Julia Menzel

Julia Menzel is a historian of science and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. She has a PhD in the history of science from MIT, an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a BS in Physics from Yale University. She has written about the history of modern physics, the history of scientific institutions, and the politics of science funding in the United States. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Philosophical Society, among other organizations. She is a first-time visitor to Aspen this summer, where she is conducting research in the ACP’s historical archives as part of a book about the history of theoretical physics since the 1970s.