D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett is an American historian of science and a writer. He is a professor at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet, based in Brooklyn, New York. Burnett received his A.B. in history (concentration in the history of science) at Princeton University and an MPhil and Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Awards and recognition

2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellow
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ã¢ÂÂNew DirectionsÃ¢ÂÂ Fellowship, 2009-2011
Hermalyn Prize in Urban History, Bronx Historical Society, 2008
New York City Book Award, New York Society Library, 2007
Howard Foundation Fellowship in the History of Science, 2005-2006
Christian Gauss Fund University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004Ã¢ÂÂ2007
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003Ã¢ÂÂ2004
Cullman Fellow, New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers, 1999-2000
Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1999
U.S. Marshall Scholarship, 1993Ã¢ÂÂ1995
Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, highest undergraduate award at Princeton University, 1993
Salutatorian, Princeton University Class of 1993, gave Latin address at Commencement, 1993

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press. January 2012, paperback edition 2013.
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature Princeton University Press. November 2007; paperback edition, 2008.
A Trial By Jury Knopf. September 2001; Japanese edition, 2006.
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens-Making in the Seventeenth Century American Philosophical Society, Transactions series. Vol. 95 (3): 2005.
Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado University of Chicago Press. September 2000.
A Little Common Place Book, introduction by D. Graham Burnett (New York: Cabinet Books, and Proteotypes, 2010).