Graduate Program at IHPST
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Graduate Courses
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General Philosophy of Science
Joseph Berkovitz, Anjan Chakravartty, Yiftach Fehige Paul Thompson, Denis Walsh
History and Philosophy of Biological Sciences
Marga Vicedo, Paul Thompson, Denis Walsh, Nikolai Krementsov, Mary P. Winsor
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Craig Fraser, Joseph Berkovitz, Paul Thompson
History and Philosophy of Medicine
Lucia Dacome, Paul Thompson, Nikolai Krementsov, Pauline M.H. Mazumdar
History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
Joseph Berkovitz, Chen-Pang Yeang, Trevor Levere, Anjan Chakravartty, Brian Baigrie, Craig Fraser
History of Technology
Bert Hall, Janis Langins, Chen-Pang Yeang
Abraham, Tara H.: Microscopic Cybernetics: Mathematical Logic, Automata Theory, and the Formalization of Biological Phenomena, 1936-1970. (2000)
Archibald, W. Thomas: "Eine sinnreiche Hypothese": Aspects of Action-at-a-Distance Electromagnetic Theory, 1820-1880. (1987)
Arima, Katherine S.: Model and Mechanism in Quantum Physics: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Systems Represented by Harmonic Oscillators. (1977)
Arnold, David H.: The Mecanique Physique of Simeon Denis Poisson: The Evolution and Isolation in France of His Approach to Physical Theory, 1800-1840. (1978)
Ball, Norman R.: The Technology of Settlement and Land Clearing in Upper Canada Prior to 1840. (1979)
Boantza, Victor: Styles of Experimental Reasoning in Early Modern Chemistry. (2008)
Bocking, Stephen A.: Environmental Concerns and Ecological Research in Great Britain and the United States, 1950-80 . (1992)
Bowler, Peter J.: The Impact of Theories of Generation Upon the Concept of a Biological Species in the Last Half of the 18th Century. (1971)
Brysse, Keynyn: The Burgess Shale: A Cambrian Mirror for Modern Evolutionary Biology. (2008)
Burns, J. Conor: Networking Ohio Valley Archaeology in the 19th Century. (2006)
Campbell, Scott: The Premise of Computer Science: Establishing Modern Computing of the University of Toronto, 1945-1964. (2006)
Cormack, Lesley B.: Non Sufficit Orbem: Geography as an Interactive Science at Oxford and Cambridge, 1580-1620. (1988)
Cronin, Marionne H.: Flying the Northern Frontier, the Mackenzie River District and the Emergence of the Canadian Bush Plane, 1929-1937. (2006)
Dantan, Alejandro Ricardo Garciadiego: Bertrand Russell and the Origin of the Set-Theoretic Paradoxes . (1983)
DeJager, Timothy F.: G.R. Treviranus (1776-1837) and the Biology of a World in Transition. (1990)
de Vecchi, Vittorio M.G.: Science and Government in 19th Century Canada. (1978)
Durant, Darrin: Burying Nuclear Waste, Exposing Nuclear Authority: Canada’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Concept and Expert-Lay Discourse. (2008)
Ede, Andrew G.: Colloid Chemistry in North America 1900-1935: The Neglected Dimension. (1993)
Elwick, James: Compound Individuality in Victorian Biology, 1830-1872. (2004)
England, Richard K.: Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford. (1997)
Enros, Philip C.: The Analytical Society: Mathematics at Cambridge University in the Early 19th Century. (1979)
Everson, Theodore W.: Genetics and Health in Context: Genome Research Funding and the Construction of Genetic Disease (2006)
Fedunkiw, Marianne P.: Dollars and Change: The Effect of Rockefeller Foundation Funding on Canadian Medical Education at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Dalhousie University. (2000)
Feke, Jacqueline: Ptolemy in Philosophical Context: A Study of the Relationships Between Physics, Mathematics, and Theology. (2009)
Foster, Adam J.: The Human Mind and the Perception of Nature: Ideas, Judgement and Signs in Thomas Reid and Early Modern Philosophy. (2003)
Fraser, Craig Graham: The Approach of Jean d'Alembert and Lazare Carnot to the theory of a Constrained Dynamic System. (1981)
Gass, Gillian L.: Managing Marine Life: Scientific and Practical Work at Two British Marine Stations, 1884-1902. (2006)
Good, Gregory: J.F.W. Herschel's Optical Researches: A Study in Method. (1982)
Hamm, Ernst P.: Goethe on Granite (1990)
Harris, Martha L.: The physico-chemical nature of the chemical bond: valence bonding and the path of physico-chemical emergence. (2007)
