Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was established in March 1994. Its research is primarily devoted to a theoretically oriented history of science, principally of the natural sciences, but with methodological perspectives drawn from the cognitive sciences and from...

 (MPIWG) in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...

 since 1993, Daston balances her time in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 with a visiting professorship in The Committee on Social Thought

Committee on Social Thought

The Committee on Social Thought is one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago. It was started in 1941 by historian John Ulric Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins.The committee is...

 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

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Daston's work has long defined the cutting edge of research into the history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

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She is married to the German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making, especially in medicine...

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External links

• Thinking with Animals
• Things that Talk
• Type Specimens and Scientific Memory in Critical Inquiry
  Critical Inquiry
  Critical Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by the University of Chicago Press. It is considered a leading journal within literary studies, and particularly in the field of critical theory....
  
  
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG)
• Interview with Lorraine Daston ("How To Think About Science" series by CBC Radio, Canada, 52 min, 24 MB)