Ann Hibner Koblitz
American academic
Ann Hibner Koblitz (born 1952) is an American historian best known for her studies of the history of women in science. She is Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and is the Director of the Kovalevskaia Fund, which supports women in science in developing countries.
Education and career
She received her BA in history of science from Princeton University, where she was in the first class of women admitted as undergraduates. She earned her PhD in history from Boston University. She studied and did research in the Soviet Union in 1974–75, 1978, 1981–82, 1985, and 1986. In 1984–85, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, after which she had temporary teaching positions at Wellesley College, Oregon State University, and the University of Puget Sound. From 1989 to 1998 she taught at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Since 1998, she has been a professor at Arizona State University.
Controversies
In a graduate seminar in 1977, Ann Hibner Koblitz criticized an article by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington for misusing mathematics in an attempt to buttress his arguments. This led her husband, Neal Koblitz, to include her critique in his article "Mathematics as Propaganda".
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