History of the Human Sciences

History of the Human Sciences Journal @Sage_Publishing: expanding our understanding of the human. Our website is at

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

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

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

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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Special issue here: https://t.co/oaIyPF1en0

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Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’.

https://t.co/uk6PhMFKKE

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

"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

https://t.co/xIBLIVmQ6t

[becka s hudson @becka_sh]

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 https://t.co/7xMXrKNpph

[Sage Journals @SageJournals]

@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: https://t.co/3bmcBr5zkX

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History of the Human Sciences is now on Bl-esky - please follow us there!

@histhum.bsky.social

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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:

https://t.co/9zruGrzjd9

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

'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

https://t.co/2XXir7CT8Z

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

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"

https://t.co/6pqcGjP1GV

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

Beverley Butler, 'On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care' 🔓

https://t.co/XeKWdz1Ddu

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Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓

On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus

https://t.co/rK2c7lOQym

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

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."

https://t.co/kpR8Xx9zVc

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓

On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus

https://t.co/rK2c7lOQym

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

@libbyoneil27 We also interviewed co-winner Alfred Freeborn about his essay ‘Testing Psychiatrists to Diagnose Schizophrenia: Crisis, Consensus and Computers in post-war Psychiatry’

https://t.co/1sJn7K6d3E

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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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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:

https://t.co/uayHG1chyt

[Libby O'Neil @libbyoneil27]

I talked about an essay based on part of my dissertation here!

[Dr Bonnie Evans @Bonnie__Evans]

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 https://t.co/2uEfurSqBC