Karen Rader

B.S., Loyola College. M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University. Recipient of National Science Foundation grant, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship; co-chair, Women's Caucus of the History of Science Society.
SLC, 1998-

Research Interests

History of twentieth-century U.S. life sciences (particularly relations between laboratory work and larger political, social, and ethical issues in American culture), standardized experimental animals, "Big Science," gender and science, oral history, and sci-tech museums.

Publications

Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1910-1960, in preparation and under contract with Princeton University Press.

"Of Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: C.C. Little's Creation of the Inbred Laboratory Mouse, 1909-1918," forthcoming. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and the Biomedical Sciences, Spring 1999.

"'The Mouse People:' Murine Genetics Work at the Bussey, 1910-1936," Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 31 (1998), no. 3: 327-354.

"The Origins of Mouse Genetics: Beyond the Bussey Institution, I. Cold Spring Harbor: The Station for Experimental Evolution and the 'Mouse Club of America,'" Mammalian Genome, 8 (July 1997): 464-466.

"C.C. Little and Jackson Laboratory Archives: Some Notes on the Intersecting Histories of Eugenics, Mammalian Genetics, and Cancer Research," The Mendel Newsletter, February 1996, 5 (new series): 1-7.

"Big Science: Price to the Present," Osiris, 1992, 7: 3-25 (with J. Capshew).

"Clarence Cook Little," American National Biography, Oxford, 1998.

"Big Science," Encyclopedia of American Science and Technology, ed. Marc Rothenberg, forthcoming.