Education
Ph.D. – The Johns Hopkins University, 1991
B.A. – University Of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 1979

Current Departmental Service
Vice Chair
Development Committee Chair

Interests and Research
Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. Her current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.

Current Courses

Fall 2010
HIST G8913: Methods in the History of Science

Spring 2011
HIST G9102: Knowledge in Transit in the Early Modern World

Leo Gershoy Prize for The Body of the Artisan awarded in early modern European History by the  American Historical Association, 2005
Pfizer Prize for The Business of Alchemy awarded for best book of the year in the history of science by the History of Science Society, 1995
Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 2009-10
Samuel H. Kress Paired Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., co-grantee Tonny Beentjes, Programme Leader, Metalwork Conservation,   Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN), Amsterdam. 2007-08
NSF Grant #SES-0444302 for Conference on "Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge,” London 11-15 July 2005.
Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship for research at the Victoria and Albert Museum,  London, 2003-04
Getty Research Institute Scholar, 2000-2001
Visiting Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge, 2000
Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2003-04; 2009-10
John S. Guggenheim Fellow, 1997-98
 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 1997-98
 Sidney M. Edelstein International Fellowship for research in the history of chemistry, 1997-98
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg - Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, 1994-95

Books
Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge, co-edited with Amy Meyers and Harold J. Cook, forthcoming, Bard Graduate Center/University of Michigan Press.
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

Articles

• "The movement of knowledge in the early modern world," in Daniel Rogers, Bhavani Raman, Helmut Reimitz, eds, Cultures in Motion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

• “Making Things: Techniques and books in early modern Europe,” Things, ed. by Renata Ago and Paula Findlen (London: Routledge, forthcoming).

•  “Making as Knowing: Craft as Natural Philosophy,” Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge, co-edited with Amy Meyers and Harold J. Cook, forthcoming, Bard Graduate Center/University of Michigan Press.

•  “The History of Science as a Cultural History of the Material World,” Cultural Histories of the Material World, ed. by Peter Miller (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). 

• “Craft Secrets and the Ineffable in Early Modern Europe,” Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800, ed. by Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin (Ashgate, 2011): 47-66.

• “Science,” The Oxford Companion to History, ed. by Ulinka Rublack (Oxford University Press, 2011): 268-97. 

• “Why Write a Book?  From Lived Experience to the Written Word in Early Modern Europe,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, 47 (Fall 2010): 25-50.  Online link: http://ghi-dc.org/bulletin

• “Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life Casting Techniques” (with Tonny Beentjes), Renaissance Quarterly, 63 (2010): 128-179. 

• “Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking,” in Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory,” ed. by Ursula Klein and Emma Spary (University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 29-49.

• “Science in Motion: Recent Trends in the History of Early Modern Science,” Renaissance Quarterly, 62 (2009): 345–375. 

• “Alchemy as the Imitator of Nature,” Glass of the Alchemists, catalog for an exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass, ed. by Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk (Corning Museum of Glass, 2008), pp. 22-33.

• “Collecting Nature and Art: Artisans and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer,” in Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara Hannawalt and Lisa Kiser (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008), pp. 115-136. 

• “`Art’ is to ‘Science’ as ‘Renaissance’ is to ‘Scientific Revolution’? The problematic algorithm of writing a history of the modern world,” New Directions in Renaissance Art History, ed. James Elkins and Robert Williams (Routledge, 2008), 427-445.

• “Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” The Art and History of Botanical and Natural History Treatises, ed. Therese O’Malley and Amy Meyers (Washington D.C., The National Gallery Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, 2008), 14-31. 

• “Making and Knowing in a Sixteenth-century Goldsmith’s Workshop,” in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention between the Late Renaissance and Early Industrialization, ed. Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer, Peter Dear (Amsterdam: KNAW Press, 2007), 20-37.

•   “Alchemy as Kulturträger,” Essay Review, Metascience, 15 (2006): 474-82.

• “Laboratories,” ch. 13, The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 3: Early Modern Europe, ed. Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 290-305.

• “Art, Science and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe,” Isis, 97 (2006): 83-100. 

• “Splendor in the Grass: The Powers of Nature and Art in the Age of Dürer,” with Larry Silver, in Merchants and Marvels, pp. 29-62.

• “Giving Voice to the Hands: The Articulation of Material Literacy in the Sixteenth Century,” Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics, ed. John Trimbur, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, pp. 74-93.

• “Vital Spirits: Alchemy, Redemption, and Artisanship in Early Modern Europe,” in Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margaret J. Osler, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 119-135. 

• “Science and Taste: Painting, the Passions, and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth-century Leiden,” Isis, 90 (1999): 420-461.

American Historical Association
       Executive Council, American Historical Association, 2004-2006
       Research Division Committee member, American Historical Association, 2005-2006
       American Historical Review, Editorial Board, 2008-2010                              
History of Science Society
       Committee on Education, History of Science Society 2000-2002, Chair 2001-2002
       Executive Council 2000-2002
       Nominating Committee 2000-2001, 2008-09
       Editorial Board, Isis, 1997-2000        
       Editorial Board, Osiris, 2000-2004
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, Executive Council, 2003-2008
Renaissance Society of America
       Editorial Board Member, Renaissance Quarterly and Council Member, 2006-2012
       Gordan Prize Committee member, Renaissance Society of America, 2008-09.
Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Advisory Board, 2008-present
Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science
       Editorial Advisory Board member, 2007-present
Historians of Netherlandish Art            
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär
British Society for the History of Science        
American Association for Netherlandic Studies
Society for the History of Technology
Historical Metallurgy Society