Post Tagged with: "Victoria Lee"

The Ohio University History Department invited the Ohio University and broader Athens community to the 13th Annual Undergraduate History Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 15-16, 2019. The conference opens on Monday, April 15, at 5 p.m. with a keynote lecture in Bentley Hall 215. Assistant Professor Victoria Lee will give a lecture on […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, authored an article on “Microbial Transformations: The Japanese Domestication of Penicillin Production, 1946–1951” in the Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Abstract: The domestication of penicillin production in Japan was a priority for the Allied occupation government (1945–1952) immediately after World War II, since […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper titled “Wild Toxicity, Cultivated Safety: Aflatoxin and Kōji Classification” as part of a Princeton University invitation-only workshop in March. Organized under the rubric of “Risk on the Table: Food, Health, and Environmental Exposures,” the workshop examined the confluence of hazards and concerns that characterize […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, contributed the entry on “Hakkō” (Fermentation) to the recently published Kagakushi jiten (Encyclopedia of the History of Chemistry), edited by Kagakushi gakkai (Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry). The encyclopedia, published in April 2017, will be the major Japanese-language reference work on the history of chemistry. Lee’s research focuses on […]

The History Department at Ohio University announces two new courses that are being offered for the first time in Spring 2017. HIST 3500: Science and Society in the Modern World (2SS) Tier II Social Science Description: How do scientists know what they know? How have their forms of knowledge, practice, and expertise become […]

The History Department welcomes a new faculty member to the Athens campus this Fall 2016. Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor, joins the History Department after serving as a 2014-16 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science […]

The History Department at Ohio University announces two new courses that are being offered for the first time in Fall 2016. HIST 2905: Technology in World History Tier II Social Science Description: This course explores the ways in which technology and human society have shaped each other from prehistory to the […]