ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, UCSD, La Jolla, California.
Appointments for academic years 1994-2003. Courses taught include:
"Geographic Information Systems for Historians and Social
Scientists" (HITO 121, at UCSD), Spring 2000.
"United States History -- Twentieth Century" (HILD 2C, at UCSD)
Spring 1998, Spring 1997.
"History of Environmentalism" (HISC 105, at UCSD) Winter 2000, Fall
1998, Spring 1998, Spring 1997, Spring 1996, Winter 1995.
"History of Evolutionary Theories" (HISC 109, at UCSD), Fall
1994, Winter 1996.
"Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century" (HISC 108, at
UCSD), Spring 1998, Spring 1997, Winter 1996.
"Western Environmental History" (HIUS 154, at UCSD),Spring, 1999
Fall 1997, Winter 1997.
"The Built Environment in the Twentieth Century" (HIUS 137, at
UCSD), Winter 2000, Spring 1999, Winter 1998, Winter 1997, Winter
1996.
"Emergence of Modern Science (1700-1900)" (HISC 107, at UCSD),
Spring 2000, Fall, 1998, Fall 1997, Winter 1997, Fall 1994.
"History Honors Seminar" (HITO 196, at UCSD), Fall 1997, Fall
1996, Fall 1995.
"Art and Society in America" (HIUS 137, at UCSD), Winter 1998,
Fall 1996, Fall 1995, Winter 1995.
"Cultural Responses to Industrial Capitalism" (HIUS 138, at
UCSD), Spring 1996.
"Topics in the Earth and Life Sciences: History of Seismicity"
(HISC 100, at UCSD), Spring 1995
"History of Popular Science" (HISC 104, at UCSD), Winter 1998,
Winter 1996, Spring 1995.
Visiting Assistant Professor/Visiting Instructor, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Appointments
for academic years 1992-1994.
Courses taught:
"Physics of the Twentieth Century) (PHYS 63, at Bowdoin College),
Fall 1992,
Fall 1993.
"Autobiographies in Science" (PHYS 19, at Bowdoin College),
Spring 1993, Spring
1994.
Teaching assistant, Muir College Writing Program, University of
California, San Diego, September 1990 to June 1991.
Teaching assistant, U.S. History, University of California, San Diego,
September 1989 to June 1990.
Summer Science Institute, University of Southern Maine, July 1986.
Summer Humanities Institute, University of Southern Maine, July 1986
and July 1985.
HONORS, SEMINARS, AND GRANTS
NEH Summer Seminar, "The Social Construction of Social Problems,"
Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
1994.
1991 Dissertation fellowship, Science Studies Program, University of
California, San Diego (funds made available by NSF Research Training
Group grant).
1991 Dissertation fellowship, Department of History, University of
California, San Diego.
1990 Lazarroni Prize, West Coast History of Science Society.
1988 Regents Fellowship, University of California, San Diego.
1987 Mackinson Prize, University of Southern Maine.
1986 Co-winner, John Dewey Essay Project, Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale.
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
"The Diffident Conservationist: Carl Hubbs and the Fish of the
Desert," American Society of Environmental Historians, Tucson, April 1999
"Wasteland without Science:" History of Science Society, San Diego,
November 1997.
"Differentiating the Desert." Southern California History and
Environment Conference, CSU Northridge, September 1997.
"The West as a Textbook: Why William Morris Davis said 'The Colorado
Front Range is a Morvan.'" Geological Society of America, October 1996.
"Field Science and Paleoclimate: Carl Hubbs, Geographical Contingency,
and Relict Fishes of the California Deserts." Southern California History
and Environment Conference, CSU Northridge, September 1996.
"The Construction of the Design Problem: Science, Design, and Method."
Society of Architectural Historians, St. Louis, April, 1996.
Chaired "Works in Progress: Disciplines, Power, and Identity" Session
#162 at History of Science Society, annual meeting, New Orleans, October
1994.
Penrose Conference on History of Geology, Geological Society of
America, March 1994.
"Illustrating Fossils: A Century of Practice." Geological Society of
America, Paleontology Poster Session, Cincinnati, October 1992.
