Content and reach:

Spontaneous Generations is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal hosting work concerned with the history and philosophy of science and science and technology studies. We accept articles from scholars at any graduate level affiliated with any university institution. Articles published in Spontaneous Generations have been cited internationally.

institutional affiliation:

Spontaneous Generations is affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST). It is operated by members of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (HAPSAT) Graduate Students Society.

Editorial team:

Spontaneous Generations is edited and managed by students from the University of Toronto:

• Matthew McLaughlin serves as the journal’s editor. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the history of self-help literature written by psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.

• Myriam Iuorio is the journal’s associate editor. She is a PhD candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, and she previously graduated from University of Florence. Her research examines Italian missionary accounts from West Central Africa, sitting at the intersection of the history of disability and early modern processes of race-making in Europe and Africa.

• Jevan Konyar is the journal’s editorial assistant. He is currently completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto.