Background
Susan Sheets-Pyenson was born on September 9, 1949, in Toledo, Ohio, United States. She was the daughter of Ted Charles and Martha Louise (Merrill) Sheets.
Susan Sheets-Pyenson was born on September 9, 1949, in Toledo, Ohio, United States. She was the daughter of Ted Charles and Martha Louise (Merrill) Sheets.
Sheets-Pyenson graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree (with honours) in 1970 and received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976.
Sheets-Pyenson began her career as a sessional lecturer at Concordia University in Canada in 1977. She was then appointed as an associate professor of geography and director of science and human affairs in 1990.
Since 1996, Sheets-Pyenson held the position of an associate professor of history and geography at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette and a consultant to Wellcome Trust.
Sheets-Pyenson was best known as the author of such works as Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Cathedrals of Science: The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums during the Late Nineteenth Century, Geological Communication in the Nineteenth Century: The Ellen Woodward Autograph Collection at McGill University, John William Dawson: Faith, Hope, and Science and Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities.
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1988Sheets-Pyenson was a member of the History of Science Society, Society for the History of Natural History, History of Earth Sciences Society and British Society for the History of Science.
Sheets-Pyenson married Lewis Robert Pyenson on August 18, 1973. The couple had 3 children, Nicholas, Catharine and Benjamin.
