Mark Solovey

Mark Solovey grew up in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York, a suburb of New York City. He did his undergraduate studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, with a major in psychology and minor in philosophy, before going to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he did a joint Ph.D. in History of Science and History (with a focus on U.S. history). He taught at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, was a visiting scholar and researcher at Harvard University (History of Science Department, History Department, and Charles Warren Center) and a visiting scholar at MIT (Science, Technology and Society program), and has taught at the University of Toronto since 2006 (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology). His research examines the development of the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences in various contexts, i.e., intellectual, biographical, disciplinary, political, and institutional. Most of his work concentrates on the period since World War Two, especially the Cold War era. He is particularly interested in the following issues: scientific boundary work for the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences; controversy over their intellectual foundations, normative implications, and scientific identities; the evolution and impact of private and public patronage for research in these fields; debates about their social relevance and public policy uses.