SAM H FRANZ


Doctoral Candidate
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

History of Science, History of Higher Education, History of Computing, Historiography, Historical Epistemology

samfranz@sas.upenn.edu

WRITING


“Man on Fire” in “Mental Health at Michigan,” Michigan in the World Digital Exhibit. 2020.

SPEAKING


“Archaeology and the History of Disciplines in the History of Science,” at French Historical Epistemology Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.

“Adaptation as Learning” at Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 11 April 2022.

“Adaptation as Learning: John Holland and Evolutionary Computing at the University of Michigan” at The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, Jointly held by MIT’s HASTS and Harvard History of Science (virtual), 8-9 April 2022.

“Adaptation as Learning: John H. Holland and Evolutionary Computing” at Histories of Artifical Intelligence, Winter Symposium, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, 14-15 December 2021.

“Thinking about Automating Thinking: A History of Early Computing” at Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 4-7 September 2019.

“A History of Computing(s),” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 18 August 2019.

“A (Pragmatic) Computer Science: Arthur W. Burks and the Logic of Computers Group,” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 4 August 2019.

ORGANIZING & MISC.


Co-Organizer, French Historical Epistemology Online Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.

Organizer, Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-2023.