Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

David G. Horn

David G. Horn

David G. Horn

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

horn.5@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural and historical studies of science
  • Social technologies
  • Cultural and social theory

Education

  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching and Research

Cultural and historical studies of science; social technologies; the body and deviance; cultural and social theory; Europe (Italy and France)

David Horn's most recent book, The Criminal Body: Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance (New York: Routledge, 2003), is focused on nineteenth-century Italian human sciences. His first book,Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity (Princeton University Press, 1994), explored social technologies of reproduction and welfare in interwar Italy. He is currently working on a study of anthropologies of writing.

Selected Publications

  • The Criminal Body: Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance (Routledge, 2003).
  • “Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body,” forthcoming in The Anthropology of Modernity , ed. Jonathan Xavier Inda (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
  • “Making Criminologists: Tools, Techniques, and the Production of Scientific Authority,” forthcoming in Criminals and Their Scientists: Essays on the History of Criminology, ed. Peter Becker and Richard Wetzell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
  • “Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social, and the Construction of Italian Identities,” inLanguage and Revolution: The Making of Modern Political Identities, ed. Igal Halfin (London: Frank Cass, 2002)
  • “L’oeuil experimenté: l’expertise médical et le corps criminel au XIXe siècle,” in Michel Foucault et la médecine: Lectures et usages, ed. Philippe Artières and Emmanuel Da Silva (Paris: Kimé, 2001), pp. 249-269
  • Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction and Italian Modernity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)