selected publications
"Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context," Isis, 2009, 100:346-358 > go to article
"The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott," Osiris, 2009, 24:75-98 [special volume on "Science and National Identity"]
> abstract
(with Karen Rader) "Science in the Everyday World: Why Perspectives from the History of Science Matter," Isis, 2008, 99:350-364 > go to article
"Diversity and Its Discontents: Scientific Surveys and the Creation of the Twentieth-Century Numeric American," Reviews in American History, 2007 (December), 35:599-605
"Redesigning the Engineering Mind: The Revelations of the Arcturus IV Science Fiction Project at mid-century MIT," Science, Technology & Society Curriculum Newsletter, Spring 2006, pp. 1-7. > go to article (p. 2)
"Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular," Isis, 2001, 92:484-516 > abstract
"'Mapping the New Mental World Created by Radio'" Media Messages, Cultural Politics, and Cantril & Allport's The Psychology of Radio," Journal of Social Issues, 1998, 54:7-27
> go to article
Rebels within the Ranks: Psychologists' Critique of Scientific Authority and Democratic Realities in New Deal America (Cambridge University Press, 1997) > info from google books
selected presentations
"Visualizing the Natural World for Children in Antebellum America: Peter Parley and the Art of
Miscellany" || History of Education Society Annual Meeting (October 2009)
"'There Was a Child Went Forth Everyday': The Natural World as a Republican Nursery in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott" || American Antiquarian Society (November 2008)
"Portraying the 'Intimate Scientist' in 20th-century America: The Pushback in Popular Culture Against Scientific Arrogance" || UC Berkeley History of Science and Technology Colloquium Series (May 2008) > abstract
"Making Sense of Science: Views from within the ‘Intellectual Commons’ of Popular Culture" || Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dibner Institute and Arizona State University Summer Seminar Workshop (May 2007)
"What Have We To Do With Mr. Everyman, or He With Us?" Reflections on Professionalism, the Public, and the Digital Age|| Plenary Session on "The Public Presentation of Science and Technology" for the Joint Meeting of the History of Science Society and the Society for the History of Technology (with Roger Launius, NASA and Svante Lindqvist, the Nobel Museum) / February 2005 > go to presentation
"Peter Parley as a Scientific American: Creating an Indigenous Literature for the Children's Republic of Science" || History of Science Society Annual Meeting (November, 2002) and UC Davis Science and Technology Studies Program and Department of History (2004)
"'Lessons from Nature's Open Book': The Children's Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott" || Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2002)
"Psychological Innovations, Historical Conventions, and the Politics of Memory" || Mary Whiton Calkins Lecture, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting (2000)
Jesting in Earnest: Radically Empiricist Critiques of Scientific Piety || Society for Literature and Science (1999)
Varieties of Historiographic Experience: Writing Intellectual
and Cultural Histories of American Science || History of Science Society Annual Meeting (1999)