Peter Sachs Collopy: On Caltech

Major Works

• 📖 Passing in the Hallway: Art and Technology at Caltech, 1968–1972, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (Caltech Library), 2024
• 📘 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 [introduction] (Caltech Library), exhibition catalog, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, 2024
• 📺 Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives, Caltech Physics Colloquium, 2022
• 📺 Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives, with students, postdocs, and Maura Dykstra, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Becoming Caltech, 1910–1930: Presentations from the Archives, with Heidi Aspaturian, Judith Goodstein, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020

Secondary Projects

• 📺 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Explores Where Film & Science Collide in LA, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Maximillian Stenström, and Hiatt Woods, Architectural Digest, 2026
• 📚 Electrifying Los Angeles, syllabus, with Jennifer Jahner, California Institute of Technology, 2026
• 📺 The Beckmans at Caltech, 1923–1939, Beckman Foundation, 2025
• 📺 Art and Science at Caltech: Four Histories, with Soraya de Chadarevian, Lois Rosson, Brian R. Jacobson, and Christopher Hawthorne, Caltech, 2024
• 🖼️ Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech, 2024
• 🎧 Art and Science Collide at Southern California’s Third Annual PST ART Series, with Larry Mantle, Joan Weinstein, Mika Yoshitake, and Jessica Nieble, AirTalk, 2024
• 📚 Curating Art and Science, syllabus, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Claremont Graduate University, 2022
• 📺 Behind the Book: Escape from Earth, with Erik Conway and Fraser MacDonald, Caltech, 2022
• 📺 Robert Millikan, Eugenics, and Justice in the Laboratory and the Archives, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2022
• 📺 Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past, with Nivetha Karthikeyan, Rochelle Diamond, Edray Goins, and Melany Hunt, Caltech Alumni Association, 2021
• 📺 Caltech’s House of Lightning, with Loma Karklins, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Ready, Set, Spark, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 📺 Biology Returns to Caltech, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 From High Volts to High Energy Physics, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Chemistry Comes to Caltech, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Influenza Comes to Throop, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Becoming Caltech: A Q&A with Caltech Archivist Peter Collopy, with Jon Nalick, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 🖼️ Becoming Caltech: Building a Research Community, 1910–1930, with Heidi Aspaturian, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 📖 Richard Feynman, Design & Science (Eastern Michigan University Gallery), 2019
• 📺 Copernicus to Feynman: Paper and Print in the Caltech Archives from 1500 to Present, Caltech Alumni Association, 2019
• 📺 The Caltech Archives as Modern Wunderkammer, LASER Pasadena: Wunderkammer, ArtCenter College of Design, 2018
• 🖼️ The Mind’s Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image, Caltech, 2018
• 📄 History of Physics in the Caltech Archives, and Now on the Web: Hale, Glaser, and More, with Mariella Soprano, AIP History Newsletter, 2018
• 📄 When Caltech Was Throop University, ICW Blog, 2017
• 🖼️ “Throops’s Superlative Opportunity”: The Story of the Gates Laboratory of Chemistry, with Jennifer Torres, Caltech, 2017
• 🖼️ Building a Chemistry Division, with Jennifer Torres, Caltech, 2017
• 📄 4 Questions for Peter Collopy, with Jon Nalick, Caltech Magazine, 2017