Katharine Park
Encyclopedia
Katharine Park is Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University
. She specializes in the history of gender
, sexuality
, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance
Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the Middle Ages
.
won the Pfizer Award
of the History of Science Society
for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into Italian
and German
.
Her most recent book, Secrets of Women, won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize
in 2007.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. She specializes in the history of gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
.
Awards
Wonders of Nature which she co-authored with Lorraine DastonLorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin...
won the Pfizer Award
Pfizer Award
The Pfizer Award is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science"- Pfizer Awardees :...
of the History of Science Society
History of Science Society
The History of Science Society is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science.It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publication of Isis, a journal of the history of science Sarton had started in 1912....
for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
.
Her most recent book, Secrets of Women, won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize
Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize
Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize is awarded for an outstanding book or article on the history of women in science, by the History of Science Society....
in 2007.
Works
- Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence, Princeton University Press, 1985
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 with Lorraine DastonLorraine DastonLorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin...
, Zone Books, 1998 - Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books, 2006