John Mathew 
                         Associate Professor 
                   Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 
                 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, 
                 Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, Maharashtra, INDIA 
                Mobile: (+91)9747861285, Email: mathew@post.harvard.edu 
                              
         Permanent Address 
         ‘Vishranthi’, T. C. 3/665, 
         T. K. Divakaran Road, Muttada P. O.,  
         Trivandrum, Kerala 695025 
         INDIA 
          
         Nationality  
         Indian 
          
         Date of Birth 
         26/June/1970 
          
         Education 
         Ph.D. in the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2011) 
         A.M. in Medical Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2006) 
         Ph.D. in Ecological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA (2003) 
         M.Phil. in Zoology, Madras University, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India (1994) 
         M.Sc. in Zoology, Madras Christian College, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India (1992)  
         B.Sc. in Zoology, Madras Christian College, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India (1990) 
          
         Affiliations 
         Visiting Faculty Associate, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of 
            Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2014). 
         Graduate Student Fellow, Harvard Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2010-2011). 
         Research Affiliate, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, London, UK (2009-2010). 
                             1 
         Visiting Graduate Student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France (2008-
            2009). 
          
         Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Assistantships 
         Harvard Academy Finishing Grant (2010), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
         Sheldon Fellowship (2009), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
         South Asia Initiative Summer Grant, (2009), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.  
         Edwin Hiebert History of Science Grant for Research (2009), Harvard University, 
           Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
         Chateaubriand Fellowship (2008), Government of France, Paris, France. 
         Centre  for  European  Studies  Krupp  Fellowship  (2008),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
           Massachusetts, USA. 
         Asia Centre Study Grant (2008), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
         South  Asia  Initiative  Summer  Grant  (2008),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
           USA. 
         Edwin Hiebert History of Science Grant for Research (2008), Harvard University, Cambridge, 
           Massachusetts, USA. 
         Merit  Fellowship  for  Dissertational  Work  (2007),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
           Massachusetts, USA. 
         Graduate  Student  Committee  Travel  Grant  (2007),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
           Massachusetts, USA. 
         National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant (2006), NSF, Washington D.C., USA. 
         Centre  for  European  Studies  Summer  Grant  (2006),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
           Massachusetts, USA. 
         South  Asia  Initiative  Summer  Grant  (2006),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
           USA. 
         Jens  Aubrey  Westengard  Fellowship  (2004),  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
           USA. 
         Special  Doctoral  Research  Assistantship  (1995-1998),  Old  Dominion  University,  Norfolk, 
           Virginia, USA. 
            
          
          
