Education

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in History, 2002
M.A. in History, 1998
B.A. in History, 1992

Academic positions

Johns Hopkins University Teaching Professor, Program in Medicine, Science and Humanities, 2023-Visiting Professor, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, 2022-2023 Lead Author, Institutional History Project, 2022-2026

University of Houston
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics and Leadership, Hobby School of Public Affairs, 2021-2022

Georgia College & State University
Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar, Spring 2021

Boston College
Visiting Associate Professor of History, 2017-2020

Harvard University
Associate, Department of History, 2018-
Associate, Department of History of Science, 2015-2019
Visiting Associate Professor of Education, 2017-2018
Associate Professor of History and of Social Studies, 2012-2017
Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, 2007-2012

New York University
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Science Studies, John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought, 2006-2007

Vanderbilt University
Lecturer, Department of History, Spring 2005

Yale University
Lecturer, Department of History, 2003-2004

Fellowships and honors

Visiting Residential Fellow University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, 2022-2023 (Declined)

Faculty Fellow
Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, Tulane University, 2021-2022 (Declined)

John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellow
National Humanities Center, 2013-2014

Distinguished Guest Fellow
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Spring 2014 (Declined)

Associate Scholar
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2009-2010

External Faculty Fellow
Stanford Humanities Center, 2009-2010 (Declined)

Associate Fellow
Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 2006-2007
(Theme: “The Question of the West”)

Faculty Fellow
Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, 2006-2007 (Declined)

Fellow
Cornell Society for the Humanities, 2005-2006 (Theme: “Culture and Conflict”)

Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow
National Academy of Education, 2003-2005

Visiting Scholar
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2002-2003

Jacob K. Javits Fellow
U.S. Department of Education, 1997-2001

Books

Race and Science in the Environmental Justice Movement
(in progress)

Antiracism and Science in the United States
(in progress)

Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Harvard University Press, 2020

Prizes:

Annual Book Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History John Dewey Prize (triennial), Society for U.S. Intellectual History

Published excerpts: 

“What Attacks on Science Get Wrong,” Chronicle of Higher Education online (December 9, 2020), https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-attacks-on-science-get-wrong

“How Americans Came to Distrust Science,” Boston Review (December 8, 2020), http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/andrew-jewett-how-americans-came-distrust-science

Interviews:

Peoples & Things, interview with Lee Vinsel (published September 20, 2021), https://anchor.fm/peoplesandthings/episodes/Andrew-Jewett-e17dn4d

New Books Network, interview with Claire Clark (published January 19, 2021), https://newbooksnetwork.com/science-under-fire

Reviews:

Science (Christopher J. Phillips, December 18, 2020), Los Angeles Review of Books (Michael D. Gordin, April 20, 2021), Origins (David Steigerwald, May 2021), Population and Development Review (John Casterline, June 2021), Isis (Donovan O. Schaefer, September 2021), Reviews in American History (David K. Hecht, December 2022)

Author-meets-critics sessions:

Worcester Polytechnic University, April 2021 (Holger Droessler, Yunus Dogan Telliel, David I. Spanagel)

Society for U.S. Intellectual History meeting, May 2022 (book award session: Sarah Bridger, Hunter Heyck, Alexandra Hui, Amy Kittelstrom, Benjamin Park, Tim Lacy)

Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War
Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback 2014

Reviews:

rabble.ca (Thomas Ponniah, March 6, 2013), Choice (P. D. Skiff, June 2013), History of Education Quarterly (Scott J. Peters, August 2013), Journal of American History (Daniel J. Wilson, September 2013), American Historical Review (J. David Hoeveler, October 2013), S-USIH.org (Christopher Shannon and Ethan Schrum, with reply, October-November 2013), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Raf Vanderstraeten, Fall 2013), Modern Language Notes (Larry S. McGrath, December 2013), American Educational History Journal (Caroline J. Conner, January 2014), Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Rebecca Herzig, Winter 2014), Isis (review essay by Mark B. Brown, March 2014), Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Peter Mandler, Spring 2014), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (George A. Reisch, Spring 2014), American Studies (Mark Oromaner, Spring 2014), Modern Intellectual History (review essay by Dorothy Ross, April 2014), Reviews in American History (review essay by Allan Needell, June 2014), Hedgehog Review (Andrea Turpin, Fall 2014), Church History (Maura Jane Farrelly, September 2014), History of Universities (W. Bruce Leslie, November 2014), American Political Thought (David Ciepley, Winter 2015), American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (Beth Eddy, May 2015), History of Education (Sarah Jozina Reynolds, August 2017)

