fall 2010
ucol 1022 :: robots, mad scientists, and the man in the moon: exploring history, science,
and science fiction
hsci 2133 :: ( hybrid course ) science and popular culture [intro] [schedule]
hsci 2333 :: inventing the modern world [intro] [schedule]
previous courses
hsci 1003 :: science, nature and society
hsci 2103 :: scientific ideas and the history of childhood
hsci 2333 :: lives in science
hsci 3023 :: history of science since the 17th century
hsci 3433 :: science, technology & politics: international perspectives
hist 3500 :: the future of the past: history in the digital age
hsci 5550 :: the role of science and technology in the making of the american west
hsci 5970 :: natural history as modern science: research, criticism, and analysis seminar
[ graduate work supervised ]
:: current students
Cornelia Lambert (Ph.D. exp. fall 2010) "'Tricks Upon Travellers': Robert Owen, New Lanark, and the Choreography of Character, 1800-1825"
:: completed dissertations
Kate Sheppard (Ph.D., 2010) "The Lady and the Looking Glass: Margaret Murray's Life in Archaeology"
|| current position: postdoctoral teaching fellow, american university in cairo
Kimberly Perez (Ph.D., 2006) Fancy and Imagination: Cultivating Sympathy and Envisioning the Natural World for the Modern Child || current position: asst. professor, fort hayes state university, kansas
:: 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"
:: national science foundation 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"