JAIPREET VIRDI-DHESI curriculum vitae

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1 JAIPREET VIRDI-DHESI curriculum vitae Website: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Sessional Instructor G. Raymond Chang School for Continuing Studies, Ryerson University EDUCATION 2014 Ph.D. History of Science & Technology, University of Toronto Supervisor: Lucia Dacome (IHPST, University of Toronto) Dissertation: From the Hands of Quacks: Aural Surgery, Deafness, and the Making of a Surgical Specialty in Nineteenth-Century London. Tracing the efforts of a particular group of London-based aural practitioners ( aurists ) and their visions of a specialist identity, From the Hands of Quacks explores how medical legitimacy was founded within a field constantly battling professional and social accusations of charlatanry. As aurists fiercely competed with each other for positions, status, and patients, accusations of quackery weakened their attempts to forge authority as skilled surgical experts. Bringing into light new materials, I examine the concept of quackery and professional legitimacy in aural surgery, addressing how quack was a highly ambiguous term generally used to disqualify an adversary or competitor, or to dismiss a particular medical procedure or technology M.A. History of Science & Technology, University of Toronto 2006 Specialized B.A. Philosophy of Science, York University RESEARCH & TEACHING SPECIALITIES History of science, history of technology, gender in science & medicine, history of medicine, deaf history, material culture, sociocultural context of sound technologies, medical humanities PUBLICATIONS Refereed Articles 2014 Priority, Piracy, and Printed Directions: James Yearsley s Patenting of the Artificial Tympanum, Technology & Innovation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors 16.2: Curtis s Cephaloscope: Deafness and the Making of Surgical Authority in London, , Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87.3:

2 Virdi-Dhesi 2 of Not to become a breeding ground for medical experimentation: Examining the Tensions between Aurists and Educators for the Deaf, , British Deaf History Society Journal 15.4: Book Chapters ---- Medicalizing Deafness in Victorian London, in Karen Riley, Paul Hard, and Karen Sayer (Ed.), Disability in the Victorian Age: A Long March toward Education and Equality (Information Age Publishing, submitted). Book Reviews 2014 Visions of America: Deaf Culture & Identity in the 19 th Century. A Review of Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture by R.A.R. Edwards (2012), H-Disability, H-Net Reviews Shaping Science and Scientism: Review of Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Richard G. Olson (2008), Science as Culture 20.4: Media Reviews 2014 Dialogues on Disability: Social Media as Platforms for Scholarship, Medical History 58.4: A Digital Reader: 19 th Century Disability Cultures & Contexts, Journal of Victorian Culture Online Learning from Artifacts: A Review of the Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science presented by the Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster, Spontaneous Generations 4.1: Conversing in a Cyberspace Community: The Growth of HPS Blogging, Newsletter of the History of Science Society GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2013 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 2012 Disability Studies Association Graduate Student Award University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies, Research Travel Grant Societies Meeting Travel Grant

3 Virdi-Dhesi 3 of Canadian Society for History & Philosophy of Science Travel Grant Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology Travel Grant 2009 XXIII ICHST Local Organizing Committee Travel Grant 2009 National Science Foundation Travel Grant 2009 Society for the History of Technology Travel Grant 2009 Women in Technological History Award 2009 Canadian Historical Association Travel Grant University of Toronto Fellowship INVITED TALKS 2014 Ear Spectacles for the Deaf: Making and Marketing Artificial Eardrums, Institute for the History of Medicine, John Hopkins University. October Ear Spectacles for the Deaf: Making and Marketing Artificial Eardrums, Rochester Institute of Technology. November 11. CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PAPERS Panels Organized 2013 Making Hearing Aids: Diverse Motivations, Aesthetics and Audiences. Paper: Cotton-Wool vs. Vulcanized Rubber: Expertise and the Artificial Tympanum Controversy, History of Science Society, Boston MA. Papers Presented 2014 You can t see them they re Invisible! Patenting Artificial Eardrums in Britain and America, , Rethinking Patent Cultures Workshop III: Disability, Prostheses, and Patenting, Leeds City Museum, September Cotton-Wool vs. Vulcanized Rubber: Expertise and the Artificial Tympanum Controversy, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, St. Catherine s, Canada The Pleasures and Dangers of Social Media, roundtable, History of Science Society, Boston, MA Institutional Boundaries: The Early Years of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear (est.1816), Deaf World/Hearing Word: Spaces, Techniques, and Things in Culture and History, Berlin, Germany.

