Sofie Lachapelle
Campus: Guelph
Office: 2016 MacKinnon Extension
Email: slachap@uoguelph.ca
Sofie Lachapelle has been at the University of Guelph since January 2005. She is a historian of science with a PhD degree from the University of Notre Dame. Her work deals with marginality in the sciences, the relationship between nature and the supernatural, the history of psychiatry, the history of psychology, and Modern France. She has published on French psychical research, religious phenomena as interpreted and appropriated by medicine and psychiatry and children’s education in nineteenth-century asylums. In her current project, she explores the world of nineteenth-century magicians and the relationship between science, magic and wonder during this period.
Selected Publications:
- “Educating Idiots: Utopian Ideals and Practical Organization Regarding Idiocy in Nineteenth-Century French Asylums.” Science in Context 20 (2007), (Forthcoming).
- “Attempting Science: The Creation and Early Development of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, 1919-1931.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 41 (2005), 1-24.
- “Between Miracle and Sickness: Louise Lateau and the Experience of Stigmata and Ecstasy.” Configurations 12 (2004), 77-105.