Jimena Canales

Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American historian of science and author with a background in physics and engineering.

Jimena Canales
BornJimena Canales
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationWriter
Notable worksA Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time
Website
www.jimenacanales.org

Career

Jimena Canales is the author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (2020),[1] the award-winning The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time (2015)[2] and A Tenth of a Second: A History (2009) [3] as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker,[4] The Atlantic,[5] NPR,[6] among others). Canales obtained a B.S. in engineering physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 1995, a master's degree in History of Science at the Harvard University and a PhD in History Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor.[7] In 2012 she was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie and in the summer she worked as a visiting professor at the Summer School for Media Studies at Princeton University in the German department.[8] In 2013 she was recruited to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science, which she held until 2017.[9]

Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.[10]

Her presentations on art and science has been featured at the Centre Georges Pompidou,[11] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[12] the 11th Shanghai Biennale[13] and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA).[14]

Awards and reviews

Source:[15][16]

  • The New Yorker reviews[17]
  • The Washington Post reviews[18]
  • The Guardian's Top 10 Books About Time[19]
  • Books of the Year 2016[20]
  • 25 Top Ibero-american Intellectuals[21]
  • Best Science Books for 2015[22]
  • Independent's Top Reads of 2015[23]
  • Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2015[24]
  • Charles A. Ryskamp Award from the American Council of Learned Societies[25]
  • University of Chicago Press Bevington Prize (2008)[26]
  • Prize for Young Scholars (2005), awarded by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science [27]

Books and selected articles
  • (2011) A Tenth of a Second: A History, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226093185
  • (2016) The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time, Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691173177
  • (2020) Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691175324
  • The Secret PR Push That Shaped the Atomic Bomb's Origin Story, The Atlantic
  • Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories, The New Yorker
  • An Ode To Insignificance: Buttons, Touchscreens, And Other Dangerous Technologies, NPR
  • Siri, Cortana, And Alexa Carry The Marks Of Their Human Makers, NPR
  • This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity, Nautilus

References
  1. "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science".
  2. "The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time".
  3. "A Tenth of a Second" – via press.uchicago.edu.
  4. Canales, Jimena. "Albert Einstein's Sci-Fi Stories". The New Yorker.
  5. Canales, Jimena (April 18, 2017). "The Secret PR Push That Shaped the Atomic Bomb's Origin Story". The Atlantic.
  6. NPR 2018/01/09, 2018/01/15, 2018/03/13
  7. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/5/12/history-of-science-reinvents-tutorials-the/. http://www.thecrimson.com/column/bargain-hunting-fall-2010/article/2010/9/5/class-science-title-professors/. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/11/2/music-sound-timbre-sheldon/
  8. http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/en/fellows/former-fellows/jimena-canales/. http://german.princeton.edu/ssms/academic-staff-2/academic-staff-2012/jimena-canales/ Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2017-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141030006706/en/Siebel-Chair-History-Science-Illinois-Named#.VQ4gSMaRk7A. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). http://www.trustees.uillinois.edu/trustees/agenda/November-14-2013/003-nov-Appointments.pdf
  10. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/some-experiments-in-art-and-politics/. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2015-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "Some Experiments in Art and Politics - Journal #23 March 2011 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  12. "The Photographic Event · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org.
  13. "Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  14. "The Artist's Voice: Trevor Paglen and Jimena Canales | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org.
  15. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. "Lectures and Awards". jimenacanales.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  17. Cep, Casey (January 8, 2021). "Science's Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond". Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  18. Keiser, Jess (December 24, 2020). "The shadowy spirits that helped advance science". Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  19. Burdick, Alan (January 10, 2018). "Top 10 books about time" – via www.theguardian.com.
  20. "Books of the year". The Tablet.
  21. "25 intelectuales que redefinen el pensamiento iberoamericano - Esglobal - Política, economía e ideas sobre el mundo en español".
  22. Popova, Maria (December 9, 2015). "The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time".
  23. "Irish writers pick their top reads of 2015". independent.
  24. "The Best Science Books of 2015".
  25. "ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - Results". www.acls.org.
  26. "Books Supported by the Bevington Fund". uchicago.edu. 5 May 2015.
  27. "Newsletter" (PDF). www.icohtec.org. 2012. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
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