Jessica Riskin is a historian of science and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States.
[1][2] She grew up in New York City and is the daughter of literary critic Myra Jehlen and political economist and China scholar Carl Riskin.
In 1988-89 she studied at the Ecole polytechnique in Paris as an intern in the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée.
[9] Riskin also wrote Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment,[10] which won the American Historical Association's J. Russell Major Prize.
She edited Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life and, with Mario Biagioli, Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present which was designated by CHOICE magazine as an "essential" book in 2013.