Books
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
Introduction PDF
Reviews:
- Science (March 23, 2007)
- Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 37 (March 2007)
- H-France (September 2007)
- Journal of American History 94 (September 2007)
- Reviews in American History 35 (December 2007)
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 44 (Spring 2008)
- Journal of the History of Medicine 63 (April 2008)
- History of Education Quarterly 48 (May 2008)
- American Historical Review 113 (June 2008)
- Isis 99 (June 2008)
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (Summer 2008)
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (Summer 2008)
- British Journal for the History of Science 41 (December 2008)
- Technology and Culture 50 (January 2009)
- Intelligence 37 (January/February 2009)
- Revue internationale de politique compareé 16 (2009)
- Journal of Modern History 81 (June 2009)
- Modern Intellectual History 6 (November 2009)
Articles
“Abnormal Minds and Ordinary People: American Psychologists Discover the Normal” in “Normalitat” im Diskursnetz Soziologischer Begriffe, eds. Jurgen Link, Thomas Loer, and Hartmut Neuendorff (Heidelberg: Synchron, 2003), pp. 85-99 PDF
“Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence” Isis 84 (1993): 278-309 PDF
“The Culture of Intelligence” in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 7, The Modern Social Sciences, eds. Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) PDF
“Defining and Selecting Competencies: Historical Reflections on the Case of IQ” (pdf) in Defining and Selecting Key Competencies, eds. Dominique Simone Rychen and Laura Hersh Salganik (Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber, 2001) PDF
“Differentiating a Republican Citizenry: Talents, Human Science, and Enlightenment Theories of Governance” Osiris 17 (2002): 74-103 PDF
“Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse,” in Genealogies of Genius, eds. Joyce E. Chaplin and Darrin M. McMahon (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 43-62 PDF
“Has Psychology ‘Found Its True Path’? Method, Objectivity, and Cries of ‘Crisis’ in Early Twentieth-Century French Psychology” Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (2012): 445-54 PDF
“Mental Testing in the Early Twentieth Century: Internationalizing the Mental Testing Story,” History of Psychology 17 (2014): 249-55 PDF
“Minding Matter/Mattering Mind: Knowledge and the Subject in Nineteenth-Century Psychology” Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (1999): 345-76 PDF
“Opening the Democracy Box” Social Studies of Science 31 (2001): 425-28 PDF
“The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America” (pdf) in States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order, ed. Sheila Jasanoff (London: Routledge, 2004) PDF
