Mark Solovey is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at the University of Toronto. He did his undergraduate studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, with a major in psychology and minor in philosophy, before going to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he did a joint Ph.D. in History of Science and History (with a focus on U.S. history). He taught at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, was a visiting scholar and researcher at Harvard University (History of Science Department, History Department, and Charles Warren Center) and a visiting scholar at MIT (Science, Technology and Society program). Since 2006 he has taught at the University of Toronto (IHPST).

Solovey is the author of two books, Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2013), and Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation (MIT Press, 2020, available open access on the publisher's website). He is also the co-editor of two other books, Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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