אורן הרמן, ועד מנהל
Oren Harman
(+972) 507 737 827
19 Ha’Neviim St., Tel Aviv, Israel
oren.harman@gmail.com
Education
OxfordUniversity
D.Phil in History of Science, Modern History Faculty, December 2001
Dissertation title: ‘A Life of Controversy or Darlington’s Place in History’
M.Sc. in Economic and Social History, with Distinction, 1998-1999
Thesis title: ‘The Western Reaction to the Lysenko Affair’
HarvardUniversity
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, 2000-2001
HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem
B.A. summa cum laude in History and Biology, 1995-1998
The HebrewUniversityHigh School
1988-1991
The Collegiate School for Boys
1986-1988
Awards and Scholarships
· The Alon Fellowship, 2005-2008
· The Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004-2005
· The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003-2004
· Sidney M. Edelstein Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002-2003
· The Bertram J. and Barbara B. Cohn Fellowship, HarvardUniversity, 2000
· ORS Award, British Government, 1999-2001
· AVI Rothschild Fellowship, 1999
· The Yehoshua Arieli Prize for Historical Writing, HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, 1999
· The Alexander Fuchs Prize in Ancient History, HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, 1997
Professional Appointments
Bar IlanUniversity
Chair, Graduate Program on Science, Technology and Society, Fall 2009 -
Senior Lecturer, Graduate Program on Science, Technology and Society, 2006 – present
Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, 2003-2005
HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Life Sciences and Faculty of Humanities, 2005 – 2008; Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Life Sciences and Faculty of Humanities, 2003-2005
Lecturer, ‘Amirim’ honors program, 2004-2005
HarvardUniversity
Teaching Appointment, Department of History of Science, 2001-2002
Publications
Books, Author:
· The Man Who Invented the Chromosome: A Life of C.D. Darlington (HarvardUniversity Press, 2004)
· Death of an Altruist: George Price and the Evolution of Kindness [working title](W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2010)
Books, Editor:
· Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, co-edited with Michael Dietrich, (Yale University Press, 2008)
· The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Hebrew), Scientific Editor, (Resling, 2008)
· The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin (Hebrew), Scientific Editor (Resling, forthcoming 2010)
Journals, Editor:
· Guest Editor, Special Volume, “Towards New Paradigms: The Language of the Sciences and the Language of the Humanities,” The European Legacy: The Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, vol. 3 no. 5, August 2008
· Guest Co-Editor, with Alexandre Metraux, Special Volume “How We Write the History of Science,” Science in Context, forthcoming, 2010
Books, Contributor:
· “Population Genetics,” in Oxford Companion for the History of Modern Science, ed. John L. Heilbron, (Oxford, 2003), pp. 668-670
· “Afterword: White-Coat Experts and Justice Mongers” in The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov (Hebrew), (Proza Press, 2003), pp. 148-168
· “Francois Jacob and the Birth of Molecular Biology” in On Flies Mice and Men by Francois Jacob (Hebrew), (Proza Press, 2004), pp. 11-30
· “On Rebels, Icons and the Value of Dissent,” in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, eds. Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, (YaleUniversity Press, 2008), pp. 1-19
· “In Weismann’s Footsteps: The Cyto-rebellion of C.D. Darlington,” in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, eds. Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, (Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 103-118
· “Neo-Darwinism and Random Variation, Or Why It’s Important to Read Darwin Carefully,” in Divine Action and Natural Selection: Questions of Science and Faith in Biological Evolution ed. Joseph Seckbach, (World Scientific, 2008), pp. 138-152
· “Increasing Overlapping Magisteria of Science and Religion: A Discussion with Charles H. Lineweaver”, in Divine Action and Natural Selection: Questions of Science and Faith in Biological Evolution ed. Joseph Seckbach, (World Scientific, 2008), pp. 171-181
