Denise Phillips

Candidate statement

Denise Phillips is a historian of science who works on eighteenth and nineteenth-century German-speaking Europe. She is the author of Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850 (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the co-editor, with Sharon Kingsland, of New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture (Springer, 2015). Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. She has been a GSA member since 2001 and has regularly presented work at the annual meetings. From her earliest involvement with the GSA, she has been interested in ensuring that the early modern period and the nineteenth century continue to be well represented in the Society. She has also watched with concern at the shrinking resources devoted to foreign language instruction across all educational levels in the United States, and would work to find ways that the GSA could cooperate with allied societies to raise awareness about the essential role that multilingualism plays in building a more tolerant and meaningfully interconnected world.