Tamar Novick is a historian of science, technology, and the environment. Her research focuses on agriculture, animals, bodily waste, and fertility research in Palestine*Israel. Her book, Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land (MIT Press, 2023), won the 2024 George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history, and was a finalist for 4S’s Rachel Carson Prize. She is also the editor of three special issues in the journals Technology and Culture, Journal of Material Culture, and Osiris.
Prof. Novick joined the faculty of the STS Deparmtent at TUM as Assistant Professor for the History of Technology in March 2025. She holds a PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, where she led a working group on disruptive animality. Novick was also a Guest Professor in the Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zürich, and is a recent receipent of a Gerda Henkel Foundation scholarship.
- Tamar Novick and Maria Pirogovskaya, guest editors of the special issue “Vital Waste,” Journal of Material Culture 30.1 (2025). Abstract
- Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel Rosenberg, guest editors of the special issue: “Animal Mobilities,” Osiris 40 (2025). Abstract
- Tamar Novick, guest editor of the special issue “Bovine Regimes: When Animals Become Technologies,” Technology and Culture 64.4 (2023). Abstract
- Tamar Novick, Milk & Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land (MIT Press, 2023). Abstract
- Tamar Novick. “On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease,” Bulletin for the History of Medicine 96.3 (2022), 431-457. Abstract
- George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book, American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) (2024)
- Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) Architectural Book Award for a catalogue published as part of the Venice Biennale Architettura exhibition (with R. Gottesman, I. Ginat, D. Hasson, and Y. Cohen) (2021)
- Eric Wolf Prize for best article-length paper, Political Ecology Society (PESO) (2015)
- Ben Haplern Award for best Dissertation, Association for Israel Studies (AIS) (2015)