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月举行，讨论美国科学、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，受邀者将反思STEM中传记的历史覆盖的增强可能会或可能不会改变少数民族参与这些领域的模式。这个以传记为重点的研讨会将支持研究人员中少数民族背景的人的新历史项目的出现。此外，工作坊活动还包括高中生和大学生的口述历史项目。本次研讨会将聚集科学、技术和医学史（HSTM）的博士后学者、初级教师和更资深的学者，重新构建对STEM学科和这些领域历史记录中历史边缘化人群的历史研究。研讨会将提供一个机会，探讨在STEM和HSTM学科中历史上流传的个人能力、认知承诺和机构目标的感知本质。研讨会的目标是通过考虑少数族裔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长期低代表性，重新塑造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STEM有志者、历史科目和少数民族身份的HSTM学者的排斥模式、常规边缘化，以增加在科学、技术和医学史生产中代表性不足群体的参与和意识。研究结果将有助于加强批评教学法，并测试传记在面对不公平社会关系方面的批评潜力，这些潜力将在服务于STS社区的专业协会中传播。

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.