Angela Creager

Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she teaches in the Department of History and advises graduate students through the Program in History of Science. She has collaborated with scholars in Paris throughout her career, most recently in the publication of Risk on the Table : Food Production, Health, and the Environment, co-edited with Jean-Paul Gaudillière, EHESS & Cermes ; and Residues : Thinking Through Chemical Environments, co-authored with Soraya Boudia (Université Paris Descartes), Nathalie Jas (INRA), Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry (Université Paris-Dauphine), Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody Roberts. During June 2023, she is working with Emmanuel Henry and Valentin Thomas (EUI & Sciences Po, Lyon) on the science and policy of environmental chemicals.

The project

Risk Governance, Standards, Expertise : The Case of Mutagenicity Testing.

Hosting institution: Université Paris-Dauphine

Selective bibliography

• Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment, edited with Jean-Paul Gaudillière (New York : Berghahn Books, 2021)
• Residues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments, co-authored with Soraya Boudia, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody Roberts (New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2021)
• “To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in U.S. Chemicals Regulation,” Science, Technology & Human Values 46/5 (2021): 975–997
• “Narratives of Genetic Selfhood,” Berichte der Wissenschaftsgeschichte/History of Science and Humanities 45/3 (2022): 468–486
• “Sharing the ‘Safe’ Atom? The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation through Standardization,” co-authored with Maria Rentetzi, in Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima, edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia, and Kyoko Sato (London: Routledge, 2022), 111–131