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Christopher Phillips, a professor of history, will be the next head of the Department of History in 好色先生TV鈥檚 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Phillips succeeds Nico Slate, who has served as department head since 2020 and will step down on June 30.

鈥淚 am enormously grateful to Nico Slate for leading the History Department through the COVID crisis, for advancing the department generally and for being a wonderful colleague,鈥� said Dietrich College鈥檚 Bess Family Dean Richard Scheines. 鈥淐hris is an eminent historian of science, an interdisciplinary scholar who collaborates easily with other departments in Dietrich and across the university, and I love his vision for the future.鈥�

Phillips will take parental leave in fall 2024 and begin his tenure as department head on January 1, 2025. After Slate steps down this summer, Allyson Creasman, an associate professor of history, will act as interim head.

鈥淐hris is an eminent historian of science, an interdisciplinary scholar who collaborates easily with other departments in Dietrich and across the university, and I love his vision for the future.鈥澛犫�� Richard Scheines

鈥淚 am grateful for the support Dean Scheines has shown the department of history, and I am excited about the future of a department that has long incorporated Dietrich College鈥檚 strengths in both the humanities and the social sciences,鈥� Phillips said. 鈥淎s recent events keep reminding us, there is a huge need for more understanding of the history of political conflicts, the lingering effects of migration and racism, and the ways everyday people have responded to an increasingly technological and often de-humanized contemporary world."聽

CMU鈥檚 History Department is known for its approach to making connections between the past and the present and for showing how history helps explain social, cultural and political change. The department offers three undergraduate programs: bachelor鈥檚 in social and political history; bachelor鈥檚 in global studies; and bachelor鈥檚 in ethics, history and public policy (joint with the Department of Philosophy). The department鈥檚 doctoral program is based around the social history of science and the environment, connecting the department鈥檚 strengths in social and political movements as well as in science, technology and the environment.

鈥淎s recent events keep reminding us, there is a huge need for more understanding of the history of political conflicts, the lingering effects of migration and racism, and the ways everyday people have responded to an increasingly technological and often de-humanized contemporary world."聽聽鈥� Chris Phillips

Phillips joined the History Department in 2015 and has served as its director of graduate studies.

His research and teaching focus on the history of science in modern America, particularly the spread of mathematical and statistical methods. He is the author of 鈥淭he New Math: A Political History (University of Chicago Press, 2015)鈥� and 鈥淪couting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball (Princeton University Press, 2019).鈥�

Phillips鈥� current project is a book on the history of statistics in medicine, asking why and how clinical medicine became a science of numbers. The book will center on a group of biostatisticians 鈥渁nd their efforts to transform measures of causality and proof in medicine through the development of novel statistical measures from the 1930s to the 1970s.鈥� This project is supported by the NIH and a National Library of Medicine G13 grant. In 2020-2021, Phillips conducted research for the project as a National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine and at the American Philosophical Society as a Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellow.

Phillips graduated with his Ph.D. in history of science from in 2011. Previously, Phillips received a master鈥檚 in history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine from the . Before joining CMU, he taught as an assistant professor and Faculty Fellow at .