Home , Go Back to faculty page SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT Professor Program in History of Science and Technology PhD, 1972, University of Illinois Click here for Sally's Science and Technology page Office: 204A Pillsbury Hall Phone: (612) 624-9368 Fax: (612) 625-3819 Email: sgk@...

My primary teaching and research relationship is with the Program of History of Science and Technology, which teaches undergraduate courses but offers only graduate degrees (www.physics.umn.edu/hsci) . I pursue research on the interface of science with American culture, particularly the practice of science in those institutions where there was a persistent and evident relationship with the larger society. Understanding the practice of science in historical terms and in relationship to the societies, museums, and laboratories makes more evident the changing nature of scientific investigation, the complex way in which scientific results are produced, and the impact of scientific knowledge on local and international communities.

My research also investigates the demographics of scientific activity, learning more about who has done science, including the patterns of participation as they vary by scientific disciplines and across disciplinary boundaries. In recent years my investigation includes the participation by women and the impact such participation has had on the practice of science. Other current research interests connect to the ways science has been presented to the public, particularly in the nineteenth century, through scientific organizations, through public museum displays, and through educational programs. My recent work has also explored the changing meaning of scientific literacy, as understood by scientists, educators, and public policy makers. For more details, see www.umn.edu/scitech.

Professional Society Memberships

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Historical Association
• Forum on the History of Science in America
• History of Science Society
• International Congress for the History of Science
• Organization of American Historians
• Society for the History of the Earth Sciences

• President's Award for Outstanding University Service, 2004
• Mullen/Spector/Truax Women's Leadership Award, UMN, 2002
• George Taylor Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Technology, 2000
• UMN TEL Award: Outstanding Computer Aided Course Project, 1998

• 20th Century Science and Technology
• Science in American Culture
• Women, Gender, and Science
• Women in Science: A Historical Perspective
• Seminar: History of Science and Technology in America

• Margot Iverson, Ph.D. 2007
• Mary Anne Andrei, Ph.D. 2007
• Susan Rensing, Ph.D. 2006
• Georgina Montgomery, Ph.D. 2005
• Paul Brinkman, Ph.D. 2005
• Juliet Burba, Ph.D. 2005
• Olivia W. Walling, Ph. D. 2005
• Donald Opitz, M. A. 1998; Ph.D. 2005
• Karin Matchett, Ph.D.,
• Juan Ilerbaig, Ph.D.
• Mary Thomas, Ph.D.
• Michael Reidy, Ph.D. 2000
• Mark Largent, Ph.D. 2000

• Co-authored with Michael Sokal and Bruce Lewenstein, The Establishment of Science in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999).
• Edited, Women in Science: An Isis Reader (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
• With Donald Opitz, "Re-imag(in)ing Women in Science: Crafting Self-Images and Negotiating Gender in Science," in Changing Images of the Sciences, ed. Ida Stamhuis, Teun Koetsier, Cornelis de Pater and Albert van Helden, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002), pp. 205-240.
• "Patterns of Participation: Women in Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century," National Women's Studies Association Journal 16 (Spring 2004): 1-26.
• With Paul Brinkman, "Framing Nature: The Formative Years of American Natural History Museum Development" (California Academy of Sciences, Memoirs, 2004)
• "Masculinity and Animal Display in Nineteenth-Century America," for Figural Vocabularies of Gender in Science, Technology, and Medicine, ed. Bernard Lightman and Ann Shteir (Hanover: New England Press, planned for 2006)
• "Nature not Books: Scientists and the Origins of the Nature Study Movement in the 1890s," Isis (December 2005)
• A>Thoughts in Things:= Modernity, History, and North American Museums,@ Isis 96 (December, 2006): 586-601.
• "'A Better Crop of Boys and Girls:= The School Gardening Movement, 1890s to the 1920s,@ History of Education Quarterly 48 (February 2008): 58-93.
• "Otis T. Mason's Tour of Europe: Observation and Exchange in Public Museums, 1889," Museum History Journal 2 (2008). (in press)

• NSF, Nature Study in Historical Perspective
• NSF Conference Grant, Women, Gender, and Science
• UMN Grant in Aid of Research, Exhibitionism in Natural History Museums