Mary Pickering

Mary Pickering is professor of modern European history at San Jose State University, specializing in cultural/intellectual history, social history, and women's history. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University and holds an advanced graduate degree (D.E.A.) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques ("Sciences Po") in Paris. She has written articles for the Journal of the History of Ideas, French Historical Studies, Journal of Women's History, Historical Reflections, Revue philosophique, Revue internationale de philosophie, and Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques. The first volume of her book, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1993. The second and third volumes appeared in 2009 and were nominated by Cambridge for a Pulitzer Prize. They were also nominated for the Pfizer Award, awarded by the History of Science Society.