Isabel Gabel is a historian of science and political thought and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. Her research and teaching focus on how scientific forms of uncertainty and non-knowledge have shaped the landscape of liberal political thought in the 20th century. Her first book project, Experiments in History: French Biology between Liberalism and Critique, charts how experimental failure and epistemological controversies in French evolutionary biology were mobilized against Hegelian universalism and subsequently shaped Cold War liberalism in France. Her work has appeared in journals including Revue d’histoire des sciences, History of the Human Sciences, and AMA Journal of Ethics. Prior to coming to IFK, she was an NIH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, where she worked collaboratively on the ethics and history of epigenetics research.

Stephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. Her research and teaching focus on the history of computing, mathematics, and artificial intelligence since the Second World War. She is co-editor, with Janet Abbate, of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). Her first book project, Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States, explores attempts to reproduce human intelligence, mathematical intelligence in particular, in computers and the theories of human cognitive faculties that informed these efforts. She co-edits the “Mining the Past” column at the Harvard Data Science Review, serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and is a co-organizer of the annual SIGCIS conference.