Dr. Hunter Heyck

University of Oklahoma,            Department of the History of Science

601 Elm St., PHSC 601

Norman, OK 73019

405-325-6476     hch@ou.edu

 

 

Current Position:              Assistant Professor of History of Science, University of Oklahoma (August 2001—present).

 

Previous Position:            Exhibits Curator, National Library of Medicine (January 2000—July 2001). Responsible for the research, writing, and organization of materials for an exhibit on telecommunications, medicine, and society titled The Once and Future Web: worlds woven by telegraph and Internet. (Web Site http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onceandfutureweb/home.html)

 

Grants and Fellowships:    American Council of Learned Societies Ryskamp Fellowship, Awarded 2006 for the calendar year 2007: $64,000.

                                    National Science Foundation Scholars Award, Awarded 2006 for 2007-08: $45,891.

                                    (Both of the above are in support of different aspects of my new project: The Branching Tree: organization, process, and hierarchy in 20^th-century human science.)

 

OU College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2004

OU Research Council, Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2003.

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Travel Grant, Summer 1998.

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 1998.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1992-1995.

 

Graduate Education:         Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University 2000. Dissertation entitled Herbert Simon, Organization Man.   

 

Undergraduate Education:  UNC-Chapel Hill, B.A. in History with Distinction and Highest Honors, 1990.

 

Teaching Experience:         University of Oklahoma (Fall 2001-Present). Courses taught:

HSCI 2333 Inventing the Modern World

HSCI 3023 History of Science Since 17^th Century

HSCI 3473 History of Ecology and Environmentalism

HSCI 3483 The Computer and the Bomb

HSCI 3493 The Cultural History of Information

HSCI 5533 Advanced Studies in the History of Modern Science—The History of the Modern Social Sciences

HSCI 5533: Advanced Studies in the History of Modern Science—The History of the Modern Life Sciences

HSCI 5550 Topics in History of Science—The Cultural Authority of Science

HSCI 5970 Research, Analysis, and Criticism

HSCI 5990 Graduate Survey in History of Science, Modern Period

 

I also have taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Spring 2000), the University of Pennsylvania (Fall 1999), and the Johns Hopkins University (1998-1999).

 

Publications:                    Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

 

“Patrons of the Revolution: ideals and institutions in postwar behavioral science,” Isis, vol. 97, no. 3 (September 2006): 420-446.

 

“Building an Interdisciplinary Community: Herbert Simon and the GSIA,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 42, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 311-334.

 

“Defining the Computer: Herbert Simon and the Bureaucratic Mind,” under review by the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

 

“Gerard Debreu,” Encyclopedia of American Lives, NY: Scribner’s, 2006.

 

“George Kozmetsky,” Encyclopedia of American Lives, NY: Scribner’s, 2006.

 

“Think Piece: Mind and Network,” Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 27, no. 3 (July-September) 2005: 103-4.

 

“George A. Miller,” in the Dictionary of American Philosophers, (Bristol, UK Thoemmes Press, 2005).

 

“Herbert Simon,” Encyclopedia of American Lives, (NY: Scribner’s, 2004).

 

"Herbert Simon," (long entry) in the Biographical Dictionary of Management, Morgen Witzel, ed., (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2001).

 

"A.R. Hall’s Scientific Revolution," H-Ideas Retrospective Reviews, February 2001.

 

"Mystery and Meaning: a Reply to Green," History of Psychology, vol. 3, no. 1, (February 2000): 67-70.

 

            "George A. Miller, Language, and the Computer Metaphor of Mind," History of

Psychology, vol. 2, no. 1, (February 1999): 37-64.

 

Edited Works:                 Member of editorial board for The Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, forthcoming 2007 from SAGE. (Chief editor, Dr. Paul Robbins, University of Arizona.)

 

Papers Delivered:             “Patrons of the Revolution: ideals and institutions in postwar behavior science,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA, November 2006.

 

“The Program Is the Theory: the search for a new language for the behavioral sciences in postwar America,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Austin, November 2004.

