Participant Info
- First Name
- Joanna
- Last Name
- Behrman
- Country
- State
- job@ind.ku.dk
- Affiliation
- University of Copenhagen
- 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
- Photo
- About Me
I am a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen where I study the networks of historical women in physics. I am also writing a new history of American women in physics.
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. “Sarah Frances Whiting, Pioneering Laboratory Instruction in Astronomy.” American Journal of Physics 91, no. 6 (June 2023), 417-424. Featured cover article. https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0131617
Joanna Behrman. “Physics … is for Girls? Physics Today 75, no. 8, (August 2022), 30-36. Featured cover article. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.5061. Winner of the Gold Medal for Journals: Feature Article at the 2023 SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) EXCEL Awards.
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>.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- 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
