Cowan is a Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Director of Women's Studies from 1985 to 1990 and Chair of the Honors College from 1997 to 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, "Sir Francis Galton and the Study of Heredity in the 19th Century," was supervised by William Coleman.Ĭowan was a professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook from 1967 to 2002. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University. in history from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. She attended the excellent Brooklyn public schools, graduating (in 1957) from Midwood High School. Schwartz (an attorney and office manager). She is also the author of a widely used textbook on the social history of American technology.Ĭowan was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Betty (a home-maker and antique-dealer) and Louis E. Ruth Schwartz Cowan (born 1941) is an American historian of science, technology and medicine noted for her research on the history of human and medical genetics, as well as on the history of household technologies.
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