Susan Lindee Appointed Associate Dean for the Social Sciences

SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell has announced that Susan Lindee, Professor and Chair of History and Sociology of Science, will become Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, effective July 1, 2011. In this capacity she will oversee the Departments of Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History and Sociology of Science, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as several research centers in the social sciences.

A distinguished historian of science, Dr. Lindee has special interests in the history of genetics, gender and science, science and popular culture, and science and war. Her books include Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine (2005); The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (1995, with Dorothy Nelkin); and Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (1994).

Dr. Lindee has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund 40th Anniversary Award and support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. She has been a member of the Penn faculty since 1990, and she spent ten years as a journalist before earning her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cornell.

Dr. Lindee will succeed Jack Nagel, who is completing his planned two-year term in order to retire from the faculty in December. His academic leadership in SAS includes his earlier four years as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.

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