"Physicists and Fallacies: A Revisionist Account of Nineteenth-Century
American Science." West Coast History of Science Society, Morro Bay, May
1992.
"Visually Representing the Moon as an Object for Geology." History of
Science Society, Seattle, October 1990.
"Visually Constituting the Moon as an Object for Geology." West Coast
History of Science Society, Morro Bay, April 1990.
"My Problem Is...: Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Everyday
Life," with Slavomir Grzelkowski. Russell Chair Lecture/Seminar,
University of Southern Maine, April 1988.
"Critical Thinking and the Real Worlds: The University of Southern
Maine Summer Institute Experience" with Slavomir Grzelkowski. Russell
Chair Lecture/Seminar, University of Southern Maine, April 1988.
"C. T. Jackson and the Coal Measures of Maine." Geological Society of
Maine, 1987.
INVITED PAPERS AND GUEST LECTURES
"Environmental Justice."
Commentator, Session on Social Constructionism, WCHSS, Santa Barbara,
March 1996
"From Surfaces to Structures: The Shifting Referents of Block
Diagrams." History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., December 1992.
"Block Diagrams as 'Ideal Types' in the Work of William Morris Davis,
Theorist." Geological Society of America, History of Geology Section,
Cincinnati, October 1992.
"Block Diagrams as 'Ideal Types' in the Work of William Morris Davis,
Theorist." Informal talk for "Festive Friday" series, Department of Earth
Sciences, Dartmouth College, October 1992.
"Other Times, Other Tools: Mathematics and Graphics Training For
Science in Nineteenth-century America." American Association of Physics
Teachers, Bangor, Maine. August, 1992.
"Beyond Mere Description: William Morris Davis, Block Diagrams, and
Genetic Description." History of Science Society, Madison, October 1991.
"Visual Language and 'The Mirror of Nature:' Science, Convention, and
Correspondence." University of Southern Maine, September 1991.
"A New Moon in the Archives." Keynote speech, California Society of
Archivists Annual Meeting, April 1990.
PUBLICATIONS
Book manuscript in progress: "The Fishes of the Desert and the
Identity of Place."
"The American Public University and the Social Construction of
Problems," article in the Maine Scholar, Fall 1993.
"Charles Thomas Jackson and the First Geological Survey of Maine,
1836-1838" in Studies in Maine Geology, Vol. 1, ed. Robert D. Tucker and
Robert G. Marvinney (Augusta, Maine: Maine Geological Survey, 1988), pp.
1-16.
With Slavomir Grzelkowski. "My Problem Is...: Problem Solving,
Critical Thinking, and Everyday Life," in What Socrates Began: An
Examination of the Intellect, ed. Libby Cohen (Portland: University of
Southern Maine, 1989), v. 2, pp. 44-47.
With Slavomir Grzelkowski. "Critical Thinking and the Real Worlds: The
University of Southern Maine Summer Institute Experience" in What
Socrates Began: An Examination of the Intellect, ed. Libby Cohen
(Portland: University of Southern Maine, 1988), v. 1, pp. 125-133.
"Scientific Literacy and Scientific Reasoning: Disparate Goals for
Critical Thinking" in What Socrates Began: An Examination of the
Intellect, ed. Libby Cohen (Portland: University of Southern Maine,
1989), v. 1, pp. 36-44.
Encyclopedia: "William Morris Davis," Macmillan Encyclopedia of the
Earth Science, 1997.
SERVICE
Honors advisor, Department of History, UCSD, 1995-1996, 1997-1998;
Undergraduate curriculum committee, 1997-1998; faculty advisor to
undergraduate history association, 1996-1997; at Bowdoin College:
Committee on Curriculum in Science, 1992-1994.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
History of Science Society, West Coast History of Science, American
Historical Association,
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Secretary/Treasurer, West Coast History of Science Society 1994-1998;
Council, United States History of Geology (Geological Society of America)
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Freelance indexer, beginning June 1974.
Editor and designer, The Maine Organic Farmer and Gardener, Augusta
Maine, June 1979 to August 1982.
Freelance journalist (special interests: science, nature, music and
musicians), 1978 to 1985.
Editor, Anderson Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 1973
to June 1977.