Miriam Levin
Professor of History
Secondary Appointment in Art and Art History
Miriam Levin teaches cultural and political history and history of technology and science. Her work focuses on urban environments, international expositions, museums, and institutions of higher education as agents of international and global change. In addition to scholarly publications and lectures, she also publishes for and lectures to popular audiences in this country and abroad. Her books include: Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise, which is currently a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History; Cultures of Control (contributing editor); When the Eiffel Tower Was New: French Visions of Progress at the Centennial of the Revolution ; and Republican Art and Ideology in Late 19 th Century France. Elected Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2004, she was invited to be the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Visiting Professor at the University of Gottingen, Germany; and Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology; and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre des Recherches en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (Paris) and the Smithsonian Institution; a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the ACLS, the Smithsonian Institution, and the CNRS in France. In 1998 she received the Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching at Case. She currently heads a six-person research team writing a book on Inventing an International Culture of Change in Six Cities (1870-1930) funded by the National Science Foundation.
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