43-‐69. This essay identified a previously overlooked yet supremely important change in the material culture of chemistry. Explaining the causes and examining the consequences of what I have called the “glassware revolution” provides new insight into nineteenth century chemistry’s shifting geography and demography, as well as its institutional and professional development.
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*“Synthetical Experiments and Alkaloid Analogues: Liebig, Hofmann and the Origins of Organic Synthesis,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44 (2014): 319-‐363. This essay provides the first historical explanation of the origins and goals of early organic synthesis, continuing the historiographical revision begun in “The Curious Case of Coniine” and showing how August Hofmann developed synthesis as a highly productive method of research in organic chemistry..
Invited contribution to the edited volume arising from the 2012 Cain Conference at Chemical Heritage Foundation: “The Curious Case of Coniine: Constructive Synthesis and Aromatic Structure theory,” pp. 61-‐101 in Ursula Klein and Carsten Reinhardt, eds. Objects of Chemical Inquiry (Science History Publications: Sagamore Beach, MA, 2014). This essay used a study of Albert Ladenburg’s synthesis of the natural alkaloid coniine to begin laying out an entirely new historiography of nineteenth century organic chemistry based on two major new landmarks in the development of organic chemists’ synthetic capability.
*(With Chiara Ambrosio) “Building on the ‘Directed Community’ Model: Projects and Prospects,” Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 10 (2011): available online at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/subjects/prs/Building-‐on-‐Directed-‐Community-‐vol-‐ 10-‐3. This co-‐authored essay reported on two modified applications of Hasok Chang’s innovative “Directed Community” model for teaching research skills to undergraduates.
*“Chemistry as the Defining Science: Discipline and Training in Nineteenth-‐century Chemical Laboratories,” Endeavour 35 (2011): 55-‐62. This short original research essay showed how developments in chemical practice and pedagogy drove the development of the design, fitting, and organization of chemical laboratories and it used this argument to revise our understanding of the “laboratory revolution” in late nineteenth century physics. If laboratory physics has appeared to undergo rapid and unproblematic change between about 1870 and 1880, this is only because all the essential components of that change had previously been established within chemistry.
*Invited contribution to a special issue responding to Stephen Shapin’s essay “The Invisible Technician:” “Visible Work: the Role of Students in the Creation of Justus Liebig’s Giessen Research School,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62 (2008): 31-‐49. In this essay, a detailed study of Justus Liebig’s 1830 laboratory notebook provided the basis for a new account of the origins and early development of Liebig’s famous Giessen research school.
*“Re-‐examining the research school: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-‐creation of a Liebigian Research School in London,” History of Science 44 (2006): 281-‐319. My first published essay used Hofmann’s London research school to illustrate how the research school approach could usefully be supplemented by studies of practice, pedagogy and material culture.
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Essay Reviews “Who was William Hyde Wollaston,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A (2016): published online May 20 2016, DOI 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.03.001. This essay review of Melvyn C. Usselman’s Pure Intelligence (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015) took Usselman’s biography of Wollaston as the starting point for an analysis of the role of biography in the history of science.
Invited Talks (With Tracy Drier, Master Scientific Glassblower, Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison) “In the flame of a proper lamp,” workshop contribution to the Burdick-‐Vary Symposium sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin – Madison, March 4 2017. “Historian meets Glass,” keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society (Midwest Section), University of Wisconsin – Madison, September 24 2016. “Emil Fischer and the ‘Art of Chemical Experimentation’: What did Nineteenth-‐Century Chemists Actually Do?” Burkett Lecture at the Chemistry Department, De Pauw University, 14 April 2016. “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: recovering the lost world of practice in 19th century chemistry,” Burkett Lecture at the Chemistry Department, De Pauw University, 14 April 2016. “Vitreous Virtuosity,” at the noncrystallinehistory workshop organized by Tyler Gordon MA at the Glass Lab, Art Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 12 March 2016. “The ‘Methodical Production of Genius’: Collective Practice and Chemical Theory in Emil Fischer’s Laboratory,” Organic Chemistry Seminar at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, 12 March 2015. “A History of Chemistry in Four Acts,” colloquium presentation at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, 21 February 2014. “How did Practice lead to Theory in Emil Fischer’s Work,” colloquium presentation at the University of Minnesota, 8 February 2013. “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: recovering the lost world of practice in 19th century chemistry,” presentation as part of the FoHCS session Chemistry in the Public Sphere at the History of Science Society meeting in San Diego, 17 November 2012. “The Curious Case of Coniine,” at the Workshop on Chemists’ Objects of Enquiry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 4 October 2012. “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: recovering the lost world of practice in 19th century chemistry”, Fellow in Focus lecture at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 23 May 2012.