4 Virdi-Dhesi 4 of Not to become a breeding ground for medical experimentation: Examining the Tensions between Aurists and Educators of the Deaf, , Disability and the Victorians: Confronting Legacies, Leeds, UK Inquests into a Surgical Procedure: Creating Public and Professional Trust, , 3- Societies Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Instruments of Professionalization: John Harrison Curtis Cephaloscope and the Making of Surgical Authority, International Study Group for the History of Otorhinolaryngology, New York City, NY Public Outrage & Public Opinion: Undermining the Authority of Aurists, , Beyond Storytelling: Understanding Society through Encounters in the History of Health Workshop, Ottawa, ON A Crisis of Identity and a Need for Medical Authority: Aurists and Aural Surgery in Nineteenth-Century London, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Fredericton, NB Diagnosing Deafness: Instruments and the Making of Surgical Authority in Nineteenth- Century London, Fitting for Health: The Economies of Medical Technologies in Europe and its Colonies, Workshop, Paris, France Interpreting the Cephaloscope: Instruments, Diagnosis, and the Medicalization of the Deaf, Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA Interpreting the Cephaloscope: Instruments, Diagnosis, and the Medicalization of the Deaf, XXII International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary Medical Authority and Medicalized Institutions: John Harrison Curtis and the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ottawa, ON. TEACHING EXPERIENCE History of Science & Technology 2012 Scientific Revolutions I: Natural Philosophy. Teaching Assistant, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto History of Evolutionary Biology I. Instructor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto History of Evolutionary Biology I. Teaching Assistant, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.

5 Virdi-Dhesi 5 of 7 History of Medicine Medicine from Antiquity to 1500 CE. Instructor, Chang School for Continuing Studies, Ryerson University History of Medicine I. Instructor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto Medicine from Antiquity to 1500 CE. Instructor, Department of History, Ryerson University. Disability Studies 2015 Disability and Ethics. Instructor, joint course for Department of Philosophy & Department of Disability Studies, Ryerson University. Guest Lectures 2014 Quackery & Medico-Technological Aids for Hearing Loss, for Dr. Mary Beth Kitzel s Deafness and Technology course, Rochester Institute for Technology. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Conference Organization Assistant Organizer, Comparative Program on Health and Society Alumni Workshop, Munk School for Global Research, University of Toronto Conference Chair, The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nutrition & Natural Knowledge, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (HAPSAT) Annual Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, March 18, Logistics Coordinator, DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, Faculty of Information Studies & Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, November 11-14, Conference Chair, Instruments: Mental and Material, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (HAPSAT) Annual Graduate Conference, April 25, Conference Secretary, 150 Years After Origin: Biological, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives, University of Toronto, November 21-24, Public Outreach & Digital Humanities Project Member, Discovering Toronto s Public Health Contributor, Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts

6 Virdi-Dhesi 6 of History Blogger, From the Hands of Quacks Exhibit Co-Curator, Through the Looking Glass: Observing & Experimenting in Practice, University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection, in partnership with the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. Extracurricular Service Advisor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Writing Centre Book Reviews Editor, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. MEDIA INTERVIEWS 2014 Interviewed and quoted for Elle India Magazine feature Elle Geeks: Mind Game, by Sonam Savlani, Vatsala Chhibber, and Anuradha Anupkumar, August Interviewed and quoted for The Triangle article, The Graduates, by Danielle Verghese, August Interviewed for Huffington Post article, Meet the Three Female Medical Students who Destroyed Gender Norms a Century Ago by Mallika Rao, April Interviewed and quoted for the article, Teaching Excellence, in the Fall brochure for G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Studies, Ryerson University. LANGUAGES English: Reading, speaking, writing (fluent) French: Reading, writing (good, with dictionary) American Sign Language: comprehension only PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS History of Science Society Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection