Alex Wellerstein has taught undergraduate courses for over a decade. In 2022, he was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize from the History of Science Society, which “recognizes outstanding teaching in the history of science.” The society awarded him the prize “in recognition of his achievements in bringing the history of science to a broad public audience.”
At the Stevens Institute of Technology, he teaches courses in the History of Science and Technology, Data Visualization, and Science Communication. An abbreviated list of courses he has taught includes (unless noted, they are at the Stevens Institute of Technology):
HHS 130: The History of Science and Technology: An Introductory Survey
HST 120: Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
HST 415: The Nuclear Era: The History, Science, and Politics of the Atom
HST 325: Visualizing Society: The Theory and Practice of Interactive Web-Based Data Visualizations
HST 370: Biology and Society: The History of the Nature/Nurture Debate
HST 495: Game Development for Civil Defense (with Nicholas O’Brien)
CAL 105: The End of the World (Freshman Humanities/Social Sciences Experience)
CAL 105: The Future (Freshman Humanities/Social Sciences Experience)
HST 320: Science and Media
HIST208 (Georgetown): Science and the Cold War (Spring 2014)
HS97 (Harvard University): Sophomore Tutorial (Fall 2010)
STS.042 (MIT): Physics in the 20th Century (Teaching Fellow for David Kaiser, Spring 2009)
Science A41 (Harvard University): The Einstein Revolution (head Teaching Fellow for Peter Galison, Spring 2009)