Maryland History Alumna Is Macarthur “Genius” For 2014

Pamela O. Long receives MacArthur Fellowship for her investigations into the history of science.

The College of Arts and Humanities wishes to extend its sincere congratulations to Pamela O. Long, a MacArthur Fellow for 2014. Long, a Washington, D.C.-based historian whose work focuses on science and technology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. all from the University of Maryland’s Department of History. 

The MacArthur Foundation gives its “Genius Grants” to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”  Long’s first sole-authored book, “Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in 2001 for the best book in intellectual history. She has authored and co-authored many texts about the history of modern science. Long has taught and conducted research at Princeton University, the Getty Research Institute, the American Academy in Rome, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center.