Graduate Education Committee Chair (Spring 2009), Development Committee Co-Chair (Spring 2009), MA in International and World History Committee (Spring 2009)

Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. She received a B.A. from the University of Wollongong (1979) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins (1990). Her books include The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994; Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society) and The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004), which won the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association.  Edited volumes include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (ed. with P. Findlen, 2002) and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800 (ed. with B. Schmidt, 2008). Her current research, which is supported by a Kress fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.