Hilbert, Fr. Martin: Pierre Duhem and Neo-Thomist Interpretations of Physical Science. (2000)
Hill, Katherine L.: The Evolution of Concepts of the Continuum in Seventeenth Century Mathematics. (1996)
Hubbard, Jennifer M.: An Independent Progress: The Development of Marine Biology on the Atlantic Coast of Canada, 1898-1939. (1993)
Jarrell, Richard A.: The Life and Scientific Work of the Tubingen Astronomer Michael Maestlin, 1550-1631. (1972)
Jenkins, Jane E.: Matter And Vacuum in Robert Boyle's Natural Philosophy. (1996)
Jones, Charles V.: The Concept of ONE as a Number. (1978)
Jongsma, Calvin L.: Richard Whately and the Revival of Syllogistic Logic in Great Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century. (1983)
Jurkowitz, Edward P.: Interpreting Superconductivity: The History of Quantum Theory and the Theory of Superconductivity and Superfluidity, 1933-1957. (1996)
Keelan, Jennifer E.: The Canadian Anti-Vaccination Leagues, 1872-1892. (2004)
Keyser, Barbara W.: Victorian Chromatics. (1992)
Kichigina, Galina: Nineteenth-Century Physiology in the Making: Introducing Western European Experimentalism to the Russian Context. (2002)
Kingsland, Sharon E.: Modelling Nature: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Population Ecology, 1920-1950. (1981)
Kroker, Kenton: From Reflex to Rhythm: Sleep, Dreaming, and the Discovery of Rapid Eye Movement, 1870-1960. (2000)
Krumins, Andris V.: Symmetry, Conservation Laws and Theoretical Particle Physics, 1918-1979. (1999)
Langins, Janis: The Ecole Polytechnique (1794-1804): From Encyclopedic School to Military Institution. (1979)
Lawrence, Susan C.: Science and Medicine at the London Hospitals, 1750-1815: The Development of Teaching and Research. (1985)
Lazenby, Jill: Climates of Collaboration: Interdisciplinery Science and Social Identitiy. (2002)
LeBlanc, Andre: On Hypnosis, Simulation, and Faith: Post-Hypnotic Suggestion in France, 1884-1896. (2000)
Lehoux, Daryn: Parapegmata or, Astrology, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World. (2000)
Li, Alison: J.B. Collip and the Making of Medical Research inCanada. (1992)
Lockett, Wilfred G.: Jacob Leupold and the Theatrum Mechinarum. (1994)
Lucas, Matthew J.W.: Bridging A Cultural Divide: Strengthening Similarities and Managing Differences in University-Industry Relationships. (2005)
Lukens, David C.: An Aristotelian Response to Galileo: Honor Fabri, S.J., on the Causal Analysis of Motion. (1979)
McGee, David B.: Floating Bodies, Naval Science: Science, Design and the Captain Controversy, 1860-1871. (1994)
McNally, Donald H.: Science and the Divine Order: Law, Idea and Method in William Whewell's Philosophy of Science. (1982)
McOuat, Gordon R.: Species, Names and Things, from Darwin to the Experimentalists. (1992)
McRae, Sandra F.: The "Scientific Spirit" in Medicine at the University of Toronto, 1880-1910. (1987)
Miller, Boaz: A Social Theory of Knowledge. (2011)
Monaldi, Daniela: The Fate of the Mesotron. The Rome Experiment on the Nuclear Absorption of Hard Cosmic Rays. (2005)
Moore, Gregory H.: Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins and Role in the Development of Mathematics (1821-1940). (1979)
Nielsen, Janet: Private Knowledge, Public Tensions: Theory commitment in postwar American linguistics. (2009)
Ochs, Kathleen H.: The Failed Revolution in Applied Science: Studies of Industry by Members of the Royal Society of London, 1660-1668. (1981)
Olley, Allan: Just a Beginning: Computers and Celestial Mechanics in the Work of Wallace J. Eckert. (2011)
Olshin, Benjamin B.: A Sea Discovered: Pre-Columbian Conceptions and Depictions of the Atlantic Ocean. (1993)
Pantalony, David A.: Rudolph Koenig (1832-1901), Hermann Von Helmholtz (1821-1894) and the Birth of Modern Acoustics. (2002)
Paskauskas, R. Andrew: Ernest Jones: A Critical Study of his Scientific Development (1896-1913). (1986)
Pavri-Garcia, Vera: "Technological Doublespeak": Metaphors, Public Policy and the Development of Canada's First Domestic Communications Satellite System, 1966-1970. (2005)
Petersen, James O.: The Origins of Canadian Gold Mining: The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Tool Production to Machine Production. (1977)
