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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – Harvard University 2004
M.Phil. - University of Cambridge 1998
A.B. - Harvard University 1997
Current Departmental Service
Committee on Programs and Standing, Barnard College
Interests and Research
Deborah R. Coen, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in modern central European history and the history of science. Her current research, on the history of climatology and seismology, centers on the Habsburg Empire’s status as a laboratory for studies of the relationship between nature and culture. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error” and the intersections between science and private life.
Affiliations
Editorial Advisory Board, Isis
Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Europe
Teaching
Courses
Senior Research Seminar
Europe from 1789 to the Present
History of Environmental Thinking
Bodies and Machines
Vienna and the Birth of the Modern
The Sex of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Modern History
Central Europe: Nations, Cultures, and Ideas
Graduate Course: New Approaches to Central European History
Awards
Susan Abrams Prize from University of Chicago Press for best book in history of science - 2007
Mellon Environmental Science Minigrant - 2007
Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, 2004-6
Fel Grant, Harvard University - 2003
Merit Fellowship, Harvard University - 2002
Center for European Studies Krupp Dissertation Research Fellowship - 2001-2
German-American Student Exchange (DAAD) Research Fellowship - 2001-2
Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Pre-doctoral Fellow - 2001
National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship - 1998-2001
Selected Publications
Books
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (Univ. Chicago, 2007)
Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, co-editor (Science History Publications, 2006)
Scholarly Articles
“The Storm Lab: Meteorology in the High Alps,” forthcoming in Science in Context
“Liberal Reason and the Culture of the Sommerfrische,” in Austrian History Yearbook, 38, pp. 145-159, 2007.
“A Lens of Many Facets: Science Through a Family’s Eyes,” in Isis 97, 395-419, 2006.
“Living Precisely in Fin-de-siècle Vienna,” in Journal of the History of Biology, 39, pp. 493-523, 2006.
“Scaling Down: The ‘Austrian’ Climate between Empire and Republic,” in Intimate Universality:
Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, 2006.
“Felix Exner and the Probabilistic Turn in Austrian Meteorology,” in From Beaufort to Bjerknes and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Observing, Analyzing, and Predicting the Weather and Climate, pp. 143-156, 2005.
“Scientists’ Errors, Nature’s Fluctuations, and the Law of Radioactive Decay, 1899-1926.”
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 32:2, pp. 179-205, 2002.
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