Workshop: Biography in Science, Technology, and Medicine

该奖项支持一个为期4天的研讨会，该研讨会将于2016年6月讨论在美国科学，技术，工程和数学（或STEM）学科中代表性不足的群体的历史经验。在研讨会期间，受邀者将思考如何加强STEM传记的历史报道可能会或可能不会改变少数群体参与这些领域的模式。这一以传记为重点的讲习班将支持研究人员中出现关于少数群体背景的人的新的历史项目。此外，研讨会活动还将包括一个由高中生和本科生参与的口述历史项目。该研讨会将聚集博士后学者，初级教师和科学，技术和医学史（HSTM）的资深学者，重新构建历史上在STEM学科和这些领域的历史记录中被边缘化的人的历史研究。该研讨会将提供一个机会，探讨个人能力，认知承诺和机构目标的概念的性质，历史上贯穿STEM和HSTM学科。 研讨会的目标是通过考虑少数民族背景的人在科学史学会、技术史学会和美国医学史协会等组织中的代表性一直很低，来重塑传记作为社会批判的可能功能。 通过探索历史/历史写作的关系特征，研讨会将确定排斥模式，STEM追求者，历史学科和少数民族身份的HSTM学者的常规边缘化，以提高代表性不足的群体在科学，技术和医学历史生产中的参与和意识。研究结果将有助于加强批判性教学法，并测试传记在应对不平等社会关系方面的批判性潜力，这些结果将在为STS社区服务的专业协会中传播。

This award supports a 4-day workshop that will addresses the historical experiences of groups under-represented in U.S. scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (or, STEM) disciplines in June 2016. During the workshop the invitees will reflect on the question of how enhanced historical coverage of biographies in STEM may or may not alter patterns of minority participation in those fields. This biography-focused workshop will support the emergence of new historical projects on persons of minority background among researchers. In addition the workshop activities will include an oral history project with high school students and undergraduates.This workshop will gather post-doctoral scholars, junior faculty and more senior scholars in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) to re-frame the historical study of people historically marginalized in STEM disciplines and in the historical records of those fields. The workshop will provide an opportunity to inquire into the nature of perceptions of individual capacity, epistemic commitment, and institutional aims historically circulating throughout both STEM and HSTM disciplines. The goal of the workshop is to recast the possible function of biography as social critique by considering the perpetually low representation of persons of minority background in organizations such as the History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, and the American Association for the History of Medicine. By probing the relational character of history/history-writing the workshop will identify exclusionary patterns, the routine marginalization of STEM aspirants, historical subjects and HSTM scholars of minority identity in order to increase participation and awareness of under-represented groups in the production of histories of science, technology and medicine. The results will contribute to an enhanced critical pedagogy and the testing of the critical potential of biography in confronting inequitable social relations that will be disseminated at professional societies serving the STS community.