M. SUSAN LINDEE
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M. Susan Lindee, PhD

JANICE AND JULIAN BERS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
364 Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304

E- mail: mlindee@sas.upenn.edu
Phone 215-898-2271 

Education 
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.S., Cornell University
B.S., University of Texas at Austin
M. Susan Lindee has been  Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;  Visiting Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan;  Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences; Chair of the Board of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; and Department Chair.  She is a Guggenheim Fellow.

She is currently Diversity Search Adviser for the Social Sciences in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. 

Her most recent book, Rational Fog: Science, Technology and Modern War was published in September 2020 by Harvard University Press.  She collaborated with Warwick Anderson on an edited volume, Pacific Biologies, the December 2020 issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, appeared in December 2020.  In November 2017, she was Ship's Historian for a Lindblad cruise of the Galapagos Islands, and in June 2019, a field participant in Penn's Galapagos Alliance, presenting lectures to Galapagos guides about the history of scientific work in the islands. 
Research Interests
Genetics and genomics
Cold War science
Warfare and science
Teaching Fields
American science
History of genetics
Gender and science
Science and popular culture
Science and war
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