Cecelia A. Watson

Cecelia Watson received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, her M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D from the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago.

Her research interests include the history and philosophy of science; scientific rhetoric and style; the connections between the arts and sciences; and the humanities and the history of ideas more generally.

Most recently she was an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Yale University, where she was jointly appointed in both Philosophy and Humanities. Prior to that she held academic positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the European College of Liberal Arts, and the University of Chicago. She has held fellowships from the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the American Council of Learned Societies; and she was the recipient of the John C. Burnham Early Career Award in the history of the human sciences.

Publications:

"The Sphere," Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray (Cambridge: The MIT Press), October 2014.

"Points of Contention: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Punctuation," Critical Inquiry, Vol.38 No. 3 (Spring 2012).

"The Sartorial Self: William James's Philosophy of Dress," History of Psychology, Vol.7 No. 3 (August 2004).