Kristin Heitman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Dr. Heitman received her bachelors degree from Amherst College in 1982. As a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University, she earned a masters in 1994, certification in the history and philosophy of science in 1996 and, in 2000, a Ph.D. in philosophy. While at Hopkins, she held a George F. Owen Fellowship as well as a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation and an honorary Andrew Mellon Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Dr. Heitman taught logic and an historical survey of philosophy at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1994 to 1998. In June 1998, she joined the University's Office of Research, where she has served most recently as Director of Intramural Programs & Research Development and executive secretary of the University's Research Proposal Merit Review Committee. Since receiving her doctorate in 2000, she has held an appointment in USU's Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, where she teaches the Seminar in Critical Thinking (PMO927) as part of the Doctorate in Public Health program. She joined the Department of Medical History as a full-time member of the faculty at the start of the 2005-2006 academic year.
Dr. Heitman's interests center on the changing concepts and practices that hold together communities in science and medicine, particularly those that affect testing, justification, and acceptance. She wrote her dissertation, Hobbes, Wallis, and Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Method, under the guidance of Denes Deschene and Stephen F. Barker.