Philip Thurtle
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Phillip Thurtle is a historian, biologist, academic, and author. He is a professor in the Departments of the Comparative History of Ideas and History and an adjunct professor in Digital and Experimental Arts at the University of Washington.[1]
Phillip Thurtle | |
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Occupation(s) | Historian, biologist, academic and author |
Academic background | |
Education | BS MA., American History PhD., History and Philosophy of Technology and Science |
Alma mater | Evergreen State College Stanford University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Thurtle's research focuses on the emotional and experiential aspects of media, the impact of information processing technologies on biomedical research, and theories of innovation in the life sciences.[2] His publications comprise research articles and books including Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information, The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology and Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of the Life. He has received awards from the University of Washington, such as the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award[3] and the 2020 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award,[4] along with the Digital Humanities Fellowship from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities in 2015 and 2018.[5]
Thurtle is a Series Co-editor of In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedicine, and is a member of the editorial board of Humanities Net as well as the advisory board of Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation.[6]