Hi, I’m Judy. As a public historian of science, I develop resources that help audiences look at the world from the perspective of the history of science. I edit a collection of Scientific Biographies and contribute to a wide variety of interpretive projects (physical and digital) at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, PA.

I am also a historian of the human sciences focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century linguistics. This research cuts across modern European intellectual history, the history of anthropology, translation studies, labor history, sound studies, and the history of information science. I am interested in the push and pull between general and specific approaches to language, a key to understanding the history of the human sciences as a whole. I have sought to address this essential tension in projects outlined here and here.