history of science dept.
university of oklahoma
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Prof. Steven J. Livesey
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The obligation of every faculty member to provide service has historical significance for me, because it originated with the development of universities in the Middle Ages.  Since 1985, I have  been a member of the Norman campus Faculty Senate on three occasions and served on several committees or boards in the University, the College of Arts and Sciences, and in my department.  I was particularly grateful for the opportunity to serve on the Campus Departmental Review Committee in 1997-98.  I have served as chair or interim chair of the History of Science Department on three separate occasions.

From 1990 until 1993, I was director of a postdoctoral fellowship program at the University of Oklahoma, for which the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $155,000.  In 1992 and 1993, Jamil Ragep and I organized two international symposia on the transmission of early science, and in Spring 2000, I co-organized a international symposium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the History of Science Program at the University of Oklahoma. 

Beginning in 1988, I was one of two charter founders of a medieval colloquium at the University of Oklahoma, a body that eventually grew into the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  I also serve as a member of the Réseau International, Acta Artistarum, La Haye-Paris, which oversees publication of works on medieval universities and their intellectual culture.