Dr. Robert Brain

Biography

Robert Michael Brain specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine, as well as European cultural history. He is the author of 'Pulse Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe' published by the University of Washington Press in 2015 and has written sixty articles, chapters, and reviews. Additionally, he co-edited 'Varieties of Empathy: Science, Art, Culture', a special edition of Science Context in 2012 and 'Hans Christian Ørsted: The Romantic Legacy of Science' in 2007. A co-curator of innovative exhibitions like 'Empires of Physics 1900: A New Age' at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge, he has taught at prominent institutions, including Harvard and Stanford, and held prestigious fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Brain holds a Ph.D. in History from UCLA, an M.A. in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research Interests