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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – The Johns Hopkins University, 1991
B.A. – University Of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 1979
Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE (Fall 2009), Graduate Education Committee (Spring, 2010)
Interests and Research
Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. Her current research, which is supported by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
Affiliations
American Historical Association
Executive Council, American Historical Association, 2004-2006
Research Division Committee member, American Historical Association, 2005-2006
American Historical Review, Editorial Board, 2008-2010
History of Science Society
Committee on Education, History of Science Society 2000-2002, Chair 2001-2002
Executive Council 2000-2002
Nominating Committee 2000-2001, 2008-09
Editorial Board, Isis, 1997-2000
Editorial Board, Osiris, 2000-2004
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History Executive Council, 2003-2008
Renaissance Society of America
Editorial Board Member, Renaissance Quarterly and Council Member, 2006-2009
Gordan Prize Committee member, Renaissance Society of America, 2008-09.
Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek
Advisory Board, 2008-present
Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science
Editorial Advisory Board member, 2007-present
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär
British Society for the History of Science
American Association for Netherlandic Studies
Sixteenth-Century Studies
Society for the History of Technology
Historical Metallurgy Society
Huntington Dibner Fellowship Committee, 2008-10
Teaching
Courses
Fall 2008
ON LEAVE
Spring 2009
HIST W4101 – The World We Have Lost: Daily Life in Pre-Modern Europe
Other Courses
HIST W3103: Alchemy, Magic, and Science
HIST G9102: Knowledge in Transit in the Early Modern World
HIST G9101: Material Culture and the Life of Objects in Early Modern Europe
HIST W4120: Witchcraft and the State in Early Modern Europe
Awards
Samuel H. Kress Paired Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., co-grantee Tonny Beentjes, Programme Leader, Metalwork Conservation,
Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN), Amsterdam. 2007-08
NSF Grant #SES-0444302 for Conference on "Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of
Empirical Knowledge,” London 11-15 July 2005.
NSF Grant #SES-0347223 for Conference on “Inventive intersections: Sites, Artifacts and the Rise of
Modern Science and Technology,” Amsterdam 22-24 September 2004 (with Lissa Roberts).
Co-organizer, Andrew Mellon Faculty Seminar on “Science and the Islamic World,” Pomona College, Andrew Mellon Foundation grant
Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship for research at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
Getty Research Institute Scholar, 2000-2001
Visiting Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge, 2000
Leo Gershoy Prize for The Body of the Artisan awarded in early modern European History by the American Historical Association, 2005
Pfizer Prize for The Business of Alchemy awarded for best book of the year in the history of science by the History of Science Society, 1995
Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2003-04; 2009-10
Selected Publications
Books
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Scholarly Articles
“Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life Casting Techniques” (with Tonny Beentjes), out for review.
“Science in Motion: Recent Trends in the History of Early Modern Science,” Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming, 2009.
“Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking,” in Between Market and Laboratory: Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe,” ed. by Ursula Klein and Emma Spary (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
“Alchemy as the Imitator of Nature,” Glass of the Alchemists, catalog for an exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass, ed. by Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, 2008, pp. 22-33.
“Collecting Nature and Art: Artisans and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer,” in Nature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Barbara Hannawalt and Lisa Kiser (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008), pp. 115-136.
“Introduction: Knowledge and Its Making,” Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, with Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 1-16.
“`Art’ is to ‘Science’ as ‘Renaissance’ is to ‘Scientific Revolution’? The problematic algorithm of writing a history of the modern world,” New Directions in Renaissance Art History, ed. James Elkins and Robert Williams (Routledge, 2008), 427-445.
“Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” The Art and History of Botanical and Natural History Treatises, ed. Therese O’Malley and Amy Meyers (Washington D.C., The National Gallery Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, 2008), 14-31.
“Making and Knowing in a Sixteenth-century Goldsmith’s Workshop,” in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention between the Late Renaissance and Early Industrialization, ed. Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer, Peter Dear (Amsterdam: KNAW Press, 2007), 20-37.
“Words and Last Things: In Memory of Owen Hannaway,” Isis, 98 (2007): 143-48.
“Alchemy as Kulturträger,” Essay Review, Metascience, 15 (2006): 474-82.
“Laboratories,” ch. 13, The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 3: Early Modern Europe, ed. Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 290-305.
“Art, Science and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe,” Isis, 97 (2006): 83-100.
“Introduction: Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Science and Art,” in Merchants and Marvels, ed. Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen, pp. 1-25.
“Splendor in the Grass: The Powers of Nature and Art in the Age of Dürer,” with Larry Silver, in Merchants and Marvels, pp. 29-62.
“Giving Voice to the Hands: The Articulation of Material Literacy in the Sixteenth Century,” Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics, ed. John Trimbur, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, pp. 74-93.
“Vital Spirits: Alchemy, Redemption, and Artisanship in Early Modern Europe,” in Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margaret J. Osler, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 119-135.
“Artists as Scientists: Nature and Realism in Early Modern Europe,” Endeavour, 24 (2000): 13-21.
“Science and Taste: Painting, the Passions, and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth-century Leiden,” Isis, 90 (1999): 420-461.
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