Education
She finished an Master of Philosophy in the combined historical studies of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London in 1974 before earning a Doctor of Philosophy in the history of science at Harvard in 1981.
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Katharine Park
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She specializes in the history of gender, sexuality, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the Middle Ages.
Achievements
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Wonders of Nature which she co-authored with Lorraine Daston won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science in 1999. The book was translated into Italian and German. Her most recent book, Secrets of Women, won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2007.
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United States
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pfizer Award; Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize Wonders of Nature which she co-authored with Lorraine Daston won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into Italian and German. Her most recent book, Secrets of Women, won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2007.Guggenheim Fellowship Pfizer Award; Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize Wonders of Nature which she co-authored with Lorraine Daston won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into Italian and German. Her most recent book, Secrets of Women, won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2007.