Author-meets-critics sessions:

Harvard University, February 2013 (Theodore Porter, Charles Rosenberg, Sheila Jasanoff)
History of Education Society, November 2013 (Julie Reuben, Roger Geiger, Christopher Loss, Ethan Schrum, Julian Nemeth, Scott Gelber)
U.S. Intellectual History Conference, November 2013 (David Engerman, Ronald Numbers, Joan Shelley Rubin, Daniel Wickberg)

Articles and book chapters

“Collective Security for Common Men and Women: Vera Micheles Dean and U.S. Foreign Relations,” in Women’s International Thought: A New History, ed. Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler (Cambridge University Press, 2021): 306-326

“Education,” in Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar US, ed. Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley (Cambridge University Press, 2021): 106-136

“On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power,” in American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, ed. Andrew Hartman and Raymond Haberski, Jr. (Cornell University Press, 2018): 285-304

“Science and Religion in Postwar America,” in The Worlds of American Intellectual History, ed. Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Oxford University Press, 2017): 237-256

“Naturalizing Liberalism in the 1950s,” in Professors and Their Politics, ed. Neil Gross and Solon J. Simmons (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014): 191-216

“The Social Sciences, Philosophy, and the Cultural Turn in the 1930s USDA,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 49, no. 4 (Autumn 2013): 396-427

“The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America,” Social Science History 36, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 551-581

“Canonizing Dewey: Columbia Naturalism, Logical Empiricism, and the Idea of American Philosophy,” Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 1 (April 2011): 91-125

“Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons,” in Universities in Translation: The Mental Labor of Globalization, ed. Brett de Bary (Hong Kong University Press, 2010; Spanish translation, 2015): 263-278

“Science and the Promise of Democracy in America,” Dædalus 132, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 64-70

Other publications

Review of Ethan Schrum, The Instrumental University: Education in the Service of the National Agenda After World War II, History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 4 (November 2020): 681-684

Review of Adam Laats, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, Journal of American History 105, no. 4 (March 2019): 1038

“How the March for Science Misunderstands Politics,” Atlantic online (April 21, 2017), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/march-for-science/523803

“Parsing Postwar American Rationality” (review essay on George M. Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature, and Paul Erickson et al., How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality), Modern Intellectual History 13, no. 2 (August 2016): 555-568

Review of Michael D. Gordin, Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English, Journal of American History 102, no. 3 (June 2016): 165-166

“By What Authority: A Conversation with Andrew Jewett on Science and Religion,” News of the National Humanities Center (Fall-Winter 2014)

Review of Joy Rohde, Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research During the Cold War, American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (October 2014): 1303-1304

Review of Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politic­s­­–Patronage–Social Science Nexus in Cold War America, Isis 105, no. 1 (March 2014): 253-254

“Political Thought” (7,500 words), in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Volume II, ed. Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper (Oxford University Press, 2013): 160-175

Symposium review of Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, Metascience 17, no. 3 (November 2008): 366-374

Review essay on David Ciepley, Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism, Reviews in American History 36, no. 3 (September 2008): 433-440

“Ginzberg, Eli,” in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol. 6, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson (Scribner’s, 2003)

“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” “National Science Foundation,” “The New Republic,” and “Office of Scientific Research and Development,” in Dictionary of American History, 3rd Ed., ed. Stanley I. Kutler (Scribner’s, 2002)