 

“Patrons of the Revolution: ideas and institutions in postwar behavioral science,” University of Oklahoma, December 2003.

 

“Laboratories of the Mind: Herbert Simon and the Rise of Simulation in Postwar Science,” Northwestern University, April 2002.

 

"Mind and Network," History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Denver, November 2001.

 

“Weaving the Once and Future Web New Media and New Audiences,” University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences brownbag, November 2001.

 

"Comparative Telecommunications History in a Public Space: behind The Once and Future Web," Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, San Jose, October 2001.

 

"The Once and Future Web," IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications, St. Johns, Newfoundland, July 2001.

 

"The Architecture of Complexity," University of Oklahoma, 1/19/01.

 

"Herbert Simon and the Sciences of Choice and Control," Drexel University, 2/18/00.

 

"A Place at the Table: Social Science and the Federal Patron," History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 11/6/99.

 

"Defining the Computer: Herbert Simon and the Bureaucratic Mind," Mid-Atlantic Conference on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Pennsylvania, 8/8/99.

 

"The Organization, the Computer, and the Individual: Herbert Simon and the Problem of Choice," Rensselaer Polytechnic University, 4/16/99.

 

"Organization Man: Herbert A. Simon and the Rise of Systems Science," Honors College, University of Oklahoma, 11/19/98.

 

"Laboratories of the Mind: RAND’s SRL and Carnegie Tech’s Laboratory of Organizational Behavior," History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, 10/24/98.

 

"From Organization to Complexity: Herbert A. Simon and the Roots of Artificial Intelligence," Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 10/17/98.

 

"Talcott Parsons, Science, and Social Relations at Harvard," Johns Hopkins University, 5/2/97.

 

"Science and Democratic Values in Paul Samuelson’s Economics," Humanities and Technology Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, 10/11/96.

 

Professional Activities:       Member, Isis Editorial Advisory Board, January 2006-present. Advise the editor on manuscripts and policies for Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society.

 

Chair, Organizing Committee for “Knowing Nature,” a speaker’s series sponsored by five departments, the Honors College, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences of the University of Oklahoma. (Spring 2004-present).

 

Graduate Adviser/Graduate Liaison, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2005-present.

 

Convener, Subcommittee on Graduate Programs, Department of History of Science, Spring 2003-present. Facilitated discussion and planning of changes to departmental graduate programs, resulting in a comprehensive revision of the MA and PhD programs. (Fall 2003-Fall 2004).

 

                                    Session Organizer, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Austin, 2004, session on “Representing Life and Mind: new methods for analyzing structures, functions, and sequences in mid-20^th century biology and psychology.”

 

Member, Information Technology Council, University of Oklahoma. (Fall 2003-Spring 2006).

 

Colloquium Series Organizer, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma (Spring 2002-Spring 2005).

 

Book and article reviews for Annals of the History of Computing, History of Psychology, History and Technology, Isis, Iterations, Journal of the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Technology and Culture.

 

Summer Instructional Technology Workshop, University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences, June 2002.  Learned to use media software in order to develop an educational DVD on the history and social implications of the Internet featuring interviews with 12 pioneers in computing and networking.

 

Undergraduate Adviser, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2001-Spring 2002).

 

Chair, Mid-Atlantic Conference Organizing Committee, Spring-Summer 1998. Organized the first Mid-Atlantic Conference on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, now an annual graduate student conference.

 

Co-Chair and Treasurer, Johns Hopkins University Graduate Representative Organization, May 1997-May 1998. Managed the affairs of the JHU campus graduate organization and organized (with the Dean of Undergraduate Studies) the annual university-wide TA training workshop and a four-part series of workshops on issues in teaching.

 

Member, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, History of Science Society, Society for the History of Technology.

 

Other Experience:            Research Assistant, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1990-1992). Assisted in the research and writing of Adult Literacy and New Technologies: tools for a lifetime, (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1993).