Rabinovitch, Nachum L.: Probability and Statistical Inference in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature. (1971)
Reitan, Eric A.: Galileo and the Principle of Interia: An Historical and Philosophical Investigation into the Origin and Development of the Law of Inertia. (1986)
Schabas, Margaret L.: William Stanley Jevons and the Emergence of Mathematical Economics in Britain. (1983)
Scharf, Sara T.: Identification keys and the natural method: the development of text-based data management tools in botany in the long 18th century. (2007)
Sidoli, Nathan: Ptolemy's Mathematical Approach: Applied Mathematics in the Second Century. (2004)
Slater, Ian: Scale and Safety in the Canadian Nuclear Industry. (2003)
Stewart, Larry: Whigs and Heretics: Science, Religion andPolitics in the Age of Newton. (1978)
Tomory, Leslie: Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820. (2009)
Wall, Byron E.: The Context and Reception of Freud's Topographical Theory of Mind in British and American Philosophical Psychology, 1890-1925. (1977)
Walton, Steven A.: The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England. (1999)
Wiedemer, Jenene: Anesthesia and Entertainment: Nitrous Oxide in Nineteenth Century America (2006)
Woiak, Joanne D.: Drunkeness, Degeneration, and Eugenics in Britain, 1900-1914. (1998)
Worthen, Shana: The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses (2006)
Wright, Katharine C.: Being Human in Postwar American Thought and Culture: A History from the Cybernetic Perspective. (2002)
Fees & Financial Information
The fees schedule consists of two categories depending on the status of the student in Canada: (1) Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and (2) visa students. Please refer to the School for Graduate Studies website for the most up-todate fee schedule.
www.gradschool.utoronto.ca/fees-financial-aid.htm
Please note that a tuition bursary from SGS is available for Master's students who find themselves requiring extra time beyond the two years to finish off program requirements. Doctoral students are charged a pro-rated monthly tuition fee if completion of their program in their final year overlaps into the next academic year. Inquire at the School of Graduate Studies for details.
Financial assistance is available in the form of University, government and foundation fellowships. Detailed information is available at the Fellowships Office of the School of Graduate Studies (2nd floor, 63 St. George Street), where a graduate awards database may be consulted by students. Announcements of competitions of special note to IHPST students are posted on a bulletin board at the Institute. As well, there is a "funding drawer" archive of annual national and international fellowships/scholarships at the Institute.
IHPST is committed to providing a minimum level of financial support for all students admitted to the Ph.D. program for a period of four years, provided that they remain in good standing. Funding during the M.A. year will also be provided for entering students who are designated as doctoral stream (to be determined by the faculty). The total length of funding for a doctoral-stream student is five years - 1 year M.A. and 4 years Ph.D. For a doctoral-stream student the level of support each year is normally equal to $15,000 plus tuition and fees. This amount is made up of external and internal fellowships, teaching assistantships and research assistantships. Please note that if a work assignment is turned down by the student, the monetary worth of the assignment is deducted from the package. Likewise, if after originally accepting an assignment, the student later turns it down for some reason, the amount will be deducted from U of T funding package payments. However, any on-campus employment that the student finds after receiving the definition of his/her funding components will not be taken off the total; it will be in addition to the package. For further information, refer to the Arts & Science website:
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/graduate/funding/.
Fellowships and External Funding
All students who are Canadian or landed-immigrants wishing to be considered for internal funding from the University of Toronto are required to apply for all possible external funding, especially the OGS and SSHRC (for doctoral program), detailed below.
