Richard J. Spiegel

Richard J. Spiegel is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science at Princeton University. His dissertation situates nineteenth-century Germanophone psychology and its pedagogical and scholarly applications in a neo-humanist context. He is interested in how psychology shaped educational practice at the same time that it was put to use in law, economics, and historiography to, respectively, make and make sense of bourgeois German culture. Richard is broadly interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and he maintains a special interest in the disciplinarity of the natural and human sciences. Before coming to Princeton, Richard completed a BA (Art History and History) and MA (History) at McGill University. His research has been published in the British Journal for the History of Science, and his PhD has been supported by the Social Sciences Research Council as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.