Julia Menzel

Julia Menzel is the Kenneth O. May Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research examines transformations in the practices, institutions, and epistemology of the physical and computational sciences since World War II and their connection to broader changes in American capitalism and politics. She completed her PhD in 2025 in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) at MIT, where she wrote a dissertation about theoretical physics during the transition from a Cold War to a neoliberal social order in the United States. She has an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates-Cambridge Scholar, and a BS in Physics from Yale University. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and a number of other institutions.