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“Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania”, Seminar on the History and Philosophy of Science, Caltech, 13 April 2012. “Chemists’ Histories: the Power and Meaning of Synthesis”, Workshop in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 27 February 2012. “Glassware Revolution: the Kaliapparat and the new practice of chemistry”, at the NYU Gallatin History of Science Writing Group, New York City, 16 December 2011. “Vitreous Virtuosity: chemical glassblowing and the material culture of 19th century chemistry”, Brown Bag Lecture at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 4 October 2011. “Chemistry as the Defining Science: discipline and training in nineteenth-‐century chemical laboratories”, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University, 8 February 2011. “Re-‐Writing the History of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century”, at Imperial College, London, 28 May 2009. “Chemical Identity Crisis”, at the University of Regensburg, Germany, 11 June 2008. “The Development of Institutional Chemical Laboratories“, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 29 May 2007.
Selected Conference Papers “Chemists’ Histories and the History of Chemistry,” at the History of Science Society meeting, San Francisco, 19 November 2015. “The ‘Methodical Production of Genius’: Collective Practice and Chemical Theory in Emil Fischer’s Laboratory,” at the History of Science Society meeting, Chicago, 8 November 2014. “Chemical Identity Crisis,” at iCHSTM, Manchester, 25 July 2013. “Glassware Revolution: the Kaliapparat and the new practice of chemistry,” at the History of Science Society meeting, Cleveland, 5 November 2011. (With Chiara Ambrosio) “Building on the ‘Directed Community’ Model: Projects and Prospects,” at the conference “Foundations for the Future,” Greenwich, 13 July 2011. “Chemical Identity Crisis,” at the Three Societies Meeting, Oxford, 5 July 2008. (With Hasok Chang) “The Chlorine Project,” at the Three Societies Meeting, Oxford, 5 July 2008. (With Hasok Chang ) “Turning an Undergraduate Class into a Professional Research Community,” at the Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL, 15 April 2008. “Chemical Grand Tours and Laboratory Evolution,” at the conference “Nineteenth Century Chemistry: Spaces and Collections,” Museum of Science, University of Lisbon, 2 February 2007.
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Conference Organization Scientific Committee Member (with Carin Berkowitz, Lissa Roberts, Fa-‐Ti Fan, James Delbourgo) for Chemical Reactions: Chemistry and Global History, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 10-‐12 April 2014. Co-‐organiser (with Carin Berkowitz) of two panels at iCHTSM Manchester, 25 July 2013: S043-‐A Establishing and Standardising Knowledge and S043-‐B Communicating and Disputing Knowledge Claims.
Public Engagement “Emil Fischer and ‘the Art of Chemical Experimentation’: What did nineteenth-‐century chemists actually do?” and “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: Recovering the lost world of practice in 19th century chemistry,” delivered as the 23rd Burkett Lectures at De Pauw University, USA, 14 April 2016. Interview for Chemical and Engineering News, 7 September 2015: http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i35/Important-‐Artifact.html Interview for Isis Journal Facebook, 21 May 2015: https://www.facebook.com/isis.journal/photos/a.748113081962372.1073741828.740349069405440 /767067033400310/?type=1&theater “A History of Chemistry in Three Acts,” public lecture hosted by the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, 18 September 2013. “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: Recovering the lost world of practice in 19th century chemistry,” Fellow in Focus lecture at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 23 May 2012. “Examination Fixation: three short stories in the history of education,” at Bedford School, Bedford, 23 March 2011. “The development of modern chemistry,” as part of a one-‐day school in the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education, 29 January 2011. “Chemistry: the Defining Science,” at the Chemical and Physical Society, UCL, 20 October 2009.
Refereeing and Reviewing Grant referee for the Wellcome Trust Article referee for Annals of Science, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Endeavour, Heteroatom, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Isis Book reviewer for Endeavour, Chemistry World, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science CMJ CV Sept 2016.docx
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