D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett is an American historian of science and a writer. He is a professor at Princeton University^[1] 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.

Awards and recognition

2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellow^[2]
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “New Directions” Fellowship, 2009-2011^[3]
Hermalyn Prize in Urban History, Bronx Historical Society, 2008
New York City Book Award, New York Society Library, 2007^[4]
Howard Foundation Fellowship in the History of Science, 2005-2006^[5]^[6]
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^[7]^[8]
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^[9]^[10]
Salutatorian, Princeton University Class of 1993, gave Latin address at Commencement, 1993

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press. January 2012, paperback edition 2013. ISBN 9780226100579
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature Princeton University Press. November 2007; paperback edition, 2008.
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
A Little Common Place Book, introduction by D. Graham Burnett (New York: Cabinet Books, and Proteotypes, 2010). ISBN 9781932698503, 1932698507
Burnett, D. Graham; Hansen, Catherine L.; Smith, Justin E., eds. (2021). In Search of The Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER) 2001-2021. London: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN 978-1913689360.