D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett is an American historian of science and a writer. He is a professor at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet, based in Brooklyn, New York. Burnett received his A.B. in history (concentration in the history of science) at Princeton University and an M.Phil and Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Trinity College, Cambridge. Burnett is a member of the Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating the Society for Esthetic Realizers) (ESTAR(SER)), a research collective dedicated to studying the historicity of the Order of the Third Bird.

Awards and Recognition

• 2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellow
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “New Directions” Fellowship, 2009-2011
• Hermalyn Prize in Urban History, Bronx Historical Society, 2008
• New York City Book Award, New York Society Library, 2007
• Howard Foundation Fellowship in the History of Science, 2005-2006
• Christian Gauss Fund University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004-2007
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003-2004
• Cullman Fellow, New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers, 1999-2000
• Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1999
• U.S. Marshall Scholarship, 1993-1995
• Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, highest undergraduate award at Princeton University, 1993
• Salutatorian, Princeton University Class of 1993, gave Latin address at Commencement, 1993

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Works

• The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press. January 2012. ISBN 9780226100579
• Trying Leviathan Princeton University Press. November 2007.
• A Trial By Jury Knopf. September 2001; Japanese edition, 2006.
• Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens-Making in the Seventeenth Century American Philosophical Society, Transactions series. Vol. 95 (3): 2005.
• Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado University of Chicago Press. September 2000. ISBN 9780226081212