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

Career

Jimena Canales is the author of ''Simply Einstein'' (2021), ''Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science'' (2020), ''The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time'' (2015) and ''A Tenth of a Second: A History'' (2009) as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NPR, 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 Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and a PhD in History of Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at

and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor. 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 Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in the German department. In 2013 she was recruited to the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science, which she held until 2017. Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher

Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries ...

, the artist

Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson ( is, Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's ...

and the cosmologist

Lee Smolin Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the ...

. Her presentations on art and science has been featured at the Centre Georges Pompidou,

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and wa ...

(SFMOMA), the 11th Shanghai Biennale and the

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through multiple na ...

(ICA).

Awards and reviews

Source: * Premio Cosmos, per la divulgazione scientifica for
L'Ombra del diavolo
' * The New Yorker reviews * The Washington Post reviews * The Guardian's Top 10 Books About Time * Books of the Year 2016 * 25 Top Ibero-american Intellectuals * Best Science Books for 2015 * Independent's Top Reads of 2015 * Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2015 * Charles A. Ryskamp Award from the American Council of Learned Societies * University of Chicago Press Bevington Prize (2008) * Prize for Young Scholars (2005), awarded by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science

Books and selected articles

books *(2009
''A Tenth of a Second: A History''
University of Chicago Press, *(2016

Princeton University Press *(2020) ttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691175324/bedeviled ''Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science'' Princeton University Press, *(2021) ''Simply Einstein'', Simply Charly publ. articles
''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

External links

Personal Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canales, Jimena Living people Harvard University alumni Mexican writers Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni 1973 births