Pamela H. Smith Explained
Pamela H. Smith is an American historian of science specializing in attitudes to nature in early modern Europe (1350-1700), with particular attention to craft knowledge and the role of craftspeople in the Scientific Revolution. She is the Seth Low Professor of History,[1] founding director of the Making and Knowing Project,[2] founding director of the Center for Science and Society,[3] and chair of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience,[4] all at Columbia University. Smith is serving a two-year term (2016-2018) as president of the Renaissance Society of America.[5]
Smith received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, in 1979 (First Class Honors), and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, in 1991.[6] Smith was the Margaret and Edwin F. Hahn Professor in the Social Sciences, and professor of history at Pomona College from 1990-2005 and the director of European Studies at Claremont Graduate University from 1996–2003.
Awards and fellowships
- Smith was a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin in 1994–1995.[7]
- In 1995, Smith received the Pfizer Award for her book The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994).[8]
- Smith was selected as a John S. Guggenheim Foundation fellow in 1997–1998.[9]
- Smith won the Sidney M. Edelstein international fellowship for research in the history of chemistry in 1997–1998.[10]
- Smith served as Getty Research Institute Scholar in 2000–2001.[11]
- In 2003-2004 and 2009–2011, Smith was awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.[12]
- Her book, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) won the 2005 Leo Gershoy Prize awarded by the American Historical Association.[13]
- Smith was a Samuel H. Kress Paired Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in 2008.[14]
- Smith was a Fellow at Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies in 2009–2010.[15]
Selected publications
Books
- From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250-1750, co-edited with Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop, Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge, co-edited with Amy Meyers and Harold J. Cook, Bard Graduate Center/University of Michigan Press, 2014. . Second printing, 2017.
- Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 co-edited with Benjamin Schmidt, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, co-edited with Paula Findlen, New York: Routledge, 2002.
- The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Paperback edition, 1996; reprint paperback 2016.; reprint paperback 2016. (paperback), (ebook)
Notes and References
- Web site: Smith, Pamela H. Department of History - Columbia University. history.columbia.edu. en-US. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: People. makingandknowing.org. en-US. 2017-09-15.
- Web site: The Center For Science & Society at Columbia University. The Center for Science & Society at Columbia University. en-US. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: Presidential Scholars in Society & Neuroscience - Columbia University. Columbia University: Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience. en-US. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: RSA Executive Board - Renaissance Society of America. www.rsa.org. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: Pamela H. Smith - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University. History.columbia.edu. 13 March 2017.
- Web site: Pamela H. Smith, Ph.D. - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. www.wiko-berlin.de. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: Past Winners of the Pfizer Award. Rethinking.asia. 13 March 2017.
- Web site: Pamela H. Smith.
- Web site: Edelstein Fellowship. 14 July 2016. Science History Institute. 27 March 2018. en.
- Web site: GRI Scholars (Getty Press Release). www.getty.edu. 2017-09-15.
- Web site: New Directions Fellowships Recipients The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. mellon.org. en. 2017-09-12.
- Web site: Leo Gershoy Award Recipients AHA. www.historians.org. en. 2017-09-05.
- Web site: Kress Fellows 2007.
- Web site: Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellows.