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月在美国科学、技术、工程和数学(或称STEM)学科中讨论代表性不足群体的历史经验。在讲习班期间，受邀者将思考这样一个问题，即加强STEM对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在研究人员中出现关于少数群体背景的新的历史项目。此外，工作坊的活动将包括一个有高中生和本科生参加的口述历史项目。这次工作坊将聚集科学、技术和医学史(HSTM)的博士后学者、初级教师和更多的高级学者，以重新构建STEM学科和这些领域的历史记录中历史上被边缘化的人的历史研究框架。讲习班将提供一个机会，探讨在STEM和HSTM学科中历来流传的对个人能力、认知承诺和机构目标的看法的性质。研讨会的目标是重塑传记作为社会批评的可能功能，考虑到少数族裔背景的人在诸如科学史学会、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。通过探讨历史/历史写作的关联性，讲习班将确定排外模式、STEM有志人士、历史学科和具有少数族裔身份的HSTM学者的例行公事被边缘化的情况，以提高未被充分代表的群体在编写科学、技术和医学史方面的参与和认识。结果将有助于加强批判性教学，并测试传记在面对不公平社会关系方面的关键潜力，这些社会关系将在服务于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.