          
                             2 
             Experience 
             Associate  Professor,  Indian  Institute  of  Science  Education  and  Research,  Pune  (Poona), 
                 Maharashtra, India (2014-), in the Humanities and Social Sciences (An Introduction to the 
                 History of Medicine, Science and Technology). 
             Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA (2012-14), in the 
                                          th    th                   th    st
                 History  of  Science  (Science  in  the  18   and  19   centuries,  Science  in  the  20   and  21  
                 centuries,  An  Introduction  to  the  History  of  Medicine,  Science  and  Technology, 
                 Technology’s Children in the Garden of Eden, The Darwinian Riposte and the Evolution of 
                 Evolution). Awarded Certificate of Distinction for Teaching a Small Class for An Science in 
                    th    st
                 the 20  and 21  centuries and Technology’s Children in the Garden of Eden ((2012-13). 
             Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2012), in Modern World 
                 History (Glimpsing World History through the eyes of Amitav Ghosh). 
             Lecturer, Harvard University (2011), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in the Freshman Seminar 
                 (Science, History and Theatre). 
             Lecturer, Kyung-Hai University, Seoul, South Korea at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, 
                 Massachusetts, USA, Summer Semester (2011), in Science, Technology and Society Studies 
                 (American Technology and Art). 
             Instructor, Harvard University (2008), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in Sanskrit and Indian 
                 Studies, (Tutorial on Kerala). 
             Teaching Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
                 (2011,  2012),  in  Science,  Technology  and  Society  Studies  (History  of  American 
                 Technology). 
             Teaching  Fellow,  Tufts  University,  Medford,  Massachusetts,  USA  (2011),  in  Sociology 
                 (Epidemics). 
             Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1998-2003, 2005-2008 
                 and  2011-2012),  in  the  Science  Core  (Human  Behavioural  Biology,  History  of  Life, 
                 Dinosaurs  and  their  Relatives,  How  to  build  a  Habitable  Planet),  History  Core  (The 
                 Darwinian Revolution, Modern South Asia in a Global Context) History of Science (Science 
                 and Empire, Dietetics, Sophomore Tutorial, Senior Thesis), Biology (Animal Behaviour) 
                 and Sociology (Life and Death in the United States). Awarded “Certificate of Distinction for 
                 Teaching” at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in Animal Behaviour 
                 (1998-1999) and Human Behavioural Biology (1998-1999, 1999-2000). 
             Instructor, Centre for Talented Youth Summer Programme, Johns Hopkins University. History of 
                 Disease (2005), St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, USA; Epidemiology (2006, 
                                            3 
           2012),  Princeton  University,  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  USA;  Biomedical  Sciences 
           (Pharmacology)  (2006),  Roger  Williams  University,  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  USA;  and 
           Sensation and Perception (2007), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 
           USA. 
         Chair,  Committee  on  Science,  Technology  and  Medicine  for  curricular  development,  Duke 
           University (2012), Durham, North Carolina, USA. 
         Collections  Curatorial  Staff  Member,  Museum  of  Comparative  Zoology,  Harvard  University 
           (1998-2000), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
         Special  Doctoral  Research  Assistant.  Programme  in  Ecological  Sciences,  Old  Dominion 
           University (1995-1998), Norfolk, Virginia, USA. 
         Creative Consultant (Copy), Whirlwind Communications, Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India 
           (1994-95). 
          
         Articles 
         Fan, F.  and  J.  Mathew,  Negotiating  Natural  History  in  Transitional  China  and  British  India, 
         British Journal of the History of Science Trends (in review) 
         Mathew, J., Edward Blyth, John McClelland, the curatorship of the Asiatic Society’s collections 
           and the origins of the “Calcutta journal of natural history” Archives of Natural History Vol. 
           42 No. 2 (2015): 265-278. 
         Kaliszewska, Z., D. Lohman, K. Sommer, G. Adelson, D. Rand, J. Mathew, G. Talavera. and N. 
           E.  Pierce,  When  Caterpillars  Attack:  Biogeography  and  Life  History  Evolution  of  the 
           Miletinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Evolution Vol. 69 (2014): 571-588. 
         Mathew, J., Godwin-Austen and The Fauna of British India Series in Catherine Moorehead, The 
           K2 Man (And His Molluscs) (Castle Douglas: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd., 2013): 190-195. 
         Sridharan, B., A. Kumar, and J. Mathew (guest editors), Early Mammalogists in India, Current 
           Conservation, Vol. 6, No: 3 (2012): 4-33. 
         Mathew, J.,  Introduction  in  B.  Sridharan,  A.  Kumar,  and  J.  Mathew  (guest  editors),  Special 
           edition on Early Mammalogists in India, Current Conservation, Vol. 6, No: 3 (2012): 4-8. 
         Srivathsa, A. and J. Mathew, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon in B. Sridharan, A. Kumar, and J. Mathew 
           (guest editors), Special edition on Early Mammalogists in India, Current Conservation, Vol. 
           6, No: 3 (2012): 20-21. 
         Mathew, J., William Thomas Blanford in B. Sridharan, A. Kumar, and J. Mathew (guest editors), 
           Special  edition  on  Early  Mammalogists  in  India,  Current  Conservation,  Vol.  6,  No:  3 
           (2012): 22-23. 
                             4