Bruce T. Moran
Professor of History, Department Chair,
University Foundation Professor, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., UCLA, 1978
Mack Social Sciences, MSS 210
Phone: (775) 784-6677
Email: moran@unr.edu
Professor Moran joined the faculty of the University of Nevada in 1976. His primary areas of study are the history of science, early medicine, and European cultural and intellectual history. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of The Alchemical World of German Court (1991); Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria (1991); (ed.), Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology and Medicine at the European Court (1991); (trans. and commentary), The Herbarius of Paracelsus (1993); (co-ed.), Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History and Practice (1998); Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (2005); and Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (2007). Another book, Alchemy in the Margins: Private Practices and Alchemical Agendas in the Age of Reason is underway. He has been a stipendiate of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Kassel) a guest professor at the Institute for the History of Pharmacy (Marburg), a visiting scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Cambridge), and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He continues (until 2009) to be an honorary research associate at the Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine (London), and shall serve through 2010 as a member of editorial board of the history of science journal, Isis. Moran has received grants from the Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Science Foundation. Along with regularly scheduled courses and participation in the university’s Core Humanities program, he also teaches several specialty courses such as The World of Leonardo: Art, Science, and the Human Body in the Renaissance and The Trial of Galileo: Science and Religion in the Early Modern Era.
When he is not being a professor Moran loves playing and listening to music, hiking, cross country skiing, and being a fan of all the teams in the German Bundesliga and in the British Premier League (with the exception of Chelsea).
Courses:
- History 281: Introduction to the History of Science: ancient world to the seventeeth century
- History 282: Introduction to the History of Science: Newton to Einstein
- History 385: Early Modern Europe
- History 480A/680A: Problems and Topics in the History and Philosophy of Science
- History 481/681 (Capstone): Mind, Madness and Culture
- History 490A/690A: History of Early Medicine
- History 701: Philosophy of History
- History 711: Seminar in Early Modern Europe
- History 740: Seminar in the History of Science
- CH 202: The Modern World