Suman Seth, Cornell University
Associate Professor
Ithaca, New York
ss536@cornell.edu
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(607) 255-3810
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Professor Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern science. Interests include the history of the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), gender and science, & science, race, and colonialism. He is the author of Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld a...
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Professor Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern science. Interests include the history of the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), gender and science, & science, race, and colonialism. He is the author of Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926 (MIT, 2010) and the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies on “Science, Colonialism, Postcolonialism” (December, 2009). His current research is focused on the history of medicine, botany, zoology, anthropology, and colonialism. He is working on a monograph concerned with the theories and practices of human, animal, and plant acclimatization in England, France, and Germany, 1760-1914.
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