Jessica Riskin is a historian of science, and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is also the Jean-Paul Gimon Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford. She was educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Iowa State, MIT and Sciences Po, Paris. She is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.