History of the Human Sciences Journal @Sage_Publishing: expanding our understanding of the human. Our website is at histhum.com
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16 Jun 2025
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!
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16 Jun 2025
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
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14 Apr 2025
Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’.
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4 Mar 2025
"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
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10 Feb 2025
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.…
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17 Dec 2024
@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
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4 Dec 2024
History of the Human Sciences is now on Bl-esky - please follow us there!
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4 Dec 2024
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:
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31 Oct 2024
'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
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18 Sep 2024
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"
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16 Sep 2024
Beverley Butler, 'On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care' 🔓
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2 Sep 2024
Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓
On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus
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9 Sep 2024
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."
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22 Aug 2024
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
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22 Aug 2024
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:
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28 Aug 2024
We also interviewed co-winner Alfred Freeborn about his essay ‘Testing Psychiatrists to Diagnose Schizophrenia: Crisis, Consensus and Computers in post-war Psychiatry’
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22 Aug 2024
I talked about an essay based on part of my dissertation here!
22 Aug 2024
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:
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4 May 2024
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…
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