Participant Info
- First Name
- Joanna
- Last Name
- Behrman
- Country
- United States
- State
- MD Maryland
- jbehrman@aip.org
- Affiliation
- American Institute of Physics
- Website URL
- joannabehrman.com
- Keywords
- history of physics, gender, history of science, history of education, science education, women in science
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am the Assistant Public Historian at the American Institute of Physics in charge of outreach and education initiatives. Under my purview are teaching guides, web exhibits, and the public lecture series.
In my own research I study the intersection of physics, gender, and science education. My book manuscript, entitled The Other Physicists, looks at the intersection of these fields through a history of American women in physics learning and working at women’s colleges from 1870 to 1940. Other research projects have included the history of the term “cookbook laboratory” in science education, the history of physics in home economics, and following the lives of individual pre-WWII women in physics.
- Recent Publications
Joanna Behrman. “The Personal is Professional: Margaret Maltby’s Life in Physics.” In Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, and Organizations. Christian Forstner, Dieter Hoffmann, and Mark Walker eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2020. <https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030485085>.
J. F. Behrman. “Manuals, Handbooks, and Recipes,” in Between Making and Knowing: Tools in Materials Research. Cyrus Mody and Joseph Martin, eds. Encyclopedia of the Development and History of Materials Science. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2020. <https://doi.org/10.1142/11482>.
Joanna Behrman. “Domesticating Physics.” Physics Today 71, no. 5 (May 2018). Featured cover article. <https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3922>.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @physhist
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Higher Ed, Science, Women