An entering student who has been identified by the department as a "doctoral-stream" candidate, is automatically eligible for university fellowships, (particularly the U of T Open and the Connaught), but only if application for admission and supporting documents are received by February 1. Brief descriptions of the basic fellowships relevant to Institute students are:
University of Toronto Fellowships
Value: $15,000 plus tuition and fees
No separate application is necessary for all prospective students who meet the February 1 deadline mentioned above, or for returning students who have applied for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and SSHRC.Ontario Graduate Scholarships
Value: $15,000
Applications are available from the Institute in October or directly from the Student Awards Branch, Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, P.O. Box 4500, 230 Park Avenue, Thunder Bay, Ont. P7B 6G9. IHPST Deadline for submission of applications is usually set at the end of October. Students contemplating application to the Institute are urged to apply directly to the Ministry in their last undergraduate academic year. Note that OGS fellows must under University policy receive fellowship support equal to the University of Toronto Fellowship, which is greater than the OGS. Accordingly, OGS Fellows receive additional support, usually in the form of Teaching or Research Assistantships, so that their total support package equals or exceeds that of the UTF.CGS Doctoral Fellowships
Value: $35,000 for three years
Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible. This is a subcategory of the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships described below and shares a common applications process.SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships
Value: $20,000
Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible. Details and application forms are available at the Institute in October, or directly from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) at 255 Albert Street, Box 1610, Ottawa, K1P 6G4. IHPST Deadline for submission of applications is usually set at the end of October.SSHRC Masters Fellowships
Value: $17,500
Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible. Students contemplating application to the Institute are urged to apply directly to SSHRC in their last undergraduate academic year.Connaught Scholarships
Value: $12,000 plus tuition
Open to students with an A average who are entering the first year of a graduate degree program, with multi-year renewal possible. Like the University of Toronto Open Fellowship, no separate application is necessary if the February 1 deadline is met.Hannah Fellowships
Value: $14,000 (MA)
$17,700 + travel/research allowance (PhD)
Specifically in the history of medicine. Applicants must apply directly to the Hannah Institute. Deadline is usually November 1.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS [listings]
Teaching assistant assignments are made in the spring of the academic year preceding the assignment. Available positions in IHPST are posted in the Institute and sent to accepted applicants. All current and prospective graduate students are eligible to apply. Teaching assistantships are an essential part of the funding package for doctoral-stream students. The positions offered are subject to final approval of funding to the IHPST. Some T.A.'ships are conditional on course enrolments. The hourly pay rate for Teaching Assistants is fixed by the Collective Agreement between the University of Toronto and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Presently, rates of pay are $33.80/hr. for students without an M.A., and $35.29/hr. for students who have a Master's or an equivalent degree. Both categories will rise to a uniform $36.35/hr by January, 2008. Salary is paid once a month. The hours of work per week range on average from 5 (1 tutorial section) to 9 (2 tutorial sections in the same course). The number of weeks of work for a full-year course is 28, for a half-course, 14. Aside from preparing for and leading the tutorial, duties may include attending course lectures, marking assignments and exams, conferring with students, and assisting with photocopying and/or audio-visual set-up. A description of duties is drawn up by the course instructor and the student has an opportunity to review them before deciding whether or not to accept the position offered.
Foreign students are eligible to work as teaching and research assistants. A work permit is not necessary for work on-campus. Foreign spouses here on a visa are eligible for work on campus, as well as off-campus.
Some research assistantships are available under grants held by faculty members, and they are an essential part of the funding package for doctoral-stream students.
For tax forms, please see: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/frms/td1-eng.html
Additional Funding Sources
STILLMAN DRAKE GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH TRUST FUND
A modest amount of funding is available to full-time graduate students working on doctoral theses or those invited to give papers at academic conferences. Written requests for partial assistance for expenses (travel, purchase of microfilms, photocopying of theses, etc.) will be accepted until May 15 of each academic year. Requests are to be addressed to the Director of IHPST. Original receipts must be submitted with a signed claim form (available from the Business Officer) before reimbursement is made.
KIRAN VAN RIJN ESSAY PRIZES
Named to remember the life of Kiran van Rijn, who passed while he was a student at IHPST, the prizes may be awarded annually for the best essays by MA students at IHPST. Winners are selected by upper-level PhD students. Totaling $100 annually, the prize is supported by the Kiran van Rijn Memorial Trust.
PAULINE M.H. MAZUMDAR ESSAY PRIZES in the HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The prizes may be awarded annually for the best essays on any subject within that field. Prizes may be awarded separately for graduate and undergraduate students. The essays submitted will be read by 3 assessors, 2 of them in the field of the history of medicine and one outside it. The graduate essay can be written for any course in the history of medicine, and may include a 1500H paper. The essay should be of publishable standard, and the winner should be encouraged to submit it to a journal for publication. If no essay is judged to be suitable in any given year, the prize need not be awarded, and the funds placed in reserve. The amount of the annual prize will be determined by the assessors. The deadline for submission is May 31 of each year.
PRIZE COMMITTEE: Membership: 2 assessors whose area of expertise is in the history of medicine and 1 assessor who is an historian of science or technology or a philosopher of science. Purpose: for the best essays on any subject within the history of medicine written by undergraduate or graduate students registered at the University of Toronto
- Lucia Dacome
- Nikolai Krementsov
- Pauline M.H. Mazumdar, Chair
- Paul Thompson
FURTHER INFORMATION
Persons interested in learning more about these funds or how to donate should contact:
Muna Salloum
IHPST, Room 316, Victoria College
91 Charles Street West
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7
