History of the Human Sciences

Congratulations also to Heewon Kim who was awarded a commendation fro the article "Face in Codes: Trained Observers and Sensory Multipliers Across Competing Universes, 1952–1971" This article will also appear in the journal & interviews with both scholars will appear on our site

Congratulations to Jonah Walters the winner of this year's ECR Prize! The winning article "The Taser in the Skinner box: Science fiction, aversive conditioning, and the paradigm of electric shock policing" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal! 🎊🎊🎊

Special issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/current

Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’. histhum.com/interview-the-…

"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all." Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation histhum.com/review-seven-c…

my article in @HistHum about treating ‘the vulnerable’ in prison via personality disorder - and the (dodgy) effects of this process with althusser for good measure etc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

@HistHum is thrilled to announce the details of its annual prize for early career scholars! This prize celebrates outstanding contributions to the field and offers a unique opportunity for early career scholars. Deadline: March 28, 2025 Learn more: ow.ly/ZGRP50UlWS5

History of the Human Sciences is now on Bl-esky - please follow us there! @histhum.bsky.social

Apply for History of the Human Sciences' Early Career Prize! Winning essays will be published in the journal and winners receive £250. Deadline 28 March 2025 📚📖 More details here: histhum.com/early-career-p…

'Outrageous Reason... enjoins a revaluation of conceptions of pathology and dysfunction, as well as the hegemony of whiteness that upholds them.' Michael Romyn reviews Peter Barham's Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020 histhum.com/review-outrage…

New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by @drgavinmiller "a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area" histhum.com/__cultofcreati…

Beverley Butler, 'On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care' 🔓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓 On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Galen Watts and Dick Houtman, 'The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism' 🔓 "Romanticism continues to serve, at the level of implicit culture, as a potent resource for social analysis." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

@libbyoneil27 We also interviewed co-winner Alfred Freeborn about his essay ‘Testing Psychiatrists to Diagnose Schizophrenia: Crisis, Consensus and Computers in post-war Psychiatry’ histhum.com/interview-alfr…

We interviewed Libby O'Neil @libbyoneil27 about her essay ‘Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-1957’ for our website: histhum.com/interview-libb…

Congratulations to Libby O'Neil and Alfred Freeborn - winners of this year's History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize! 📚 🎊 Their winning essays will be published in forthcoming issues of the journal

I talked about an essay based on part of my dissertation here!

Special Issue of History of the Human Sciences on ‘Film, Observation and the Mind’, edited by myself and Janet Harbord, is now available to read open access. #psychology #historyofpsychology #filmhistory #film #autism #neuroscience journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/current