· “What Darwin Would Have Been Happy to Learn From Us, and What We Can Still Learn From Him”, Epilogue to The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Hebrew), (Resling, 2008), pp. 109-142
Journal Articles:
· “C.D. Darlington, and the British and American Reaction to Lysenko and the Soviet Conception of Science,” Journal of the History of Biology, 36 (2), 2003, pp. 309-352
· “C.D. Darlington and the Invention of the Chromosome,” Endeavour, 27 (2), 2003, pp. 69-74
· “Cyril Dean Darlington: The Man Who Invented the Chromosome,” Nature Reviews Genetics, 6 (1), January 2005, pp. 79-85
· “Method as a Function of Disciplinary Landscape: C.D. Darlington and the History of Cytology 1925-1950,” Journal of the History of Biology, 39 (1), 2006, pp. 165-197
· “History of Classical Genetics,” in Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd: Chichester), January 2006, 18 pages, http://www.els.net/
· “On the Power of Ideas,” Minerva: An International Review of Science, Learning & Policy, 45, 2007, pp. 175-189
· “Powerful Intuitions: Re-reading Nature versus Nurture with Charles Darwin and Clifford Geertz,” Science in Context 20 (1), Spring 2007, pp. 49-70
· "Pure Intelligence: On Intelligence Testing, Puritanism, and the Methods and Burdens of History,"Journal of the History of Biology, 41, 2008, pp. 167-183
· “The Wonderful World of Molecular Clocks”, Galileo (Hebrew), 117, 2008, pp. 62-70
· “Epistemic Virtues and Leibnitzian Dreams: on Science, Faith and the Humanities,” with Peter Galison, The European Legacy: The Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, vol. 3, no. 5, August 2008, pp. 551-575
· “The Quest for the Origins of Kindness,” Odyssey (Hebrew), pp. 30-37
Essay Reviews:
· “The Essential Element,” The New Republic, August 30, 2004, pp. 31-37
· “Particles of Truth,” The New Republic, August 1, 2005, pp. 28-33
· “The Evolution of Evolution,” The New Republic, September 4, 2006, pp. 27-33
· “Sermons in Stone,” The New Republic, February 2, 2007, pp. 27-33
· “Nice Genes,” The New Republic, November 5, 2007, pp. 50-55
· “Time After Time”, The New Republic, December 24, 2008, pp. 44-47
Book Reviews in Journals and Periodicals:
· “A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World: Review,” Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vol. 291, No. 24, June 2004, pp. 3014-3015
· “The Evolution of a Naturalist,” American Scientist, vol. 92 no. 5, September-October 2004, pp. 470-473
· “A Master Synthesizer: L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza,” American Scientist, vol. 93 no. 5, September-October 2005, pp. 457-459
· Review of Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley, The European Legacy: The Journal for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), vol. 10 (4), 2005, pp. 406-407
· Review of Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism eds. Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz, Reports of the NationalCenter for Science Education, vol. 27 no. 1-2, 2007, pp. 47-48
· “When Philosophy of Science Counts,” Minerva: An International Review of Science, Learning & Policy, 46, 2008, pp. 133-138
Articles:
· “The Cyril Dean Darlington Papers,” Mendel Newsletter, The American Philosophical Society, no. 14, March 2005, pp. 4-6
· “Haldane and Darlington,” Haldane Newsletter no. 2, ed. Krishna R. Dronamraju, Foundation for Genetic Research, HoustonTX, March 2007
· “Dynamic Dissent,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8 2008
Course Titles
· ‘Darwinism’
· ‘The Idea of Progress in Biology’
· ‘The Evolution of Sex’
· ‘The Humanities Meet the Life Sciences’
· ‘Reading Darwin in the Twenty-First Century’
· ‘Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology’
Filmography
· “Did Herzl Really Say That?!”
Co-conceiver, writer, and host of the Israeli Oscar nominated series. The series includes the following seven hour-long films:
1. “The Transparent Kippa” (2006)
2. “If I forget Thee” (2006)
3. “The World of Yesterday” (2006)
4. “Israel – Our Home?” (2006)
5. “We Will Return, Eventually” (2007)
6. “Haredi 2007”(2007)
7. “O! My Homeland!” (2007)