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This page contains an overview of selected
work, along with information on research I have supervised for
graduate students
and undergraduates. My cv can be accessed on the left; for a fuller description
of my research projects, see the
main
research page.
selected publications
"The Children’s Republic of Science in the
Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott,"
Osiris, vol. 24 (forthcoming 2009)
(with Karen Rader) "Science in the Everyday World: Why Perspectives in the
History of Science Matter," Isis, 2008, 99:350-364
"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: The Tales of
Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular," Isis, 2001,
92:484-516
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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
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go to article
Rebels within the Ranks:
Psychologists' Critique of Scientific Authority and Democratic Realities
in New Deal America (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
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info from
google books
selected papers
"'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
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go to presentation || 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
"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, 2004)
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abstract
"'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 / 1999)
graduate research supervised
completed dissertations
Kimberly Perez
(Ph.D., 2006) Fancy and Imagination: Cultivating
Sympathy and Envisioning the Natural World for the Modern Child
current job:
asst.
professor, fort hayes state university, kansas
dissertations and master's theses in progress
Cornelia Lambert
(Ph.D. exp. spr. 2009) "Living Machines": Robert Owen, the Worker's Body, and
the Formation of Human Character, 1800-1830
Kate Sheppard (Ph.D. exp. spr. 2010) "A
Life Without a Single Adventure": Margaret Murray and the History of Egyptology
in Britain
completed master's theses
Lisa Torres
(M.A., 2008) Caroline Herschel: A
Reexamination
Kate Sheppard (M.A., 2006) "You Call
this Archaeology?" Flinders Petrie and Eugenics
Natalie Peck (M.A., 2002) "The Perfect Socialism":
The Social Philosophy of Anna Botsford Comstock in the Nature Study Movement
Cheryl Smith (M.A., 2000)
"Learning About
Common Things":
Conceptions and Uses of Science in the Juvenile Literature of Jacob Abbott
Kimberly Perez (M.A., 1998) Progressivism, Popularization, and
Ornithology: Arthur A. Allen and the Cornell Ornithological Program
Mark Eddy (M.A.,1995) The Origin of Speech: F.W. Farrar and
the Role of Language in the Darwinian Theory of Mental Evolution
undergraduate research supervised
Undergraduate Research Day Presentations
Ashley Johnson (Psychology): "Why War? Einstein, Freud, and Elitist Views of
Pacifism"
Christopher Riggs (Music): "Minds of the Modern: Scientific
and Artistic Approaches to Time in Einstein, Picasso, and Stravinsky"
NSF REU on Human-Technology
Interaction
Jamaica Brown (Reed College, Sociology): "Blogging and Beyond:
Structure and Significance on the 'Net'"
Luke Misenheimer (UNC-Chapel Hill, Mathematics): "Superiors to Servants:
The Progression of American Conceptions of the Computer"
Kimberly Roberts (Drury College, Psychology) – "Applications of Social
Sciences to the Internet with Specific Emphasis on Community Networks"
Oriana Walker (Reed College, Physics) – "Conceptions of the
Scientific vs. the Technological Mind in Cold War America"
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