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Henry M. Cowles is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from Princeton University (2015) and specializes in the history of science and medicine, with a focus on psychology, addiction, self-help, and expertise. His current research explores material histories of mental health since 1800 and the cultural evolution of habit from Thoreau's Walden to Silicon Valley's 'persuasive technologies.'
Affiliations include the Science, Technology, & Society Program; the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History; and the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science. He teaches courses such as Minds and Brains in America and American Addictions.
Recent academic publications include The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey (Harvard UP, 2020) and articles on philosophical mind studies and archival objectivity. Non-academic writings have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books.
He is currently on research leave for the 2024–2025 academic year.
