Peter Sachs Collopy: On science

Major Works

• 📖 Passing in the Hallway: Art and Technology at Caltech, 1968–1972, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, 2024
• 📘 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 [introduction], exhibition catalog, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, 2024
• 📖 “Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness [Spanish excerpt], Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics, 2023
• 📺 Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives, with graduate 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
• 🎓 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
• 📖 Race Relationships: Collegiality and Demarcation in Physical Anthropology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2015
• 🎓 George Frederick Wright and the Harmony of Science and Revelation, thesis, Oberlin College, 2007

Smaller Projects

• 📺 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
• 📺 Robert Millikan, Eugenics, and Justice in the Laboratory and the Archives, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2022
• 📺 Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives, Caltech Physics Colloquium, 2022
• 📺 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
• 📄 Becoming Caltech: A Q&A with Caltech Archivist Peter Collopy, with Jon Nalick, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 📖 Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, book review, Technology and Culture, 2020
• 🖼️ Becoming Caltech: Building a Research Community, 1910–1930, with Heidi Aspaturian, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 🎧 Strange Science of Astronomy: Past and Present, with Eun-Joo Ahn, Tracy Drain, W. Patrick McCray, and John Mulchaey, Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2019
• 📖 Richard Feynman, Design & Science, 2019
• 📖 The Cybernetics Moment, or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, book review, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2019
• 📺 Copernicus to Feynman: Paper and Print in the Caltech Archives from 1500 to Present, Caltech Alumni Association, 2019
• 📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Consciousness and Digitization in the History of Video, Rewind & Hit Play, University of California, Los Angeles, 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
• 🖼️ “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
• 📚 The Evolution Debates, syllabus, University of Southern California, 2017
• 📄 What Does It Mean to Say Millennials Are Having Less Sex?, Nursing Clio, 2016
• 📺 Infolding the Self: From Video Therapy to Video Art, Re-Create Emerging Researchers’ Symposium, 2015
• 📚 Emergence of Modern Science, syllabus, with Jason Oakes, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
• 📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012
• 📄 History of Science Society 2010 Annual Meeting, with Andrew Hogan, genmedhist, 2011
• 📄 Laboratories and Managerial Science, 2010