Liz Cooke

Liz Cooke was a curatorial intern at the Science History Institute in 2026. During their time at the Institute, Liz completed work in object collections, museum education, and oral history. They curated two handling tables for visitor engagement: “Sympathetic Stain” about Revolutionary War-era invisible ink methods and “Seeing Red” about the history of hematological instrumentation. Leading up to “Seeing Red,” they processed objects in the William D. Hawker Clinical Chemistry Collection. They also contributed to the “Live from Philadelphia, It’s the History of Science!” blog post celebrating 15,000 works in our digital collections.

Liz came to the Institute as a student at Smith College, pursuing a double major in biochemistry and religion and a concentration in museums. During their time at Smith, they did archival research on the bioethics and work of Albert Francis Blakeslee in the collaborative project, “Vintage Genes.” Liz has a growing passion for object cataloguing as well as an interest in the ways that religion and understandings of the sacred influence the history and culture of science.