Judith Kaplan
Cain Curatorial Fellow
Judy Kaplan is a cultural and intellectual historian of the human sciences with a focus on 19th- and 20th-century linguistic research. She has published on subjects from orientalism to sound studies, and is currently working on two projects: one examines labor in the history of science, and the other concerns research on language universals. Her work has been supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. She is eagerly pursuing new knowledge of information science and the curatorial field at the Science History Institute.
More from Judith Kaplan
Sensational Science: A Century of Microbe Hunters
Explore the nearly 100-year-old book that influenced generations of scientists.
A Remote Idea
Healing at a distance: Our latest rare book exhibition explores the debate over the effectiveness of the weapon salve.
Robert W. Parry
A champion of scientific literacy, Parry was an inorganic chemist who devoted himself to education.
Marie Maynard Daly
A biochemist who made lasting contributions to medicine, Daly was the first Black woman to receive a PhD in chemistry.
Ellen H. Swallow Richards
A pioneer in water sanitation and the first women to be admitted into MIT, Richards is one of the founders of home economics and spearheaded one of the first school lunch programs in the U.S.